Jessamyn Fairfield

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401 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 30 Aug

Jessamyn Fairfield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · The fish species with no males · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And what I think is cool too, you know, this is sort of a detective story about something that happened to the Milky Way in the past, but there are actually lots of examples of galaxies that are experiencing mergers right now.

So you can look up like the antennae galaxies, the mice galaxies, the butterfly galaxies, and they're all these sort of mid-merger processes where you can clearly see two galaxies in the middle of like,

ripping into each other and forming eventually a new galaxy, which I think is really cool.

But one of the other great things about this story is that the slow moving stars that are in our galaxy, they have this sort of sausage shaped orbit.

And so the team at Durham have named the historical galaxy that they think we collided with the Gaia Sausage.

So the Gaia Sausage underwent a collision with our Milky Way galaxy.

And that has resulted in the galaxy we know and love today.

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · Is photographic memory a real thing? · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

That's right.

It's a story from a really incredible expedition of the Falkor II, which discovered over 31 new species of marine life in a period of just two weeks.

This is a really interesting story to me because it's about how we do science now on board a ship.

You know, we talk about a lab on a chip.

This is a lab on a ship and how quickly they can identify marine life, like do even things like DNA sequencing, 3D imaging, just all onboard this ship to identify all of these new species.

So this expedition of the Falkor II, which is a ship run by the Schmidt Ocean Institute,

The expedition was led by Dr. Karen Osborne from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

And basically they were looking at what's called the midwater.

So it's the water in the sea in between the kind of the top layer that has the sunshine that has light and like the ocean floor.

This midwater layer, it's kind of the twilight zone of the sea.

And it's actually huge.

Like it is the largest habitat in the world.

Like the flyover states.

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