UltraRare The Podcast
by Jocelynn Pearl
A podcast at the intersection of science and web3. Learn about the builders behind the decentralized science movement.
Podcast episodes
Foresight Institute and Fifty Years: How Nonprofits and VCs Are Advancing DeSci
This episode features leaders from two different sectors who are working together to advance the decentralized science movement. Allison Deuttmann is the CEO of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit that benefits the development of hig...
A Trailblazer for Crowdfunded Science Talks DeSci (David Lang, Experiment.com)
Today's episode is a collaboration with David Lang, executive director of Experiment Foundation and creator and host of Science Better. David and Jocelynn talk about crowdfunding for science, some of the twists and turns of buildi...
Decentralized in Biotech: A Conversation with Ethan Perlstein of Perlara
Ethan Perlstein started his company with Silicon Valley funding and a Bay Area lab, taking a traditional, centralized path to working on drug development and drug repurposing. But that was back in 2014. Today, his public benefit c...
Phage Directory: How a Decentralized Network of Researchers Find Cures
It started with a tweet. A 25 year old woman named Mallory was suffering from an infection that had failed all antibiotic treatments. A researcher named Dr. Steffanie Strathdee was using Twitter to hunt for the impossible - a scie...
Scientific Publishing Is Broken. Can Web3 Fix It?
This episode brings you into conversation with Ben Hills (0xboodle) and Darren Zhu to talk about how the principles of the web3 movement might give scientific publishing a much-needed upgrade. Co-hosted by Jocelynn Pearl (UltraRar...