Oh, hey, it's your coworker that you had a dream about who you will never tell what the dream was about.

Alley Ward, back allergies. This is anology you've likely never even heard of.

It was invented just around the turn of the century when Y2K fears were big.

Ibrals were thin, systems biology. It's only been around about 20 years in name.

And the national institutes of health says that different labs defined it differently, but added its core.

You ready for this? Here it is. It's an approach in biomedical research to understanding the larger picture,

be it at the level of an organism tissue or cell by putting its pieces together.

It's like detective work, but with math and computers and graphs and stuff.

And I'd put money on at least one of you who have never heard of it before, falling in love with it,

and becoming this type ofologist in the future.

But before that gamble, let's thank everyone at patreon.com slash allergies for supporting the show.

It costs one cool American dollar a month to join, and you can submit questions.

Also, thanks Spotify for having us as your number one science podcast on their hot day.

Whoever thought, not me. We stay up in the charts thanks to every kind soul who leaves us ratings and reviews.

Like this one from Will Gala-Hew on Apple Podcast who wrote,

this shows like a red carpet premiere with scientists instead of celebrities, and I just can't get enough.

I'm glad you can't because we have more for you in this episode, Will Gala-Hew.

Okay, so thisologist and I, we met via Twitter.

Last year, she wrote some really thought-provoking articles on the robotic scene in Pittsburgh,

and how errant delivery rovers cause a lot of problems for wheelchair users like herself,

and she has written extensively about accessibility and STEM.

She has a PhD in chemical engineering where she used data and math and modeling to figure out

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