ABOUT THIS PROJECT
A map for
curious minds.
Good conversations connect ideas. This index helps you follow those connections.
The source
Evo Fieldnotes is an independent index of Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast), hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. The podcast brings researchers into extended conversations about human behavior and evolutionary science. This project is not affiliated with the hosts.
How to use the fieldnotes
Browse a topic to compare discussions across episodes. Open an episode for a summary, key questions, evidence-linked takeaways, and a timestamped table of contents. Search returns passages from the actual transcript, not just summaries. Timestamp links open the transcript at the cited passage; the audio player lets you listen from that moment.
How the index is made
The archive contains 67 episodes, about 121 hours, and 1,269 thematic sections. Audio is transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet. A private Timeweb-hosted Gemini Flash Lite model proposes summaries and topic boundaries. A validation step verifies cue references, checks quoted evidence against the actual transcript, and requires complete ordered coverage before publication. The underlying structured data is retained for updates.
Read critically
These are machine-generated navigation aids. Transcription can miss words and misspell names. Summaries may lose nuance. A claim appearing here records what was discussed; it does not establish that the claim is scientifically settled. Refer to the original audio, the researcher’s work, and the surrounding conversation when accuracy matters. No speaker diarization is inferred.
A growing archive
New Audiobookshelf downloads are transcribed automatically. An hourly indexing job detects new or changed transcripts, validates the outputs, and publishes a complete updated build. Browsing and searching the site require no account and make no AI inference calls.
Credits
Podcast: Dave Pietraszewski, David Pinsof, and their guests. Transcription model: NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 (CC BY 4.0). Index generation: Gemini Flash Lite via Timeweb. This website is a research and listening companion; original episodes remain with their publisher.