Happy early episode (including the technical difficulties at the end..)! Jason and Matt have a quick chat about the start of summer when you're an ecologist, the future funniest wildlife photos and highlights from the past two years, France and its newly acquired scientific badassery, how NASA found microbial food under 40km of ice on a Saturnian moon, and sea spiders.

• The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards and a sneak peek at 2017's entries
• France is looking pretty cool right about now: no petrol and diesel cars by 2040 and mandatory vaccinations
• Food for microbes found on Enceladus
• A sea spider that uses it's digestive system to circulate oxygen and the abstract