Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 14 segments
**EPISODE 161** **BEING “PATHOLOGICALLY GENUINE”: A DISCUSSION WITH DR. JIM COLEMAN** Jim Coleman, a…
Jim ColemanGuestBarry PrizantHost
Dave FinchHostToday on Uniquely Human, the podcast, we have a very special guest, and that is Jim Coleman.
Well, it really is a pleasure, and I think our listeners are going to be absolutely taken and fascinated by your range of experiences and expertise.
Jim currently serves as a semi-retired professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He is also an outside affiliate of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University.
And I have to interject that my son is beginning his residency in psychiatry at Vanderbilt in just... weeks from now, a few weeks.
Jim is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a distinguished alumnus of the Yale School of the Environment.
The principal or co-principal investigator on approximately $260 million of research, education, and research infrastructure, including gifts, grants, and contracts.
In particular, and more recently, Jim has started a Substack page where he's writing a book telling a humorous story of navigating academia as an autistic person.
For much of his life, Jim felt like a banana slug transported into the Mojave Desert without the appropriate evolutionary adaptations.
And Jim, you've also shared that your late diagnosis transformed you by providing a context and a map in that you thought you were a messed up horse for 58 years.
Today on Uniquely Human, the podcast, we have a very special guest, and that is Jim Coleman.
Well, it really is a pleasure, and I think our listeners are going to be absolutely taken and fascinated by your range of experiences and expertise.
Jim currently serves as a semi-retired professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He is also an outside affiliate of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University.
And I have to interject that my son is beginning his residency in psychiatry at Vanderbilt in just... weeks from now, a few weeks.
Jim is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a distinguished alumnus of the Yale School of the Environment.
The principal or co-principal investigator on approximately $260 million of research, education, and research infrastructure, including gifts, grants, and contracts.
In particular, and more recently, Jim has started a Substack page where he's writing a book telling a humorous story of navigating academia as an autistic person.
For much of his life, Jim felt like a banana slug transported into the Mojave Desert without the appropriate evolutionary adaptations.
And Jim, you've also shared that your late diagnosis transformed you by providing a context and a map in that you thought you were a messed up horse for 58 years.
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