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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 11 hours 54 minutes
17 From PhD to SciComm via BookTube – with Deboki Chakravarti
Science Communication is one way academics can apply themselves outside of academia. But how does one transition between careers? I talked with Dr. Deboki Chakravarti, a biomedical engineer who worked on cancer treatments.
16 B&D: CRISPR Babies
At the end of November 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that he had genetically modified human embryos which were then brought to term. The resulting twin sisters appear to be healthy. But this experiment was not greeted with enthusiasm by ...
15 Animal Welfare in Scientific Research – with Nuno Franco
I talked with Dr. Nuno Henrique Franco about animal welfare in scientific research. The questions we address are Why do we do animal experiments?What can be done to reduce the amount of animal experiments?
14 B&D: Journals, SciComm, and GMOs
Once a month I sit down with my friend and co-host Bart Geurten. We talk about things within and around academia, and exchange opinions on earlier episodes. In this episode, we first talk about the concept of overlay journals in the context of the n...
13 Is there Sunshine Outside the Ivory Tower? – The Recovering Academic Podcast
While the number of PhD graduates per year is rising worldwide, the number of proper long-term or permanent positions in academia isn't. This leaves PhDs with ever decreasing chances of staying in academia.
12 Q&A Meritocracy in Academia
This episode is the first 'Q&A' episode, where my new co-host Dr. Bart Geurten (see episode 8) and I talk about what's new in academia. Our conversations are free form and may lead us astray here and there.
11: Genetically Modified Crops and the European Union – with Hélène Pidon
Plant geneticists are not happy with the European judgement on gene editing Dr. Hélène Pidon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. She searches for genes that give plants resistance to disea...
We are on Patreon! – and other announcements.
Just some announcements this time In contrast to what was promised in the last podcast episode, we don't have a full question and answer episode this time. I hope this will not happen too often, in future. Dennis is a freelancer now.
9: The Journal Impact Factor: how (not) to evaluate researchers – with Björn Brembs
What is the Journal Impact Factor? The Journal Impact Factor is widely used as a tool to evaluate studies, and researchers. It supposedly measures the quality of a journal by scoring how many citations an average article in this journal achieves...
#8 Cognitive Biases in Science and Society – with Dr. Bart Geurten
The brain uses heuristics, short-cuts in thinking, to speed up decision making. But this also leads to systematic mistakes, so called 'cognitive biases'.