Podcasts by Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists
The podcast where I interview everyday scientists to find out about what they know. Made with the support of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.
Further podcasts by Robyn Schenk
Podcast on the topic Wissenschaft
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S2 E6: The Real Meaning of Prostitution with Dr Nadine Gloss from 2021-06-15T05:00
Dr Nadine Gloss is an anthropologist/sociologist studying the sociology of sex work and sex work activism. Despite sex work being the "oldest job", there are many barriers in place tha...
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S2 E5: X Chromosomes with Dr Iromi Wanigasuriya from 2021-05-18T08:00
Dr Iromi Wanigasuriya is a molecular biologist studying epigenetics, or how our genes are regulated, in embryos. We talk about sex differences in gene expression, but also in medical research an...
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S2 E4: Life-Saving Operations with Profs Sommer Gentry&Dorry Segev from 2021-04-20T08:00
Prof Sommer Gentry is a mathematician working in the area of Operations Research, and her husband, Prof Dorry Segev, is a transplant surgeon and epidemiologist. Together, they use their research...
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S2 E3: Ageing with Myself from 2021-03-29T14:00
A brief monologue / verbal essay on some interesting things I learned while reading about the evolution of human ageing.
See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-019-09896-2...
S2 E2: Plant Sex with Dr Michael Borg from 2021-03-16T11:00
Michael Borg (@dr_borg) is a developmental biologist and expert in the molecular workings of plant reproduction.
In this episode, he tells me how different organisms reset their DNA in...
S2 E1: Cuddle Hormones with Dr Dan Quintana from 2021-03-02T07:00
Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) combines biology, neuroscience and endocrinology (the study of hormones) to study how the so-called "cuddle hormone" oxytocin influences behaviour. Turns out...
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Best of Season 1 Part 2 from 2021-02-09T08:00
A selection of my favourite Nice to Know moments from Season 1, covering episodes 10 - 18.
Timestamps:
01:26 Ep. 1...
Xmas Special 2020: Studying Climate Change at the North Pole with Bruce Vaughn from 2020-12-22T07:00
Climate change - we all know that it's happening, but how do we actually know this scientifically? Bruce Vaughn studies glaciers up at the North Pole, looking at ice cores to study...
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Ep. 17: 40g of Fibre with Hamdi Jama from 2020-10-27T03:00
Hamdi Jama (@HamdiAJama) is here to tell you why you should be eating 40g* of fibre a day!! Hamdi is a PhD student in the Marques Lab (@FZMarques), a lab specializing in hypertension research. H...
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Ep. 16: Bonus Episode! The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Explained from 2020-10-13T13:00
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their major discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology. Listen to find out how they ...
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Ep. 15: Ancient Mesopotam-a-what? with Céline Debourse from 2020-10-06T01:00
Céline Debourse is an Assyriologist - which means she's an expert on Ancient Mesopotamia! What happened in this ancient place and time, and what can it tell us about humanity today?
Ep. 14: TEAbacco, and use of other illicit drugs, with Dr Cheneal Puljevic from 2020-09-22T02:00
Dr Cheneal Puljevic (@ChenealPuljevic) is a public health researcher at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia, studying substance use and mental health amongst disadvantaged popula...
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Ep. 13: Negative Results to Positive Interactions with Dr Bernhard Hochreiter from 2020-09-08T01:00
Dr Bernhard Hochreiter combines biology and physics to study how the proteins in our cells behave and interact with each other. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to be straddlin...
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Ep. 12: Doing Tai Chi with Drones with Design Researcher Joseph La Delfa from 2020-08-25T03:00
Joseph La Delfa is an industrial designer doing his PhD in design research, where he has developed a drone that responds to bodily movements, to be used as a meditation tool for the practice of ...
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Ep.11: Cancer, COVID, and Childcare with Dr Margs Brennan from 2020-08-11T01:00
Dr Margs Brennan is a cancer researcher, studying how blood cancers develop and how cells avoid dying. She's also currently living in Melbourne during the second COVID-caused lockdown, bala...
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Ep. 10: Proteins&PhD Life with Dr Rhiannon Morris from 2020-07-28T02:00
The now Dr Rhiannon Morris (@Scientist_Rhi) is a biochemist, using "structural biology" to search for new cures for blood cancers. Rhiannon explains what structural biology is, and we ...
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Ep. 9: Philosophy? Technology? Quantum Physics with Philip Taranto from 2020-07-13T16:00
Quantum Physics - sounds like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie, right? And, honestly... maybe it is! Or maybe it isn't... or maybe it's both! Philip Taranto (@tarantophilip) ex...
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Ep. 8: Into the Unknown Gut Stuff with Dr Amy Shepherd from 2020-06-30T01:00
Dr Amy Shepherd (@amylasenz) is a triple threat - her background in neuroscience, immunology, and working with the gut is being combined for her postdoc to learn about the enteric nervous system...
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Ep. 7: Seeing the light - nanophotonics&social change with Dr Idris Ajia from 2020-06-16T03:00
Dr Idris Ajia is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. He works on nanophotonics and metamaterials or, in my words, laser be...
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Ep. 6: Squids dealing with climate change with Dr Casey Zakroff from 2020-06-09T02:00
Dr Casey Zakroff (@CaseyZakroff) is a marine biologist with a love for cephalopods - otherwise known as squids and other weird and wonderful ocean-dwelling creatures. In this episode, we talk ab...
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Ep. 5: 23 and me and Dr André Rendeiro from 2020-05-30T12:00
Dr André Rendeiro (@afrendeiro) is a computational biologist - using the power of statistics to answer questions about the genetics of human disease, and how different people respond to disease ...
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Ep. 4: Bone-eating cells and Blue Monday with Dr Julia Brunner from 2020-05-26T07:00
Dr Julia Brunner (@jules_stef) is an immunologist and an expert in these special immune cells called macrophages, whose main job is to eat things (what a dream!). Osteoclasts are a special kind ...
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Ep. 3: Empathising with neuropsychologist Kate Bray from 2020-05-17T14:00
Kate Bray (@kbkatebray) is a neuropsychologist in training and PhD student - but don't feel sorry for her because she studies empathy!! Specifically, she studies whether your ability to emp...
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Ep. 2: From cocktails to chemistry with Giovanni Di Mauro from 2020-05-06T15:00
Giovanni Di Mauro (@Giovannidm91) is an organic chemist, but would you believe that he went from being an acrobatic bartender to now making molecules in the lab that could end up being ...
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Ep. 1: Fat, immunity, and winning the Nobel Prize with Dr Hatoon Baazim from 2020-05-03T15:00
Dr Hatoon Baazim (@Hatoon_Bkeerah) tells us about her PhD research into viral infection (sorry, not COVID-19) and immunometabolism. Favourite thing that I got to know in this episode: fat is so ...
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Nice to Know ME! from 2020-04-29T07:00
So what is this podcast?? Nice to Know is the podcast where I interview everyday scientists and find out about what they're researching and what it's like to be a scientist. I'm a...
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Nice to Know ME! from 2020-04-29T07:00
So what is this podcast?? Nice to Know is the podcast where I interview everyday scientists and find out about what they're researching and what it's like to be a scientist. I'm a...
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Nice to Know ME! from 2020-04-29T07:00
So what is this podcast?? Nice to Know is the podcast where I interview everyday scientists and find out about what they're researching and what it's like to be a scientist. I'm a...
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