Magical meeting: a collaboration to tackle child malnutrition in Bangladesh
As a child of the Space Age, Jeffrey Gordon dreamed of becoming an astronaut and discovering life on Mars. Instead he found fascinating life forms and interactions closer to home, inside the gastroint...
21 Jun 202314min
How to deliver a safer research culture for LGBTQIA+ researchers
A professor invites colleagues and their partners to a Christmas party but reacts negatively when a young gay researcher asks to bring his future husband along. A Black carnivore researcher conceals t...
2 Jun 202344min
Trolled in science: “Hundreds of hateful comments in a single day”
Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe realised she was the only climate researcher in West Texas when she joined Texas Tech University in Lubbock, 15 years ago.Within a few months she was being asked...
26 Mai 202343min
Dodging snipers, fleeing war: displaced researchers share their stories
Hassoni Alodaini hoped to complete a PhD when war broke out in his native Yemen in 2015.But as research funding dried up as a result of the hostilities, Alodaini fled to Egypt. His arrival there marke...
19 Mai 202332min
Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month
In the third episode of this seven-part Working Scientist podcast series about freedom and safety in science, researchers in Nigeria, Venezuela and Ukraine describe what it is like to live and work in...
12 Mai 202329min
Shielding science from politics: how Joe Biden’s research integrity drive is faring
In January 2022 the Biden administration announced its long-awaited strategy to safeguard scientific integrity across US federal research facilities and agencies.But 16 months on, do researchers worki...
5 Mai 202339min
Unlocking the mysteries of the brain’s neocortex
efJf Hawkins’ 2021 book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, focuses on the neocortex and how it helps us to understand the world around us, before examining the future of artificial intel...
3 Mai 202326min
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive
In the first episode of a six-part podcast series about freedom and safety in science, Ukrainian neuroscientist Nana Voitenko relives how she and colleagues fled Kiev when war broke out in February 20...
28 Apr 202338min
