Switching scientific disciplines
Moving to a new branch of science is scary, but learning new skills and collaborating with different colleagues can be exhilarating, Julie Gould discovers.In the penultimate episode of this six-part s...
22 Aug 201916min
The school physics talk that proved more popular than Lady Gaga's boots
Media interest in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider boosted Jon Butterworth's interest in public engagement, reports Julie Gould.Jon Butterworth developed a taste for public engagement af...
15 Aug 201923min
Career transitions from physics to data science
Industry has long courted physicists for their data science expertise, but will this change as more undergraduates acquire these skills?In 2013, Kim Nilsson co-founded Pivigo, a training company to pr...
8 Aug 201925min
Global career moves, and how to survive them
Elizabeth Tasker's career has taken her from Europe to Japan via North America, including a Florida campus where alligators lurked in drainage ditches.If your career looks set to include geographical ...
1 Aug 201920min
Why physics is still a man's world, and how to change it
Earlier this year Eindhoven University of Technology faced a social media backlash after announcing that from July 2019, all academic staff vacancies will be open to female applicants only for the fir...
24 Juli 201924min
Talking about a technological revolution in the lab
In the final episode of this six-part podcast series about workplace technology, Lee Cronin talks about the "chemputer," a device he and his team developed as a "chemical Google to search for the orig...
9 Maj 201913min
Slack, and other technologies that are transforming lab life
Ben Britton's experimental micromechanics lab at Imperial College London currently includes four postdoctoral researchers, 11 PhD students, and four Masters students.Alongside computational analysis t...
1 Maj 201912min
How technology can help solve science's reproducibility crisis
Machine learning and data management skills can raise your scientific profile and open up career opportunities, Julie Gould discovers.As a biomedical science student, Jake Schofield felt frustrated at...
26 Apr 201915min
