Podcast: Working Scientist (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Science diversified: The roads less travelled to research careers
Pub date: 2021-03-10

In the past, many institutions produced similar types of scientists: researchers with a shared educational history who go straight from school to university then do a PhD and postdoctoral research.

But not everyone follows this path. We meet two researchers who forged research careers later in life, and took very different routes to get there.

How valuable has their previous life experience been in their current career? What skills did they learn along the way? And how did they overcome the obstacles they faced?

This episode is part of Science diversified, a seven-part podcast series exploring how having a more diverse range of researchers ultimately benefits not only the scientific enterprise, but also the wider world.

Each episode in this series concludes with a sponsored slot from the International Science Council (ISC) about how it is exploring diversity in science.

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Podcast: Teaching in Higher Ed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Pedagogy of the Depressed
Pub date: 2022-01-27

Christopher Schaberg talks about his book, Pedagogy of the Depressed, on episode 398 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Podcast: The Story Collider (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Validity: Stories about finding validation
Pub date: 2022-01-28

In this week’s episode, both our storytellers are seeking what all scientists are looking for: validity. If you want to check the reliability of this episode though, we suggest listening to it more than once.

Part 1: Adrian Demeritte struggles to find a reason to stay in science after he loses his biggest inspiration.

Part 2: After years of a chronic disorder make Becky Feldman feel like she’ll be single forever, she finds acceptance from an unusual source.

Adrian Demeritte is a fourth year PhD graduate student at Emory University from Nassau, Bahamas. His research focuses on combatting fungal and antibiotic resistance, and he hopes to continue his work to help bolster the chemical industry in the Caribbean one day. In his free time he enjoys writing, hiking and experiencing whatever hidden gems Atlanta’s melting pot of cultures has to offer.

Becky Feldman is a writer, performer, and podcast host. Originally from New Jersey, she is an alum of the UCB Theatre and the Ruby LA. In addition to being a staff writer on children’s animated shows, her TV appearances include “Community”, “Broad City”, and “Brooklyn 99”. This story is an excerpt from her solo storytelling show “Tight: Sexy Stories About Pelvic Pain”, which debuted in January 2020.

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Podcast: Everything Hertz (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 148: Academic reference letters
Pub date: 2022-01-31

Dan and James chat about why academic reference letters are terrible, a recent position statement on preprints, and whether the “great resignation” is also happening in academia.

Links to stuff that was mentioned:

• The tweet from Dr. Eliza Bliss-Moreau on acedemic reference letter
• The tweet from Gilad Feldman about the 100 references he’s submitted in 2020 alone
• The AMWA-EMWA-ISMPP joint position statement paper on medical publications, preprints, and peer review,

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Episode citation

Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, January 31) “148: Academic reference letters”, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/VZ67

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Podcast: Voices from DARPA (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 46: The Jet Packer
Pub date: 2021-06-30

 

Voices from DARPA podcast, Alexander (Xander) Walan, a program manager since 2017 in the agency’s Tactical Technology Office, pegs the source of his lifelong fascination with aircraft and flight to the Chicago Air and Water Shows his dad took him and his four siblings to when they were children. At DARPA, he has applied that interest, his training in aeronautical engineering, a 22-year career in the Air Force overseeing some 70 technology-development programs, and an MBA to his oversight of programs featuring DARPA’s signature audacity. One program that Xander inherited from a previous program manager proved it was possible to fly and navigate massive aircraft in the stratosphere as potential supplements to satellites by exploiting differing wind conditions at differing altitudes.Test flights of the huge balloons at the center of the program triggered reports of UFOs. Another one of his programs took steps toward aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), like a helicopter or drone, but at unprecedented speeds of hundreds of miles per hour. No X-plane prototype came out of that effort, but pathways forward and dead-ends to avoid did. Xander’s current primary project, known as the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, is investigating ways of controlling how air flows over aircraft surfaces to open engineering pathways toward planes that can be steered without the need for moveable surfaces. One more thing: Xander recently got the green light for a small initiative to pursue, in his words, “battlefield personal mobility,” which could lead to small, quiet paragliders or helicopters as well as a type of aeronautic equipment long emblematic of the future: jet packs. Says Xander, “there’s some technology that’s now emerging that might make that more practical.” https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/podcast

 

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Podcast: Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves. (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Science Writing as Storytelling (rebroadcast) – Ryan Kelly
Pub date: 2021-06-08

What matters more in getting cited — what you say or how you say it? In a remaster and remix of our first episode of the show, we’re revisited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs.

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Podcast: Fast Track Impact
Episode: Episode 2: 5 lessons to co-produce impact when you have limited time
Pub date: 2022-01-27

Episode 2: 5 lessons to co-produce impact when you have limited time

This week, Mark shares his top 5 lessons for co-producing impact with limited time, based on his forthcoming book, Impact Culture

• Find out who’s interested in your research;
• Next, start with their needs, not your ideas;
• Give as much as you get;
• Base action on bodies of work rather than your latest findings; and
• Be curious about what works.

Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact and @profmarkreed or on LinkedIn.

Impact Culture is released as a paperback, e-book and audio book on 25th March 2022. Be the first to find out how to join the launch team and get an exclusive signed copy over a month before the rest of the world by joining the Fast Track Impact mailing list.

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Podcast: The Story Collider (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Going Out: Stories about what makes the world scary
Pub date: 2022-01-07

This week, both of our storytellers are sharing stories about something that is pretty relatable at the moment — the challenges of leaving the house.

Part 1: As she goes blind due to a progressive eye disease, M. Leona Godin must learn how to navigate the world with a cane.

Part 2: A frightening encounter with police that leaves teenage Roque Rodriguez traumatized.

M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, educator, and the author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural history of Blindness (Pantheon, 2021). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Playboy, O Magazine, Catapult, and other print and online publications. She produced two plays: “The Star of Happiness” about Helen Keller’s time performing in vaudeville, and “The Spectator and the Blind Man,” about the invention of braille. Godin holds a PhD in English, and besides her many years teaching literature and humanities courses at NYU, she has lectured on art, accessibility, technology, and disability at such places as Tandon School of Engineering, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the American Printing House for the Blind. Her online magazine exploring the arts and sciences of smell and taste, Aromatica Poetica, publishes writing and art from around the world.

Roque (Pronounced: ROW-Keh), the son of Dominican-American immigrants is a 500-hour trained Yoga teacher. Roque is a proud co-founder of Suryaside Yoga in Queens, NY. When he’s not teaching the Suryaside community and mentoring his new teacher trainees, he is dedicated to spreading love and yoga to underserved and under-resourced communities through programs and partnerships such as, Liberation Prison Yoga which provides yoga and meditation to incarcerated people and his I Can Breathe Yoga program which offers teacher training scholarships to BIPOCs who want to bring yoga to their community. He is an advocate for prison abolition and community organizing.

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