Podcast: Working Scientist (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The postdoc career journeys that date back to kindergarten
Pub date: 2020-12-17

Many postdoctoral researchers can trace their career journey back to childhood experiences. In Pearl Ryder’s case it was spending lots of time outdoors in the rural area where she grew up, combined with the experience of having a sibling who experienced poor health.

Ryder, a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston, Massachusetts, and founder of the Future PI Slack group, says: “It made me realize how important health is, and that there’s so little that we understand about the world.”

But is science, like some other professions a calling? Yes, says Christopher Hayter, who specializes in entrepreneurship, technology policy, higher education and science at Arizona State University in Phoenix. “There are professions that are a little bit different from your day-to-day job, something people gravitate towards, something bigger than themselves,” he says.

“It is often referred to as a calling. I think we could say that about a lot of scientists. It’s how they define themselves: ‘I’m a scientist.’ ‘I’m going to cure cancer.’ ‘I’m going to discover the next planet.’ When students transition from doctoral students to postdoc they are really doubling down on that identity.”

Michael Moore, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, adds: “Being a scientist is overcoming a series of hurdles, and you need to see yourself as a scientist to get that internal motivation to keep going. You have to publish so much, get so many grants, teach so many courses. Having that identity and that motivation is really key to moving forward.”

Gould’s guests discuss how to maintain that motivation despite the setbacks, and how a scientist’s professional identity and career path is underpinned by the networks, mentors and transferable skills acquired during a postdoc.

 

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Podcast: Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Anti-Vax Origins w/ Brian Deer
Pub date: 2020-12-14

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by award-winning investigative journalist Brian Deer to talk about his new book, “The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines.” They discuss the incredible story of how Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research sparked an anti-vax movement that swept the globe.

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Podcast: Everything Hertz (LS 42 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O’Connor)
Pub date: 2020-11-16

Dan and James chat with Cailin O’Connor (University of California, Irvine) about the how false beliefs spread in science and remedies for this issue

Here’s what they cover:

• Why should psychologist scientists learn about the philosophy of science?
• Cailin’s new preprint on error propogation that she co-authrored
• Boyd and Richerson’s “Culture and the Evolutionary Process” book
• Episode 91 with Kristin Sainani that discussed magnitude based inference
• Christie Aschwanden on Magnitude Based Inference
• The Misinformation age, co-authored by Cailin
• Cailin’s paper on the retraction of scientific papers
• With Scite, you can be alterted whether a given paper has been retracted
• Where should you start if you’re interested in the philosophy of science?
• Science as social knowledge, by Helen Longino
• Cailin’s on Twitter and you should also check out her website

Other links

• [Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
• [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
• [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
• [Everything Hertz on Facebook](www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/)

Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Podcast: Teaching in Higher Ed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Meeting the Moment Through Inclusive Teaching
Pub date: 2021-01-07

Meeting the Moment Through Inclusive Teaching, with Michael Benitez and Meredith Flynn.

Quotes from the episode

Pedagogy is truly a craft. It is an art and requires us to be attentive to it.
-Michael Benitez

As educators, we want to make sure that we create really welcoming environments and that our learning environments promote equitable and successful outcomes for our students.
-Meredith Flynn

Podcast: Got Science? (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 100: Farming While Black: How One Community Farm is Uprooting Racism
Pub date: 2021-01-05

Leah Penniman, founder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black, discusses how Afro-Indigenous centered community farms can uproot the food system and create new opportunities for Black and Brown farmers.

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Podcast: The Best Of Our Knowledge
Episode: #1581: The World Needs A New PhD | The Best Of Our Knowledge
Pub date: 2021-01-08

The PhD degree lies in ruins. That’s the first sentence of a preview written about the new book called THE NEW PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education. The authors feel the PhD needs to quickly evolve to serve the needs of students and society. Here to talk about the book are those authors. […]

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Podcast: Radical Science (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Innovation Delusion with Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell
Pub date: 2020-12-18

In this episode we chat to Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell authors of The Innovation Delusion (2020), where they take on ‘innovation speak’ and advocate for a greater focus on what keeps the world  going – maintenance. Interview starts ~20min mark.

Lee Vinsel is a Professor ub the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.

Andrew Russell is a Professor of History and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

• The Innovation Delusion
• Lee Vinsel / @STS_News
• Andrew Russell  / @RussellProf
• The Maintainers

@radicalscipod / @lawrenceyolland / @gemmamilne

 

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Podcast: Idea Machines (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Analogies, Context, and Zettleconversation with Joel Chan [Idea Machines #24]
Pub date: 2020-03-17

Intro

In this episode I talk to Joel Chan about cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer, zettlekasten, and too many other things to enumerate. Joel is an a professor in the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and a member of their Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on understanding and creating generalizable configurations of people, computing, and information that augment human intelligence and creativity. Essentially, how can we expand our knowledge frontier faster and better. 

This conversation was also an experiment. Instead of a normal interview that’s mostly the host directing the conversation, Joel and I actually let the conversation be directed by his notes. We both use a note-taking system called a zettlekasten that’s based around densely linked notes and realized hat it might be interesting to record a podcast where the structure of the conversation is Joel walking through his notes around where his main lines of research originated.

For those of you who just want to hear a normal podcast, don’t worry – this episode listens like any other episode of idea machines. For those of you who are interested in the experiment, I’ve put a longer-than normal post-pod at the end of the episode.

Key Takeaways

• Context and synthesis are two critical pieces of knowledge transfer that we don’t talk or think about enough.
• There is so much exciting progress to be made in how we could generate and execute on new ideas.

Show Notes

More meta-experiments: An entry point to Joel’s Notes from our conversation

– Wright brothers – Wing warping – Control is core problem – Boxes have nothing to do with flying – George Vestral – velcro

– scite.ai – Canonical way you’re supposed to do scientific literature – Even good practice – find the people via the literature – Incubation Effect – Infrastructure has no way of knowing whether a paper has been contradicted – No way to know whether paper has been Refuted, Corroborated or Expanded – Incentives around references – Herb Simon, Allen Newell – problem solving as searching in space – Continuum from ill structured problem to well structured problems – Figuring out the parameters, what is the goal state, what are the available moves – Cyber security is both cryptography and social engineering – How do we know what we know? – Only infrastructure we have for sharing is via published literature – Antedisciplinary Science – Consequences of science as a career – Art in science – As there is more literature fragmentation it’s harder to synthesize and actually figure out what the problem is – Canonical unsolved problems – List of unsolved problems in physics  – Review papers are: Hard to write and Career suicide – Formulating a problem requires synthesis – Three levels of synthesis 1. Listing citations 2. Listing by idea 3. Synthesis – Bloom’s taxonomy  – Social markers – yes I’ve read X it wasn’t useful – Conceptual flag citations – there may actually be no relation between claims and claims in paper – Types of knowledge synthesis and their criteria – If you’ve synthesized the literature you’ve exposed fractures in it – To formulate problem you need to synthesize, to synthesize you need to find the right pieces, finding the right pieces is hard – Individual synthesis systems:       – Zettlekasten       – Tinderbox system       – Roam

– Graveyard of systems that have tried to create centralized knowledge repository – The memex as the philosopher’s stone of computer science – Semantic web – Shibboleth words – Open problem – “What level of knowledge do you need in a discipline” – Feynman sense of knowing a word – Information work at interdisciplinary boundaries – carol palmer – Different modes of interdisciplinary research – “Surface areas of interaction”   – Causal modeling the Judea pearl sense – Sensemaking is moving from unstructured things towards more structured things and the tools matter

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