Podcast: The Story Collider (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Saving Dad: Stories about fathers who needed a helping hand
Pub date: 2020-06-19

This week we present two stories about people who sprung to action to help a dad.

Part 1: To cheer up her ailing father, Victoria Ruiz decides to smuggle a turtle into his hospital room.

Part 2: Stacey Bader Curry finally meets a nice guy — the only catch is, he needs a liver.

Dr. Victoria Ruiz is an Assistant Professor in Biology at St. Francis College and Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU Langone medical center. She obtained her PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University, and she completed her postdoctoral work at New York University Langone Medical Center. Her primary research focuses on the effects of environmental perturbations of microbial communities on host immunity. In addition to research, she is passionate about increasing equity and inclusion in STEM and developing new and innovative pedagogical strategies to improve learning outcomes for undergraduate students interested in pursuing STEM fields.

Stacey Bader Curry has a BA in art history and political science from Rutgers University. Naturally, she began her career by selling laboratory equipment at Weill Cornell Medical College. She now sells apartments but can still get you a good deal on a centrifuge. Stacey is also a writer and storyteller and has appeared on PBS’ Stories From the Stage, Yum’s the Word with Mo Rocca, and has won several Moth slams, including a Grand Slam. Stacey lives in Manhattan with her four children, husband, a dog named Pip, and cases of powder-free nitrile gloves.

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Podcast: Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves.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: When Ignorance is Bliss – Emily Ho
Pub date: 2020-06-09

Why do some of us choose to remain ignorant of information that – though perhaps unpleasant – could help us make better informed decisions in the future? In episode 76, Emily Ho from Northwestern University’s Department of Medical Social Sciences discusses her research into why we keep our heads in the sand about important information for a variety of psychological and economic reasons.

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Podcast: Radical Science
Episode: United we are Unstoppable with Akshat Rathi
Pub date: 2020-09-01

In this episode we chat to Akshat Rathi an energy and climate reporter at Bloomberg. He is also the editor of United we are Unstoppable, the topic of this episode, a collection of 60 inspiring stories from young climate activists across the globe.

• Twitter
• United we are Unstoppable
• Akshat’s Bloomberg writing

 

 

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Podcast: Women in Data Science
Episode: Andrea Gagliano | The Intersection of Arts and Technology
Pub date: 2020-05-14

When Andrea was studying math as an undergrad, she was required to take an arts class in order to graduate, and soon discovered that she loved poetry. She learned that the process of writing a poem was often similar to solving a complex math problem—just starting with one part, and then doing one more, and gradually the rest is revealed. She enjoyed it so much that her first machine learning project in graduate school was on poetry/sonnet generation. 

Andrea wanted to blend technology and art in her career and Getty Images turned out to be the perfect place to combine her two interests. Getty Images curates and manages a huge library of images and videos that are used in editorial news, websites, social media, billboards and more. She started as a data scientist two years ago, and is now leading the AI/machine learning team to develop new tools to help clients more effectively use Getty’s creative assets. She explains that many of their creative clients come to the site and don’t have the language to describe the types of images they’re looking for. Andrea’s team is building models to help clients find images when they don’t have the words to articulate their vision. Another machine learning project they are working on is how to identify awkwardly posed “stocky” photos vs. the more realistic photos that clients are looking for.

She is currently doing more painting than poetry, and also sees parallels between painting and computer vision. She explains that when you start with a blank canvas, you have to think about shapes, lines, negative space and colors. It’s a similar process to how a machine comprehends pixels and the relationships between colors, contrast, shapes and textures.

Andrea created a special photo exhibit for the WiDS Stanford 2020 Conference that illuminates concerns about image manipulation while also posing provocative questions about gender and leadership. In the exhibit, she used machine learning (style GAN) to transform pictures of US presidents, ranging from George Washington to Donald Trump, into female versions of those presidents. The style GAN is a machine-learning model that can manipulate an image in different dimensions, in this case, from masculine to feminine.

The project was born out of conversations around Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), synthetic image generation and concerns about the implications of deep fakes in politics and our culture. She wanted a way to expose that concern in a humorous way. She also saw this as an opportunity to re-imagine our history. What would the world be like today if our presidents had all been women? 

She says the first response to the exhibit is usually laughter, but then it also sparks questions like: What would it have been like if females had founded the country? What wars would have happened or not happened? What would our constitution be like? How would capitalism have evolved? It catalyzes a conversation about the qualities of great leaders what leadership means through a female lens. 

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Podcast: ReproducibiliTea Podcast
Episode: Episode 32 – Crisis Research With Anne Scheel
Pub date: 2020-04-07

Episode 32 – Research under Crisis with Anne Scheel

We have a very special guest in this lockdown episode of ReproducibiliTea: Anne Scheel (@annemscheel). We reflect on research during the COVID-19 pandemic and the wide range of responses from the research community.

We talked to Anne about her recent blogpost “Crisis research, fast and slow” (http://www.the100.ci/2020/03/26/crisis-research-fast-and-slow/) – her first in two years! A lot of research is being rushed to testing and to (pre)print; Anne worries that some of this goes against our collective efforts to promote ‘slow’ science.

Anne masterfully flips the interview on Amy and Sam to give a teaser about their upcoming studies, and how they are trying to avoid the potential pitfalls of fast research during crisis mode.

Listen through the end for some stellar ECR advice from our latest Awesome ECR

Useful links:

Anne’s Blogpost: Crisis research, fast and slow http://www.the100.ci/2020/03/26/crisis-research-fast-and-slow/

The 100% CI blog http://www.the100.ci/

Emergency Kittens @EmrgencyKittens

Anne’s zotero library of COVID-19-related psychology preprints https://www.zotero.org/groups/2472136/covid-19_psych_papers

Anne was also a guest on one of our very favourite episodes of the Everything Hertz podcast https://everythinghertz.com/47

Music credit: Kevin MacLeod – Funkeriffic
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Podcast: Got Science?
Episode: Ep. 96: Election Day 2020: The Trustworthiness of Science
Pub date: 2020-11-03

Today’s episode starts with part four of our series on who pays for climate damages followed by a rerun of Dr. Naomi Oreskes discussing her book, Why Trust Science?

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Podcast: Everything Hertz
Episode: 119: Rules of thumb
Pub date: 2020-11-02

Dan and James discuss how rules of thumbs in science, such as those often applied to sample sizes and effect sizes, lead to mindless research evaluation.

More info and links:

• Is there any justifcation for holding back the public posting of data becuase you’re not done with your analyses
• We have a new episode partner, Scite!
• Scite helps researchers quickly see how a research paper has been cited and if it has been supported or disputed by subsequent research
• Get a 30% discount on a 12-month Premium Scite subscription. Use the coupon code: HERTZ (offer expires January 1, 2021)
• Lake Wobegon, were all the children are above average
• The tweet from Marco Altini about his desk-rejected manuscript
• Sample size rules-of-thumb
• Effect size rules-of-thumb
• Dan’s effect size distribution paper (Here’s the preprint if you don’t have access to the paywalled version)
• We have a live episode scheduled for the 18 November (4pm CET) as part of the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publising

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• [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
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Podcast: Nature Podcast
Episode: Talking politics, talking science
Pub date: 2020-10-30

Science and politics are not easy bedfellows – “Stick to the science” is a three part series which aims to find out why.

In the third and final episode we try to get to the bottom of how journalists, communicators and policymakers influence how science is perceived. We discuss the danger of politicisation and ask the question – can science be part of the political narrative without compromising its values?

Tell us what you think of this series: https://go.nature.com/2HzXVLc

This episode was produced by Nick Howe, with editing from Noah Baker and Benjamin Thompson. It featured: Deborah Blum, Bruce Lewenstein, Dan Sarewitz, Hannah Schmid-Petri, Shobita Parasarathy, and Beth Simone Noveck.

 

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