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Teamwork: Stories about working together


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Podcast: The Story Collider
Episode: Teamwork: Stories about working together
Episode pub date: 2019-03-15


Part 1: A power outage on campus leads physics student Zoya Vallari to take a stand against her university’s female-only curfew.

Part 2: Firefighter Nick Baskerville is eager to prove himself when he arrives on the scene of his first fire.

Zoya Vallari is a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech where she studies  fundamental particles called neutrinos. She received a PhD in particle  physics from Stony Brook University in December 2018. She’s the  winner of Three Minute Thesis competition at her graduate school and was  awarded the International fellowship by American Association of  University Women. Physics and dance are the two most important ways  in which she relates to the world, though books come a close third. She  loves mangoes, wine and sunshine. She is proud of her ability to lucid  dream. 

Nick has had the honor of serving in the United States Air Force for a  total of 14 years. He has 19 years of fire service time, with 16 years  of that being in a career department in Northern Virginia. Nick is a  state certified instructor for the fire service in Virginia where he  teaches classes ranging from basic fire fighter skills to Cancer  awareness for the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN). Nick is  also a member of Better Said Than Done, a storytelling organization in  Northern VA. His stories have been featured there, The Moth, Storyfest  Short Slam, Secretly, Ya’ll and Perfect Liars Club. Nick has started a  blog, Story Telling On Purpose (www.stop365.blog), as a way to connect the storytelling community with the rest of the DC, MD, VA area.  

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Ep 149: Dr. Keith Leavitt on Behavioral Ethics


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Podcast: Research in Action | A podcast for faculty & higher education professionals on research design, methods, productivity & more
Episode: Ep 149: Dr. Keith Leavitt on Behavioral Ethics
Episode pub date: 2019-03-11

On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Keith Leavitt, an Associate Professor in the College of Business and the Betty S. Henry Admundson Faculty scholar in Ethics at Oregon State University. His research interests include behavioral ethics, identity and situated judgment, and research methods. His work has been featured in over 200 major media outlets, and prominently on the front of his mother’s refrigerator. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, fly fishing, skiing, the occasional existential crisis, and trying to sneak inappropriately-placed messages in to his faculty profile.

Segment 1: Researching Behavioral Ethics [00:00-12:12]

In this first segment, Keith shares about his work researching behavioral ethics in the workplace.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

Segment 2: Researching Employee Sex Lives [12:13-23:34]

In segment two, Keith shares about recent research he completed that received some media attention.

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Segment 3: The Changing Nature of Work [23:35-36:26]

In segment three, Keith shares about his interest in the changing nature of work as a function of automation.

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The College Cheating Scandal: The Biggest Victim Is Public Confidence


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Podcast: Knowledge@Wharton
Episode: The College Cheating Scandal: The Biggest Victim Is Public Confidence
Episode pub date: 2019-03-15


The “Varsity Blues” scandal uncovered by the U.S. Department of Justice has shined harsh light on the entitlement and systemic racism that pervades the college admissions process.

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083: Preprint First, Peer-Review Later – Hello PhD


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Podcast: Hello PhD
Episode: 083: Preprint First, Peer-Review Later – Hello PhD
Episode pub date: 2017-11-21


Publishing your research in a peer-reviewed academic journal is an exercise in patience. You write and edit, wait for feedback from your PI, wrangle the figures into some esoteric format, and then submit.  That’s when the real patience begins.
From submission to publication, the peer review process can take more than a year.  Meanwhile, you’re moving on to other work, and hoping a competing lab doesn’t scoop the science you showed at the last conference.
Enter the preprint.  Though it sounds unassuming, it’s a source of real controversy in the biomedical sciences.

Like Reprints, But Way Earlier
Essentially, a preprint is just a manuscript submitted to an online repository before it has gone through peer review.
The benefits are perhaps unexpected: preprints enable anyone to access your research, regardless of their budget for journal subscriptions.  Peers can comment on the work, and offer suggestions for follow-up experiments that may speed your research through the traditional review process. And preprinting can establish your lab’s primacy when another researcher tries to scoop your work.
But preprints offer hazards as well.  Will the quality of research decline if experiments are not reviewed first? What if no one shows up to comment or collaborate?
Launched in 2013, bioRxiv.org intends to answer these questions empirically.  Based on the longstanding ArXiv.org, a preprint server for physics and mathematics, bioRxiv “is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.”
In this week’s episode we talk with Jessica Polka, PhD. She’s the Director of ASAPbio where she works to promote the productive use of preprints in the life sciences. She explores the common concerns she hears from biomedical scientists, and how she believes preprints could revolutionize discovery and collaboration.

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Episode 6: The Insectophile


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Podcast: Voices from DARPA
Episode: Episode 6: The Insectophile
Episode pub date: 2017-01-12

In this episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Blake Bextine of the Agency’s Biological Technologies Office as he talks about his virus- and insect-mediated vision for protecting food crops from natural and human-wrought threats, including drought and biological warfare. With his Insect Allies program, Bextine aims to increase food security by recruiting insects to deliver viruses, which have been modified to bear protective genes, into plants where those virus-carried genes could save the plants from the threats they face. His approach offers a number of potential advantages over today’s slash-and-burn method of managing diseased crops. Bextine also shares some tips on how to find and cook insects, especially when you’re in the wilderness and your stomach is growling.

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Game Theory


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Podcast: In Our Time
Episode: Game Theory
Episode pub date: 2012-05-10


Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. First formulated in the 1940s, the discipline entails devising ‘games’ to simulate situations of conflict or cooperation. It allows researchers to unravel decision-making strategies, and even to establish why certain types of behaviour emerge. Some of the games studied in game theory have become well known outside academia – they include the Prisoner’s Dilemma, an intriguing scenario popularised in novels and films, and which has inspired television game shows. Today game theory is seen as a vital tool in such diverse fields as evolutionary biology, economics, computing and philosophy. With:Ian StewartEmeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of WarwickAndrew ColmanProfessor of Psychology at the University of LeicesterRichard BradleyProfessor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Producer: Thomas Morris.

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Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific


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Podcast: The Life Scientific
Episode: Jim Al-Khalili on HIS life scientific
Episode pub date: 2019-02-05


In an ideal (quantum) world, Jim Al-Khalili would be interviewing himself about his life as a scientist but since the production team can’t access a parallel universe, Adam Rutherford is stepping in to ask Jim questions in front of an audience at The Royal Society. Jim and his family left Iraq in 1979, two weeks before Saddam Hussein came to power, abandoning most of their possessions. Having grown up listening to the BBC World Service, he had to drop his ts to fit in at school in Portsmouth where he was one of just three boys in a class of more than a hundred girls. He specialised in nuclear physics and spent fifteen years in front of a computer screen trying to understand an exotic and ephemeral sub-atomic phenomenon known as the halo effect. His ‘little eureka moment’ came in 1996 when Jim discovered that, for the mathematics to add up, these halo nuclei had to be a lot bigger than anyone had thought. It isn’t going to lead to a new kind of non-stick frying pan any time soon but it was exciting, nonetheless. More recently he has become interested in quantum biology. It started as a hobby back in the 1990s when physicists were sceptical and many biologists were unconvinced. Since then evidence has been stacking up. Several studies suggest that lasting quantum mechanical effects could explain photosynthesis, for example. ‘It maybe a red herring’ Jim admits but Jim and his team at the University of Surrey are determined to find out if the idea of quantum biology makes sense. Could life itself depend on quantum tunnelling and other bizarre features of the sub-atomic world?
Download the special extended podcast to hear questions from past guests on The Life Scientific and some cheeky contributions from members of the Al-Khalili family.
Producer: Anna Buckley

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“The Lit. Review Method for becoming a successful impact professional” by Dr. Christopher Zambakari


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Podcast: The Social Change Career Podcast
Episode: “The Lit. Review Method for becoming a successful impact professional” by Dr. Christopher Zambakari
Episode pub date: 2019-02-27

After spending 10 years in refugee camps in Central Africa, Christopher Zambakari and his family arrived to the U.S. No war or any other obstacle -like not getting a job immediately after graduation- stopped him to becoming a successful academic, practitioner and business owner with degrees in Law, MBA and a PhD. Learn about “The Lit Review Method” for changing the world and becoming a successful social change professional in Episode 2 of Season 4.

Episode 2 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

In this episode we discuss:

    • On how the Sudanese civil war, influenced Dr. Zambakari
    • Born in South Sudan (before partition) first he was IDP (internally displaced) to Central Africa Republic spent over a decade in refugee camps
    • On how Dr. Zambakari’s support system (two sisters and a mum) was key to propel his career forward
    • How the outside (was chaos, wars) but the household was stable and produced an environment that encouraged education
    • On being multi-lingual and his passion for Spanish and Spanish Literature
    • How has he integrated his career while making a living
    • Zambakari’s “why” and how we transformed his upbringing (in a conflict zone) and propelled him to a successful career
    • Differentiate between your talent and your calling
    • How he started a business in assisting living that allowed him to fund his non-profit ventures
    • How he plans on training the next generation of researchers FROM Africa
    • How to get in touch with the ZACF (as an intern, fellow)
    • How to publish your research at ZACF
    • Zambakari’s top skill for a social change professional to succeed
    • Journals or Blogs? What is best for a social change career?
    • Zambakari’s lesson’s for those that have to start their own business
    • Final words for life and career from Dr. Zambakari

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