In the second in our brand new Podcasts by Scientists series, we spoke to PhD student Rebekah J White and zoologist Tom Land, co-hosts and creators of Darwin's Black Book to find more about the podcast and how it came about...
In the first in our brand new Podcasts by Scientists series, we spoke to PhD students Olivia Grant and Ellie Watson, co-hosts and creators of The Genomics Lab to find more about the podcast and how it came about...
Olivia Grant is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex. She is passionate about science communication and co-hosts a science podcast called The Genomics Lab. We spoke to Olivia to find out more about her current research, her podcast, her passion for science communication, and more...
Adviti Naik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute. She specialises in breast cancer research, and was commended by our judges in the Lab Heroes Awards 2020. We were delighted to speak to Adviti in more detail about her current research, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on her work, her admiration for women in STEM, and lots more...
Rangel Leal Silva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Agarwal Lab, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany. He is using various techniques to study how astrocytes may regulate neuronal function in chronic pain conditions. We were delighted to chat to Rangel about his work, his career so far, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his research, and more...
Meet the second of our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2020 runners-up, Dr. Ziba Jaberansari, who was nominated by her PI, Dr Andrew Pelling. He described her dedication to the team, and how she went above and beyond to keep their lab operating during the early stages of the pandemic…
Meet the first of our Lab Heroes AwardsTM 2020 runners-up, Dr. Abiola Isawumi, who received 16 nominations from current and former work colleagues who told us about his passionate commitment to teaching and the calm nature and motivational words he brings to the lab...
Facts & Reasons is a platform that fights scientific misinformation by investigating and explaining the truth behind click-bait “science” articles in mass media. We spoke to the cofounders Kamil Wolanin and Ambra Villani to find out more...
Next up in our Scientist Talks video series, we chatted to Heema Vyas. Heema is a fourth-year PhD student at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in Australia. We spoke to Heema about her current research, her experience of managing her mental wellbeing during her PhD, and her advice for new PhD students when it comes to balancing mental health and wellbeing in the academic environment.
Next in our Scientist Talks video series, we speak to Professor Stuart Maudsley, the Odysseus Professor of Receptor Pharmacology at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. We spoke to Stuart about the importance of motivation in science research, why it’s easy for scientists to become demotivated, and how he motivates himself and his team.
