Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Portfolio, publishers of the international science journal Nature. Working Scientist is a regular free audio show featuring advice and information from global industry experts with a strong focus on supporting early career researchers working in academia and other sectors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Pediapod is the pediatrics podcast from Pediatric Research, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we explore the etiologies of diseases of children and disorders of development, featuring interviews with top researchers and highlighted content from one of the premier journals in the field of pediatrics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global health, policy and clinical research of the day―and what it means for people around the world.
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BrainPod is the podcast from the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we delve into the latest basic and clinical research that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior, featuring highlighted content from a top journal in fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and pharmacology. For complete access to the original papers and reviews featured in this podcast, subscribe to Neuropsychopharmacology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co ...
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EyePod, the podcast from the journal Eye, highlights the best news and research in ophthalmology, including interviews with the people behind the science, in-depth commentary and analysis, and special reports on conferences and meetings.
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Our goal in this podcast is to support natural product brands, dietary supplement companies, functional food and beverage companies, and nutraceutical industry professionals by offering interviews with top industry experts. These interviews will contain best practices, trends, recent news, and other insights as they relate to business ops, supply chain, quality, science and regulatory, manufacturing, marketing, strategy, branding and more.
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On Consciousness & the Brain with Bernard Baars
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Open-minded conversations on some new ideas about the scientific study of consciousness & the brain. Join Bernard Baars - originator of Global Workspace Theory (GWT), acclaimed author in psychobiology and one of the founders of the modern science of consciousness - to discover the conscious brain.
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The US is the richest country in the world, but has some of the most entrenched poverty and associated poor health outcomes. Miriam Sabin (North American Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet) joins Jessamy to chat with Luke Shaefer (Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and Director of Poverty Solutions) and Mona Hanna (Professo…
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Four weddings, a funeral, and the Sustainable Development Goal logos
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Graphic designer Jakob Trollbäck remembers a 2014 meeting with film director Richard Curtis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, then very much a work in progress, coming up in conversation. Curtis, whose movies include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually and the Bridget Jones series, is also a UN Advocate for …
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Collection on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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In this episode, Geoff Marsh speaks to Dr. Stephanie Ford about our Collection on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Read the collection here: https://www.nature.com/collections/fccidiefbi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
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When Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, sought to change the country’s food systems in 2020, it started by looking at school meals and funding several projects around menus, procurement, and how cafeterias were organised. Breaking down a big goal into smaller component parts and bringing together different interested parties, as Vinnova did, is k…
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Gavin is joined by Paul Moran (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK) and Helen Christensen (Scientia Professor of Mental Health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) to discuss The Lancet's new commission on self-harm, exploring its prevalence, cultural f…
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AI in publishing, the Darzi report, and population levels
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Jessamy, Gavin, and Richard come together for another bonus episode of The Lancet Voice. A freeform chat covers xenotransplantation, the use of AI in scientific research, the Darzi report into the UK's National Health Service, and falling population levels over the next few decades. Send us your feedback! Continue this conversation on social! Follo…
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How artificial intelligence can help to keep us safe
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Growing up in the last years of the Cold War motivated Gabriele Jacobs to enter academia and play her part in building peaceful societies. Jacobs works at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where she researches the role artificial intelligence (AI) can play in public safety and the ethical debate surrounding this. She describes how ex…
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My mission to protect threatened mangroves
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Sigit Sasmito describes how his research at James Cook University in Brisbane, Australia, is helping to protect both peatlands and mangroves across southeast Asia, as part of a drive to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15. The goal, one of 17 agreed by the United Nations in 2015. aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial …
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Antimicrobial resistance - the path to sustainability
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Ramanan Laxminarayan is the founder and president of the One Health Trust, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resistance in New Delhi, India, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He is the lead author of The Lancet’s May 2024 series on Sustainable Access to Antibiotics. He joins Gavin and J…
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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans
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Watching documentaries about the Titanic inspired deep-sea microbiologist Beth Orcutt to study life at the bottom of the ocean - a world of ‘towering chimneys, weird shrimp and octopus nurseries’ that she has visited 35 times. But Orcutt says there is so much we still don't know about the deep sea, which is a problem for the sustainable development…
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Energy transitions, sharing vaccines, and making research accessible for non-English speakers
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In something of a bonus episode, Gavin, Richard, and Jessamy sit down for an informal chat about what's going on in the news, in health, and in the world of The Lancet, covering healthcare emissions, solar power, and the challenge of global co-operation on vaccines. Send us your feedback! Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... …
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How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint
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Analytical chemist Jane Kilcoyne was working in her biotoxin monitoring lab one day in 2018 when she noticed a bin overflowing with plastic waste. The observation prompted her to join forces with like-minded colleagues and develop a package of measures aimed at reducing their lab’s carbon footprint. Their efforts include reducing energy consumption…
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Health in Africa: Mpox and the Public Health Emergency of International Concern
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The mpox case surge in Africa has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the WHO. A new clade of the virus has emerged since the 2022 outbreak which has led to a rapid increase in cases. Professor Salim Abdool Karim, who is the the chair of the Africa CDC’s Emergency Consultative Group and the director of CAPRIS…
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August/Senior Investigator: Conversation with Tina Cheng
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This episode features a conversation with Senior Investigator Tina Cheng, who has held several leadership positions over her career, including her current roles as Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation. Her clinical work and research work have had a long and lasting impact…
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The UK's COVID-19 public enquiry, with Richard Horton
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The first module of the UK's COVID-19 enquiry was published in July 2024. The enquiry found that the UK prepared for the wrong sort of pandemic, suffered from groupthink, and ultimately failed its citizens, more than 200,000 of whom died as a result of the pandemic. Editor-in-chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, joins Gavin and Jessamy to discuss h…
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Genome-wide association studies of coffee intake in UK/US participants of European ancestry uncover cohort-specific genetic associations
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Researchers are interested in understanding the biology of why some people are more likely to overconsume substances. Some substances are difficult to study—people might not admit to illegal substance abuse or to how much alcohol they drink. But Americans are more likely to accurately recall and share how much coffee they drink—which is related to …
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What's hot in stem cells and regenerative biology?
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Listen to July's Pediapod episode: What's hot in stem cells and regenerative biology? with Atul Malhotra. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Developments in our understanding of dementia
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14 modifiable risk factors account for 45% of dementia cases worldwide. Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Prof. Gill Livingston (UCL) and Prof. Geir Selbaek (University of Oslo) to discuss the 2024 updates to The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention. You can read the Commission here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736…
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Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues
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In the sixth and final episode of The Last few miles: planning for the late stage career in science, Julie Gould unpicks some of the generational tensions that can arise in academia when a colleague approaches retirement. Inger Mewburn, who leads research and development training at the Australian National University in Canberra, tells her: “There’…
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A dumpster full of mercury and other things to avoid: lab closures made simple
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In the fifth episode of this six-part podcast series about the late career stage, physicist María Teresa Dova outlines how she is preparing colleagues years in advance to ensure a smooth handover of her lab at the University of La Plata, in Argentina. But in the United States, when the principal investigator leaves it is likely the lab itself will …
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Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director of UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Group, to discuss the access to health and freedom of the most vulnerable people around the world. Are we maintaining progress on rights, or are we in danger of backsliding? Send us your feedback! Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at…
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June/Senior Investigator: Conversation with Richard Jackson
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This month features a conversation with Senior Investigator, Professor Richard Jackson, who’s had an extensive career in Public Health. Now Professor Emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, Richard has served in many leadership positions including nine years as Director of the CDC's National Ce…
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Pension planning and psychosocial support: how institutions can help academics at the late career stage
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The list of things to organize as retirement from academia approaches can feel daunting. In the fourth episode of The last few miles, a six-part podcast series about the late career stage in science, researchers talk about health, housing and financial planning. Carol Shoshkes Reiss, an immunologist at New York University, explains how her institut…
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Ozempic, public health, and black markets
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Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Oksana Pyzik (UCL, Fight The Fakes Alliance) to discuss how Ozempic/Wegovy/semaglutide works, what becoming mainstream means for our understanding of obesity and public health, and how demand is fuelling an unregulated black market in the drugs. Send us your feedback! Continue this conversation on social! Follow us t…
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“Who am I if not a scientist?” How to find identity and purpose in retirement
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Because many scientists see their career as a calling, when retirement arrives it can bring with it feelings of insecurity and worry about what this means for them. Microbiologist Roberto Kolter, emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, is keen to show others that retirement is a joyous time and a chance to broaden one’s scienti…
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Choose your own adventure: navigating retirement after an academic career
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The idea that retirement marks the end of employment and the beginning of a life of leisure is one that many academics feel is outdated. Roger Baldwin, a retired researcher of higher education at Michigan State University in East Lansing and chair of the US Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE), a membership organizati…
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The last few miles: how to prepare for the late-career stage in science
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What are the signs that you’re transitioning from the middle to the late stage of a career in science? Is this transition something you can plan in advance, and if so, what does this look like? Working backwards from your planned retirement date can help you to re-evaluate your priorities and predict the challenges the next few years might bring. B…
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C-reactive protein moderates associations between racial discrimination and ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation during attention to threat in Black American women
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Scientists have been amassing an increasing amount of evidence about the impact of racial discrimination and racial trauma, including how it can have an impact on brain regions involved with threat vigilance and emotional regulation. At the same time, there’s evidence that increased engagement in those areas has been linked to increased risk of men…
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Collection on neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
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In this episode, listen to our editorial apprentice, Dr. Eric Peeples describe the scope and importance of our collection on neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Visit the collection here: Neonatal Encephalopathy and Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (nature.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Anita Zaidi, President of The Gender Equality Division at the Gates Foundation, joins Gavin to discuss women in global health from visibility in data all the way through to women in leadership positions in global health. Also on the agenda is the impact of vaccines, innovations in gender equity, and challenges and successes in addressing maternal m…
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Counting the cost of fashion’s carbon footprint
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In many parts of the world these days garments are bought purely as fashion items, and discarded after just a few months or years. But as the global population grows and personal wealth levels increase, solutions are urgently needed to process increasing volumes of textile waste as consumption rises. This waste includes synthetic fibres, which do n…
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Why female students at an inner London school are seeing scientists in a different light
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Draw a Scientist is a test developed in 1983 to explore children’s perspectives of scientists and how stereotypical views can emerge at an early age, influenced both by popular culture and how STEM subjects are taught in schools. In April, 50 images from Nature’s weekly Where I Work section, a photo essay which depicts an individual researcher at w…
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Using live transport data to deliver sustainable cities
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Lynette Cheah’s research group collaborates with psychologists, computer scientists and urban designers to develop smarter and more sustainable ways of city transportation. “We can’t have sustainable cities without transforming the way people move and how goods are moved around,” says Cheah, an engineering systems researcher who is based at the Uni…
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Gavin and Jessamy are joined by Rupa Sarkar, editor-in-chief of The Lancet Digital Health, to discuss the uses of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare, the safety and patient concerns, progress that’s been made, and the what the future of AI in health might hold. Send us your feedback! Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at.…
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How artificial intelligence is helping to identify global inequalities
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Francisco Ferreira’s first exposure to inequality of opportunity was during his daily ride to school in São Paulo, Brazil, and seeing children his age selling chewing gum on the streets. Ferreira, a former World Bank economist who now researches inequality at the London School of Economics, speculates on the wasted human talent caused by such hards…
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