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We all know who they are, they listen to our voices yet we may not even have met them in person, they carry the weight of the community’s concerns while tackling the big problems - this is the regular perception of our directors. One thing is different, they are more accessible than you think.
You don’t need to look any further, as in this episode, we are bringing you Jari Koistinaho, a Director of the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE). Jari tells us about HiLIFE’s initiatives and activities, while also sharing his experience as a director and the essentials of leading a large academic institution.
This is the first entry of the 5-part series on HiLIFE, where we engage in conversations with key members of the HiLIFE team, exploring topics from leadership to the translation of scientific work.
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Data security is a hot topic and its relevance is increasing with advancing technologies. Because of that, scientists have been putting their minds to work out ways to deliver information quickly yet securely. One doesn’t need to go far to see one of the ways to do it. It’s light! Indeed, we can use a single light particle - photon - to package and deliver our precious data. Our guest for this episode, Valentin, tells us how we can extract these tiny photons, stuff them with information and send out for delivery as a part of the quantum computing technology.
Valentin is a PhD in Physics and a Senior Research Scientist at Corning Incorporated.
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Mitochondria are the irreplaceable assistants managing a myriad of cellular processes. Should they go out of hand, the cell will bear the consequences, often leading to severe disorders for which we have no found cures.
In this episode, we delve into how mitochondrial diseases originate, daily tribulations faced by the patients, and the treatments solutions currently at our disposal.
In this episode, we're joined by Rohit Verma, a medical doctor and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. Rohit offers unique insights into mitochondrial diseases from both a medical perspective and his own experiences in managing these patients.
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We all have experienced the heat of the moment: utter words that weren’t meant to be said and often make things worse. It is natural to have rough days and can easily resolve such situations. Now imagine if this behaviour becomes a norm. When you, or someone else, find yourself under constant fire of such uncivil behaviour. These instances are labeled as harassment or bullying and are a serious problem in academic circles. Paradoxically, they are often covered up and left unresolved, allowing them to carry on and erode the very fabric of our academic community.
Join us to break down the problem of harassment in academia. We will uncover the many faces it carries, offer tips for addressing it, and hear a couple of our brave listeners who share their stories with academic harassment.
References:
1. Efforts to prevent sexual harassment in academia (Swedish Council for Higher Education) https://www.uhr.se/globalassets/_uhr.se/publikationer/2020/uhr-efforts-to-prevent-sexual-harassment-in-academia.pdf
2. Oksanen et al., 2021, Hate and harassment in academia: the rising concern of the online environment https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00787-4
3. Bondestam & Lundqvist (2020) Sexual harassment in higher education – a systematic review https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2020.1729833
4. Täuber et al. (2022) Harassment as a consequence and cause of inequality in academia: A narrative review https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101486
5. Wellcome Trust report "What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In" https://wellcome.org/reports/what-researchers-think-about-research-culture
6. Täuber & Mahmoudi (2022) How bullying becomes a career tool https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01311-z
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Welcome back to the enchanting world of ants! This time, we embark on a journey to unravel the mysteries of how ants adapt to different temperatures. What makes hybrid ants the champions of temperature adaptation? And how does this help them overcome the struggles of climate change?
The guest for this episode, Beatriz Portinha, is an expert on this subject. As part of her PhD work, Beatriz got access to the insiders information on lives of mound building ants and their resilient hybrids, which she happily shared with us.
Beatriz is a PhD student at the evolutionary genetics lab of the University of Lisbon and SpecIAnt lab at the University of Helsinki. Stay tuned for her future work!
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Tell us if you are not confused when you scroll your newsfeed or change TV channels and see a whole array of opinions on each and every topic. One example you can probably relate to is the COVID crisis: vaccines or no vaccines, masks or no masks - which information is true? Who should we listen to in the end?
The name of this problem is “infodemic”. It means just what you think it means. In this episode, we are talking to Tiffany Duque, a senior advisor at Cochrane, about infodemic, expanding to the topic of misinformation in research and how to manage it.
Cochrane is an international charitable organization promoting evidence-informed health decision-making by producing top quality systematic reviews which have now become the gold standard for evidence-based information. We had a pleasure to organise a mini-series with Cochrane back in 2021. Go check it out if you are interested!
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Following a vegan diet is becoming more and more common these days for many reasons. In this episode, we are discussing veganism from a health science perspective! More specifically children following a vegan diet. To help us learn about this, we are joined by Topi Hovinen, who tells us about his ongoing research on the topic.
Topi has completed an MD and is currently a PhD student at the University of Helsinki.
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Academia like any other place comes as a package of good and bad traits. Sometimes, however, the frustration from the latter reaches the boiling point. In case of many, people start to abandon academia and switch to other career avenues (most commonly to industry). In our case, we decided to make this episode.
Join us as we discuss what makes academic life so tough and let out so steam with us.
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Do you know what tooth paste looks like? You might think so, but imagine peering into the finest details and seeing it beyond the capabilities of our eyes. That is what Dr. Chris Jackson has come to provide us with, joining our hosts to discuss microscopy and his new book unveiling a whole different perspective of the world.
Dr. Christopher B. Jackson is a microscopy researcher, photographer, and now a book author. Apart from this, Christopher leads his own research group on mitochondrial biology.
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Nothing is done in vacuum - this very well applies to research. Good communication skills are often the key to success both in one’s career and personal life. The best way to hone these communication skills is through active networking. In this episode, we discuss how, where and why to network.
Joining us is Erika Palmerio, a research scientist at the Predictive Science Inc, San Diego, California. Even outside her circle, Erika is known as the master of networking, and here she discloses her tricks to this art.
Erika’s interests also include the evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun throughout interplanetary space, the transport and longitudinal spread of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and the space weather impact of solar transients at the different planets.
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Did you know that there are killer electrons in space? No need to panic though, here on the ground you are quite safe! The Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shield us from them. But satellites in space and astronauts cannot say the same! In this episode Dr. Harriet George will explain all about these killer electrons trapped in a region in space called the Earth's radiation belts. Listen along to find out more!
Dr. Harriet George recently completed her PhD at the University of Helsinki, where she studied the Earth's radiation belts. She is now working at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, where she is researching plasma waves in near-Venus space.
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Eleanna and Anastasiia are back with the second episode of our spinoff series! This time they are talking about supervising in academia.
Come listen to find out how to manage students, establish good dynamics with them, what the differences between supervisors and mentors are, and more.
To assist in this discussion, we invited Aleksandra (Sasha) Dobrego.
Sasha is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland, who studies how our brain makes sense of spontaneous free-flowing speech. She gained substantial supervising experience through the management of a group of bachelor students in phonetics and serving as an academic mentor in The Science Mentors - an initiative that helps bachelor students from low-income countries enter Master’s programmes in Europe and the US.
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In this episode Katja and Pritakshi interview Jason Rissanen about his PhD centred around insects familiar to us all: ants!
Have you ever thought that just like us humans, ants might have ways to take care of their health? Turns out one’s hair lightener could be another one’s medicine.
Jason Rissanen is a PhD student at the University of Graz in Austria, working with social insects in the lab of Professor Freitak. His main focus is trying to understand how ants use biologically active compounds as a form of self-medication when they get sick.
While little is known of the medicinal behaviours of animals in general, he believes they are common in nature as disease lurks behind the corner for everyone.
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Let's talk about choosing your future research group!
Are you in the process of searching for a new research group to join? Are you wondering if you are making the best decision? Or maybe you don't even know where to start! In the first episode of "Let's talk about...", a new spin-off series of our podcast, Eleanna and Anastasiia zero in on all these questions and share plenty of tips to those already on the hunt for a team or to those soon embarking.
So join in for some academic chatter and find something to help in your struggles or just to blow off some steam!
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Interested in doing a PhD?
Or curious to hear PhD advice from fellow students?
Just feel like listening to a conversation?
Well, you’re in luck, as Anastasiia, Katja and guest Laura Suominen discuss all about the upsides and downsides of doing a PhD, with some input from our lovely listeners.
Laura Suominen is a second (almost third) year PhD student and pharmacist from the University of Helsinki who loves to share her PhD journey on social media.
Follow Laura at @laurasphdstories
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Strap in for a fun episode on a very serious topic: diabetes.
This week, postdoc researcher Tom Barsby joins in to discuss how diabetes could be treated with lab-grown cells.
Given they can be made "quack"!
Tom Barsby is a postdoctoral researcher in the Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Program at the University of Helsinki. His research is focused on stem cell models of beta cells and how these cells "go wrong" in people with diabetes. When he isn't wearing a lab coat and wrestling with pipettes, he can probably be found in the warm embrace of a board game or an RPG rulebook.
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
In this end-of-the-year episode, TSB members discuss fun and interesting scientific articles from the past year (or at least that was the idea).
We have a stocking filled with ice cream, attraction and bacteria.
Make sure to listen or yule be sorry!
References:
Bacteria help cancer cells to metastasize:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00260-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422002604%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Synchronization in attracted people:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01197-3
Ice cream:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02002-x
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Look away from your phone for a moment and consider: are you happy? In this episode Anastasiia and Rhiannon join Jennifer De Paola, a postdoc in Social Psychology, to discuss happiness.
How do we define it, how does it change over time and how can WE achieve it?
Jennifer De Paola is a post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. De Paola’s research focuses on how the abstract concept of happiness is shaped and constructed on various social media platforms, discussion forums and interactive online newspapers. This innovative approach to happiness studies from the perspective of naturally occurring data provided by social media has given popularity to De Paola’s research also outside the academia, in all major Finnish newspapers, and in several major newspapers in other European countries.
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Welcome to the Halloween episode and happy ADHD awareness month!
Now, don’t get spooked by the demon voice and join us to find out how VR could be used for the diagnosis of childhood ADHD.
Giuliano and Katja interview Liya Merzon and learn it's all about keeping your eye on where the dragon tells you.
Liya Merzon is a psychologist and I'm doing my PhD at the Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Aalto University. In my research, I'm applying computational modelling and machine learning to improve the diagnostics of ADHD in children. In my studies, I've been always fascinated by how applied mathematics could be combined with psychological knowledge to help us understand the human mind.
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Welcome back!As every city has an energy station to drive our daily needs, our cells have mitochondria. And you really really don't want them to malfunction!Mitochondrial diseases are as frequent as childhood cancers, but people barely know of them. Do you know of them? Don't worry, we've got your back ;)In this episode, we invited Prof. Anu Wartiovaara, one of the leading experts in mitochondrial research, to shine some light on mitochondria. What are they? Why can they go rogue? And what happens when they do?This episode is a part of a global campaign called Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week.Prof. Anu Wartiovaara's Twitter handles: @AWartiovaara@ASW_labFun fact reference:https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Midi-chlorianhttps://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/real-biology-star-wars-midichlorians/Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Eleanna AsvestariEditing by Rhiannon NewmanEpisode cover by Katja KaurinkoskiTSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.comFollow The Science Basement:Homepage: www.thesciencebasement.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScienceBasement Instagram: @sciencebasement Twitter: @ScienceBasement Email: [email protected]
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