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Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Robyn Schenk

28 episodes

7 months ago

Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...

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Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...

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Episodes (20/28)

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E7: The Magnetism of Pigeons with Greg Nordmann

Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...

4 years ago

31 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E6: The Real Meaning of Prostitution with Dr Nadine Gloss

Dr Nadine Gloss is an anthropologist/sociologist studying the sociology of sex work and sex work activism. Despite sex work being the "oldest job", there are many barriers in place that treat sex workers unfairly compared to other industries. Nadine shares her experience in observing and participating in sex work activism, debunking common tales about who does sex work and why, and why, at the end of the day, they deserve the same working rights as any other job. For more information about s...

4 years ago

36 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E5: X Chromosomes with Dr Iromi Wanigasuriya

Dr Iromi Wanigasuriya is a molecular biologist studying epigenetics, or how our genes are regulated, in embryos. We talk about sex differences in gene expression, but also in medical research and for being an international student. For more info on the gender gap in medical studies, I encourage you to check out this article, by Kelly Burrowes in The Conversation > https://theconversation.com/gender-bias-in-medicine-and-medical-research-is-still-putting-womens-health-at-risk-156495 <or ...

4 years ago

36 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E4: Life-Saving Operations with Profs Sommer Gentry & Dorry Segev

Prof Sommer Gentry is a mathematician working in the area of Operations Research, and her husband, Prof Dorry Segev, is a transplant surgeon and epidemiologist. Together, they use their research to improve organ transplant policies in the USA, with the goal of improving the health and equity of healthcare for people requiring organ transplantation. Sommer (@shelikesmath) is a Professor of Mathematics at the US Naval Academy, and Dorry (@Dorry_Segev) is Professor of Surgery and Associate Vice...

4 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E3: Ageing with Myself

A brief monologue / verbal essay on some interesting things I learned while reading about the evolution of human ageing. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-019-09896-2 For more information about Nice to Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynSciences, instagram @nicetoknowapodcast or email nicetoknowthepodcast@gmail.com

4 years ago

10 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E2: Plant Sex with Dr Michael Borg

Michael Borg (@dr_borg) is a developmental biologist and expert in the molecular workings of plant reproduction. In this episode, he tells me how different organisms reset their DNA in order to start again with the next generation. We also talk more broadly about why we should care about plants and study biology in general. For more information about Nice to Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynSciences or Instagram @nicetoknowapodcast. You can also get in touch via nicetoknowthepod...

4 years ago

41 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

S2 E1: Cuddle Hormones with Dr Dan Quintana

Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) combines biology, neuroscience and endocrinology (the study of hormones) to study how the so-called "cuddle hormone" oxytocin influences behaviour. Turns out, it's more than just cuddling!! Dan is also co-host of the podcast Everything Hertz: https://everythinghertz.com/about You can also check out his blog (https://www.dsquintana.blog/) and his free book on how to Twitter for scientists: https://t4scientists.com/ For more information on future episodes of Nice to...

4 years ago

47 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Best of Season 1 Part 2

A selection of my favourite Nice to Know moments from Season 1, covering episodes 10 - 18. Timestamps: 01:26 Ep. 10: Proteins & PhD Life with Dr Rhiannon Morris 02:51 Ep.11: Cancer, COVID, and Childcare with Dr Margs Brennan 04:34 Ep. 12: Doing Tai Chi with Drones with Design Researcher Joseph La Delfa 06:35 Ep. 13: Negative Results to Positive Interactions with Dr Bernhard Hochreiter 07:48 Ep. 14: TEAbacco, and use of other illicit drugs, with Dr Cheneal Puljevic 09:16 Ep. 15: ...

4 years ago

18 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Best of Season 1 Part 1

A selection of my favourite Nice to Know moments from Season 1, covering episodes 1 - 9. Timestamps: 01:33: Ep. 1: Fat, immunity, and winning the Nobel Prize with Dr Hatoon Baazim 03:45: Ep. 2: From cocktails to chemistry with Giovanni Di Mauro 05:09: Ep. 3: Empathising with neuropsychologist Kate Bray 06:10: Ep. 4: Bone-eating cells and Blue Monday with Dr Julia Brunner 07:57: Ep. 5: 23 and me and Dr André Rendeiro 09:41: Ep. 6: Squids dealing with climate change w...

4 years ago

17 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Xmas Special 2020: Studying Climate Change at the North Pole with Bruce Vaughn

Climate change - we all know that it's happening, but how do we actually know this scientifically? Bruce Vaughn studies glaciers up at the North Pole, looking at ice cores to study how our climate has changed over the Earth's history. We talk about how this is done, and also how we are now entering uncharted territory of atmospheric CO2, warming, and what we as a species can do about it. Bruce Vaughn runs the stable isotope lab at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) a...

4 years ago

36 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 17: 40g of Fibre with Hamdi Jama

Hamdi Jama (@HamdiAJama) is here to tell you why you should be eating 40g* of fibre a day!! Hamdi is a PhD student in the Marques Lab (@FZMarques), a lab specializing in hypertension research. How does eating fibre relate to blood pressure?? Listen to find out! *subsequent to recording, Hamdi informed me it should have been 30g. But since most people only get 15g, the message is still the same For more information on Nice To Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynSciences or email nicetokno...

5 years ago

36 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 16: Bonus Episode! The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Explained

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their major discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology. Listen to find out how they discovered it, how this technology works, and the huge potential it has for the future!! This series was made with the support of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.

5 years ago

14 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 15: Ancient Mesopotam-a-what? with Céline Debourse

Céline Debourse is an Assyriologist - which means she's an expert on Ancient Mesopotamia! What happened in this ancient place and time, and what can it tell us about humanity today? If you want to find out more about Ancient Mesopotamia, check out Céline's fantastic blog: https://tuppublog.wordpress.com/ For more information on Nice To Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynSciences or email me at nicetoknowthepodcast@gmail.com This series was made with the support of the Marie Curie Alumn...

5 years ago

42 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 14: TEAbacco, and use of other illicit drugs, with Dr Cheneal Puljevic

Dr Cheneal Puljevic (@ChenealPuljevic) is a public health researcher at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia, studying substance use and mental health amongst disadvantaged populations, such as people who have been to prison. We talk about why people smoke cigarettes, the crafty ways in which prisoners managed to turn nicotine patches into smokable cigarettes, and the decriminalization of other substances. For more information on Nice To Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynScien...

5 years ago

34 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 13: Negative Results to Positive Interactions with Dr Bernhard Hochreiter

Dr Bernhard Hochreiter combines biology and physics to study how the proteins in our cells behave and interact with each other. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to be straddling multiple disciplines, and discuss the issue of how negative results are rarely published. Bernhard recently completed his PhD in the lab of Johannes Schmid, at the Institute of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, which is part of the Medical University of Vienna (@MedUni_Wien). For more informati...

5 years ago

34 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 12: Doing Tai Chi with Drones with Design Researcher Joseph La Delfa

Joseph La Delfa is an industrial designer doing his PhD in design research, where he has developed a drone that responds to bodily movements, to be used as a meditation tool for the practice of Tai Chi. Although he's not a scientist, I find out what design research is, and the similarities and differences to scientific research. See for yourself what DroneChi looks like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjaTtLwhwY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2ndjBNtADervJkcDJR9TKMo71e7wkx8a0qpYa...

5 years ago

32 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep.11: Cancer, COVID, and Childcare with Dr Margs Brennan

Dr Margs Brennan is a cancer researcher, studying how blood cancers develop and how cells avoid dying. She's also currently living in Melbourne during the second COVID-caused lockdown, balancing research and care for an 8 month old baby. Margs and I did our PhD in the same lab (the Herold lab at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute. You can find out more about that here: https://www.wehi.edu.au/people/marco-herold/322/dr-marco-herold-lab-team or via Twitter @WEHI_research @MarcoHerold_J F...

5 years ago

36 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 10: Proteins & PhD Life with Dr Rhiannon Morris

The now Dr Rhiannon Morris (@Scientist_Rhi) is a biochemist, using "structural biology" to search for new cures for blood cancers. Rhiannon explains what structural biology is, and we talk about what she's learned during her PhD beyond the proteins. Rhiannon did her PhD in the Babon lab at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute (@WEHI_research), but she's also a science communicator herself! Check out her blog here: www.rhiannonmorris.net. If you want to know more about Nice To Know, follow ...

5 years ago

37 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 9: Philosophy? Technology? Quantum Physics with Philip Taranto

Quantum Physics - sounds like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie, right? And, honestly... maybe it is! Or maybe it isn't... or maybe it's both! Philip Taranto (@tarantophilip) explains to me what this weird word "Quantum" actually means, how quantum physics and philosophical questions overlap, and how exciting new technologies are being developed based on this physical theory. Phil is a PhD student in the group of Marcus Huber at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQ...

5 years ago

37 minutes

Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists

Ep. 8: Into the Unknown Gut Stuff with Dr Amy Shepherd

Dr Amy Shepherd (@amylasenz) is a triple threat - her background in neuroscience, immunology, and working with the gut is being combined for her postdoc to learn about the enteric nervous system, or the brain in your gut (into the unknoooown!!!). Amy did her PhD at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (@TheFlorey) and is now working in the Rao lab at Boston Children's Hospital (@BostonChildrens). For more information about Nice to Know, follow me on Twitter @RobynSciences ...

5 years ago

38 minutes