The Struggling Scientists

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Episode 46: Science News: Bee vaccines, Robot worms and cancer cured by CRISPR Jan 09, 2023

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We have for you another fun Science News episode, so much amazing Science has reached the News recently that it was difficult to choose! But we made a selection and will bring you up to speed with the actual science behind the news!

Bats channeling their inner death metal singer
The first vaccine for Bees approved in US
Male and Female stem cells created from a single person
Curing Cancer with CRISPR
Papers and Patents are becoming less disruptive
2.6-billion-year-old CRISPR enzymes can still edit cells
High Cows and THC laced milk
Gregor Mendel dug up and DNA analyzed
The first virovore discovered
Intermitted fasting changes gene expression
Robot Ninja Turtles
Remote control worms

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Episode 45: A Climate Change Christmas Special with Ernst Jan Kuiper Dec 26, 2022

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On this second Christmas day, we have a very special gift for you! A Christmas episode about standing up for your Science and Climate Change!

Ernst-Jan Kuiper, a former scientist, and current climate change activist, joined us for this episode to discuss his experience with climate change research, activism, and advocacy. He discussed what it is like to join protests as a scientist, the main findings of climate research, misconceptions about climate change, and what people can do to help. He also shared his thoughts on countries that are doing well with regard to curbing their carbon emissions and the progress being made in governments taking climate change more seriously.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions you can reach us via our website: thestrugglingscientists.com

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Episode 44: Winter is coming! The Science behind Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Dec 12, 2022

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Yesterday we had the first real frost here in the Netherlands, and now that we have the first real evidence that winter is finally here we knew we needed to do a special winter-themed episode. So today we are going to talk about the winter dip, more officially called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We are ready with a warm cup of chocolate or thee on this cold cold day to talk some science! We have gathered an enormous amount of information from many papers and are going to try to shape this into something that is both enjoyable and interesting!

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Episode 43: Ig Nobel Prize winners 2022 Nov 28, 2022

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Today we discuss the Ig Nobel Prize winners from 2022. Ten interesting pieces of research that were awarded this prize for Science, that first make you laugh and then think.

Some highlights include:

A Moose Dummy master thesis
Ancient ritualistic Maya enemas
Icecream as a treatment
Constipated scorpions

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or papers we really need to read, you can reach out to us via our website: https://thestrugglingscientists.com/

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Episode 42: Detecting Fraud in Science with dr. Elisabeth Bik Nov 14, 2022

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In this episode we interviewed dr. Elisabeth Bik about detecting fraud in scientific publications. She is an expert in detecting image tampering and has already found problems resulting in the retraction of over 900 articles.

We talk with her about:

The percentage of publications that have fraudulent images
What steps to take if you find a fraudulent paper
Why do serial offenders keep committing fraud
How serious journals and institutions take this problem
The drawbacks of exposing fraud
How you can be more informed when reading papers

Follow Elisabeth on Twitter @MicrobiomDigest

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Episode 41: The Science Life.... 10 things we learned from the PhD Oct 31, 2022

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Today we are talking about things we learned from the PhD besides our scientific knowledge. We picked 10 of our biggest learning moments and are sharing them with you.

If you have questions/comments/suggestions or topics we really should discuss you can reach out to us via our website: thestrugglingscientists.com

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Episode 40: Career talks... From Academia to Consulting Oct 17, 2022

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We talked with the very interesting Bryan Quoc Le about how he switched from academia to consulting after his PhD. Or more precisely already during his PhD! He has a lot of tips for people considering consultancy as their next step.

If you want to learn more about him check out his website: www.bryanquocle.com

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or papers we really need to read, you can reach out to us via our website: https://thestrugglingscientists.com/

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Episode 39: The Science/PhD Life.... Imposter Syndrome/Experience! Oct 03, 2022

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Today we talk with dr. Marc Reid, a Pi from Glasgow who wrote a book about imposter syndrome or as he would prefer to call it the imposter experience. We have a lot of questions for him about his own experience and his tips for dealing with feeling like an imposter.

If you want to know more about Marc Reid, or get his book about the imposter experience, check out his website: dr-marc-reid.com

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or papers we really need to read, you can reach out to us via our website: https://thestrugglingscientists.com/

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Episode 38: Science news! Doppelgangers share DNA, robot spiders, and grapes make you live longer. Sep 12, 2022

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We are back with another Science news episode! Not only will we bring you up to date on the most interesting (and funny) Science that has reached the news since our last episode and give you all the facts you need to astonish people at your next social event. We will also fact-check the actual research papers to make sure it actually shows what the journalist wrote about them. Which does not always seem to be the case!

We will talk about

Sharing DNA with your doppelganger
Sharks that walk on land because of climate change??
Growing mouse embryos without eggs or sperm
Making robots out of dead spiders
Electrical bacteria
Grapes make you live longer
Good sleep reduces your chances of strokes
Fernandina tortoise is not extinct after all
Dopamine circuits are real
New compound works against hard-to-kill cancers

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or papers we really need to read, you can reach out to us via our website: https://thestrugglingscientists.com/

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Episode 37: The Science/PhD Life... Academic Writing tips from a professional! Aug 29, 2022

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Today we interviewed Anna Clemens who became an academic writing coach after doing a PhD in chemistry. She specializes in helping researchers write really good papers and has courses you can sign up for. She really looks at the contents of the paper, how to get your story more clear and concise and how to get your paper more easily accepted.

We got in contact after our previous episode on writing tips from our own perspective and are of course really interested in tips from a professional academic writing coach!

If you are interested in Anna's courses you can check out: https://www.annaclemens.com/ or follow her on Twitter: @scientistswrite

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or papers we really need to read, you can reach out to us via our website: https://thestrugglingscientists.com/

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