The Struggling Scientists

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Episode 26: The Science Life.. Our experience as 4th year PhDs Mar 21, 2022

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Today we talk about life as a 4th year PhD student and reflect back on all the struggles throughout the years. What did we enjoy, regret, and expected during this PhD.

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Episode 25: Cutting Edge Research?!?.... Obesity Accelerates Hair Thinning Feb 28, 2022

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Today we discuss a Nature paper from Morinaga et al., They wrote a really interesting paper that is called Obesity Accelerates Hair Thinning by Stem Cell-Centric Converging Mechanisms.

They show quite convincingly that obesity is a risk factor for baldness and the mechanism behind this. We discuss what we learned reading this paper and discuss it.

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Episode 24: The Science Life..... Talking with PhD advisors Feb 14, 2022

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Today we talked with 2 PhD advisors from the AUMC doctoral school, Jordy and Mandy. They coach and advise PhD students in our institute and help them with the problems they face. We talked about their work, the most common PhD problems, and what they would advise.

Do you have a problem during your PhD, definitely check out if your institute has something similar!

Follow their blog on: https://amsterdamumc.org/education/doctoral-school/reads.htm or follow their LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amsterdam-umc-doctoral-school/

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Episode 23: The Science Behind ..... Cold Showers! Jan 31, 2022

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You might have heard that taking a short cold shower has health benefits. We heard things like increased metabolism, more energy, and helps with weight loss. But this made us wonder, is there actually a scientific basis for this? So we decided that it was time for us to dive into the world of Scientific Research about Cold Showers. Curious about what we found? Listen to this fun episode!

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Episode 22: First author talks..... with Denise van Uden about her Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension paper Jan 17, 2022

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In the First Author Talks series, we talk with the first authors about their papers, the Struggles to get to this point and life as a Scientist.

In this episode, we invited our good friend Denise van Uden to talk about her life as a PhDer and all the struggles that came with publishing her first first-author paper.

Paper: Central Role of Dendritic Cells in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Human and Mice.

10.3390/ijms22041756

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Episode 21: Invited Scientist international FameLab winner Alex Cloherty Jan 03, 2022

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In this first episode of the year, we talked with Alex Cloherty. She won the international Famelab competition for science communication in 2021! We talked with her about this competition and about science communication in general. She has a really nice blog Microbial Mondays and a Youtube channel Alexgoesviral. Check her out if you are interested in learning more about microbes, from bacteria to viruses to fungi.

www.microbialmondays.com

www.youtube.com/user/alex1492clo

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Episode 20: Christmas Crossover with the Grad School Confessional Podcast Dec 20, 2021

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For this Christmas special, we decided to make a crossover podcast with two other podcasting scientists. dr Yoah Sui and Ana Sui from the Grad School Confessional Podcast based in Canada.

We talked about the differences between doing a PhD in the Netherlands and doing a PhD in Canada.

Be sure to check out the Grad School Confessional Podcast on your favorite streaming platform!

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Episode 19: Cutting Edge Research?!?..... Butt-Breathing Dec 06, 2021

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In this episode of our cutting-edge research series, we talk about a very interesting paper: Mammalian enteral ventilation ameliorates respiratory failure. Or as many people call it now Butt-Breathing! A super interesting paper that is at the same time pretty funny.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.04.004

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Episode 18: Invited Scientist Dr. Dave Speijer- Does other intelligent life exist in the universe? Nov 22, 2021

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In the new invited scientist series, we invite scientists to talk with us about their favorite subjects. In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Dave Speijer about how likely it is that other intelligent life exists in the universe.

Dr. Dave Speijer is an expert in the field of Molecular evolution and Mitochondrial research. Now he might not know this but he was also one of the inspirations for us to start this podcast. Let's listen to Dave Speijer and his chosen subject.

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Episode 17: The Science Behind... Dreaming in Black and White Nov 08, 2021

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Today we discuss the Science behind Dreaming in Black and White. We never knew there is actually a percentage of people that dream in black and white. So when we learned about this we wanted to know more! In this episode, we dive into the science behind dreaming and talk about what is known about dreaming in black and white.

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