Agham Podcast

In this unreleased 2021 episode, we asked science teacher and geography expert Prof. Timothy James Cipriano about climate change. TJ also discussed his study on a community-based disaster risk reduction management initiative in Quezon City.

IT expert Carlos Nazareno of DEMOCRACY.NET.PH and Atty. Neri Colmenares explain the danger of the SIM Card Registration Bill, a draconian measure which, if passed into law, would require all phone as well as social media users to register. In a protest action organized by Computer Professionals Union and AGHAM - Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, speakers from youth groups, trade union, media, and progressive partylists elaborate on the negative impacts of the proposed law, which they claim would curtail privacy rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and right to information, and would hamper access by ordinary Filipinos to basic social services which requires phones and/or social media accounts.

UP statistician Prof. Peter Cayton, a member of UP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team, cites four (4) major pandemic response policies that are absent in the recently announced IATF Resolution 104. Follow Prof. Cayton's daily monitoring of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines on twitter at https://twitter.com/PJACaytonPhD

Listen to Dr. Ruth Gamboa, a marine biologist from UP Mindanao, as she shares about her research work on sea cucumber and the challenges she and other Filipino scientists face as they try to pursue research and development work in the country.

In this episode, we listen to Kriza Faye Calumba, a food scientist and probiotic expert from UP Mindanao in Davao City, as she narrates how she started as a scientist and the challenges she and other Filipino scientists confront as they pursue their research and development work in the Philippines.

#WomenInSTEM #WomensMonth

Dr. Eiza Yu, a biochemist and molecular biologist from UP Diliman, shared her thoughts on how the current tyrannical environment affects the development of science and technology in the Philippines during the online forum last February 27 organized by the alliance Scientists and Technologists Say No to Tyranny (SnT)2. Dr. Yu proposed several steps in addressing this problem including improvements in science education and involvement of STEM professionals in policy-making and governance.

In this episode, we will hear Prof. Temario Rivera briefly explains the origin and nature of fascism. Prof. Rivera is a political scientist and a retired political science professor of UP Diliman.

We also asked Prof. Jan Michael Yap, a computer scientist, about the alliance called (SNT)2 (or SNT squared) and why the S&T community should participate in the fight against tyranny.

In this episode, we feature the bitter struggles of STEM* workers in the Philippines and their initiative to collectively address their situation through the newly formed Alliance of STEM Graduate Students and Workers (STEM Alliance). Justin Custado, a chemist from Marine Science Institute, and TJ Cipriano, a geographer formerly from the UP Resilience Institute, talk about their work and the problems Filipino STEM workers face in relation to their salary, benefits, and general welfare. The two junior scientists from UP Diliman discuss the need and struggle to form the STEM Workers Alliance with other contractual STEM workers.

*STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

We feature Eskwela Maralita, a project by Save San Roque Alliance in partnership with AGHAM Educators. It is the Sitio San Roque people's response to the problems they encounter in the schooling of their children and youth during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to Teacher Nanoy of the Save San Roque Alliance and Teacher Frank of AGHAM Educators as they explain what the project is about and how you can contribute to the success of this project.

In this episode, we commemorate the 50th World Wetlands Day. We talked to marine scientist Jerwin Baure of AGHAM Diliman about the importance of wetlands and the threats to the Philippine wetlands.