Dr Ross talks about her career pathway which exemplifies DYW no wrong path. https://www.nowrongpath.scot. She talks about how important enjoyment is to making your subject choices, and look out for opportunities, you never know where you’ll end up! Two apps that were mentioned: https://www.anxietycanada.com/resources/mindshift-cbt/ and https://www.calm.com

Mr Short and Mr Atkinson talk about keeping warm, why 90% heat loss through your head needs clarification, slippy ice and roads and aeroplanes. All good stuff. 👍

What every day sayings are not scientifically true? Sometimes pupils will say that they’ve been taught ‘lies’ in junior years, but this is layering of education and teaching!

Dr Reynolds talks about her journey from school and enjoying chemistry and maths to choosing a new degree in Pharmacology, a clinical PhD in respiratory anti-virals to her current post working with the government and public health. Links here to Public health Scotland: https://publichealthscotland.scot

Sharon is Associate Director in charge of Operational Effectiveness within a contract research organisation. When she graduated, her job didn’t exist! An Immunology graduate who now works with an international firm ensuring pharmaceuticals are safe to use. She also has built her own office, motorhome and kitchen!

In this episode we talk about space junk, comets, meteoroids, asteroids, ISS and the DART (satellite launch today, Wednesday 24th Nov)…. film links to Armageddon, Gravity and Deep Impact. Find out more here: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart and watch the launch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqzK2hC0sA

This episode looks are what jobs women are doing in science. Dr Marie Short, MBE, talks about her love of Biology and how it led to a career in regulatory affairs. You can find out more here: https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-gb/article/getting-into-regulatory-affairs/.

Music and revision: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200317-does-music-help-us-work-it-depends

General revision tips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z877wnb

SQA study page, with study plan apps: https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/68908.html#:~:text=1%20Avoid%20cramming.%20Lack%20of%20sleep%20stops%20the,your%20own%20study%20plan%20with%20our%20MyStudyPlan.%20

SQA study page: https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/41319.html

Cornell notes: https://medium.goodnotes.com/study-with-ease-the-best-way-to-take-notes-2749a3e8297b. Also episodes 3,4 and 5 from this series on specific subjects (Biol, Phys, and Chem respectively). Remember BBC bitesize, Scholar (and chemistry only, Evans2chemweb, log in ‘Falkirk’ pw ‘cogs’

Brief discussion on some aspects of climate change from two teachers. We are not climate change scientists but man-made climate change is the current scientific paradigm and the scientific debate is on how to slow down this change. Additional information can be found here: https://ukcop26.org, here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56837908 and here: https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/climate-change

In this episode Ms Mulholland and Ms Stroud answer some questions on the links between music and science, the music they like, and the benefits of studying music. We also premier our new science jingle created by Paul Bosewicz 👍