🪳 Welcome to the first episode of 2026!!! We enjoyed a lovely break but we're so excited to be back and in this first episode of the year, we are continuing our season 'TWISTED' where we talk all about the craziest stories in science throughout history. This week we are discussing the craze that went on in the 1820s where people were robbing bodies from graves and even committing murder to sell bodies to anatomy labs! Curious about how, why and what happened? Tune into this episode!

 🫖 and we have a listener story who tells us all about her PI telling on her to the university DEAN, shouting at her in lab meetings and NOT doing her job properly! Liv and Taz didn't hold back on saying what they thought about this story...

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0:00 intro

4:45 the murders...

34:01 im going to be blacklisted from academia??

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ #sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #twistedscience Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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🪳 Welcome to Season 7, TWISTED.

This season, we’re looking closely at the dark side of science. This week, we’re delving into a time where it was NORMAL to feed lice with your own blood, all in the name of science of course…

Typhus was ravaging populations in colder climates and poor living conditions. The bacteria spreads through body lice that live in the clothes of unsuspecting victims. This is the story of how a vaccine was developed… though it’s not as conventional as you might think…

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🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEA. Should our listener drop everything to get away from a toxic PI and join a different lab instead? Tune in to find out!!!

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0:00 intro

3:30 the louse feeders

34:10 escaping my toxic PI

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

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In this week’s episode, we’re confronting the medical experiments carried out at Auschwitz. These experiments are now recognised as some of the most extreme violations of medical ethics in history. Their legacy still shapes how we think about research ethics, consent, and trust in medical institutions today. As we explore this history, we’ll approach it with as much care and respect as possible, focusing on what was done, who it was done to, and how it reshaped the rules that govern science.

If you’d like some more information on the details discussed, we’ve left some links below:

https://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1448.full

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4515&context=faculty_scholarship

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/25973/summary

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🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEAAAAA. We're back with another 'ask us ANYTHING' where we discuss lab crushes, physics teachers electrocuting themselves + messing up experiments!

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0:00 intro

4:40 twin experiments at auschwitz

40:15 my physics teacher electrocuted himself..

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?💌

Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ 

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👨🏾‍⚕️ Welcome to Season 7 of TWISTED.

This season, we’re looking closely at the dark side of science. This week, we’re unveiling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

This study is now recognized as a profound violation of medical ethics and a stark example of systemic racism in American healthcare. Its impact is still felt today in the mistrust many Black Americans have toward medical institutions.

As we explore this history, we’ll do our best to approach it with respect, and a focus on understanding what the experiment entailed and its consequences.

If you’d like some more information on the details discussed, we’ve left some links below:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/40/10/1454/308400?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/tuskegee-syphilis-experiment

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🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEA. Are interns/research assistants annoying? find out what we actually think about this listener!!!!

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0:00 intro

3:33 the tuskagee syphilis experiment

37:44 be honest…am I annoying?

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

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⚡ welcome to episode 3 of S7, TWISTED! Today, we are talking all about one of the most infamous psychological experiments from the 1960’s, the MILGRAM EXPERIMENT. This experiment was all about exploring the human mind and obedience, but some people think this experiment took things too far… tune in to see what you think. We’ll also discuss some modern day takes on this experiment from famous illusionists such as Derren Brown. 

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😳 AND.. a listener writes in about her friend who won’t stop copying every SINGLE thing she does!! she asks ‘am I being single white femaled?’… a phrase that liv and taz regrettably had to google, tune in to hear their thoughts!!

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0:00 Intro

5:58 The Milgram Experiment

36:53 am I being single white femaled??

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

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👶🏼🐵 Welcome to Season 7 of TWISTED! This time, we’re diving head-first into the dark side of science — the unsettling experiments, the ethical lines blurred (or totally ignored), and the historical moments that make you think, “Wait… someone actually approved this?”

⚠️ WARNING: things are about to get uncomfortable. We’ll be tackling some disturbing and ethically questionable stories, but always through thoughtful, scientific discussion. And today we’re starting with one of the strangest cases in psychological research: the ape and child experiment — yes, the study where a chimpanzee was raised side-by-side with a human child as if they were siblings. It’s as wild as it sounds.

🫖 And for our brand-new laboraTEAAA segment this season, you guys are in control. You send in the questions — absolutely anything — and we’ll give you our brutally honest answers. No filter. No sugar coating. And let’s just say… one of this week’s questions involves someone getting a little too intimate with the histology paraffin wax. Yeah… It’s that kind of episode.

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0:00 intro

4:33 ape and child experiment

38:04 getting cancelled when accepting my Nobel prize

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

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🧠🧟‍♀️ welcome to S7, TWISTED! In this brand NEW series, we are going to be exploring the DARK side of science, the horrific experiments throughout history and the ethics that got lost along the way!

WARNING ‼️ this series will get uncomfortable at times and we will be diving into some difficult topics but will be breaking it all down through educated, scientific discussion. In this first episode we are talking all about the history of HUMAN HEAD TRANSPLANTS?! this involves two headed dogs, face transplants and a scientific villian?! LETS JUMP INTO IT.

😳 and we are so happy to still be bringing you all of the laboraTEAAA, so grab your custard creams cos this one is CRAZY. A listener writes in about her toxic lab mate who reported her to her PI because... she refused to share a bed with him at the conference? HUHHH, tune into hear more!!

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0:00 Intro

5:09 Human Head Transplants...

34:07 My lab mate is giving 'INC*L'??

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

#sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #twistedscience

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🧠 welcome to the LAST episode of OVERLOOKED, the series where we shine a light on the women in STEM who history often left in the shadows. For our last episode, we’re talking all about Candace Pert, the groundbreaking neuroscientist who discovered the opioid receptor. Her work not only changed our understanding of how the brain and body communicate but also opened doors for modern medicine. She challenged the establishment, broke barriers as a woman in science, and proved just how powerful persistence and brilliance can be.

😳 And don’t forget this week’s LaboraTEAAAA… we’ve got a wild anonymous story about someone who suspects a colleague might actually be living in the lab. Empty protein bar wrappers, toothpaste left behind, the whole thing. Tune in to hear what we think!

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𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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 🧮 We’re BACK with the ninth episode of… OVERLOOKED - this series we are looking on the other side of HIS-tory at some of the most iconic women in stem. This was a highly requested theme so we can’t wait for you to listen! You’ve probably heard of Alan Turing—the mathematical genius who cracked the Nazi Enigma code and helped end World War II.

He’s the war hero, the pioneer of modern computing, the face of genius under pressure.

But what if we told you… he didn’t do it alone?

Behind the war rooms, the machines, and the myth was someone else—

a woman in the shadows, armed not with weapons, but with numbers, logic, and relentless precision. She didn’t seek the spotlight, but her mind helped alter the course of history.

Her name? Joan Clarke. Tune in to learn all about her pioneering work.

😳 And don’t forget the laboraTEAAAA! This week are back with some crazy what would you do if scenarios. Listen in to find out what we think!

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0:00 intro

2:40 Joan Clarke

25:25 exposing my lunch THIEF!

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𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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⚡ Welcome to EP8 of OVERLOOKED! Today we’re exploring the story of one of the most legendary scientists in history… and yet, someone who still had to fight to be recognised: Marie Curie.

The year is 1898. In a cramped Paris laboratory, Marie and her husband Pierre discover two new elements: polonium and radium. These glowing substances would open the door to the age of radioactivity, transforming medicine and physics forever. But the discoveries came at a cost. Years of exposure slowly poisoned Marie, and despite winning two Nobel Prizes in different sciences (QUEEN), she was denied a seat at the French Academy of Sciences, SIMPLY because she was a woman.

🪄 Without Marie Curie, we wouldn’t have X-rays in hospitals, cancer radiotherapy, or even our modern understanding of radioactivity. S

🫨 And for this week’s LaboraTEAAAA… someone wrote in about their lab mate STEALING their slides from their computer and presenting them at a conference. The AUDACITY… We have thoughts.

🗒️ Got your own LaboraTEA to spill? Drop it in our 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... or email us at [email protected] 💌

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0:00 Intro

4:41: Marie Curie

33:19 my lab mate STOLE my presentation

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