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In this special episode, Geoff Marsh speaks to Pediatric Research's social media editors Damian Roland and Kikelomo Babata about how researchers can and should harness social media to increase the impact of their research.

Transforming academic medicine through social media: why isn’t it working for me?https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-04388-0

Episode 1/2 from the 59th Popgroup meeting in Lille. Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about her experience of the conference and the content of her talk.

In this episode, Geoff Marsh speaks to Dr. Satyan Lakshminrusimha about our Collection on Neonatal Resuscitation.

Cannabis, which is increasingly legally available, both for therapeutic and recreational use, is now one of the most commonly used drugs worldwide. Of people who have ever used cannabis, studies vary, but they estimate that about 10-25 percent of people who use cannabis go on to develop cannabis use disorder.

Uri Bright is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Medicine and is one of the authors of a recent study in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology on the genetics of cannabis lifetime use — which is anyone who has ever used cannabis even once. That’s a distinct population from people who have cannabis use disorder, as his colleagues had looked into in the previous study.

Reproduction involves decisions about when to mate and who with. We know that high temperatures affect fertility, but how does this affect mating decisions and sexual selection within populations? Tilly Pembury Smith and Rhonda Snook tell us about their work using fruit files.

Parasites and parasitoids are large drivers of evolutionary change. We hear from Peter Hambäck (Stockholm University) about his work on how beetle larvae combat a parasitoid wasp that wants to lay its eggs inside them.

In this episode, Geoff Marsh speaks to Dr. Steven Miller about our Collection on Epilepsy and Seizures.

We often hear that invasive species are bad for the ecosystems they invade, but the consequences can seem remote and hard to grasp. In this episode we hear from Nitin Ravikanthachari and Carol Boggs about their study system where an invasive plant has very tangible effects for a native butterfly.

Worry seems like something most people do from time to time, but for some people, severe worry can become an overwhelming sensation, and for older adults later in life, severe worry has been associated with an increased risk of stroke and coronary heart disease. Carmen Andreescu is a professor of psychiatry and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She says mild worry is useful evolutionarily, to help us make plans or adapt behavior.

Read the full study here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02193-1

Listen to September's Pediapod episode: What's hot in pediatric AI research, with Brynne Sullivan.