The Science Basement Podcast

The Science Basement Podcast

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  • Let's talk about why people run from academia | Spinoff Episode 4 - w/ Anastasiia & Eleanna
    Academia like any other place comes as a package of good and bad traits. Sometimes, however, the frustration from the latter reaches the boiling point. In case of many, people start to abandon academia and switch to other career avenues (most commonly to industry). In our case, we decided to make this episode.
    Join us as we discuss what makes academic life so tough and let out so steam with us.
    Your hosts for this episode are Eleanna Asvestari & Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    Editing by Steven Simmonds.
    Episode cover by Eleanna Asvestari & Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    TSB podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle:
    Stay Groovy. Beat provided by freebeats.io
    Produced by White Hot.
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    45 min
  • 3.26 Magnifying nature: expressing your science in an art book - w/ Christopher Jackson
    Do you know what tooth paste looks like? You might think so, but imagine peering into the finest details and seeing it beyond the capabilities of our eyes. That is what Dr. Chris Jackson has come to provide us with, joining our hosts to discuss microscopy and his new book unveiling a whole different perspective of the world.
    Dr. Christopher B. Jackson is a microscopy researcher, photographer, and now a book author. Apart from this, Christopher leads his own research group on mitochondrial biology.
    Follow Christopher on Instagram @ikelos.scientific.imagingor Twitter @CBJacksonLab.
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    Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Giuliano Didio.
    Edited by Kerttu Kalander.
    Episode cover by Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    TSB podcast logo by Tomàs Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com
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    41 min
  • Let's talk about the art of networking | Spinoff Episode 3 - w/ Anastasiia & Eleanna
    Nothing is done in vacuum - this very well applies to research. Good communication skills are often the key to success both in one’s career and personal life. The best way to hone these communication skills is through active networking. In this episode, we discuss how, where and why to network.
    Joining us is Erika Palmerio, a research scientist at the Predictive Science Inc, San Diego, California. Even outside her circle, Erika is known as the master of networking, and here she discloses her tricks to this art.
    Erika’s interests also include the evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun throughout interplanetary space, the transport and longitudinal spread of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and the space weather impact of solar transients at the different planets.
    Your hosts for this episode are Eleanna Asvestari & Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    Editing by Marie-Noëlle Paludetto.
    Episode cover by Eleanna Asvestari & Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    TSB podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle:
    Stay Groovy. Beat provided by https://freebeats.io
    Produced by White Hot.
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    https://uppbeat.io/t/peter-cavallo/appassionata
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    51 min
  • 3.25 Killer electrons in space - w/ Eleanna, Tomàs & Harriet George
    Did you know that there are killer electrons in space? No need to panic though, here on the ground you are quite safe! The Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shield us from them. But satellites in space and astronauts cannot say the same! In this episode Dr. Harriet George will explain all about these killer electrons trapped in a region in space called the Earth's radiation belts. Listen along to find out more!
    Dr. Harriet George recently completed her PhD at the University of Helsinki, where she studied the Earth's radiation belts. She is now working at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, where she is researching plasma waves in near-Venus space.
    Follow Harriet in Twitter @HGeorgeSpace.
    Tell us what you think of our podcast!
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    Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Tomàs Garnier.
    Edited by Steven Simmonds.
    Episode cover by Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    TSB podcast logo by Tomàs Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com
    Follow The Science Basement:
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    29 min
  • Let’s talk about supervising and being supervised | Spinoff Episode 2 - w/ Anastasiia & Eleanna
    Eleanna and Anastasiia are back with the second episode of our spinoff series! This time they are talking about supervising in academia.
    Come listen to find out how to manage students, establish good dynamics with them, what the differences between supervisors and mentors are, and more.
    To assist in this discussion, we invited Aleksandra (Sasha) Dobrego.
    Sasha is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in Finland, who studies how our brain makes sense of spontaneous free-flowing speech. She gained substantial supervising experience through the management of a group of bachelor students in phonetics and serving as an academic mentor in The Science Mentors - an initiative that helps bachelor students from low-income countries enter Master’s programmes in Europe and the US.
    Your hosts for this episode are Eleanna Asvestarii & Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    Editing by Kerttu Kalander.
    Episode cover by Anastasiia Marmyleva & Eleanna Asvestari.
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle: Stay groovy. Beat provided by https://freebeats.io. Produced by White Hot.
    43 min
  • 3.24 Self-medicating ants - w/ Katja, Pritakshi & Jason Rissanen
    In this episode Katja and Pritakshi interview Jason Rissanen about his PhD centred around insects familiar to us all: ants!
    Have you ever thought that just like us humans, ants might have ways to take care of their health? Turns out one’s hair lightener could be another one’s medicine.
    Jason Rissanen is a PhD student at the University of Graz in Austria, working with social insects in the lab of Professor Freitak. His main focus is trying to understand how ants use biologically active compounds as a form of self-medication when they get sick.
    While little is known of the medicinal behaviours of animals in general, he believes they are common in nature as disease lurks behind the corner for everyone.
    Follow Jason at @elhazones
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    Your hosts this week are Katja Kaurinkoski & Pritakshi Das
    Editing by Marie-Noëlle Paludetto
    Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander
    Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com
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    31 min
  • Let's talk about choosing your future group | Spinoff Episode 1 - w/ Anastasiia & Eleanna
    Let's talk about choosing your future research group!
    Are you in the process of searching for a new research group to join? Are you wondering if you are making the best decision? Or maybe you don't even know where to start! In the first episode of "Let's talk about...", a new spin-off series of our podcast, Eleanna and Anastasiia zero in on all these questions and share plenty of tips to those already on the hunt for a team or to those soon embarking.
    So join in for some academic chatter and find something to help in your struggles or just to blow off some steam!
    Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Eleanna Asvestarii.
    Editing by Steven Simmonds.
    Episode cover by Anastasiia Marmyleva.
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Stay groovy FULL BEAT prod. SAUZE FZ
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    39 min
  • 3.23 The ups and downs of doing a PhD - w/ Anastasiia, Katja & Laura Suominen
    Interested in doing a PhD?
    Or curious to hear PhD advice from fellow students?
    Just feel like listening to a conversation?
    Well, you’re in luck, as Anastasiia, Katja and guest Laura Suominen discuss all about the upsides and downsides of doing a PhD, with some input from our lovely listeners.
    Laura Suominen is a second (almost third) year PhD student and pharmacist from the University of Helsinki who loves to share her PhD journey on social media.
    Follow Laura at @laurasphdstories
    Tell us what you think of our podcast!
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    Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Katja Kaurinkoski
    Editing by Kerttu Kalander
    Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander
    Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com
    Follow The Science Basement:
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    25 min
  • 3.22 Diabetes: can stem cells be a solution? - w/ Giuliano, Rhiannon & Tom Barsby
    Strap in for a fun episode on a very serious topic: diabetes.
    This week, postdoc researcher Tom Barsby joins in to discuss how diabetes could be treated with lab-grown cells.
    Given they can be made "quack"!
    Tom Barsby is a postdoctoral researcher in the Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Program at the University of Helsinki. His research is focused on stem cell models of beta cells and how these cells "go wrong" in people with diabetes. When he isn't wearing a lab coat and wrestling with pipettes, he can probably be found in the warm embrace of a board game or an RPG rulebook.
    Fun fact reference:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwGHJTk3W3U
    Tell us what you think of our podcast!
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    Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Rhiannon Newman
    Editing by Kerttu Kalander
    Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander
    Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
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    35 min
  • 3.21 Top 3 scientific highlights of 2022 - w/ Anastasiia, Rhiannon & Giuliano
    Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
    In this end-of-the-year episode, TSB members discuss fun and interesting scientific articles from the past year (or at least that was the idea).
    We have a stocking filled with ice cream, attraction and bacteria.
    Make sure to listen or yule be sorry!
    References:
    Bacteria help cancer cells to metastasize:
    https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00260-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422002604%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
    Synchronization in attracted people:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01197-3
    Ice cream:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02002-x
    Your hosts this week are Anastasiia, Rhiannon & Giuliano
    Editing by Steven Simmonds
    Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander
    Episode cover by Anastasiia Marmyleva
    TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
    Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com
    Follow The Science Basement:
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    45 min

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We are a team of scientists based in Helsinki and we want to show you how cool science is! Follow us having semi-serious conversations with our sci-guests. New episode every month.