The Science Basement Podcast

Look away from your phone for a moment and consider: are you happy? In this episode Anastasiia and Rhiannon join Jennifer De Paola, a postdoc in Social Psychology, to discuss happiness.

How do we define it, how does it change over time and how can WE achieve it?

Jennifer De Paola is a post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. De Paola’s research focuses on how the abstract concept of happiness is shaped and constructed on various social media platforms, discussion forums and interactive online newspapers. This innovative approach to happiness studies from the perspective of naturally occurring data provided by social media has given popularity to De Paola’s research also outside the academia, in all major Finnish newspapers, and in several major newspapers in other European countries.

Full transcript of the episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_JEfaM061YRiYz0sllkWAWbjO9xf1m1/view?usp=share_link

Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Rhiannon Newman

Editing by Steven Simmonds

Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Welcome to the Halloween episode and happy ADHD awareness month!

Now, don’t get spooked by the demon voice and join us to find out how VR could be used for the diagnosis of childhood ADHD.

Giuliano and Katja interview Liya Merzon and learn it's all about keeping your eye on where the dragon tells you.

Liya Merzon is a psychologist and I'm doing my PhD at the Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Aalto University. In my research, I'm applying computational modelling and machine learning to improve the diagnostics of ADHD in children. In my studies, I've been always fascinated by how applied mathematics could be combined with psychological knowledge to help us understand the human mind.

Fun fact reference:

https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(22)00171-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2405471222001715%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Katja Kaurinkoski

Editing by Viljami Haakana

Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Welcome back!

As every city has an energy station to drive our daily needs, our cells have mitochondria. And you really really don't want them to malfunction!

Mitochondrial diseases are as frequent as childhood cancers, but people barely know of them.

Do you know of them?

Don't worry, we've got your back ;)

In this episode, we invited Prof. Anu Wartiovaara, one of the leading experts in mitochondrial research, to shine some light on mitochondria. What are they? Why can they go rogue? And what happens when they do?

This episode is a part of a global campaign called Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week.

Prof. Anu Wartiovaara's Twitter handles:

@AWartiovaara

@ASW_lab

Fun fact reference:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian

https://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/real-biology-star-wars-midichlorians/

Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Eleanna Asvestari

Editing by Rhiannon Newman

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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Welcome back!

Today you're in for a special treat! In this episode, we have a chilled chat about science communication, what it means and why we care about it

And we have a new member!

And there's a cat at the end of the episode! How can this get any better?!

Episode references:

-PhD life call for the audience:

https://www.speakpipe.com/TSBasksPhD_testrun

-Citizen science websites & resources:

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/citizen-science

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000338

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio, Eleanna Asvestari, Tomás Garnier Artiñano & Anastasia Marmyleva

Editing by Giuliano Didio

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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Welcome back!

Feeling a bit of a "déjà vu"? Makes sense, 'cause we ar etalknig about psycedelic drugs! ...again!

In this episode Giuliano & Eleanna interview Lauri Elsilä, Doctoral Researcher from the faculty of Medicine UH, trying to figure out how psychedelics might help in treating drug addiction.

Lauri Elsilä is a pharmacist and a doctoral researcher at the Department of Pharmacology, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki.

Currently, he studies the behavioural effects of psychedelic compounds, but is endlessly fascinated by the connection between the brain and behaviour in general, and would love to understand how the minds of different animal species differ.

Fun fact reference:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211729

Full transcript of the episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MK2AMHnjFkuwQttRSd_ef8zWAGaIAOpy/view?usp=share_link

Link to previous psychedelics episode:

https://soundcloud.com/sciencebasement/38-treating-depression-with-psychedelics-w-giuliano-eleanna-rafael-moliner?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Eleanna Asvestari

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo & Giuliano Didio

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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University branding... doesn't sound interesting does it?

Well, it turns out that not only it's a really cool subject, but there's actual academic research studying it!

Find out more about it in this episode where Eleanna & Katja interview doctoral researcher Ari-Matti Erjansola, from the University of Helsinki.

Ari-Matti Erjansola is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. His research focuses on rebranding, visual identity and mergers & acquisitions, particularly in the higher education sector. Ari-Matti is currently finalizing his doctoral dissertation and he also works at Aalto University Executive Education.

Full transcript of the episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KM33RpO53DrNtYrTznLnPnG0ZwXrk0Pq/view?usp=share_link

Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Katja Kaurinkoski.

Editing by Steven Simmonds.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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Welcome back you science-lovers!

Yes, you read the title right!

Turns out recycling CO2, as in removing it from one place and re-use it in another place is possible, and scientists are working on making this happen! We interviewed one of them!

Long live King Tomàs!

Todd works as a PhD researcher in the chemistry department of the University of Helsinki, as well as a middle school chemistry teacher in the city of Espoo. His research interests are in green chemistry, predominantly carbon dioxide capture.

Outside of work he enjoys board games with friends, being in nature and amateur dramatics

Fun fact reference:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ireland-ancient-bog-men-science

Full transcript of the episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HuZIzI1JuXZueyTdXE-Ar4LUATwoyUVX/view?usp=share_link

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & King Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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FInal episdoe of our TSB-iCAN series!

In this episode Giuliano & Katja have the pleasure of talking with Prof. Vincenzo (Vince) Cerullo about the future of cancer research, where it's going and where it could go.

We also had a nice conversation on how to boost creativity in research. Turns out that chatting about surfing is a good start!

iCAN website

ican.fi

Vincenzo Cerullo (Vince), is professor of Biological Drug Development at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Head of Drug Research Program, HiLIFE fellow, Translational Immunology Programme, University of Helsinki.

He has been recently ranked number fifth globally, and number one in Europe in his own experitiese (oncolytic virotherapy) by expertscape.com.

Full transcript of episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yAr7hp5HnDFbXLU47fjzZPii_xEP0Y3E5t7R0RDmCcg/edit?usp=sharing

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Katja Kaurinkoski.

Editing by Steven Simmonds.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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Here's the fourth episode of our TSB-iCAN mini Series!

We are collaborating with iCAN for 5 episodes about cancer and cancer research.

Today Eleanna & Rhiannon have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Dmitrii Bychkov from the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland - FIMM, University of Helsinki, talking about the use of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer research!

iCAN website

ican.fi

Dmitrii Bychkov studied computer science and bioinformatics at Aalto University, Finland. Then he joined Prof. Johan Lundin's research group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland - FIMM, University of Helsinki to work on his PhD, where he focused on image-based cancer diagnostics with machine learning and artificial intelligence. Dmitrii has recently defended his doctoral thesis and continues working on computer vision for medical applications.

Full transcript of episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hir1C0-G2nWENtkhkQd5os4yIFbm7Pl2/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109371469017525390516&rtpof=true&sd=true

Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Rhiannon Newman.

Editing by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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Here's the third episode of our TSB-iCAN mini Series!

We are collaborating with iCAN for 5 episodes about cancer and cancer research.

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Anniina Färkkilä, talking about personalised cancer care and how it can improve cancer treatment.

iCAN website

ican.fi

Anniina Färkkilä, MD PhD, is a gynecologist, and a Principal Investigator at the Research Program for Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Currently, her laboratory focuses on understanding the complexity and cell-cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment.

She is particularly interested in uncovering features that delineate the responses to novel combination- and immunotherapies.

Full transcript of episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dPylj0ekYM3x1Tvu6hpDU0kMaljTYQhu/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109371469017525390516&rtpof=true&sd=true

Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Katja Kaurinkoski.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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