The Science Basement Podcast

How does the eye work?

Well... Ehm... You have the eye of course, than the light goes inside the eye, through the pupil... and then the light hits the RETINA.

Wait... the what now?!

"A carpet of neurons"! That's how our interviewee, Laura, describes the retina, the sheet of cells in our eyes, that detects light, and allows us to... well, to see!

In today's episode, Giuliano & Cecilia have a lovely conversation with the PhD student Laura Celotto about the eye, the retina, and... FISH! (I know... AGAIN!)

Laura is a scientist and an actress. She studied Neuroscience in Trieste, where she found out that neurons can wire up in beautiful architectures like the retina. Currently, she is a PhD student in Dresden, where she studies the retina regeneration in the zebrafish, a tiny little fish from South Asia.

Apart from being a nerdy scientist, she is also a passionate reader: “Three men in a boat” – which is her favourite book – describes her life better than this bio ;-)

Full transcript of the episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zy-NEgtjh-H27xtdEP4XXc9DZfRzASgB/view?usp=sharing

References for catnip fun-fact: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/4/eabd9135

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Ever wanted to know more about the magical landscape that covers the Scottish Highlands‽ In this episode Tomás and Katja talk with Liam Godwin about the importance of Peatlands, their role in carbon storage and Salmon spawning.

Liam is a PhD researcher at the Environmental Research Institute in the United Kingdom. He is researching how the effects of land-use change across the Flow Country impacts stream and river ecosystems. Primarily, looking at how peatland dominated catchments respond to restoration by drainblocking and plantation removal.

Full transcript of the episode at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iZ-S_D9_jWnVU1a1n9R8MOqugU6xHFxz/view?usp=sharing

Your hosts this week are Tomás Garnier Artiñano & Katja Kaurinkoski.

Editing by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Welcome back, you wonderful insightful creatures!

Guess what! Here is another VERY SPECIAL episode! The third and last of our 3-episode miniseries made in collaboration with Cochrane, the international charitable organization promoting evidence-informed health decision-making, by producing top quality systematic reviews.

They have an official collaboration with Wikipedia, the NIH, the World Health Organization

…and now they are working with The Science Basement!

Found out more about Cochrane here:

https://www.cochrane.org/

Full transcript of the eoiside at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o55YQcWAaIDkZN6sCi0EN0KRs4WpJEVX/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655879995290261316&rtpof=true&sd=true

In this episode Eleanna and Katja discuss with Jack Nunn on the importance of making science accessible and how to assess critically all the information around us.

Jack Nunn is the founder and Director of the non-for-profit education organisation ‘Science for All’, and co-creator of ‘Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT), a PhD researcher at the Department of Public Health at La Trobe University, and recently appointed Consumer Network Executive for Cochrane.

Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Katja Kaurinkoski.

Editing by Elmo Saarentaus.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Welcome back, you sciency science-lovers!

This is another VERY SPECIAL episode! The seconf of out 3-episode miniseries made in collaboration with Cochrane, the international charitable organization promoting evidence-informed health decision-making, by producing top quality systematic reviews.

They have an official collaboration with Wikipedia, the NIH, the World Health Organization

…and now they are working with The Science Basement!

Found out more about Cochrane here:

https://www.cochrane.org/

Full transcript of the episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8wBoc5n-wHHqE_Vv6z8B5QlHSEFQMjA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655879995290261316&rtpof=true&sd=true

In this episode Giuliano and Elmo discuss with the Cochrane Reveiwer Fiona Stewart about what is a systematic review and... how to make one.

I mean... where do you even start, right?

Fiona is a Network Support Fellow for Cochrane, an international not-for-profit organisation for independent health care research. She has over ten years of experience working in health services research and has published several systematic reviews on topics ranging from pregnancy to urinary incontinence to obesity

Your hosts this week are Giuliano Didio & Elmo Saarentaus.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo & Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Welcome back, you sciency science-lovers!

This is a VERY SPECIAL episode (I know... ALL our episodes are special, but this is even more special!)because it's the first of a 3-episode miniseries made in collaboration with Cochrane, the international charitable organization promoting evidence-informed health decision-making, by producing top quality systematic reviews which have now become the gold standard for evidence-based information.

They have an official collaboration with Wikipedia, the NIH, the World Health Organization

…and now they are working with The Science Basement!

Found out more about Cochrane here:

https://www.cochrane.org/

Full transcript of the episode at :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gid8OZGG6hh9G7v1EZ9tR1NCxjltRXLj/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655879995290261316&rtpof=true&sd=true

In this episode Tomàs and Lea (Supreme Leader of the Science Basement) discuss about systematic reviews in times of COVID-19 with Dr. John Lavis.

Dr. John Lavis is a member of the Cochrane editorial board, member of the Cochrane knowledge-translation advisory group and Team founder and director of the McMaster Health Forum.

Lea Urpa is a PhD student studying the genomics of neurodevelopmental disorders at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki.

Lea is the chair of The Science Basement, and was very excited to be invited to co-host the TSB podcast for this very interesting and timely topic.

Your hosts this week are Tomás Garnier Artiñano & Lea Urpa.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

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Who would have thought that scientists can actually make a CT-Scan to see the "inner organs of the Earth"?

With seismic imaging scientists are looking inside the Earth trying to figure out what material is beneath our feet without digging a hole!

Our guest this week is Christina Tsarsitalidou, a first-year PhD student at the Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki.

In her Phd Christina aims at performing the imaging between the lowermost crust and upper mantle of the Earth.

Full transcript of the episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cmKUqBQl7n4UXJMM9FvP9o74Qz54Xpq9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655879995290261316&rtpof=true&sd=true

Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Tomás Garnier Artiñano.

Editing by Elmo Saarentaus.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

References lizard pollinating flowers:

1-https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/25/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-bee-no-its-a-lizard-pollinating-south-africas-hidden-flower-aoe

2-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618895/

Link to earthquake in Costa Rica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPw2BrTWOg

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Lost in another ugly Facebook comments section? Online trolls and hate speech have unfortunately become commonplace encounters in our everyday lives. Our guest this week is the wonderful Annina Claesson (Twitter @AnninaClaesson, Instagram @thenannis), a grad student in Science Po in Paris and a freelance journalist and writer. We hear about her important research about Twitter trolls and the online harassment that female journalists face in their midst. Who are they? What are companies and governments doing about the comments? Is any support offered to the journalists? (Spoiler... not much!) Tune in to learn more about what we know so far, what we still need more research on, as well as hear about how we need to up our game to keep our journalists safe.

Full transcript of the episode at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xd-Zpqz-6Y8jKsDATVIKJ9eXpqR3NX0K/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106655879995290261316&rtpof=true&sd=true

Your hosts this week are Katja Kaurinkoski and Giuliano Didio.

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo.

Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier.

Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

References fluorescent platypus:

1- Anich, Paula Spaeth, et al. "Biofluorescence in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)." Mammalia 1.ahead-of-print (2020).

2- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/glowing-platypus

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Welcome back to The Science Basement Podcast!

Yep, that's right! We are back!

New team, new hosts, but same energy!

This season will bring new exciting things:

First of all, a whole new team (listen to the episode until the end to hear from them!)and a new schedule. Expect a new episode every first Monday of the month!

We wanted this one to be special, a sort of rite of passage-kind of episode. So we decided to interveiw the previous hosts of this very show, Stephany Mazon & Erika Palmerio!

"A bit of Steph & Erika", if you will ;)

I guess here is where I write a short summary of the episode, but... Come on...! Who even reads these descriptions?!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Science's AWESOME!

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Where you can find us:


Homepage: www.thesciencebasement.org


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Email: [email protected]

Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo (aka Wonder Ceci)

TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano (aka Tomás Magnus)

Music by Havelocke http://thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

Welcome back to The Science Basement Podcast!

Our guest this week is Giuliano Didio, who is a PhD student at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) of the University of Helsinki. He works on the magical world of brains! Did you know that the common saying that kids learn things faster is actually true? That’s because the infant brain is very “plastic”. Listen to this episode to learn what brain plasticity is and how to increase brain plasticity in adults!

…and, of course, it wouldn't be an episode of the TSB podcast without a science anecdote. This time we talk about the autonomous reflexes that only babies have!

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Where you can find us:


Homepage: www.thesciencebasement.org


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Welcome back to The Science Basement Podcast!

Our guest this week is Markku Alho, who is a PhD student at Aalto University. He works on plasma modelling of solar wind interactions with several bodies in space. In this episode, we focus mostly on the Moon and how the solar wind “bombards” its surface, but we also talk for example about Venus, Mars, and comets!

…and, of course, it wouldn't be an episode of the TSB podcast without a science anecdote. This time we talk about the chinese probe Chang’e 4 that recently landed on the “dark” side of the Moon!

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Links from this episode:

• Finland goes to the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irxd89oP7Vw

• The #dearMoon project: https://dearmoon.earth

• Aalto virtual planetarium: http://space.aalto.fi/software/?fbclid=IwAR0FlE2uWYEve4XEI2mChgpOJ2YTj1IuOpnqDDE7L0-leJyziuH1p-6HGJc


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Homepage: www.thesciencebasement.org


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