Welcome to Episode 7!

Science in Real Life Podcast’s host Nyasita Ondari and Talarify founder, trainer, and consultant, Anelda Van der Walt discuss her journey through professions: from medicine to nursing to bioinformatics to farming back to bioinformatics and founding Talarify. They also talk about open science, rising unemployment in Africa, and how to use open science and open source to find opportunities that are sometimes paid.

Find Anelda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aneldavanderwalt/?originalSubdomain=za

Check out Talarify: https://www.talarify.co.za/

Welcome to Episode 6!

Science in Real Life Podcast’s host Nyasita Ondari and Open Life Science (OLS)/ Open Seeds Executive Director Yo Yehudi discuss open science, the founding of open seeds, and tracking opportunities in Open science.

Find Yo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoyehudi/

Check out Open Life Science: https://openlifesci.org/

Welcome to Episode 5!

Science in Real Life Podcast’s host Nyasita Ondari and Health Data Scientist Anita Makori talk about climbing the career ladder, mentoring young scientists, applying and getting into Oxford and Cambridge, and meeting world-renown Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Find Anita on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-makori/

Check out Anita Makori's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnitaMakori

Welcome to Episode 4!

Science in Real Life Podcast’s host Nyasita Ondari and University of Connecticut Ph.D. candidate in Polymer Chemistry Waithera Wambugu take on

Find Waithera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waithera-w-2645b515b/

Check out Anita Makori's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnitaMakori

Science in Real Life Podcast’s host Nyasita Ondari and AfOx Kennedy Trust Prize Studentship Scholar Ruth Nanjala take on how to navigate the application process of competitive Dphils like those at the University of Oxford, how to approach potential supervisors and the science journey.

Find Ruth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-nanjala-17991117a/

Check out My Science Journey (MSJ): https://twitter.com/Journey2Science

Find Sharon on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/41CTAKy

Check out the Erasmus Mundus scholarship: https://bit.ly/3Ae1233

Science in Real Life Podcast's host Nyasita Ondari has a candid conversation with Michael and Pauline who are co-founders of the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya initiative (BHKi). BHKi is a vivacious, well-coordinated, and enthusiastic hub that equips researchers in Kenya and across Africa with bioinformatics skills and training through creating awareness, collaborations, and capacity development.

Learn more about BHKi at https://bhki.org/