Podcasts about ehsan masood

00:56 How the paths to professorship varyA huge analysis of hiring practices has revealed that criteria to get a promotion to full professorship is hugely variable around the world. The authors suggest that this variability results in researchers from countries that value one type of metric being locked out of professor positions in others. They hope that the database of hiring practices created in this study could help institutions adjust their hiring policies to create a more diverse science workforce.Research Article: Lim et al.News: Want to become a professor? Here's how hiring criteria differ by country21:48 Research HighlightsLasers reveal hidden tattoos on ancient mummified-skin, and a new pill that cuts flu symptoms and viral levels in the body.Research Highlight: Hidden tattoos on mummy skin emerge under a laser's lightResearch Highlight: Got flu? Promising drug shortens symptoms12:13 Cancer cells' broken mitochondria could poison immune cellsResearchers have shown that cancer cells can slip their dysfunctional mitochondria into T cells, limiting the immune system's cancer-fighting capabilities. Cancer cells are known to steal healthy mitochondria from immune cells to help tumours survive and thrive. Now, researchers have shown mitochondria can move in the opposite direction too, with the donor T cells showing signs of various stress responses that make them less effective when inside a tumour. The team showed that blocking this transfer limited this effect, and hopes that this mechanism could offer a new avenue for boosting the immune system's response to cancer.Research Article: Ikeda et al.News & Views: Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells thwarts anti-tumour defences21:12 Science and the Gaza conflictNoah Baker and Ehsan Masood turn to the war in Gaza, and discuss what comes next for science as a ceasefire comes into force.Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many blame our obsession with economic growth as being one of the biggest drivers of climate change. The United Nations is currently looking at options for what might replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the world's primary go-to indicator of success, taking into account factors including sustainability and the natural environment. If this happens, it would be the biggest shift in how economies are measured since nations first started using GDP in 1953, 70 years ago. Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by: Ehsan Masood, author, science journalist and an editor at the journal, Nature; Diane Coyle, economist and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge; Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; Fouty-Boulanga Mouleka, on-the-ground reporter in Gabon Producer: Ben Cooper Researchers: Matt Toulson, Pierre-Antoine Denis, Bethan Ashmead-Latham and Laura Cain Series Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: China Collins Sound engineer: Tom Brignell Production Coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill

Ehsan Masood is a science journalist and the Editor of the research funding-news service, Research Professional. He teaches science and innovation policy at Imperial College and is author of several books, including The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World (Pegasus, 2016) and Science and Islam: A History (Icon, 2009), a tie-in for a BBC television and radio series. He has also made a number of documentaries for BBC radio, including Science: Right or Left, which explores the reasons why centre-right politicians are turning away from the scientific consensus. Ehsan has previously worked as a writer and editor at Nature and New Scientist. He will be discussing his book "Science and Islam."

Patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood debate organ donation in light of Islamic tradition. A podcast from the Science and the Human Person working group.

Panel presentations on the future of science, with presentations by Peter Gluckman, Ehsan Masood and Andrea Saltelli with a response from Jerome Ravetz. Chaired by Javier Lezaun.

Ehasan Masood is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has been the editor of Research Professional News (including Research Fortnight) and has been teaching international science policy at Imperial College London. He is the author of many books https://www.amazon.com/Ehsan-Masood/e/B0034NTAGU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1528550817&sr=8-1 In this episode, we discuss the issue of higher education and development. In the modern world where technology is evolving and changing, how should we think of higher education and its role in development policy. 

How do we define death? How have different Islamic scholars approached organ donation? “The Ethics Debate” features patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood. The panel will debate whether Sara’s parents should allow their daughter to be an organ donor, in light of Islamic tradition. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

What do religious scholars and ethicists have to say about gene editing? What worries them? Listen in to this conversation with panelists Deborah Blum (MIT), Michael Fitzgerald (Boston Globe), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame), and Adil Najam (Boston University), and expert witnesses Maura Ryan (University of Notre Dame), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Andrea Vicini (Boston College). Science journalist Ehsan Masood moderates. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

How do we define death? How have different Islamic scholars approached organ donation? “The Ethics Debate” features patient advocate Najah Bazzy (Zaman International), treating clinician Hasan Shanawani (Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety), Aasim Padela (University of Chicago), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), with moderator Ehsan Masood. The panel will debate whether Sara’s parents should allow their daughter to be an organ donor, in light of Islamic tradition. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

What do religious scholars and ethicists have to say about gene editing? What worries them? Listen in to the conversation with panelists Deborah Blum (MIT), Michael Fitzgerald (Boston Globe), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame), and Adil Najam (Boston University) and expert witnesses Maura Ryan (University of Notre Dame), Abdulaziz Sachedina (George Mason University), Robert Tappan (Towson University), and Andrea Vicini (Boston College). Science journalist Ehsan Masood moderates. This podcast is produced by the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used by just about every country in the world as the most important measure of wealth and progress. In the new Policy Forum Pod, experts Ehsan Masood, Ida Kubiszewski, and Bob Costanza discuss why the world is so obsessed with GDP, whether we should keep using it, and if not – what we might replace it with. Ehsan Masood is a well-known science journalist and editor of the research funding news service, Research Professional. He’s also the author of the new book The Great Invention: the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world. Dr Ida Kubiszewski is a senior lecturer at The Australian National University’s Crawford School and the managing editor of the magazine, journal and website Solutions and a co-founder and former managing editor of the Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. Professor Bob Costanza is a professor and chair in public policy at ANU. Bob is also the founding editor of the previously-mentioned Solutions. Prior to his time at ANU, he was Distinguished University Professor of Sustainability in the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. Image by Unsplash on Pixabay. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ehsan thought that the standard of finalists' presentations was exceptionally high.