Podcasts about scicurious

*tap tap* DOes this mic still work?   It's been a while, but I'm back with a long-awaited chat with Claire Davies! Claire and I have crossed paths a few times at the LGBTQSTEMinar, and I've always wanted to feature this gay lass on the pod. We chatted last summer, but I'm only now getting around to uploading it.  Find Claire online PRISM Exeter Twitter You can find SciCurious in a BUNCH of places online too: Check out the website Patreon Facebook Twitter Insta Science is a Drag Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Thanks to Peter Levens for the music for "something that makes me happy", and to Austin Weber for the intro and outro music (Mamma Mia by Austin Weber). Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.  

In the biggest crossover event in cinematic history... I get to interview Felix Berrios, producer of the LGBTQSTEMcast, and all-round delight! Truth be told, I didn't know about this podcast until about a month ago, but I knew we needed to a crossover! Felix' links: LGBTQSTEMcast Twitter LGBTQSTEMcast Insta Felix' twitter Find more about SciCurious and my other projects: Check out the website Patreon Facebook Twitter Insta Science is a Drag Knit the Universe Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Thanks to Peter Levens for the music (The Legend Of Michael) for "something that makes me happy", and to Austin Weber for the intro and outro music (Mamma Mia by Austin Weber). Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.

Back in June (JUNE!) I called up Clara Barker for a chinwag. We talked though everything including her community outreach, markers for real inclusion, and thin film deposition! I've been sitting on this/putting off for a while, because things. But in that time, some information has come out about the upcoming LGBTQSTEMinar in Jan 2021 that Clara and the team at Oxford university are organising, which you can read about here. Clara's links: Youtube Twitter Find more about SciCurious and my other projects: Check out the website Patreon Facebook Twitter Insta Science is a Drag Knit the Universe Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Thanks to Peter Levens for the music (The Legend Of Michael) for "something that makes me happy", and to Austin Weber for the intro and outro music (Mamma Mia by Austin Weber). Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.

Waaay back in July, I sat down for a chat with Mario AKA Sassy Science, shortly after they had submitted their Ph.D thesis, and while they were getting their drag face on. Come and get ready with! Find Sassy on Twitter Sassy's Youtube channel And Insta Watch Science is a Drag here!   You can find SciCurious in a BUNCH of places online too: Check out the website Patreon Facebook Twitter Insta Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Thanks to Peter Levens for the music for "something that makes me happy", and to Austin Weber for the intro and outro music (Mamma Mia by Austin Weber). Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.

In the first episode of season 3, I had a chat with Leah, The talk happened following the murder of George Floyd, and during pride month. Leah does all kinds of research in the field of behavioural neurobiology. What's that? Listen and find out! Follow Leah on Twitter You can find SciCurious in a BUNCH of places online too: Check out the website Patreon Facebook Twitter Insta Science is a Drag Join Flick Chat Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Join the STEM Village Thanks to Peter Levens for the music for "something that makes me happy", and to Austin Weber for the intro and outro music (Mamma Mia by Austin Weber). Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.

Hi all. This episode, we're interviewing Brynley Pearlstone, who hosts the Scicurious podcast, which focuses on LGBTQ scientists. We talk about his scientific work on gravitational waves, and about outreach in physics more generally. Enjoy!

This month I was joined back in the closet with Dr. Justin Sperling, a biomedical engineer originally from Ohio, studied in Glasgow, and at the time of publishing, newly postdoc-ing in Barcelona. We gabbed for this hour about the music scene in Austin, TX, a synthetic tongue for discerning whiskies, and the importance of failure. Find Justin online! Twitter LinkedIn Want to hear from more LGBT people in STEM, then subscribe! And find SciCurious on social media! Facebook Twitter Insta Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.  

In this final episode of the 6 part series talking with LGBT physicists, I chat to the brand new, green-as-they-come Ph.D student, Alex Blanchard. I met Alex a years ago at a Glasgow Frontrunners social. He's a real delight - always smiling, talented musically, and a hard working physicist working in optics.  A few notes on this week's content from Alex: "A Quantum Cascade Laser works by having numerous quantum wells with an applied electric field, which tilts them energetically. The quantum wells have two energy levels of interest: the energy level before and after emitting the photon. The tilting effect makes the energy level of the electron in the first well after emitting the photon at the same energy as the energy level before emitting a photon in the next quantum well (see attached picture). So after emitting a photon, the electron tunnels into the next well, at the energy level before emitting another photon, where it emits another photon. With enough wells in sequence together, one electron emits numerous photons and it lases. When discussing how the SPADs work, I neglected to mention that the SPAD has a large electric field applied across it, above the breakdown field of the material. This means that when an electron is hit by a photon, it leaves its atom, is accelerated by the field, and hits other electrons, creating a current in a normally insulating material. The current can stop by either having no more electrons which can be knocked off the atoms, or the voltage (and therefore the electric field) is reduced to a point where the electric field can no longer accelerate the electrons to a high enough speed." Today I learned that you can use "to lase" as a verb. I guess lasers gonna lase! Check out the band he plays in, SambaYaBamba, maybe catch them this summer. Facebook Twitter Insta Upcoming gigs Check out the Glasgow Frontrunners, or find your local chapter. Find Alex online! Facebook Insta Want to hear from more LGBT people in STEM, then subscribe! And find SciCurious on social media! Facebook Twitter Insta Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. Find his music on Spotify or Apple music. Thanks to IOPScotland for sponsoring this episode and the 5 other episodes in this season. Check out their website for more information on IOP events all around Scotland!

This year during the Glasgow Science Festival, we put on the very first SciCurious: Live! Listen to our panel discussion around visibility in STEM, and follow our panelists! Jon Orgill (Instagram) Emily Nordmann (Twitter) Martin Hendry (Twitter) Lawrence Chaney (Instagram, Twitter) Check out the Humans of LIGO blog here. During the discussion we mention the LGBT physical sciences climate survey. Read the report here. Follow SciCurious on: Twitter Instagram Facebook Add me on Pokemon Go Check out Austin Weber's music on spotify and itunes. I use his music for the show - thank you Austin Thanks also to Malcom the Sound Man, to Debbie and her team of helpers, to all the staff at Kelvin Hall, and to everybody who came along to SciCurious: Live! Without the lot of youse, this live show wouldn't have happened. And last, but not least, thanks to IOPScotand, for funding SciCurious, and SciCurious: Live, and making this show possible. Check out more of what IOPScotland does on their website

Last month, I took a very warm bus journey down to Manchester to have a chat with the brilliant Dr. Ben Shaw. We headed to the Jodcast recording studio, where he told me all about pulsars, glitches and living on a narrowboat part time! Huge congratulations to Ben and James, who today tied the knot after 14 years together! If you want more out of Ben you can: Follow Ben @radioquiet Listen to the Jodcast  Support the Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital You can get more from me, and from SciCurious: Get tickets for SciCurious: Live! I'm doing stand up! Get tickets! Follow the pod on Twitter @SciCurious_pod Find SciCurious on Facebook! Visit the SciCurious website Add me as a friend on Pokemon Go! Code: 4904 6958 4974 Send me an email scicurious.pod@gmail.com Follow the host @bpearlstone Our music, as ever, was "Mamma Mia" by Austin Weber. Check out his latest album, "Love Songs for No One" on iTunes and Spotify. And thanks as ever to IOPScotland for their support, and for making SciCurious possible.  

This month, I'm chatting with Dr. James Claverley! James is a "scientist at heart" based at the National Physical Laboratory. He now puts skills learned working in metrology (the study of measurements) to good use in the offices of NPL. James is also on the IOP's Diversity committee. He's been working on a report from last year's LGBT+ physical sciences climate survey. In this episode, we talk about the importance of redefining the kilogram, queer STEM heroes, and James teases some of the findings from the LGBT+ physical sciences climate survey. If you want more from James, you can find him, and plenty of pictures of his dog, River, on Twitter as @DrClaverley. BIG NEWS! SciCurious is recording a live show! To see what it's about, check out SciCurious.fm/live, and get tickets through the the Glasgow Science Festival event page. You can, of course, find more from the podcast of Twitter as @SciCurious_pod, and you can send emails to scicurious.pod@gmail.com Music, as ever, was by Austin Weber. Find his music on iTunes and Spotify. Keep an eye out for his new album, Love Songs for No One, dropping on May 11th. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to iTunes, and leave a 5-star review and say something nice about the show. iTunes weights ratings in their algorithms when deciding which podcasts to promote, so it really does matter. And thanks as ever to IOPScotland, for making SciCurious possible!  

I’m interrupting your podcast feed for a very special announcement! SciCurious is going LIVE! That’s right, in accordance with podcasting tradition, we’re making a live episode, in association with the Glasgow Science Festival! The live show will be a little different from the regularly scheduled programming. I’m putting together a light hearted panel discussion around the topic of “Visibility at work and in academia”. We’ve got four fantastic panellists lined up for you, first, two LGBT professionals in STEM academia: psychology lecturer and expert in lecture capture, Dr. Emily Nordmann, and Ph.D Student ad biomedical engineer Jonathan Orgill. Then we have an ally, the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow University and chair of the IOP Scotland Education committee Professor Martin Hendry, and last but far from the least, ingenue of the Glasgow drag scene, the myth, the legend, the icon, star of stage and screen, Lawrence Chaney! For more details, check out sci-curious.fm/live. You can get tickets either through the GSF site or directly from Eventbrite. Can’t make the show? Never fear! Our discussion will be coming to the feed! You’ll have all the joy of hearing my voice, with none of the joy of seeing my face! We won’t be able to get the Q&A portion to the feed, so if you have any burning questions, ask them on twitter, where you can find the show as @scicurious_pod, or send in an email to scicurious.pod@gmail.com. Don't forget to use #GlaSciFest when talking about SciCurious: Live!  

Welcome back to SciCurious! Back in February, I called up Ashley Spindler for a chat. Ashley is a very busy person, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Besides working on machine learning for galaxy identification, she's using generalised methods, meaning that her work can find all sorts of anomalies in all kinds of data! Besides that, she's a twitch streamer, aspiring novelist, and amateur model! A note from Ashley: I made a slight mistake in described the timescales that different methods of star formation are related to. H alpha, the main method discussed, is related to timescales of 10^8 years, which is the lifetime of high-UV producing stars. Other methods instead look at timescales of 10^9 years, as they rely on the lifetimes of different stellar populations. (See Kennicutt 1998 for an in depth review.) You can find more of Ashley on twitter, where she's @DrAshleyNova, on twitch at twitch.tv/ashleynova, or check out her Patreon for her novel and modelling work!  Special thanks to IOP Scotland, for funding this short series about LGBT physicists. You can find out more about IOP scotland at their website. You can find the podcast at our website, or on twitter as @SciCurious_pod. Want to say something in confidence? Send an email to scicurious.pod@gmail.com. Like what you heard? Find us on Apple Podcasts, and leave a review, and rate 5-stars. Something you didn't like? Let me know, and I might try something different. But remember to say something nice about me too. If you can't think of anything nice, think harder! The music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. You can find Austin's music on iTunes and Spotify. He's got a new album called Love Songs For No One coming out on May 11th, so keep an eye out for that. Things that made me happy this week: Cupboards and wardrobes  The trainline outside my window You'll hear from me again soon, and until them, have good weeks!

Welcome to the very first episode of SciCurious! In February, I popped into the University of Glasgow to sit down and chat with Aidan Robson. Aidan has lots going on, he's Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Glasgow, the spokesperson for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) at CERN, and much more! In this episode, we talk about Aidan's career so far, his roles in CERN, and what CLIC can do for particle physics! We also touch on being an out gay man in academia, and being a part of inclusive sports clubs. If you want to find out more about CLIC, visit their website.  You can get in touch with Aidan, and find out more about the work he does, and who he is, on twitter, where you'll find him as @AidanRobson Special thanks to IOP Scotland, for funding this short series about LGBT physicists. You can find out more about IOP scotland at their website. You can find the podcast at our website, or on twitter as @SciCurious_pod. Want to say something in confidence? Send an email to scicurious.pod@gmail.com. Like what you heard? Find us on Apple Podcasts, and leave a review, and rate 5-stars. Something you didn't like? Let me know, and I might try something different. But remember to say something nice about me too. If you can't think of anything nice, think harder! The music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. You can find Austin's music on iTunes and Spotify. He's got a new album called Love Songs For No One coming out on May 11th, so keep an eye out for that. Things that made me happy this week: Marie Kondo (book, Netflix series) Healthy public discource (story, twitter thread) [This one might come back to bite me, but I'm an optimist, sue me.] You'll hear from me again soon, and until them, have good weeks!

Introducing to you: SciCurious! Scientists have a bit of a reputation of being a "straight man", dry humour, poor interpersonal skills, and not so fun at parties. But that isn't always true, by which I mean that not every scientist is a straight man! SciCurious is a series of interviews with the sharpest queerest minds in STEM. I'm your host, Dr. Brynley Pearsltone, and I'm a triple threat; I'm a gay man, I have a Ph.D in astrophysics, and now, I'm a podcaster! Join me each month for a different conversation with an LGBTQ+ scientist, as I get to know the queer side of science. We begin this year with a series of interviews with queer physicists, sponsored by IOPScotland. Twitter: @SciCurious_pod Email: scicurious.pod@gmail.com Music: Weber, Mamma Mia Brought to you by IOP Scotland. Click here to find out more about IOP Scotland  

Scicurious, also known as Dr. Bethany Brookshire, chats with Kate about PMS and PMDD. Go to kateclancy.com/period11 for the show notes, and check out Kate's new Patreone to support the podcast, patreon.com/periodpodcast2!

What's so great about LinkedIn? In this episode, we discuss our thoughts about LinkedIn. We all know about it as the professional networking site. It has its upsides (at least two of us have received jobs) and its downsides (the somewhat clunky user interface). So, how do we use it? Why do we use it? What could you use instead of it?   Also mentioned: Scicurious (also known as Bethany Brookshire) wrote about LinkedIn as how you keep in touch with all the people who you don't want to friend on Facebook. We also discuss other social networking sites: Trellis Science (You can also join the Recovering Academic Podcast group when you register.) ResearchGate Academia.edu Plantae: The Digital Ecosystem for Plant Science Our LinkedIn profiles: Amanda Cleyde Ian Another Use for LinkedIn (Addendum)

Robin on "the Woman Card," and the "electoral industrial complex." Guests: Elaine Showalter, biographer of Julia Ward Howe; President of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine on climate change; Blogger Scicurious (Bethany Brookshire) on science thrills. Elaine Showalter: President Hilda Heine: "Scicurious" (Bethany Brookshire):

On this week's show, Stephanie Zvan interviews Dr. Bethany "SciCurious" Brookshire about effective strategies for convincing people of scientific truths, the common mistakes we make when we set out to teach people about science. Brookshire recently co-edited Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. For nearly a decade, former neuroscientist Dr. Bethany Brookshire has been writing about science for online audiences. Best known to science-blogging fans as "SciCurious," Dr. Brookshire writes about – among other topics – neurotransmitters (the chemicals that make our brains run), evaluating scientific results in context, rats in tiny pants, and duck penises. You can't forget the duck penises.

Lost after arriving at grad school, Bethany Brookshire is happy to finally find a perfect mentor. Bethany Brookshire has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of William and Mary, a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is the guest Editor of the Open Laboratory Anthology of Science Blogging, 2009, and the winner of the Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award and the Three Quarks Daily Science Writing Award, among others. She is currently the Science Education Writer for Science News for Students. She blogs at Eureka!Lab and at Scicurious. You can follow her on Twitter as @scicurious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're looking at the intersection of race, history and genetics in science writer Nicholas Wade's 2014 book "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History." DNA researcher Jennifer Raff and science journalist David Dobbs share their critiques of the claim that differences between genetically distinct "races" are responsible for global divergence in cultural and political structures. And blogger Scicurious walks us through the (delicious) basics of the scientific method with Cookie Science.

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Welcome to Double X Science for July 15, 2013. Today's host is Double X Science chemistry editor, Adrienne Roehrich, interviewing Bethany Brookshire, aka Scicurious, about her two articles in the past 6 months on Double X Science. Articles discussed during the interview include: Between neurohype and neuroskepticism. (http://www.doublexscience.org/between-neurohype-and-neuroskepticism/)   If You Try One Detox This Year, Make It This One (http://www.doublexscience.org/if-you-try-one-detox-this-year-make-it-this-one/) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/07/15/is-sugar-really-toxic-sifting-through-the-evidence/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/apr/19/beer-dopamine-brain-scans http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/06/18/book-review-brainwashed/#.UeQV2EHvvzx Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Travis speaks with Scicurious about an interesting new study which suggests that diet and exercise can prevent and/or undo age-related damage in the neuromuscular junction. This podcast involves an in-depth discussion of this study's results, so to see the images that we are discussing you can visit Scicuious' original (and excellent) post on this topic: http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2010/11/17/cure-your-aging-synapses-with-this-new-diet-and-exercise-regimen/ As always to leave a comment or suggestion, you can visit the Obesity Panacea blog at www.blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea.

Travis and Peter chat with fellow science bloggers and young researchers Jason Goldman, Christie Wilcox, and Scicurious. Topics include field research, the work that we are currently doing in our labs, and our thoughts on recent developments in the science blogosphere. You can visit our respective blogs at: Obesity Panacea (www.blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea) - Peter and Travis The Thoughtful Animal (www.scienceblogs.com/thoughtfulanimal) - Jason Child's Play (www.scientopia.org/blogs/childsplay/) - Jason Observations of a Nerd (www.scienceblogs.com/observations) - Christie Neurotic Physiology (www.scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/) - Scicurious

In this episode Travis chats with fellow ScienceBloggers and graduate students Jason Goldman, Christie Wilcox, and Scicurious about how we chose our current labs, things we wish we had known before we had started grad school, and where we want to end up once it's all over. We'd love to hear about your grad school experience as well - to leave a comment or suggestion, visit www.scienceblogs.com/obesitypanacea. Jason Goldman - www.scienceblogs.com/thoughtfulanimal Christie Wilcox - www.scienceblogs.com/observations Scicurious - www.scienceblogs.com/neurotopia