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Working Scientist

Working Scientist


Working Scientist

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162 episodes
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English
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Podcast

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Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Portfolio, publishers of the international science journal Nature. Working Scientist is a regular free audio show featuring advice and information from global industry experts with a strong focus on supporting early career researchers working in academia and other sectors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Format:
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How artificial intelligence is helping Ghana plan for a renewable energy future

Julien Harou’s career started in geology in his current role as a water management and ...

23 minutes
May 07, 2024

How a young physicist’s job move helped Argentina join the ATLAS collaboration

María Teresa Dova describes how an early career move to CERN as the first Latin America...

21 minutes
Apr 15, 2024

How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science

A 2021 report by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin Ameri...

15 minutes
Apr 05, 2024

‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers

Fernanda Staniscuaski earned her PhD aged 27. Five years later she had a child. But in ...

20 minutes
Mar 29, 2024

‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America

Paleontologists Ana Valenzuela-Toro and Mariana Viglino outline some of the challenges ...

21 minutes
Mar 22, 2024

How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists

In 2013 physicist Carolina Brito co-launched Meninas na Ciência (Girls in Science), a p...

10 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

‘There is no cookie cutter female scientist’

In her role as Vice Rector for research partnerships and collaboration at the Universit...

27 minutes
Mar 08, 2024

How Tiger Worm toilets could help to deliver clean water and sanitation for all

Laure Sione’s postdoctoral research at Imperial College London addresses the sixth of t...

20 minutes
Mar 01, 2024

How we boosted female faculty numbers in male-dominated departments

In 2016 the University of Melbourne, Australia, asked for female-only applicants when i...

20 minutes
Feb 23, 2024

Building robots to get kids hooked on STEM subjects

As a child Solomon King Benge loved Eric Laithwaite’s 1974 book The Engineer in Wonderl...

19 minutes
Feb 16, 2024