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2025-01-17 | Charlotte Roughton says she developed a deep-rooted shame and resentment towards her autism diagnosis, causing her to mask the condition during her biosciences degree at the University of Durham, UK.But socially camouflaging and striving to appear as n... | |
2025-01-10 |
Mind matters: investigating academiaâs âmental health crisisâ Why do so many academics struggle to âpower downâ at the end of a long working day, and what are the longer-term health effects of failing to switch off at evenings and weekends?Desiree Dickerson is a clinical psychologist based in Valencia, Spain, who... |
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2024-10-17 |
Four weddings, a funeral, and the Sustainable Development Goal logos Graphic designer Jakob Trollbäck remembers a 2014 meeting with film director Richard Curtis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, then very much a work in progress, coming up in conversation.Curtis, whose movies include Four Weddings an... |
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2024-10-10 |
A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals When Vinnova, Swedenâs innovation agency, sought to change the countryâs food systems in 2020, it started by looking at school meals and funding several projects around menus, procurement, and how cafeterias were organised.Breaking down a big goal into... |
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2024-10-03 | Growing up in the last years of the Cold War motivated Gabriele Jacobs to enter academia and play her part in building peaceful societies. Jacobs works at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where she researches the role artificial intelli... | |
2024-09-26 | Sigit Sasmito describes how his research at James Cook University in Brisbane, Australia, is helping to protect both peatlands and mangroves across southeast Asia, as part of a drive to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15.The goal, one of 17 agreed by... | |
2024-09-19 |
How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans Watching documentaries about the Titanic inspired deep-sea microbiologist Beth Orcutt to study life at the bottom of the ocean - a world of âtowering chimneys, weird shrimp and octopus nurseriesâ that she has visited 35 times.But Orcutt says there is s... |
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2024-09-12 | Analytical chemist Jane Kilcoyne was working in her biotoxin monitoring lab one day in 2018 when she noticed a bin overflowing with plastic waste. The observation prompted her to join forces with like-minded colleagues and develop a package of measures... | |
2024-07-26 |
Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues In the sixth and final episode of The Last few miles: planning for the late stage career in science, Julie Gould unpicks some of the generational tensions that can arise in academia when a colleague approaches retirement.Inger Mewburn, who leads resear... |
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2024-07-22 |
A dumpster full of mercury and other things to avoid: lab closures made simple In the fifth episode of this six-part podcast series about the late career stage, physicist MarĂa Teresa Dova outlines how she is preparing colleagues years in advance to ensure a smooth handover of her lab at the University of La Plata, in Argentina.B... |