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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...
2024-10-10

  A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

When Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, sought to change the country’s 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...
2024-10-03

  How artificial intelligence can help to keep us safe

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

  My mission to protect threatened mangroves

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 ‘towering chimneys, weird shrimp and octopus nurseries’ that she has visited 35 times.But Orcutt says there is s...
2024-09-12

  How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint

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...
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...
2024-07-12

  Pension planning and psychosocial support: how institutions can help academics at the late career stage

The list of things to organize as retirement from academia approaches can feel daunting. In the fourth episode of The last few miles, a six-part podcast series about the late career stage in science, researchers talk about health, housing and financial...
2024-07-05

  “Who am I if not a scientist?” How to find identity and purpose in retirement

Because many scientists see their career as a calling, when retirement arrives it can bring with it feelings of insecurity and worry about what this means for them.Microbiologist Roberto Kolter, emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School, Massachuset...