The Science Basement Podcast
@SciBasementPod
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A podcast for people who love all things science. Hosted by enthusiastic sprouts of the @ScienceBasement community.
Helsinki, Finland
Joined October 2022
Science has a reproducibility problem. In this episode, we talk with @ReproducibiliT members about grassroots efforts to fix research culture from the ground up. #OpenScience Find the full episode: https://t.co/vLow76VX0g
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🎙️ New episode alert! What makes early nutrition a superpower? 🍼👶 Dr. Dollwin Matharu joins Roselydiah & Rhiannon at the podcast to explore how special sugars in human milk shape infant immunity and gut health. 🔗 Link in bio!
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Season 5 is here! We’re kicking things off with a roundtable chat, diving into the coolest research we found this year—think scavenger birds, smart bees, and sustainability challenges. 🐦🐝🌍 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
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🎙️ Ready to bridge the gap between research and real-world impact? In the final episode of TSB x HiLife, we chat with Dr. Sarah O’Keefe, from the University of Helsinki, about transforming research into innovation. 🚀✨ 🔗 Link in bio! #Innovation #ScienceToImpact #TSBxHiLife
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In ep 2 of HiLife x TSB miniseries let’s find out what it’s like to study nature up close? Sujai & Emmi chat with Dr. Katja Rönkä about #wildlifeadaptations, clever cuckoos, moose encounters, and why duct tape is a fieldwork essential. 🛠️✨ Full episode link in bio! 🎙️
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Out next week! TSB x HiLife miniseries ep 2 is all about climate adaptation in the wildlife with Dr Katja Rönkä, postdoctoral researcher at University of Helsinki.
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Find Pekka's publication here: Risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus infection during the first year of life: development and validation of a clinical prediction model [ https://t.co/sbS90dPR6C]
thelancet.com
The identified predictors and the prediction model can be used in guiding RSV immunoprophylaxis in infants, or as a basis for further immunoprophylaxis targeting tools.
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Find Rafael's publication here: Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB | Nature Neuroscience [ https://t.co/knW3vDXpF6]
nature.com
Nature Neuroscience - Moliner et al. show that psychedelics directly bind to the BDNF receptor TrkB with high affinity and promote BDNF-mediated plasticity and antidepressant-like effects, whereas...
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TSB x HiLife miniseries Ep 1 OUT NOW‼️ In this episode, our guests, Pekka (@pecsi_max) & Rafael Moliner share their personal journeys in academia & the relationship between quality, impact, & collaboration in research. Get the episode on Apple podcast, Soundcloud or Spotify.
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🔔🔔 We are kicking off the second TSB x HiLife mini-series with Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences! Join us to experience the thrill of discovery! ⭐️First episode out tomorrow ⭐️ Rhiannon & Sujai talk to Pekka and Rafael about the journey to publishing high impact papers.
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⭐️New episode ⭐️ How do shapes transform when stretched, twisted, or deformed, yet still retain key properties? In this episode, Sujai and Rhiannon sit down with Jonathan Pim, a curious doctoral student trying to figure out just this. Link here: https://t.co/3hLgGLFYNt
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⭐️NEW EPISODE OUT⭐️ Listen to students from @AaltoHelsinki talk about synthetic biology’s role in the fight against cancer — from programming immune cells to finding & destroying tumours, to creating personalized treatments that adapt to individual patients' needs. Link in bio!
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Join us for some science at 17:30 on Wednesday 2nd of October at Think Corner Lounge (upstairs) / Tiedekulma. Nisa and Nicholas will tell us what the iGEM Aalto-Helsinki team of 2024 have been up to! The talk will be followed by a chill Q&A session. See you there!
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We chatted with two enthusiastic researchers, Nisa & Ardalan from @AaltoHelsinki about the role of synthetic biology in developing treatments for cancer. Listen to the episode in full next week wherever you get your podcasts. Meanwhile check out the past episodes from the bio!
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In the latest episode of the @SciBasementPod @pbyrne82 tells us why misinformation is so hard to tackle & how @iHealthFacts1 is trying to answer your health-related questions using latest research from all over the world. Episode available wherever you get your podcasts!
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How can we tell fact from fiction when it comes to our health? 🤔 In our latest episode Rhiannon & Rose chat with Dr Paula Byrne, lead researcher at @iHealthFacts1, to discover how this platform helps separate truth from misinformation. Full episode here: https://t.co/ZgF0JpcUUB
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Out next week on the podcast a fantastic conversation about misinformation in health science with Dr. Paul Byrne, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Galway, Ireland. Meanwhile do some myth busting on your own using the health fact-checking website @iHealthFacts1.
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In this week’s episode of the podcast Rhiannon & Rose chat to Kateřina, PhD student at University of Helsinki (@FoMSci) to learn all about her research on active packaging & extending the shelf life of the fruit & vegetables we consume. Listen here: https://t.co/zf5g2iS93N
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