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Conversations with scientists

Conversations with scientists

Written by: Vivien Marx
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Scientists talk about what they do and why they do what they do. Their motivations, their trajectory, their setbacks, their achievements. They offer their personal take on science, mentoring and the many aspects that have shaped their work and their lives. Hosted by journalist Vivien Marx. Her work has appeared in Nature journals, Science, The Economist, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and New Scientist among others. (Art: Justin Jackson)© 2025 Vivien Marx Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Sneak-peek of the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
    Nov 6 2025

    Soon the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience starts where 20,000 attendees will be talking all about their work on the brain. This is a sneak peek of that meeting. It's with Dr. John Morrison from the University of California at Davis and Dr. Emilie Marcus from UCLA, who is also the incoming SfN Chair of the public education and communication committee of the Society for Neuroscience. Helping me ask questions are also Dr. Shari Wiseman, chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Elisa Floridiaa from Nature Communications and Tanya Lewis from Scientific American.

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    49 mins
  • Science summer: The MBL course 'Physio'
    Jul 8 2025

    Summer courses are not exactly science and chilling but some courses do make it possible to combine the two a little. In this podcast Dr. Daria Ivanova, from the University of Geneva, Dr Sam Lord from University of California San Francisco and Dr. Will Ratcliff from Georgia Tech talk about the course and how they experienced it as a participant, as a teaching associated and as an instructor.

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    57 mins
  • Sneak-peek of the 2024 ISSCR annual meeting
    Dec 15 2024

    This podcast was uploaded earlier this year but somehow it was deleted, sorry. So it's not quite a sneak-peek anymore...Whether or not you attended the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) or not, you might enjoy this conversation. It's with Dr. Amander Clark from the University of California at Los Angeles, she is also the current president of the ISSCR; Dr. Malin Parmar from Lund University and Dr. Agnete Kirkeby from the University of Copenhagen. They are program chairs of the ISSCR meeting. My co-host is manuscript editor Dr. Stylios Lefkoupolos from Nature Cell Biology.

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    46 mins
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