In this episode, Marcel interviews Dr. Ashley Bourke and Teresa Spanò, who are Gender Equality / Equal Opportunity Officers at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. They discuss their motivation for getting involved, the role Gender Equality Officers play in the Max Planck Society and how we can challenge systemic issues in science.

Learn more about Dr. Ashley Bourke and Teresa Spanò at:

https://www.ashleybourke.com/

X: @TheSomnolentSci & @TeresaS_13

Read: A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01467-5)

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What are (eu)social insects? What is it like to work with them? In this episode, Huizi talks with three researchers, Stephan, Mélanie, and Silu, from the University of Freiburg, to learn about their experiences. These researchers use social insects to study various topics, including evolution, chemical communication, and longevity. We will learn all about their projects, what it's like to be in the tropics collecting insects, and their own personal journey that brought them to this field. If you want to know more about their work, check out the link to their department and their lab:
https://www.bio1.uni-freiburg.de/oeko-en/evo-eco
Stephan Lohmar - Korb lab & Henshaw lab
Mélanie Bey - Nehring lab
Dr. Silu Lin - Korb lab

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Did you know that our sun undergoes an 11-year cycle and is at the maximum of its activity this year? Juli thought that was the perfect time to talk to an expert and discuss everything we know and would like to know about our Sun! So for this podcast she had a conversation with Sowmya Krishnamurthy from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen. They talk about what causes the solar cycle, how the Sun compares to other stars in the Galaxy and how we can study the sun. They also discuss the Sun’s influence on Earth, how Aurorae are formed and the effects of space weather. Enjoy this episode!

MPI for solar system research: https://www.mps.mpg.de/en

Information about effects of solar storm in May 2024:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms#Impact

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Double_trouble_Gaia_hit_by_micrometeoroid_and_solar_storm

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/12/24154779/solar-storms-farmer-gps-john-deer

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In this episode Juli talks to Eduardo Banados, a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The two of them follow up on our previous episode about the James Webb Space Telescope and dive deeper into the early universe. They talk about the first billion years of cosmic history, how the first stars and galaxies formed during that time and how the universe went from a dark and neutral place to a luminous and ionized environment during the so-called epoch of reionization. Eduardo explains the role that supermassive black holes play in these processes and how all of this lead to the universe in which we live today. And they discuss all of this in the context of the new data that the James Webb Space Telescope is providing us on this specific epoch of the universe’s evolution.
You are in for a fantastics episode!

Eduardo’s Personal Website: https://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/banados/index.html

Review Paper on Quasars at Cosmic Dawn pre-JWST: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ARA%26A..61..373F/abstract

Summary Review Paper on „The First billion years according to JWST“ based on the first 1.5 years of JWST data: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240521054A/abstract

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In this episode, Juli talks to NASA scientist Matt Greenhouse about the James Webb Space Telescope. Matt explains what the JWST was built for, the tremendous technical developments that went into the telescope’s design and the challenges that had to be overcome in the process. They discuss the main scientific goals of the JWST and the most important results it has given us so far.

Images taken by the Webb: https://webbtelescope.org/images

The Webb’s science: https://webbtelescope.org/science

Animation of the Telescope Unfolding in Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGLKQ7_KZQ

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In today’s episode, Xiaoran Liu interviews Dr. Özgül Agbaba, a chemist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, the founder of the high-performance material synthesis company MechSyn, and the owner of a wine bar @WeinCafé Cuvée. They discuss possible career paths after a PhD and the life-changing decision-making. Özgül tells how and why she started a wine bar after a PhD in chemistry and then to establish a start-up company. She explained the way she reshaped herself all the way long. If you are wondering what you want to do after your academic education, listen to this episode, and I am sure you will get the power and belief to go forward.

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In this episode, Marcel interviews Dr. Christoph Miehl, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, about topics revolving around open and reproducible science. Christoph also shares his experience as an eLife community ambassador as well as what it is like to do a postdoc in the US.

Learn more about Dr. Christoph Miehl’s work at:

https://www.christophmiehl.com/

Check out the review on open science:

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89736

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