The ScienDist: Recent Episodes
Akram
Article Mentioning the Clinical Trial:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240503/p2a/00m/0sc/012000c
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0:00 - 0:43 Intro
0:44 - 1:36 Disclaimer
1:37 - 5:10 The three ways of finding SciComm jobs in Japan
05:11 - 05:50 SciComm jobs Facebook page.
05:51 - 11:04 My job, how it started and SciComm
11:05 - 13:03 Final thoughts
Points discussed in the video
1- Searching for A SciComm job (in Japan)
a. Obstacles.
b. Who are these jobs for.
c. Where to straightforward SciComm jobs
2- How did I get to do science communication as a part of my job.
SciComm Jobs facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/wGmcJdijtqW9pQHD/
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Hi everyone! It's great to be back. I've missed connecting with you all, and during my break, I've been brainstorming ways to bring you more consistent episodes. I'm excited about some small tweaks that could make a big difference. I truly enjoy our chats, and I hope you enjoy listening just as much. In today's episode, I'll share what's been happening during my time away and the exciting updates you can expect on the podcast. Stay tuned!
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This is a sad episode. I’m sorry but no science communication today. https://youtu.be/4idQbwsvtUo?si=b3rzwlvk6iX_IFV_--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesciendist/message
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/170loz2/phd_opportunity_for_fat_people/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/170i4pw/i_work_less_than_40_hrsweek/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/170cm2u/colleague_made_me_cry_while_presenting/
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Here are the links to today's subjects.
Stay positive, and always take care of your mental health, guys!
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/16s3nwm/i_felt_really_burnt_out_in_lab_today_and_my_pi/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-022-00444-x#:~:text=Mental%20health%20issues%20among%20graduate,caused%20by%20their%20studies4.
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In today's episode, we talk about hypnosis in dental treatments, a bioactive material for implants, and the story of someone who might have just quit their PhD in their 3rd semester!
Cover Art from:
sketchingscience @ X(Twitter), Instagram, Facebook
Links Below:
https://www.drbicuspid.com/dental-specialties/orofacial-pain/alternative-pain-therapies/article/15379569/can-hypnosis-relieve-acute-dental-pain
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300571222002408?via%3Dihub
https://www.dental-tribune.com/news/graphene-coating-that-releases-antibacterial-acid-prevents-formation-of-biofilm-on-dental-implants/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89452-5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7966620/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/16ks7fv/decided_to_quit_my_phd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Reddit Post https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/16502mk/in_the_process_of_recovering_from_my_phd_want_to/
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Comics about PhD life: https://phdcomics.com/comics.php
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Andy Stapleton video. Academia is BROKEN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUGznJYtXbU
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The article discussing mental health among graduate students. https://bhacjournal.org/index.php/BHAC/article/view/9332/7893 -
Articles shared in the episode:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58038752
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-artificial-intelligence-dentists-health-care/
https://fortune.com/well/2023/07/21/best-time-to-brush-your-teeth/
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The Reddit post discussed in today’s episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/15a77wc/my_pi_broke_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1 Send me a voice message here : https://anchor.fm/thesciendist--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesciendist/message
Join us today for a second interview with Dr. Wanping AW as we talk about the false claims made by some people working for certain food supplement sellers. We'll discuss how these claims create unrealistic expectations regarding the benefits of these supplements.
Dr. Wanping contacts:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=7hPgbt4AAAAJ&hl=en
Company website: www.tokudaw.com
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Today's guest is Dr. Thomas Hitchcock. We talked about evolution and Japan and drifted a bit into football. I hope you enjoy this one.
Thomas's contacts: http://www.tjhitchcock.com/ https://twitter.com/imprintedgene
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Join us today as I interview Dr. Wanping AW, our special guest. Discover her fascinating journey from Singapore to Japan and her remarkable story of obtaining a Ph.D. in nutrition. Driven by a deep love for food, she has channeled her passion into assisting tourists in uncovering Japan's hidden gems and immersing themselves in the country's splendor.
Dr. Wanping contacts:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=7hPgbt4AAAAJ&hl=en
Company website: www.tokudaw.com
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I will be presenting about the podcast in Tokyo Nerd Nite!
If you are in Tokyo on the 19th of May, join me and others at the World Peace Theatre in Kawasaki.
Details in the link below:
https://tokyo.nerdnite.com/
In today's episode, I interview Dr. Shiva about her decision to do a Ph.D. and move to Japan. Dr. Shiva’s contact : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-jafarnia-73997a104
In today's episode, I talk about visiting the US, attending the AADOCR meeting, and spending a couple of days in LA.
In today's episode, I interview Ms. Ria Chopra, who is a 3rd year Ph.D. scholar. She researches Cancer biology and enjoys dancing. Listen to the full episode to learn more about her Ph.D. Journey. Instagram: @phdwhodances
Today, our guest is Dr. Andy Stapleton. His background is in Chemistry, where he did his post-grad studies and postdoc. But he decided to take on a totally different direction, allowing him to talk to and help thousands of people who need accurate advice.
Dr. Andy Stapleton's Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@DrAndyStapleton
Hey Guys, welcome to the ScienDist podcast, Happy 2023, I hope this has been a good year for you so far; I recorded this episode when it was Christmas time; we are in a brand new year, brand new motivation, throwing last years fatigue and welcoming the new year with our sight locked on achieving more, creating more, and enjoying the process of living this life more. Today's guest is Dr. Zulema. She is a Bolivian dentist and is now working n Okayama university here in Japan as an assistant professor. She mentions many things that resonated with me and I am sure many people in the research world would relate to what she said. . . . I hope you enjoy this one 😉 Dr. Zulema's contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zulema-rosalia-arias-martinez-58221447/ zuarias@gmail.com
Welcome to another installment of No BS BTS of Ph.D. life!!!! Today we talk about how busy are the PIs / professors and how often can we send them reminders about things we want from them!
Link to the Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/zlz1ro/my_pi_doesnt_respond_to_my_textsemails/
Welcome to another installment of No BS BTS of Ph.D. life!!!! Today we talk about how you make sure not to fall into the trap of having your hard work stolen from you!
Link to the Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/ze6evk/can_you_publish_a_paper_excluding_one_of_the/
Today our guest is Ella Marushchenko.She is an artist that specializes in Scientific Illustration. She designed the covers of many top scientific journals, such as :Nature, Cell, Advanced Materials, Biomaterials Science, and many others.Ella's contacts:https://scientific-illustrations.com/https://www.instagram.com/ella_maru/
Welcome to another installment of No BS BTS of Ph.D. life (I mess the name up during the podcast, sorry about that).
Today I bring you another story from Reddit. The Redditor mentions being bullied by the supervisor and, on top of the bullying, being asked to join the Ph.D. program? can you believe it? Weird, right?
Link to the Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/p83j5y/whats_the_craziest_shit_that_happened_to_you_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Today I interview Dr. Citra Kusumasari who is a lecturer in the department of conservative dentistry at the University of Indonesia. She got her Ph.D. from TMDU in Japan before moving back to Indonesia and continuing her career in Education.
Dr. Citra Contact:
https://www.instagram.com/citra_kusumasari/
Welcome to another episode of the ScienDist Podcast, today we talk about how to avoid being broke for a long time after finishing your Ph.D.
You love science, and that’s a good thing, but you gotta be ready for what life throws at you.😉
There are many difficult situations that Ph.D. Scholars face. This segment aims to assist Ph.D. Scholars avoid these situations whenever possible.
Today's guest is Mr. Maynard Okereke. He graduated with a civil engineering degree but chose science communication as a career path, and at least in my opinion, he made such a great impact by making science so relatable and fun.
Mr. Maynard's contacts:
https://www.hiphopscienceshow.com
https://www.instagram.com/hiphopscienceshow/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maynardokereke/
HipHopScienceShow@gmail.com
Today, our guest is Dr. Mauro Simao. He got his Civil Engineering bachelor's degree from the High Institute of transportation and communications back in Mozambique and his master's and Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan. He is now working with Vector Renewables Japan as a technical advisor.
Dr. Mauro Simao's contacts:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauro-ricardo-sim%C3%A3o-5807624a/
Email: mauro.simao@hotmail.com
Today, our guest is Dr. Sherif Adel. He got his bachelor's and masters from Cairo university in Egypt. He moved to Japan in 2017 for his Ph.D. studies. He just finished his Ph.D. studies, and I thought it would be a cool idea to interview him. He published various scientific publications and sequential art projects in Egypt, Lebanon, and Japan. Dr. Sherif Adel's contacts: https://twitter.com/Barbatoze https://www.barbatoze.com/
Today, our guest is Dr. Thilina Heenatigala. He is a science communicator with a background in astronomy. He is now the Director of Communications at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo. His story about how he got interested in astronomy and then moved into science communication is quite intriguing. If you watch the interview, you will see how a simple act of promoting science - especially to the younger generation - can make a person become so interested and engaged in the subject that they build their career around it.
Dr. Thilina Heenatigala's contacts:
https://twitter.com/ThilinaH
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thilinaheenatigala/
Today, our guest is Dr. Maryam Alkubati She is a Yemeni Gender Equality & Social Inclusion Specialist with a background in IT and in social studies. She graduated from Universiti Utara Malaysia where she got her Bachelor's degree in Information Technology majoring in Information Management, she got her master's and Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba in Social studies. Dr. Maryam is working as a Researcher and Gender Specialist with Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies and as a Diversity and Inclusion Facilitator with enjoi Japan KK. Dr. Maryam contacts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryamalkubati1/ https://twitter.com/Maryooma_mimz
Today our guest is Dr. Hani Al-Shareef Dr. Hani is a personal friend of mine and you can see that he was one of the main reasons I came to Japan. He graduated from Sana University which is the same university I graduated from and got his Ph.D. from Osaka University, He has been researching cancer for almost 10 years now and published many papers in this field. Dr. Hani's story is very interesting and in today's episode, you will hear from him how he started from working as a carpenter to being a researcher in one of Japan's top research universities.
Dr. Hani Contacts:
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hani-al-shareef-406695bb/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hani3008
Today our guest is Dr. Rodi Abdulkader He graduated from Damascus University, College of Pharmacy, and then moved to Japan to get his Master's and Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Japan. Now, he is an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University after working at Kyoto University as an assistant professor, too. He has great experience in both the academic field as well as the industry where he worked as a research scientist with Rhoto Pharmaceuticals. He will share with us his experience doing research and his insight about changing the process of working with a different topic of research than the one might be used to.
Dr. Rodi Abdulkader LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodi-abdalkader-920a6186/
Today, our guest is Dr. Eugene Shumilov. He is a medical doctor who worked for various dental manufacturers like 3M and Kavo. He is now the co-founder and CSO of Diagnocat which is an AI-driven assistant tool for various dental office tasks.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/evgenyshumilov/
www.linkedin.com/company/diagnocat/
https://diagnocat.com/
Dr. Sari is an anthropologist who graduated from the University of Aleppo and then moved to Japan to get his Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Now, he is doing his 2nd postdoc at the University of Tsukuba after finishing his first postdoc at the University of Tokyo. In today's episode, we go through a lot of interesting subjects that revolve around anthropology and its relation to our current time, some practices that our ancestors used to make, and some interesting findings of some of the things we use on a daily bases.
The Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation. The application is only in Japanese. https://www.mishima-kaiun.or.jp/
The manga and other booklets can be downloaded from Sari's academic.edu page https://tsukuba.academia.edu/SariJammo
Hello everyone, today's guest on the ScienDist podcast is Dr. Nezar Al Hebshi. Dr. Nezar is a dentist; he graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Yemen in 1999 and got his Ph.D. from Bergen University in Norway in 2005. He is now the Co-director of the Oral Microbiome Research Laboratory; and an associate professor at Temple University's Kornberg School of Dentistry in Pennsylvania. In today's episode, he will share with us information about the exciting research he is doing and some of the challenges he faced during the different stages of his career. As a faculty member, he shares valuable information about what is expected of Ph.D. students and postdocs when they apply for positions and the things that could increase their chances of being accepted into these postgraduate programs.
Contact: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezar-al-hebshi-048b8a3a/
Hi guys, today I am interviewing Ms. Maha Mahyub
Maha is a Ph.D. student at Tsukuba University in Japan and she is a part-time employee at AIST
She did her bachelors in Jordan from the University of Petra and she has very unique ideas and a different perspective on how to proceed with post-graduate studies, so I encourage you to listen to the podcast to the end.
Maha's contact:
email: mahamahyub@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maha-mahyub-380595141/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikoindaahouse/
Today I interviewed Dr. Christina El saaidi - Public health research, war, and learning from different cultures.
Today's episode links:
Dr. Christina El saaidi contacts
e-mail: Christina.elsaaidi@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-el-saaidi-27675644
Today I interviewed Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev and we talked about his passion for mechanical keyboards, human Cyborgs, and doing research that is inspired by science fiction.
Today's episode links:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/IIJ3cfqifek
Podcasts: @ScienDist
Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev contacts
https://apolotary.com/
Insta: @apolotary
Twitter: @rbektour
Wikipedia links to things we mentioned in the podcast:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan
Today I interviewed Dr. Mahmoud Sayed and we talked about his Ph.D. life, a new old material for restoring teeth, and whether or not you should be spending your time in the lab 😁😜
Today's episode links:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/UQY32xG57Es
Podcasts: @ScienDist
Dr. Mahoud Sayed contacts
Insta: @muha.sayed11
Facebook: @mahmoud.elsayed.77
In today's episode, we will check an article that I saw on Dr. Bicuspid that discusses mental Health and Burnout which are very crucial subjects and are experienced by everyone not just in Academia. So, Subscribe and follow if you haven't already and let's get to the podcast!
Burnout article on drbicuspid.com
https://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=328376&wf=3372
Article in JADA
https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(21)00132-X/fulltext
Mental Health support websites:
Japan:
https://telljp.com/
US:
https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help
To contact me, Instagram @the.sciendist Twitter @ScienDist
If you are considering starting a career in science, I think this episode might just be right for you! If you are not considering a career in science, give it a lesson, you will hear a few things that PhDs have to go through during their studies as well as why it might be a good idea considering that decision.
The article we discuss today refers to various changes that are happening in the dental industry and that will hopefully make your visits to the dentist a lot less stressful. Listen to the podcast and check the link and info below for more information.
Link to the article referred to in the podcast: https://medcitynews.com/2021/04/trends-in-the-dental-industry-dental-technology-in-the-next-decade/
The Lecture I was referring to regarding using augmented reality: IADR 2021 Session title: Contemporary Virtual Reality (VR) Technologies in Dentistry Lecture Title: VR - Technological opportunities for remote clinical training. Lessons of the pandemic by Marjoke Vervoom - Carlos Serrano / Department of Dental Digital Training & Assessment. The University of Amsterdam.
To contact me, Instagram @the.sciendist Twitter @ScienDist
This is Akram and thank you for listening to the ScienDist podcast.
In this podcast, I will be sharing stories from people who are either scientists or have jobs that are related to science. We won't just hear the success stories but we will be diving into the difficulties that they had and how did they manage to overcome the obstacles that they faced.
Life for scientists and especially PhDs students can be quite difficult and there are might be some times when it feels like you are drowning and there is no way out so I would like to shed some light on that by sharing the tips and tools that helped me and other people I know graduate and finish our Ph.D. programs and hopefully would help you too if you were in a similar situation.
Last but not least I will be sharing some science news on a what I would like to call SciComm Sundays,
there I will be sharing interesting science stories that I found on the internet.
You can find related information about this podcast by finding me on Twitter @ScienDist
I am looking forward to connecting with everyone and sharing helpful stories and interesting scientific information and news.
In this episode, I speak about changing the direction of the podcast. Unfortunately, I was not able to keep the episodes coming with the previous format however, I believe this change is going to be for the best and I hope and count on your support. Looking forward to remembering this as the start of a great thing that I built.
Masa is a very talented content creator, he talks about his journey into the world of media making. I hope you enjoy!
From a content creator that actually does this for a living . . . the real deal . . . the Onlywarman . . . Marwan Imam. In this episode, he talks about his work and his approach to film photography . . . I hope you enjoy . .
Today is a special episode, just for the podcast, and is not posted on youtube. Max from Germany is our special guest for today and he explains his unique take on photography and why he does not see Instagram as a necessity for his photography. There is another episode coming, too so stay tuned.
Today's guest is Gavin from the UK. We talked about his photography background, the different camera systems, his photography process, and also his printing protocol. All in all a very informational episode. I hope you enjoy it.
Today's guest is Bektur. He cinematic street pictures and in today's episode, he talks about his workflow and his editing style. Hope you enjoy it!
Today's guest is Travis Warner Travis Warner from Michigan US. He has some amazing outdoor shots and in today's episode, he talks about his workflow and his editing style. Hope you enjoy it!
Today's guest was Alberto from Spain. We talk about his visit to Japan, his photography and his editing tips, I hope you enjoy this episode.