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Career Development, Conversations (podcast), Mental Health, Science Communication

Moving from Surviving to Thriving – A conversation with Julie Wren

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Wellness consultant Julie Wren talks with Jo about maintaining physical and mental wellbeing despite the impact a high-octane life can have on health and longevity. She is an expert in nutrition, mental wellness, self-care, and draws conclusions from the gut-brain axis to building wellness into your daily routine. We discuss the term ‘infobesity’ aka information overload and what effects that can have on our wellbeing. Julie also shares tips around building healthy routines through moving, nourishing and resourcing with the 20 minutes rule.

Multilingualism, Perspectives (blog), Reading Writing Publishing, Scholarly Publishing, Science Communication

Translated articles are research output

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Translating scholarly works can contribute enormously to a scientific community. Famously, Albert Einstein translated articles into English so that Anglo-Americans could contribute to state-of-the-art science. The modern tendency to ignore scholarship that is not in English leads to lower quality studies and double work. Translation can help overcome linguistic barriers, and is thus an important means to increase accessibility and participation as well as to counteract fragmentation of the literature into linguistic islands.

AfricArXiv, Perspectives (blog), Science Communication

VAD Conference 2022: AfricArXiv Providing Reciprocal Discoverability of African Research Content

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AfricArXiv was represented at the VAD conference 2022 in Freiburg, Germany, organized by the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) conference focused on the theme of African Europe, reciprocal perspectives and it addressed processes of co-production of knowledge as well as the mutual questioning of different ways. of thinking.

AfricArXiv, Career Development, Conversations (podcast), Global Research Equity, Knowledge Transfer, Multilingualism, Open Science, Research Integrity, Science Communication

Deafness and Academia – A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

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Following up on our previous episode with Joyce Wangari Nugi, in which we talked about Holistic wellness and mental health in research careers, this episode is about Wangari’s work for the deaf community and deafness in academia.
We are joined by N’kadziri Aminah Idd, who facilitates sign language interpretation throughout our conversation (see the video below).

Career Development, Conversations (podcast), Open Science, Science Communication

Biotech Without Borders and community biology in NYC – A conversation with Danny Chan 

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Danny Chan is the President of Biotech Without Borders, a non-profit community biology lab in New York City. Besides trying to defend his time to pursue independent research centered around protocol development for the DIY science community, he enjoys video games, eating new food around the city, watching movies with his partner, and playing table-top RPGs.

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Conversations (podcast), Global Research Equity, Open Access, Open Science, Reading Writing Publishing, Scholarly Publishing, Science Communication

IndiaRxiv, the preprint repository for Indian Research – A conversation with Sridhar Gutam

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Sridhar Gutam is a Senior Plant Physiologist at ICAR, the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, and also the Convenor at Open Access India. His main area of interests are Plant Physiology, Plant Phenology and Plant Phenotyping as well as Open Access, Open Data, Free and Open Source Software.

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Conversations (podcast), Mental Health, Open Science, Science Communication

How to maintain mental well-being in the high performing research environment – A conversation with Stephanie Gauttier

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Stephanie Gauttier is an Assistant Professor at the Grenoble School of Management (GEM) doing research at the intersection of information systems, human-computer interaction, and ethics. She is the Vice-Chair of the COST Action CA 19117 Researcher Mental Health Observatory and is active in initiatives related to supporting researchers’ mental health. For the Marie Curie Alumni Association, Stephanie co-created a peer-to-peer mental health mentoring network.

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