So You Got A Lifesci Degree

23/08/2021

As promised, here is our 2021 BLOOPER REEL! 😍🙃 Clap three times to start the video

23/08/2021

Say hello (and goodbye) to the FINAL episode of So You Got A Lifesci Degree! 🥳 Farida and Lisa reflect on their podcasting experiences and play a second round of "How Well Do You Know Your Co-host" 🙃 👀

It's been a joy running this project over the past year. We're choosing to bring it to a close due to Lisa's thesis year, Farida's new data science job, and other reasons discussed in this final episode. Thank you for listening - we hope you've gained as much from this experience as we have ❤

Episode transcript: https://otter.ai/u/wgArgbNef6KHzoAGWgQDP5i5uOo

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/7YHTBpkhCGk

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09/08/2021

This week, we talk to Dr. Anna Clemens about the field of SCIENCE WRITING!! ✏📜 🔬Anna is a scientific writing coach who has herself been published in popular science magazines like Scientific American, and has helped researchers get published in high-profile journals like Nature Communications 🤯😯🧫 Anna tells us about the different forms of science writing, the realities of being a freelance science writer, and things to remember in your own writing!

Episode transcript: https://otter.ai/u/EvhItnJzkTu7gBLS6b7dRJUz7Cg

Spotify: https://otter.ai/u/EvhItnJzkTu7gBLS6b7dRJUz7Cg

YouTube: https://youtu.be/0JrYD1pVof4

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25/07/2021

Today's episode is about MIDWIFERY!!! 😄🍼We chat with Dr. Elizabeth Darling, a registered midwife and the Assistant Dean of Midwifery at McMaster University, about the details of this growing profession 👩🏿‍⚕️🤱🏾 What is a midwife? Is that different from a doula? What is it like being on call? We have answers! 🔍🥰

Episode transcript: https://otter.ai/u/_mIq7S_ZdtJVVTm7-1A6Gm1iK5w

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/41H4EYzuaLjuUf55Db52Q5?si=R8JdbOLYSN6su_PEpI0mhQ&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

YouTube: https://youtu.be/vdO6Lf1n4xc

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/22-Midwifery-with-Dr--Elizabeth-Darling-e150b2i

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12/07/2021

WE'RE BACK!! 🥰😙 With Dr. Sebastian Kvist - an Associate Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum AND an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto! Sebastian has been working as a curator at the ROM for over six years, and is in charge of the invertebrate collection🐞🐛 🐜

Episode transcript: https://otter.ai/u/xoFDzSwAuEG3DwBr9bVYF11kjXo

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/f5bwuvORFnk

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/21-Museum-Curation-with-Dr--Sebastian-Kvist-e14a2hp

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27/06/2021

HELLO ALL! No episode again this week! But we promise - we'll be back in a fortnight (for real this time)! 🙃

13/06/2021

No episode today! We'll be back in 2 WEEKS with our next release 🎧🥰

07/06/2021

We now have EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION!!! 😮❤✏

All future AND past episode descriptions (on all platforms) will contain a link to the transcript for that episode!

Enjoy! 🥰😊

17/05/2021

This week's episode is with Dr. Dianne Saxe, an internationally recognized environmental lawyer and Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario!! 💼🌱🎤 Dr. Saxe has over 40 years of experience in environmental law, working for both the Government of Ontario and her own law boutique. She tells us about what it really means to be an environmental lawyer, and offers an honest opinion about job availability in the field 💭🧐💸

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HUvunzcRKBV3amIpfOKi9?si=lqvCPuhBR5a5O5hOFicbKA&utm_source=copy-link

YouTube: https://youtu.be/vVV7JtKt5Cc

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/19-Environmental-Law-with-Dr--Dianne-Saxe-e110vi0

Episode transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TpOmNG_uG2NPJSIxCgo3qDaMWNc

09/05/2021

SURPRISE!!! 🥳😮 We're releasing one FREE MINICAST for your sampling pleasure! 🤤😋

Our minicasts are 5 - 10 minute BONUS episodes released alongside each main episode! In them, we chat about our "shenanigan" of the week - squirrel stories, electrocution by grape, captcha struggles, and more!🐿️🍇🖱️

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04/05/2021

Episode 18 is with Tashina Rabbani, a Senior Product Manager of the Rare Diseases Portfolio at Ipsen! 😍💊 Tashfina tells us about her experience in devising marketing strategies for pharmaceutical products 😎 What even is product management? Why is there a photo of a woman in a sunflower field on the back of my toilet stall? 🌻 We have the answers!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jr682nXmxvTvGwxzfKvaf
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2diTSAQgYs
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19/04/2021

Episode 17 is with Eric Meliton! 🥰☕ Eric was the program manager at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) for 7 years 🌱 He talks to us about working with businesses to implement sustainable policies! 💰🏠🌳

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xetaUJysrieZnzL7dBf9A?si=4SN1oa1vTJOsuA77jKsOHw&utm_source=copy-link

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4DLLqWXg15U

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05/04/2021

Episode 16 is with the one and only ALASTAIR TRACEY! 🤭😮

Alastair is the Level II Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Biology at McMaster University 🦠 You may know him as the friendly face of BIOLOGY 1A03, or the guy who gets pied in the face about once a year! 🥧🤧 Rumour has it listening to this episode will give you a semester of academic luck 🍀

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3umaOlhiwtjnUPTP9GITfd?si=rLKr6iRGQo-XGmzeENbXQQ&utm_source=copy-link

YouTube: https://youtu.be/H7q57vJVeUY

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/16-Undergraduate-Course-Coordinator-with-Alastair-Tracey-eu7uj7

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01/04/2021

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22/03/2021

A special episode this week!! 🥳😮🍰 In honor of the podcast's half birthday, Lisa and Farida play a game of "How Well Do You Know Your Co-host". Who is most likely to laugh at the wrong moment? Go bungee jumping? Become ruler of the world? Come for the answers, stay for the chaos 🥰🙃

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08/03/2021

This week we chat with Rishika Sharma, a Specialty Pharmacist at Bayshore Healthcare. Rishika edumacates us on how specialty pharmacists focus on medications for certain groups of illnesses, such as cancer! 💊👩🏾‍⚕️🥰

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5totIx5CsZeo68HAb5Fagw?si=BMtYZlaxQlCxrnm3jGAQ3w&utm_source=copy-link

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28/02/2021

BREAKING NEWS!!! 🥳😮😍 You can now gain access to AD FREE episodes through our Patreon!

For $1/month, you'll receive ad-free versions of each episode PLUS our bonus minicasts 🥰🥲

To get this perk (and more) visit www.patreon.com/soyougotalifescidegree 💸

22/02/2021

Surprise! It's episode 13! 🎈🥳 Come listen to us chat with Ben Moy, an Economist at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) ⚖ Ben performs economic analysis of policies implemented by the ECCC. He's currently working on policies involved in a post-pandemic "green recovery" plan! 🌱😊

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LgPN5JxELD6yQ3EZUgcsb?si=XMx-8TT4RqOwIEobW6MeOw&utm_source=copy-link

YouTube: https://youtu.be/trznHLXsD84

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/13-Environmental-Economist-with-Ben-Moy-eqoedp

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08/02/2021

This week, we chat with Dr. Jonathan Stone (a.k.a. Doc Roc), an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University! 🐌🌱 Doc Roc tells us stories of his adventures in Sweden, a misrepresentative tardigrade species, and peeing on sea urchin wounds 🧻🇸🇪

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7sEX34VlEPX7z3LWsXyhIi?si=QDsGEj2gSEGf1rRN-yUG6Q&utm_source=copy-link

YouTube: https://youtu.be/FVI5fr4HxwQ

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/12-Professor-Shenanigans-with-Doc-Roc-eq3bvh

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25/01/2021

This week, we interviewed JARED KUNAR from McMaster's Science Career and Cooperative Education Office (SCCE)!! 😍😁 Jared helps students write resumes, develop interview skills, and figure out what the heck to DO with their life! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🙃 Also, he's got a HELL of a voice for radio

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65NOrX1Zsj9wStLq1ew4bC?si=JjdOFf6jQ06kKb7VeDFgIA

YouTube: https://youtu.be/GTJtzKHzDQQ

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/11-Sweet-Prince-of-Careers-with-Jared-Kunar-epdvnt

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10/01/2021

Episode 10 is cut and ready! 😋 In it, we chat with Nisha Almeida about her role as a Research Scientist at McGill University's Health Technology Assessment Unit!! 👩🏾‍🔬🧪 Nisha tells us about how she helps hospital administration evaluate the value of new health technologies and interventions using the best available scientific evidence 🏨 📏

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LNzfpir5skzqwM2yeoqT3?si=G609MpKsT46ptc3pBnULOg

YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC0esZWtAuGy2sP15dzGMbKg

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/10-Reshaping-health-technology-with-Nisha-Almeida-eopo9p

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09/01/2021

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08/01/2021

We are proud to present SciSection - a podcast about science and how it relates to your everyday life!! 💊🌱🧬

They've had on some truly notorious guests, such as Derek Muller of the YouTube channel Veritasium!! 😮😍 (very impressive indeed)

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01/01/2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🥳😁😮 As a SPECIAL treat - here is our 2020 BLOOPER REEL!! 🎥 It turns out that we make mistakes - lots of them. And sometimes they're funny. Hope you enjoy!! 🙂🙃

28/12/2020

Episode 9 has sprung from the chilly earth! 🙀🥳🌱 In it, we chat with Gayathri Vijayakumar about her work at Scribe Therapeutics, a San Francisco-based biotech company 🧪 Gayathri talks about how she is exploiting EXISTING viral mechanisms to design targeted CRISPR therapeutics (SUPER cool stuff)!! 🧫🏥 We also chat about the biotech industry as a whole, as well as startup culture! And you thought the valley was just for tech nerds 😉🥰

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bu317k26WsAAEKir6HQdU?si=vGZHXH0RQAGy4z7y3-PxhA

YouTube: https://youtu.be/KviTqC0gEww

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/Episode-9-Biotech-Startups-with-Gayathri-Vijayakumar-eo9fa3

Happy listening! 🎧 🙃

25/12/2020

A very merry Christmas from us to you🎄🎁🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️

Featuring a tiny clay charm of our logo ;)

14/12/2020

Episode 8 is hot out of the oven and ready for the sampling! 🥧 In it, we chat with Jackie about her role as a genetic counselor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 🏨 This could be a GREAT path for anyone interested in both counselling and human genetic research. Go give it a listen today!! 🎧😉

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/58HSP1vpxDVtltXCDWaBPU?si=ir9V3BmsQveczXvxuyApMQ

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DaPw1zEq-74

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/Episode-8-Genetic-Counselling-with-Jacqueline-Leonard-enp6kf

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07/12/2020

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30/11/2020

Guess who has two thumbs and recently interviewed their high school biology teacher? 🌱 Yup, one of us all right! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙎🏾‍♀️ Episode 6 is now OUT! It was so nice chatting to Talia who (surprise!) is primarily a math teacher 📏. If you ever wanted the inside scoop 🍨 on high school, this is the episode for you! 😉

Go give it a listen - you're going to love it! ❤

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/XaX329RE664

Webpage: https://anchor.fm/soyougotalifescidegree/episodes/Episode-7-Teaching-High-School-Math-with-Talia-Asa-en505v

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18/11/2020

Listen. You're a cool person (let's face it, it's true) 😎 And you KNOW cool people. Perhaps even - cool people who did an undegrad lifesci degree?

GUEST CONNECTIONS! We are looking for GUEST CONNECTIONS!!! If you know someone who completed an undergrad degree in biology (or a related field) and now has a COOL CAREER relating to their degree - send us a message on Facebook! Snail mail! Carrier pigeon! 🕊 Point is - we want to hear from you! We want to be introduced to potential podcast guests!

What are you waiting for? Go access your cool connections 😉 ❤