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Professor Alex McBratney explores “Soil Security Starts Here”, a bold framework for safeguarding the very ground beneath us, ensuring a stable future for food, climate and life. www.scipod.global/professor-al... #SoilSecurity #SustainableFuture
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Professor Alex McBratney | Soil Security Starts Here: a Framework for the Future • scipod.global
Soil sits at the heart of nearly every major challenge humanity faces, from food, water and energy security to climate change, biodiversity loss, human health, and the delivery of vital ecosystem serv...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer reveals how social work keeps alive the memory of society’s deepest conflicts, gender, class, race, and acts as an open archive of our shared past. www.scipod.global/professor-dr...
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Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer | How Social Work Functions as Living Memory of Society's Deepest Conflicts • scipod.global
Research from Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer, former chair of social pedagogy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, reveals how social work institutions and practices serve as repositories of knowle...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Penelope J. Corfield guides us through her book Time Space: We Are All in It Together, exploring how our lives, societies and the entire cosmos are woven into a dynamic time-space continuum. A timely reflection on our shared journey. www.scipod.global/penelope-j-c... #history #philosophy
Penelope J. Corfield | Time-Space: Exploring How Humans Navigate Cosmic Existence • scipod.global
Penelope J. Corfield’s groundbreaking book, entitled Time-Space: We Are All in It Together, presents a multidimensional framework for understanding how humans exist within the cosmic continuum of time...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Dr Jeffrey Curran Henson uncovers how the mood-stabiliser lithium can slow the heart’s natural pacemaker and how a decades old asthma drug offered a life-saving workaround. www.scipod.global/dr-jeffrey-c... A powerful reminder even trusted medicines carry hidden risks. doi.org/10.3389/fcvm...
Dr. Jeffrey Curran Henson | When Lithium Slows the Heart, and How an unlikely Asthma Drug Offered a Way Out • scipod.global
For more than half a century, lithium has been one of the most reliable treatments for bipolar disorder. It has given countless people the ability to stabilize their moods and reclaim lives otherwise ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Science isn’t one-size-fits-all. In the Asia Pacific, many researchers speak the language of discovery, not always the language of publication. Let’s open the doors to all voices. Listen: www.scipod.global/speaking-sci... #GoodPublicationPractice #ISMPP doi.org/10.1080/0300...
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Dr Rhonda Millikin and her team show that in some forests, cutting trees to reduce wildfire risk can back-fire, thinning makes sites hotter, drier and windier, boosting fire risk instead.
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Dr. Rhonda Millikin | When Fighting Fire Backfires: How Cutting Trees Can Raise Fire Risk • scipod.global
Across North America, the phrase “fuel management” is used almost as often as “climate change” when people talk about wildfires. The idea is simple: forests burn because they are full of fuel, includi...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Dr Kai Hilpert’s team is using AI to predict antimicrobial peptides in human serum, unveiling a powerful new strategy against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Dr. Kai Hilpert | AI-Powered Prediction of Antimicrobial Peptides in Human Serum: A New Strategy Against Resistant Bacteria • scipod.global
In the 20th century, antibiotics transformed medicine. Infections that once killed millions could be cured with a pill or injection. Surgeries became safer, cancer treatments more effective, and advan...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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How do magic tricks and spycraft reveal the secrets of the human mind? Dr Rafael Lenzi explores how deception shapes what we believe we see.
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Dr. Rafael Lenzi | From Magic Tricks to Spycraft: What Espionage Teaches Us About the Human Mind • scipod.global
When we think of spies and their activities, we imagine trench coats, hidden cameras, and tense exchanges in safehouses. Hollywood has given us the daring adventures of James Bond and Jason Bourne, al...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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socialism, and who really owns enterprise. Listen: www.scipod.global/professor-jo... Discover more: doi.org/10.1080/0034... #EconomicTheory #RethinkOwnership
Professor John Willoughby - Christian Fignole | Challenging Traditional Economic Assumptions about Capitalism, Socialism and Enterprise Ownership • scipod.global
Research from Professor John Willoughby and Christian Fignole at American University in Washington DC examines how diverse ownership structures persist in market economies, challenging the assumption ...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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When arteries rebel. Dr Adrian Sebastian Zus dives into preventing radial artery spasm and improving vascular health. www.scipod.global/dr-adrian-se... Find out more: doi.org/10.3390/diag... #CardiovascularHealth #VascularScience
Dr Adrian-Sebastian Zus | When Arteries Rebel: Preventing Radial Artery Spasm • scipod.global
Most of us never give much thought to the small artery that runs along the inside of our wrist, the radial artery. You can feel it easily if you press your fingers just below your thumb. Yet in modern...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Dr Kishor Shrestha's study reveals that method-based contracting is the most cost-effective strategy for operating highway rest areas, potentially preventing closures and enhancing service quality. Listen: www.scipod.global/dr-kishor-sh... #InfrastructureEfficiency #TransportationPolicy
Dr. Kishor Shrestha | Rethinking the costs of highway rest areas • scipod.global
Operating and maintaining highway rest areas across the United States has long posed a costly challenge for state transportation departments, especially amid tightening budgets and rising demand. In a...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Ahmed Alhindi and Dr Meng-Sang Chew introduce a fuzzy logic-based framework for designing compliant mechanisms, enhancing robustness and efficiency in real-world applications. Listen: www.scipod.global/ahmed-alhind... #MechanicalEngineering #FuzzyLogic
Ahmed Alhindi - Dr. Meng-Sang Chew | Improving compliant mechanism designs with fuzzy logic • scipod.global
When they design mechanical systems, engineers first need to understand how they will behave using mathematical modelling tools that can simulate their movements. In recent years, they have increasing...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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In cross-race conversations, White Americans were more likely to avoid discussions with fellow Whites of different political parties than with Black individuals of differing parties. Listen: www.scipod.global/dr-osei-appi... #PoliticalIdentity #RaceRelations
Dr. Osei Appiah | How Political Identity Trumps Racial Identity in Cross-Race Conversations About Sensitive Topics • scipod.global
Research from communication scholars at The Ohio State University reveals fascinating new insights about the dynamics of conversations about race-related issues in the USA. Two complementary studies s...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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A gut-targeted antibiotic, vancomycin, may enhance lung cancer radiation therapy. In a pilot study, patients receiving vancomycin with stereotactic body radiotherapy showed improved survival rates. Listen: www.scipod.global/professor-an... #CancerResearch #MicrobiomeTherapy
Professor Andrea Facciabene | Gut-Targeted Antibiotic Boosts Lung Cancer Radiation Therapy: A New Frontier in Microbiome-Based Treatment • scipod.global
Imagine a future where treating cancer doesn't just depend on high-tech machines or potent drugs, but also on something as simple, and as complex, as the bacteria living in your gut. This future might...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Mentoring isn't just advice, it's a social exchange. Dr Andrey Kostyuk's research shows how balanced, reciprocal relationships between mentors and entrepreneurs drive sustainable success. Listen: www.scipod.global/dr-andrey-ko... #StartupSuccess #MentoringMatters
Dr. Andrey Kostyuk | How Mentoring Enables Startup Success Through A Social Exchange Process • scipod.global
Research from Dr. Andrey Kostyuk at the Grenoble Ecole de Management supervised by Prof. Martina Battisti, a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and Director of European Council for Small Busin...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Women often perform emotional labour in sex, faking orgasms, tolerating discomfort, and prioritising partners' pleasure. Media portrayals reinforce this, sustaining the gendered pleasure gap. Listen: www.scipod.global/tanja-oschat... #GenderEquality #SexualHealth
Tanja Oschatz | Factors that Sustain the Gendered Pleasure Gap: Gendered Media Representations of Sexual Pleasure and Women’s Performance of Sexual Emotional Labor • scipod.global
Despite decades of awareness about gender equality, a persistent pleasure gap remains between women and men in sexual encounters, with women experiencing significantly fewer orgasms and less sexual pl...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Gen Z is changing the gender landscape beyond the binary and using diverse pronouns, students entering college are reshaping identity norms when it matters most. www.scipod.global/dr-genny-bee... #transstudents #trans @transauthor.bsky.social
Dr. Genny Beemyn - Dr. Abbie Goldberg | Beyond the Binary: A New Generation’s Approach to Gender • scipod.global
In the Autumn of 2022, hopeful college students across the United States clicked through the questions on the Common Application, the digital gateway to more than one thousand colleges and universitie...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Dr Raymond Atwebembere emphasizes that suicide prevention is rooted in human connection. By sharing personal stories and embracing community-based support, we can combat isolation and restore hope. Listen: www.scipod.global/dr-raymond-a... #MentalHealthAwareness #CommunitySupport
Dr. Raymond Atwebembere | Restoring Connection: Understanding Suicide Through Human Stories • scipod.global
Loneliness is often described as the invisible epidemic of our time. It creeps quietly into lives, eroding confidence, weakening social bonds, and, at its most dangerous, pushing individuals toward th...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Professor Mary Rezk-Hanna delves into the appeal and dangers of flavoured tobacco and nicotine products, highlighting their impact on youth and public health. Listen: www.scipod.global/the-allure-a... #PublicHealth #TobaccoAwareness
The allure and pitfalls of flavored tobacco and nicotine products. Interview with Professor Mary Rezk-Hanna • scipod.global
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October 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Professor Roger Ulrich and team have uncovered a groundbreaking link between solar plasma flows and magnetic cycles at Mount Wilson Observatory. A pivotal shift in understanding the Sun’s behaviour. Listen: www.scipod.global/professor-ro... #SolarScience #Astrophysics
Professor Roger Ulrich | Revisiting Mount Wilson: How corrected solar data revealed a groundbreaking discovery • scipod.global
Between 1982 and 2012, the 150-foot solar tower at Mount Wilson Observatory collected a vast archive of observations of the Sun’s surface. In a series of recent studies, Professor Roger Ulrich, togeth...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Dr Ukamaka Oruche shows how science meets real-world barriers in mental health, with tools to empower care. Listen: www.scipod.global/professor-uk... #MentalHealth #HealthInnovation @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Professor Ukamaka Oruche | When Science Meets Real-world Barriers: Lessons from the Frontlines of Mental Health • scipod.global
By all measures, America’s mental health system is stretched too thin. Families are in crisis, community mental health providers are overworked, and groundbreaking research often struggles to find its...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Dr Jerzy Lorkiewicz unveils a thin-film breakthrough that could transform particle accelerators, making them more efficient and powerful. www.scipod.global/dr-jerzy-lor... #ParticlePhysics #Innovation
Dr Jerzy Lorkiewicz | How a Thin Film Could Transform the Future of Particle Accelerators • scipod.global
Building the next generation of particle accelerators depends on solving surprisingly small but stubborn material-related problems. Dr Jerzy Lorkiewicz and his collaborators of the National Centre for...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Dr Michelangelo Anastassiades & Ann-Kathrin Schäfer create a smart method to detect hidden pesticides in food, boosting safety and transparency. www.scipod.global/dr-michelang... #FoodSafety #Innovation
Dr Michelangelo Anastassiades - Ann‑Kathrin Schäfer | A Smart Solution for Detecting Hidden Pesticides in Food • scipod.global
Highly polar pesticides such as glyphosate are notoriously difficult to detect in food due to their chemical properties and interference from natural food compounds. A new method developed by Dr Miche...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Professor Dr Frederik Wenz examines how McDonaldization is reshaping healthcare, streamlining services but risking patient-provider connection. A double-edged sword. Listen here: www.scipod.global/professor-dr... #HealthcareReform #PatientCare
Professor Dr. Frederik Wenz | McDonaldization in Healthcare: Opportunities and Pitfalls for Patients and Providers • scipod.global
If you stroll into a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Paris, Tokyo, or New York, you’ll notice that the Big Mac tastes the same, the menu looks familiar, and the process is quick and efficient. You ...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Dr Adam W. Carrico explores biobehavioral strategies to improve HIV prevention and treatment for sexual minority men who use stimulants. www.scipod.global/dr-adam-w-ca... #HIVPrevention #BehavioralHealth
Dr. Adam W. Carrico | Biobehavioral Approaches to HIV Prevention and Treatment in Sexual Minority Men Who Use Stimulants • scipod.global
Research from Dr. Adam W. Carrico at the Florida International University, and his colleagues, explores innovative approaches to address HIV prevention and treatment challenges among sexual minority m...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM