Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
Students and scholars in life sciences need to use many skills to survive and excel during scientific training, which involves listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
But I have seen many of them struggle in understanding and learning those skills.
I am a professor in the U.S., a tenured faculty member with MD, PhD degrees.
I will guide you through the skills, so that you will learn and improve successfully in your professional life.
Please visit my website for more information (https://synaptologica.com/), and send me emails with questions, comments or ideas (ideas@synaptologica.com).
Podcasting since 2023 • 51 episodes
Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
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51. Have you read an abstract that was not written well?
My students selected a paper to read in a journal club. The abstract (and the rest of the paper) was not written well. The abstract gave us two precious lessons.Lesson 1: Good structural organization will help the readers understand...
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Episode 51
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50. Happy 50th episode!
We have reached 50 episodes! Thank you for listening. Today, we will briefly talk about how I have kept sustainable podcasting so far. The most important thing may be that I have set my goal simple and single: It is to create...
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Episode 50
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49. Another well-crafted logic loop in Abstract by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-30)
We will talk about the second of the two, well-crafted loops of logic, in the Abstract of a paper written by the Nobel Prize Laureates. Not all abstracts have this second loop. But when it is present, it gives a better overview of t...
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Episode 49
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48. Well-crafted logic loop in Abstract by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-29)
I can visualize two well-crafted loops of logic, in the Abstract of a paper written by the Nobel Prize Laureates. Can you? We will talk about one of them in today’s episode. Such a loop, together with a linear prog...
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Episode 48
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47. Why is the 2nd sentence important in an abstract? (mini-series: reading-28)
Let's analyze a single sentence in the Abstract of an impressive paper. It is the paper that led to the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This is the paper that we call the milestone article 1 (Please see below for details). &nb...
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Episode 47
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