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 • 54 episodes
Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
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54. Can you explain the role of Introduction in one sentence?
The single-sentence rule for understanding research paper Introductions. Have you thought about what the Introduction section of a life-science paper really does? In this episode, we will address that question and disc...
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Episode 54
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53. Minimum features of well-written abstracts
In today’s episode, we will learn which structural components will be minimally essential for an abstract, and which will be additionally necessary for a well-written abstract. These are the abstracts of primary research papers in life sciences...
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Episode 53
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52. Example of a well-written abstract (other than the one by Nobel Laureates)
Let’s talk about an excellent abstract that I read this week. It was so well written, and I was so excited to read it that I wanted to talk about it with you today. The beauty of it is that the first 3 structural components guide us through the...
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Episode 52
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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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