The Struggling Scientists

We have for you another fun Science News episode, so much amazing Science has reached the News recently that it was difficult to choose! But we made a selection and will bring you up to speed with th…

On this second Christmas day, we have a very special gift for you! A Christmas episode about standing up for your Science and Climate Change!

Ernst-Jan Kuiper, a former scientist, and current climate …

Yesterday we had the first real frost here in the Netherlands, and now that we have the first real evidence that winter is finally here we knew we needed to do a special winter-themed episode. So tod…

Today we discuss the Ig Nobel Prize winners from 2022. Ten interesting pieces of research that were awarded this prize for Science, that first make you laugh and then think.

Some highlights include:

• A …

In this episode we interviewed dr. Elisabeth Bik about detecting fraud in scientific publications. She is an expert in detecting image tampering and has already found problems resulting in the retrac…

Today we are talking about things we learned from the PhD besides our scientific knowledge. We picked 10 of our biggest learning moments and are sharing them with you.

If you have questions/comments/s…

We talked with the very interesting Bryan Quoc Le about how he switched from academia to consulting after his PhD. Or more precisely already during his PhD! He has a lot of tips for people considerin…

Today we talk with dr. Marc Reid, a Pi from Glasgow who wrote a book about imposter syndrome or as he would prefer to call it the imposter experience. We have a lot of questions for him about his own…

We are back with another Science news episode! Not only will we bring you up to date on the most interesting (and funny) Science that has reached the news since our last episode and give you all the …

Today we interviewed Anna Clemens who became an academic writing coach after doing a PhD in chemistry. She specializes in helping researchers write really good papers and has courses you can sign up …

Today we talk with Nicole Betz from the US who recently switched to industry after her PhD and Postdoc. She now is a marketing researcher and talks with us about all the tips she has about getting a …

In this episode, we talk with the newly graduated Dr. Maria Clemente about what it is like to defend your PhD in the Netherlands. While there are clear differences in the defense between countries th…

Our episode is a week late because Suzanne was finishing up her second paper. So we decided that this was the perfect timing for some academic writing tips! What have we learned from our experiences …

Today we invited dr Dave Speijer again, to talk about some science with us! We talk about one of his favorite topics, namely evolution, and this time specifically about Symbiogenesis the evolution of…

Today we are back with another cutting-edge research episode. But instead of talking in detail about one paper, we are going to discuss a broad range of papers that made it into the Scientific news r…

This week Suzanne went to an international congress in Milan. We talk about her experiences, Milan, the conference, and her colleagues almost dying. You know, typical PhD stuff!

If you have any questi…

Do you ever wonder what other subjects you could have studied during your PhD? Well, this Podcast is here to tell you all about the cutting-edge research you could have done! And today we discuss a p…

In this episode, we talked with the CEO and CTO of a startup in Switzerland, named Bigomics. We interviewed them about what it was like to start their own company. They talk about their journey and h…

Today we have another science life episode. We all know it is important to relax and unwind after a long day of the PhD life. But how do you do this? We discuss meditation, mindfulness, hobbies, and …

Today we discuss a very interesting paper recently published in Nature. This paper proposes that people that grew up in the city are less good at navigating than people who grew up in the countryside…