Foundational Skills in Life Sciences

Thank you for listening. I started podcasting earlier in 2023. The total number of episode downloads reached 250 on the day of this recording. Please keep listening to the episodes to come! 

This episode is Part 4 of a multi-episode mini-series on reading. When we want to read a paper written by the Nobel Laureates, you might wonder which one to choose. We will discuss how to select the right paper from among the many that the Laureates have written. How do we do it? There's a simple way.   (My email is active. But my website is under construction. Please wait for a while. Thank...

This episode is Part 3 of a multi-episode mini-series on reading. The biggest hurdle when we read a paper written by the Nobel Laureates is usually our lack of knowledge necessary to understand even the basics of the paper. We will talk about how to obtain the minimal amount of the most accurate background information. It is to watch a YouTube video. But it should not be any video related to the L...

Let's enjoy the Nobel Prize announcement. How do we enjoy it? We will read one paper written by the Nobel Laureates, and dive deep. This episode is Part 2 of a multi-episode mini-series on reading. We will talk about: 1) how the Nobel Prize laureates are selected, 2) what a milestone article is, 3) why we would want to read the milestone article by the Nobel Laureates, and 4) who will benefit...

Let's enjoy the Nobel Prize announcement. How do we enjoy it? We will read one paper written by the Nobel Laureates, and dive deep. This episode is Part 1 of a multi-episode mini-series on reading. We will talk about two goals of reading the paper.    (My email is active. But my website is under construction. Please wait for a while. Thank you for the patience!)

I would like to report to you: the total number of my episode downloads reached 100!   It took me 2 months.   Thank you for listening.   Please keep listening to the episodes to come!

Google celebrates the 25th birthday in September, 2023, when this episode is recorded.   Google CEO, Mr. Pichai, reflects on the paths that Google chose to take in the past, and on the paths that Google is going to take from now.   Similarly, we would like to reflect on 1) how the online information search looked like before Google, 2) how it has changed after Google, and 3) how generative AI coul...

In this episode, I would like to thank you for listening. I will report to you the number of downloads for the first three episodes so far. It is a tiny but mighty audience! I will also report to you the three countries where my listeners are located. Then I would like to express my gratitude by thanking you in three languages of those countries. Well, English is one of them. What would be the two...

This is the first episode of a mini-series. We rely very much on online information every day. How can we choose reliable websites for the correct information?   As an introduction to the mini-series, we will introduce two common search methods: the traditional Google Search and the new ChatGPT. To help us understand that we need high-quality information sources to think deep, we will virtually ex...

In this episode (Part 2) and the one before (Part 1), we are discussing how to search for life-science information online. What method would give us the reliable online information? Now, ChatGPT has arrived and it is becoming very popular. Shall we rely on ChatGPT and other tools of generative artificial intelligence? That’s what we will talk about.   Please visit my webpage for more information a...

Welcome to the " Foundational Skills in Life Sciences " podcast. I am your host, Dr. Synaptologica .   In this episode, I will introduce you to this series, by answering three key questions:   #1. What foundational skills are we going to discuss?  #2. What are life sciences?  #3. Who will be my target audience?   I hope you enjoy starting listening to my podcast.   Please visit my webpag...