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Podcasts, voices and sounds from the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. The Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) conducts research with the aim of investigating, identifying, and advancing development pathways for transformation processes towards sustainable societies in Germany and abroad. The Institute joined the Helmholtz Association in 2023 and is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Its research ...
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In every episode, a new guest takes a seat across from Jan-Claas Dajka and talks to him about current research projects, curious anecdotes as well as paths, detours and companions in the (not only) scientific career. Jan is interdisciplinary postdoc in marine ecology and marine governance at HIFMB. Chatting with ecologists, geographers, bioacousticians, mathematicians and many more, he shows the interesting and diverse personalities behind the transdisciplinary research at HIFMB. The Helmhol ...
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. This collection includes BBC Radio dramatisations of some of Huxley’s best known novels. Brave New World - It’s 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels ...
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Willkommen bei "WuPig - Wissenschaft und Politik im Gespräch". Hier treffen sich Wissenschaftler:innen und Politiker:innen, um in gesellschaftlich relevante Themen einzutauchen.Hören Sie mit, wenn wir über die Kiezblöcke in Berlin plaudern oder uns den Herausforderungen einer nachhaltigen Digitalisierung stellen.Die Gespräche sollen den Forschenden…
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In the new year, Kim Peters surprises podcast host Jan and turns the tables on him. She Interviews him on: what got him to HIFMB, a quick look into Jan's work on marine biodiversity at the science-policy interface, the wonderful people he got to learn from and work with, and even the Olympics 2028!! Happy 2024 everyone, enjoy!…
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Kristin (or Tine) Tietje has not only got a super Northern-German sounding name but also recently got a full-time position as the science coordinator of the Marine Governance Group here at HIFMB. She talks about the long winding road that she took to get here and tells us what it means to coordinate science and, more importantly, scientists - which…
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Today, we hear from Merdeka, a PhD-student in the former Marine Political Ecology Group that is now part of the Marine Governance Group. He reports on his recent manuscript about tin mining by Indonesian divers and how he switches the perspectives in his writing to highlight topics that are otherwise forgotten about. Merdeka also reflects on what i…
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In a thunderous summer episode, we hear from Anna Roik - postdoc at HIFMB. Her work is centered around harnessing the microbiome (the collection of bacteria, viruses, fungi and their genes) on corals. She transplants the microbiome of more heat resistant corals onto that of heat susceptible ones to boost their resilience in the face of climate chan…
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In the fourth and last episode of the first season of the Carbon Critique podcast series, we have two guests. Usha Natarajan is Edward W. Said Fellow at Columbia University and International Schulich Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie University. She employs postcolonial and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) in her interdisciplinary re…
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Jasmin Groß and Elena Schall - both representatives of the Postdoc-Team a the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - bring a hot topic to the podcast: the recently proposed law reforms surrounding the "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz". This is a "Law on Fixed-Term Contracts in Higher Education and Research" and it is due for a cha…
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Mita Mahato is an artist who uses art to communicate environmental issues - especially via the use of comix - yes with an X! As our artist in residence in collaboration with the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Mita reflects on the work she has done during her time with us.By HIFMB
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HIFMB postdoc Dorothee Hodapp is working on biodiversity change and is giving us insights into her recently published study in Global Change Biology. Here, she shows how climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species and predicts their ranges up to the year 2100. She further shares her recipe for successfully blending family life with two …
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Today we have Meren on the show. He is the leader of our institute's Ecosystem Data Science Group and considers himself and his group to be placed at the intersection between microbiology and computer science. Mentorship is an imporant topic to him - we talk through his survey Mentorship in life sciences: voices of mentees, where he asked early car…
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Back from our winter break, we have Jana Massing on the podcast. Jana is a PhD-student in the Biodiversity Theory group and introduces us to her work on marine bacteria. Amongst her many interests, including food webs, modelling, governance and science communication, we chat about her recent paper. There she applies a manifold learning technique, c…
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In this Episode, postdoc Andrea Franke showcases her latest paper from People and Nature on real-world labs. She also shares with us how she expanded her research from specialised experimental work on herring larvae to transdisciplinary work on the UN Ocean Decade. A great example on how to build interdisciplinary recognition!…
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Maurizio Lazzarato est sociologue et philosophe, chercheur au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et à l'Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Université Paris I). Il est également membre du Collège international de philosophie (CIPh). Lazzarato a mené une réflexion critique et écrit sur le capitalisme, la dette, le néolibéralisme, toujours…
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Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and a philosopher, and a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (University Paris I). He is also a member of the Collège international de philosophie (CIPh). Lazzarato has been critically thinking and writing about capitalism, debt, neoliberalis…
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Lucie Kuczynski is a community ecologist working on global change and what it implies for biodiversity. One of her recent studies shows why the biodiversity crisis is too nuanced to be tackled in the same way as global warming. She also enlightens us why French wine is the best, why La Rochelle is the best city and why Academia is not the only care…
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Am ersten Abend der Berlin Science Week 2022 fand in der multisensorischen Installation "Haptic Hortus" von IASS Fellow und Anthropologin Susanne Schmitt ein Workshop mit Musikproduzent, Klangkünstler und Komponist Felix Classen statt. Das Berühren von Pflanzen wurde durch Hydrophone oder Lautsprecher akustisch hörbar. Klänge aus dem Botanischen Ga…
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Today, it’s all about science communication! And for the first time, we have two guests: Gema Martínez Méndez, marine scientist, and Rebecca Borges, marine ecologist. Both are involved in a sci-comm project called “Once upon a time… a scientific fairy tale” where scientific studies are communicated via the use of fairy tales. Definitely give this o…
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Lukas Meysick is a postdoc for seafloor ecology of the Wadden Sea. He also works on a recent project partnering with stakeholders from Tanzania and South Africa looking at how seagrass can assist in clearing polluted water. We further talk about his scientific career – in his PhD, seagrass also took centre stage. Enjoy this seagrass-themed episode …
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In this episode, Soli Levi tells us about a very new and unexplored study field: emotions in marine governance. Soli is developing a theoretical framework to bring emotion into management decisions and talks about her plan with case studies in Ireland. We also talk about Soli’s multifaceted past as a turtle conservationist and working with NGOs in …
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Solomon Sebuliba considers himself a conservation biologist turned political ecologist who, in his PhD at HIFMB, looks at biodiversity as a concept. Specifically, he considers the inherent power that terms like “biodiversity” or “biological diversity” have. Through this, he came up with his own concept, the “Bio Ocean”. We also talk about Solomon’s…
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Timothy Mitchell is a political science Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of interest include colonialism, political economy, the politics of energy, and the making of expert knowledge. Much of his work blends the study of the built world, technical devices, ecological …
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Master’s student and our very own podcast editor Nina Tombers chats about her experience of the Master’s career stage. We chat about her Thesis work on population genetics at the Centre for Marine Tropical Ecology (ZMT) in Bremen and her student assistant job here at HIFMB. She gives us a look into the behind the scenes of podcasting, Switzerland, …
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In this Episode, Sharlene Fechter talks about being a Master’s student at HIFMB. She covers her thesis work on stakeholders of the Weddel Sea in Antarctica and how she built a diverse skillset to jumpstart an interdisciplinary career in science. We also talk about how becoming a young mother early in her career motivated her even further and how sh…
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In the first episode of the Carbon Critique podcast series, we talked to Cara New Daggett, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, about her book “The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work.” 📲 https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-birth-of-energyIn this book, Cara traces back the genea…
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First up: Apologies for the month of radio-silence. After the first in-person conference in two years, holidays and some production issues, we're back with a banger of an episode! HIFMB-Postdoc Irene Roca talks about her career as an ecoacoustician and introduces us to the fascinating world of soundscape ecology. And yes, this includes audio snippe…
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In this one, we have interdisciplinary PhD student Amelie Luhede. She splits her PhD between the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Bielefeld and HIFMB to combine aspects of economics and environmental management. Through her quite young career, Amelie has switched fields often and has thus learned to appreciate switchi…
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Today on the HIFMB Podcast, we have postdoctoral researcher Ravi Ranjan – a community ecologist working on complex models that explore the generation and maintenance of diversity. Ravi has a strong maths-background and applies it here to multi-species competition in phytoplankton communities. We talk about the history of species competition models,…
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In this episode, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews Prof Kimberley Peters, Professor for Marine Governance at HIFMB. She gives us insights into her vision for her newly formed Marine Governance group at the institute and dives (pun intended) into her most recent book publication, the Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space. Through that, she discusses the value …
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In our second episode, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews biological oceanographer Alica Ohnesorge. Alica is a PhD-student in her final year and works on eDNA, a powerful method that collects DNA from seawater samples rather than from organisms themselves. With this method, Alica is able to tell which organism has been present in the water column at a give…
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In our first episode of the HIFMB-Podcast, Jan-Claas Dajka interviews ecologist Josie Antonucci Di Carvalho. Josie works on the harmonisation of how phytoplankton is sampled in the German and Dutch Wadden Sea and we discuss her recent work in this EU-funded subsidy programme called “INTERREG”. Josie also has an exciting career path that led her out…
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Unsere letzte Etappe starten wir im Brandenburgischen Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst in Cottbus. Hier sprechen wir mit Direktorin Ulrike Kremeier und lassen uns von dem Fotografen und Künstler Sven Gatter die Ausstellung „EchoTektur“ näherbringen. Apropos (Archi)-tektur: Lars Scharnholz vom Institut für neue Industriekultur erzählt uns, warum alte …
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Mit den Folgen der strukturpolitischen Entscheidungen in der Lausitz müssen besonders jene umgehen, die heute Kinder und Jugendliche sind. Wie fühlt sich Strukturwandel für diese Generation an? In dieser Folge geht es um Vorstellungen und Wünsche junger Menschen im Strukturwandel und warum man sie unbedingt am Strukturwandel beteiligen sollte. Wir …
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Politische Akteure stehen im Strukturwandel ziemlich unter Druck. Die Entscheidung, aus der Kohle auszusteigen und Mittel für den Strukturwandel bereitzustellen, wurde auf der Bundesebene getroffen. Umsetzen müssen den Strukturwandel aber die Länder und Kommunen. Die sind bei aller Konkurrenz um Gelder und Ideen darauf angewiesen, gemeinsame Strate…
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Podcast Erneuerbare Energien der Energieagentur.NRWEnergiewende funktioniert! Wenn möglichst alle mitmachen. Wie das wiederum gelingen kann, erklärt Prof. Dr. Dr. Ortwin Renn. Er ist unter anderem wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Instituts für Transformative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (IASS) in Potsdam.Und er sagt: Vier Faktoren sind wichtig, damit di…
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Strukturwandel kann nur mit den Menschen vor Ort verstanden und gestaltet werden. Wie und wo finden wir die klugen Ideen, das beeindruckende Engagement und die belastbaren Netzwerke? Die Lausitzer Zivilgesellschaft: Ausgangspunkt für unsere Spurensuche transdisziplinärer Forschung im Strukturwandel. Wir treffen Soziologin Julia Gabler an der Hochsc…
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Bhutan macht es vor, aber Deutschland hat so was auch: Einen Index, der nicht nur wirtschaftliches Wachstum misst, sondern auch den Ressourcenverbrauch abzieht, um das Glück der Menschen besser abzubilden. Doch was taugt ein solcher Index? Wir sprechen heute darüber mit zwei Volkswirten am IASS, Jörg Mayer-Ries und Armin Hass. Craig Morris leitet d…
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Would sustainability be easier if people’s needs didn’t need to be taken into consideration? The way laws and rules are made in the Arctic (where many people live) and the Antarctic (where no one does permanently) sheds light on the role that social sciences play in policymaking, explains IASS Fellow Craig Morris in the final episode of his Potsdam…
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In these days of “fake news,” the public’s judgement is being called into doubt. But we all make incorrect assumptions about lots of things. On the other hand, in a democracy, why is public participation needed when we could just elect experts to make decisions based on science, asks IASS Senior Fellow Craig Morris.…
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By 2100, many more people will live on this planet, and a larger percentage of them will live in cities – just not necessarily the ones we currently have. Many of them will gradually have become uninhabitable, requiring the construction of giant new megacities – which has already begun. Can these new cities be made more sustainable? IASS Senior Fel…
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When it comes to transforming our energy systems, many technical issues are already solved, says Piet Sellke. But in order for this transformation to be successful, different perspectives and interests in society need to be harmonised. So his work at the ENavi project centers around co-creating what he calls "socially robust" knowledge. Learn more …
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When atmospheric scientist Mark Lawrence visited Kathmandu nearly 10 years ago, he got sick from air pollution - really sick. The Scientific Director of the IASS talked to a local shopkeeper, who told him he and many others also frequently had this horrible cough. Years later this inspired Mark to get his colleague Maheswar Rupakheti on board and s…
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When people don’t trust each other and their political systems, things essential for sustainability – like walkable cities and resilient communities – move out of reach. But citizens can become active in science in order to improve their own lives, and there are ways to turn warring factions into groups working together. Fixing the climate thus req…
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