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Research on the Rocks

Paula Larsson and Joshua Bull

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The podcast where quality research meets quality cocktails. Hosted by two researchers at the Unversity of Oxford, join Paula and Josh as they chat about interesting things with interesting researchers while drinking interesting drinks. Covering research from maths, music and medicine through to philosophy, physics and politics, we interview PhD students and postdoctoral researchers about what it is that makes them tick - apart from our cocktails, that is...
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Who knew that vaccine resistance is as old as vaccines?? Soon-to-be-Dr. Larsson did! In fact, she just wrote a whole dissertation on it! We are back from a long hiatus to talk about the history of vaccines and anti-vaccination movements with very special guest (and co-host, so let's face it, not actually that special) Paula Larsson. Listen on to le…
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It's time to get mathematical, with two special guests from the world of applied mathematics! Dr Caoimhe Rooney is a research fellow at NASA Ames Research Centre who uses maths to study exoplanets with the goal of understanding how they formed, what they're made of and ultimately if they could harbor life. Dr Jessica Williams is a postdoctoral rese…
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Okay, you can't really be 'master' of disaster - in fact, you are more likely to find that disasters always come out on top in a head-to-head, but Zachary Cox argues that's not the case. Talk to the small business owners and innovators who have found ways to adapt to their quickly changing circumstances and you will find the true masters of disaste…
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Dr Rachel Wheatley spends her days fighting against the resistance - antibiotic resistance, that is. Antibiotic use is widespread today, with people often demanding antibiotics from doctors even when they don't have bacterial infections. Intensive farmers routinely dose animals with antibiotics as a preventative measure...but unfortunately the bact…
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This week we’ll be talking to Josh Cowls, a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His PhD revolves around Facebook even more than ours did, because he studies the links between the internet giant, artificial intelligence and ethics – in particular the ways that algorithms interact with online hate speech. It’s a fun and wide-ranging co…
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