Pint of Science Ireland

Jun 10 2024 17 ep. 28 mins 7

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A volunteer led podcast, bringing you extended cuts of the science festival taking place in pubs across Ireland as part of Pint of Science. Group members: Executive Producer: Peter Lebrocquy Cox Producers: Kate Finucane, Molly McCrory, Daniel Giffney, Brian Kennedy and Aneta Nerguti. Sponsors: Science Foundation of Ireland TUD UCD College of Science Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology AssayGenie Transnetyx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Season 2 - Episode 6 - Public and Mental Health with Julie Arnott

Jun 10 2024 40 mins

As we all learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, public health is inextricably linked to mental health - Brian Kennedy talks to Julie Arnott, an epidemiologist and public health specialist. She has studied maternal health in Uganda and Tanzania, has worked with the HSE as a COVID-19 epidemiologist, and is currently researching the physical and mental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Women in the Home & Workplace with Dr. Maeve O'Sullivan

Mar 03 2024 30 mins

Women provide the bulk of care within the household in Ireland - Dan Giffney talks to Dr. Maeve O'Sullivan, a lecturer/Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management & Decent Work, on how this came to be in Ireland, how it's changing and what can be done to relieve women of certain pressures and facilitate their wider and equal participation in the Irish workforce.The Pint of

Season 2 Episode 4 - Your Brain on Books with Dr Ciara Egan

Dec 03 2023 36 mins

This episode features Brian Kennedy talking to Dr Ciara Egan, a lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Galway. Ciara talks to the pod about her research into how reading works in the brain, her work with adults who have dyslexia, and reproducible research.You can find Ciara on Twitter/X at @BrainbowPoi and her research can be found online at https://www.researchgate

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Returning Nature - A Howling Success?

Nov 05 2023 42 mins

For this episode, Peter Lebrocquy Cox interviews Kilian Murphy, an ecological research scientist working in the Lab of Willdife Ecology and Behaviour at UCD. Tune in to hear about the bigger picture ecology, our relationship with it and a message of hope for the future.This episode is produced for POS Ireland by Eolas Productions. Follow more from Kilian Murphy on Twitter.Producer:

Season 2 - Episode 2 - AI-ming for Awareness

Sep 03 2023 26 mins

For this episode, Aneta Nerguti interviews Dr. Adrian Byrne on ethics, bias, legislation and opportunity in AI. What is the future of AI, how can/should it be regulated and what opportunities does it bring us?This episode is produced for POS Ireland by Eolas Productions. Follow more from Dr. Byrne on Twitter or LinkedIn.Producer: Aneta NergutiInterviewer: Aneta NergutiResearch: Dan

Season 2 Episode 1 - Gut Feelings with Vanessa Teckentrup

Aug 06 2023 28 mins

This episode features Molly McCrory talking to Vanessa Teckentrup, a postdoctoral researcher in the Gillan Lab in Trinity College Dublin. Vanessa talks to us about her PhD research on stimulating the vagus nerve to study how the brain deals with physical and mental disturbances, as well as her thoughts on open science and replicability!You can find Vanessa on Twitter at @glassybrai

Pint of Science 2023 and Season 2

We are taking a short break this month - Pint of Science 2023 starts next week across Ireland - you can view events on https://pintofscience.ie/ Season 2 coming soon! Music:Aerosol Of My Love by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7013-aerosol-of-my-love License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 10 - Beyond Binary: Exposing Gender Bias in AI Systems

Apr 29 2023 21 mins

Dan Giffney interviews Marion Bartl, a computational linguist working on gender bias and fairness in Natural Language Processing - how can AI be biased and what are we doing to change that?You can find Marion on Twitter at @marion_bartlThe Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.Executive Producer: Peter Lebrocquy CoxEditing: Aneta Nerguti & Peter Lebro

Episode 9 - Have you herd? Managing the deer in Phoenix Park with Andrew Ryan

Apr 02 2023 28 mins

This episode features Kate Finucane talking to Andrew Ryan, a master's student in University College Dublin who works with the deer in Phoenix Park. Tune in to hear about what goes into managing the herd and what it's like to research toxoplasmosis in wild deer.You can find Andrew on twitter at @andrewoid97 and the Laboratory of Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour group in UCD at https:

Episode 8 - Health-esteem with Dr. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh

Feb 26 2023 41 mins

This episode features Peter Lebrocquy Cox talking to Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, an infectious diseases and internal medicine physician in St James's Hospital, Dublin, and Senior Lecturer in Medical Gerontology. In this episode, she explores the implications of our current health system on those who have less access to it due to perceived social status.You can find Clíona on Twitte