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Welcome to the Springer Nature Soundcloud page! Here you will find several podcasts from our journals across a range of scientific subjects, including Gene Pod, ModPath Chat, Pediapod, Hereditypod and Brainpod.

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Endocannabinoid contributions to the perception of socially relevant, affective touch in humans

Mar 02 2025 9 mins  
New drugs that target the endocannabinoid system are being proposed for disorders that are usually characterized by the dysregulation of social processing, like social anxiety disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Researchers have been trying to understand the mechanisms for how these drugs work. Leah Mayo is assistant professor at the University of Calgary, and she’s one of t

Population dynamics of Atlantic orcas

Feb 25 2025 24 mins  
Chérine Baumgartner and Andy Foote discuss working with orcas and their recent paper on diet and population dynamics in North Atlantic killer whales

What's hot in pediatric microbiome research?

Feb 24 2025 14 mins  
Listen to January's Pediapod episode: What's hot in pediatric microbiome research, with Namasivayam Ambalavanan.

What's Hot in Pediatric Oncology?

Feb 24 2025 13 mins  
Listen to November's Pediapod episode: What's hot in Pediatric Oncology? with Jeffrey Dome

Conversation With Senior Investigator Karin Nelson

Feb 23 2025 10 mins  
Listen to January's Pediapod episode: Conversation With Senior Investigator Karin Nelson

Popgroup 2025, with Katja Guschanski

Jan 28 2025 20 mins  
Katja Guschanski discusses working with mammal evolution, museomics and her plenary talk at Popgroup 2025

Sex differences in sensitivity to dopamine receptor manipulations of risk-based decision making

Jan 15 2025 9 mins  
The scientific literature has shown that females demonstrate more aversion to risk-taking than males. Studies have also demonstrated that the basal lateral amygdala, or BLA, is a critical hub for processing risk and reward information. And yet further research has shown that activity in the amygdala differs between males and females, and that the expression of particular dopamine r

Meet the editors: Bastiaan Star

Jan 14 2025 25 mins  
Meet Heredity editor Bastiaan Star (University of Oslo), we talk about his work with ancient fish DNA and why he enjoys working with Heredity.

Episode #4 - Trends And Looking Ahead

Dec 17 2024 15 mins  
In the final episode of this series, Dr. Niklas Lidströmer, co-editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, looks at future trends of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM). Niklas covers major innovations ahead and their potential impacts on treatment and the patient and doctor relationship. In addition, he discusses the current global applications of AIM and his forthcoming

Episode #3 - Safety, Privacy, And Bias

Dec 17 2024 17 mins  
In this third episode, Dr. Niklas Lidströmer, co-editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, tackles the complexities of ethics in AIM. He first discusses issues of safety and privacy when handling sensitive medical data, highlighting solutions like encryption, decentralized storage, and sharing algorithms rather than raw data. Next, Niklas addresses how bias and prejudice affe