Every Muppets fan knows that Christmas is all about being revisited by people you’ve previously encountered. So from 25th December to 5th January we’ll be sharing our 12 Days of DSmas. Check back daily as we share a Speaker Series chat each and every day. Happy Holidays from the Digital Science Thought Leadership Team!
And if you just can’t wait, you can catch up on our entire 2024 Speaker Series season on-demand:
Merry Dr Chris Van Tulleken-mas! We chatted with Chris online about research integrity, impact, openness, and investigative research. Catch his interview here, and don’t forget to watch his Xmas Lectures on BBC for The Royal Institution this year!
It’s time to go to Berlin, Germany and catch Matyas Kovacs at the Falling Walls Summit. Matyas shared his thoughts on communication and innovation to impact all of society with science.
As a Nobel laureate and former president of The Royal Society, Professor Venki Ramakrishnan has long played a role in shaping a more innovative, inclusive and impactful research culture, which we chatted about during his live Speaker Series lecture at the Ri. We went to Cambridge, UK to hear his thoughts on curiosity, competition and collaboration.
As Chief Publishing Officer at PLOS, Niamh provides business leadership for the entire PLOS portfolio to advance PLOS’s vision and mission. In this episode Niamh talks about the evolving landscape of scientific research and the push towards open science, including her journey from the early days of advocating for public access to research, to tackling current challenges like making science more inclusive and accessible.
Building communities is hard, but Alice Meadows has worked hard to make it look effortless. Here she is in Boston, MA, USA, telling us about the power of persistent identifiers.
It’s New Year’s Eve, and a time to reflect on the past and make plans for the months ahead. When we visited the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, we added to the echoes of amazing research conversations resonating around their iconic library when we chatted about the history, philosophy and future of research with Dr Maria Avxentevskaya and Dr Ben Johnson.
Happy New Year! We caught up with pro-skater Rodney Mullen at his home in Los Angeles, USA to hear his thoughts on why we need diverse minds to innovate in all walks – and ollies – of life. And, since it’s the new year and you’re probably feeling a little “sleep deprived”, you can also follow this up with his live Speaker Series lecture at the Ri.
If you’ve been eating as much cheese as this author, dearest gentle reader, you too will be experiencing a fascinatingly slippery grasp on reality – which brings us to Day 9’s featured speaker. “Is Maths Real?” was the question that Dr Eugenia Cheng posed in her live Speaker Series lecture at the Ri. I caught up with her ahead of her lecture in the iconic Faraday lecture theatre in London, UK to talk about why we need to break down barriers of knowledge in research, and reunite STEM and the humanities for impactful change.
Dr Gilbert De Gregorio leads the Frontiers Planet Prize. I caught up with him in Berlin, Germany, to talk about why we need more inclusive competitions to catalyse innovation that impacts our global society.
2024 was a wild ride for global politics, and research is not immune to its changes. I caught up with Professor Jenny Reardon in Cambridge, UK, to learn more about how we can work with politics, and not against it, to provide solutions for everyone across the world, and where red tape remains to be overcome.
Our final Speaker Series guest of 2024 was Dr Danny Hillis. We visited the Applied Invention offices in Cambridge, MA, USA, where innovator, inventor, and Imagineer Danny shared his thoughts on how we can use novel technology to combat novel challenges in mis- and disinformation and make the most meaningful impact from data.
Catch up on our entire 2024 Speaker Series season on-demand and watch this space for our 2025 series featuring more impactful innovators from across the research landscape. Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
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