The latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is live & (in my biased opinion) this should make for some great weekend listening.
@CoriBargmann & I discussed the evolution of behavior, #OpenScience, a worm’s sense of smell, the Human #Brain Initiative, mentorship, and much more.
You can listen to it at the link below or your preferred podcast app
#neuroscience #Celegans #oncogenes #sciencepolicy #mentorship #SciComm #SciencePodcast
https://www.embo.org/podcasts/our-special-feature-as-humans-is-communication/
@cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann
Wonderful episode! Recommended to all. Cori’s wisdom always astounds me. Sample of a few wide ranging gems:
Cori’s PhD work led to a cancer treatment.
The notion that the human genome project was a ‘Rosetta stone’ for comparing genes across species.
Worms with their 302 neurons only have 20K genes. We with our billions neurons only have 30K genes.
The big idea that what’s sets humans apart from other species is our ability to communicate and pass along knowledge - we each do not have to invent arithmetic
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann
Agreed! Loved it. Thanks Thiago and Cori.
Context scenario while listening to it this morning: #running with science! 😄
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann Another great message I enjoyed in the podcast is how the difference between engineering and evolution was put: that “evolution has to start from an existing system and it has to continue to work,… it can never be taken offline” with all constraints that entails; I think it adds a subtle but important layer of life over the “tinkerer” metaphor, at least to me, which I agree is great for communicating and teaching!
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann another one is “focus on the big picture; don’t get distracted by details”. Fascinating subject. I even put it in a song:
“When the storm's caused by a butterfly
The devil's in the detail
Trivialities can multiply
Intoxicating spam mail
To keep track of time, I'll leave behind
Some seconds in an hour
The big picture keeps my troubled mind
Receptive as a flower”
Listen at your peril 😅:
@NicoleCRust @cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann In other words: we need to see the big picture, yes, but there’s a sweet spot, right? The devil is often in the detail, especially in post-low-hanging-fruit science, where multiple steps or sub-conclusions are required to reach something close to a big picture.
Knowing which details are or not important for a given objective might be an art, but not addressing them risks error amplification & mistaken conclusions
Indeed this is a great listening experience, food for thought and very inspiring !!! @cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann
@cyrilpedia @CoriBargmann scheduled for my run tomorrow! looking forward!