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AUTOGENERATED TRANSCRIPT
00:00
Happy 2025. And with a new year comes the new Season 1 of
Under the Microscope Biology Podcast. Find us wherever you get your podcasts,
whether that be YouTube, amazon Music, spotify, apple Music or Google Podcasts.
We also have an RSS feed, which you can find on our website
utmbiopodcast.buzzsprout.com .You can also check out our Facebook X and Insta
with the handle at utmbiopod.
00:30
If you wanted to reach out because I muddled something up to
do with the podcast, or because you have advice, inquiries or you want to star
in an episode, then the email is underthemicroscopebio at gmailcom, but if you
wanted to reach out to me directly, my email sofiiiafurman.reachout@gmail.com .
You can also find out more about me on my LinkedIn X, twitter, facebook or
Instagram, though I do admit I quite rarely post anything, but I also have a
biology blog which you can find Sofiia Furman Furman Biology Blog and an EA
forum account with the same name, whilst, if you're interested in puppies,
there is also an Instagram account called at @sunshine.superdog .Iif you wanted
to learn more about me, I highly recommend sofiiabioblog.blogspot.com, which
has all of the blog posts, which usually aren't fully structured articles and
papers, but rather my journey into discovering biology, how I do my research
and just my entertainment and finding out cool stem facts about the world. Now
if you're wondering why I started this podcast, first of all, I will admit that
the podcast is very small, very early days and very sporadic. I'll be starting
biomedical science at uni next year, but I definitely am not qualified enough
to have the knowledge of biology. Instead, I thought that most people probably
don't have time- me included- to read every single paper that ever comes out in
detail. So instead, having experts in a niche that they've dedicated so much
time to learn and having that passion transfer through the podcast to share
that knowledge and to share that sparkle of learning new biology facts and
learning how to help people, that's the reason why I wanted to start it.
02:19
I wanted to feel like a casual, informal conversation with a
friend. Imagine we meet up for a cup of tea and we're talking about the cool
biology concepts that we've learnt. Anything here I will try to fact check,
I'll include references and I'll try to get from reputable sources, but I
neither have the knowledge or the experience to be able to fully critique it.
So if I get something wrong, please, please reach out and I will publicly be
able to put the much more accurate information so that people can then change
their perceptions on the topic themselves. But if the perception of any of the
topics that we discuss is important, such as if you're writing a paper on it or
working in the field, please do your own research in a much more qualified
source. There's no technical knowledge or background needed to listen to this
podcast. It's entirely for your own enjoyment. It's either a take it or leave
it sort of way to just learn some fun biology. Or if you're considering maybe,
if this field is right for you, for your career or for your own personal fit,
to be able to help people through biology, then keep listening and get inspired
by the amazing scientists.
03:31
And finally, a little bit about me. I'm Sophia, I'm 18, so
quite young and not very qualified, but I do hold tremendous amounts of
ambition and drive to learn about biology, and I thought that there's this
niche where people don't have the sort of technical experience yet of PhDs or
degrees, but still want to be able to learn about the new frontier of biology,
and that's what I'm hoping to tackle. It really is a community, so please tell
me about any suggestions for topics or ways of approaching it. In terms of me,
I love all things biology, particularly genetics, cell development. Currently
I'm very interested in biosecurity, pandemic prevention, bio-risk and public
health. I'm also trying to learn a bit of bioinformatics, which is going hit
and miss. Aside from biology, I also love listening to musicals, disability
awareness, anything stem. I have quite a few animals which I absolutely adore.
04:33
Some links to find out about me, though. I will be honest I
very rarely post my sofiiafurman.reachout email at gmailcom, my LinkedIn, where
I sometimes put my EA forum posts or my blog posts on, and then also X Facebook
and Instagram. But once again, I'm afraid it's very rare. My background is
quite slim at the moment. I currently help out a little bit with Leaf Courses,
which runs educational courses for 16 to 19 year olds. In different ways they
can do good or have an impact.
05:05
Aside from that, I founded the MedSoc and BSL Soc at my
school, which kind of got me into that idea of building that community. I did
the ESU public speaking challenge and a few other fellowships, such as the
Changemaker fellowship, and once again that really reaffirmed my love for, I
suppose, the kind of public health side of things. Before I was very into
clinical medicine as my way of helping people. I did a lot of volunteering with
people so schools, animal centers, kitchens, gps but I kind of realized that
the evidence and the data-driven progression of seeing an intervention and
evaluating its success, that was kind of the problem-solving and the almost
detective-esque way of looking at biology and healthcare. That was what excited
me. So currently I've been looking at more of the policy academic side
research, whether that be wet or dry lab. I did a few literal reviews. I think
my most, I suppose, prominent background so far is I did a small scale primary
study with about 300 responses on myalgic encephalomyelitis and Ehlers-Danlos
lived experience and I looked at kind of media and healthcare and relative
attitudes and some qualitative data as well as quantitative and that really
kind of speared me into the idea of biology is a channel to do good by helping
to address poor health outcomes, whether that be from infectious disease or non
communicable sources, whether that be due to susceptibility of a host in
animals, in plants, in food systems across the world, whether that be to
changing environment, to chemical exposures, to just our bodies breaking down.
All of that excites me, fascinates me and gives me an avenue to try to help
people. So I can't wait to learn more and I hope that you decide to join me on
this little journey. Be kind, lovely and stay curious.
07:09
Welcome to Under the Microscope Biology Podcast. Join us in
our KZ Biology Corner and get ready to smile, laugh and learn about the amazing
scientists doing good and changing the world through their research. We have
long-form interviews of researchers, scientists and professors with topics from
pandemic prevention to cancer cures, all the way to genetics, or you can join
us for a short snippet of a bio-byte. Be kind, lovely and stay curious. Hello,
curious people, and welcome back to Under the Microscope Biology podcast, where
we are exploring the biology research making the world a better place. Join us
as we discuss articles, papers and interview experts to explore the cutting
edge of biological research, or take a quick biobike to go about new scientific
developments. And that is a DNA wrap on this episode. As always, please do let
me know if we muddled anything up. Science is constantly changing and we'd love
to learn more. I hope you enjoyed hearing about the amazing biology changing
the world for the better. Have a wonderful day, be kind, lovely and stay
curious.
07:09 / 08:14
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