Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
By Dr. Synaptologica
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Episodes: 61
Description
Students and scholars in life sciences need to use many skills to survive and excel during scientific training, which involves listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
But I have seen many of them struggle in understanding and learning those skills.
I am a professor in the U.S., a tenured faculty member with MD, PhD degrees.
I will assist you through the skills, so that you will learn and improve successfully in your professional life.
Please visit my website for more information (https://synaptologica.com/), and send me emails with questions, comments or ideas (ideas@synaptologica.com).
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61. How I prepare for teaching how to read papers to professional students
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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60. Postdoc training program (that I organized in my university)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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59. Happy 2-year anniversary! (plus, how I am scripting episodes)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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58. Paragraph 1 of Introduction, written by Nobel Laureates: meaning of each sentence therein
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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57. How to read the main points of Introduction paragraphs
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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56. How many paragraphs in Introduction?
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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55. Does the Introduction section have subheadings?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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54. Can you explain the role of Introduction in one sentence?
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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53. Minimum features of well-written abstracts
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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52. Example of a well-written abstract (other than the one by Nobel Laureates)
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May 06, 2025 |
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51. Have you read an abstract that was not written well?
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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50. Happy 50th episode!
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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49. Another well-crafted logic loop in Abstract by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-30)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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48. Well-crafted logic loop in Abstract by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-29)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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47. Why is the 2nd sentence important in an abstract? (mini-series: reading-28)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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46. Let’s analyze the Abstract of a paper written by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-27)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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45. Let’s read the Abstract of a paper written by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-26)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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44. An evolving reader: my phases through reading textbooks (Q&A-5: textbooks, part 2)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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43. An evolving reader: my phases through reading textbooks (Q&A-5: textbooks, part 1)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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42. Happy Holidays!
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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41. Exclude or include seemingly irrelevant experiences in your academic CV? (Q&A-4: CV)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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40. Short or long CV for applying for a research position? (Q&A-3: CV)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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39. Eight key components define the Abstract structure (mini-series: reading-25)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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38. The journal, Nature, dissects the Abstract structure (mini-series: reading-24)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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37. Announcement of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, relevant to life scientists!
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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36. Announcement of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, relevant to life scientists!
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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35. Announcement of The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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34. Lessons learned from Nobel Laureates' work, about positive and negative controls (mini-series: reading-23)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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33. How to do a good oral presentation? Hidden, but important tip (Q&A-2: presentation)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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32. Is it important to include positive and negative controls in each experiment? Lesson from Nobel Laureates' work (mini-series: reading-22)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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31. Is it OK to say, “I don’t know” in response to technical questions? (Q&A-1: interview)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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30. Positive controls in another experiment by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-21)
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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29. Positive controls in experiments by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-20)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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28. Defining positive controls in life-science experiments (mini-series: reading-19)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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27. One-year anniversary: I started podcasting to help you (podcast update 5)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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26. Lessons learned from a failed experiment. Part 2 (mini-series: reading-18)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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25. Lessons learned from a failed experiment. Part 1 (mini-series: reading-17)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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24. Negative controls put the pieces together in troubleshooting experiments (mini-series: reading-16)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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23. Refining a troubleshooting idea: the power of identifying unknowns (mini-series: reading-15)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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22. Negative controls unveil a hidden culprit in a problematic experiment (mini-series: reading-14)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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21. An exciting new way to stay connected (email newsletter; podcast update 4)
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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20. Detective work of troubleshooting a puzzling experiment: negative control as a guide (mini-series: reading-13)
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May 06, 2024 |
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19. Negative controls are important: a story (mini-series: reading-12)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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18. In-depth analysis of negative controls: using Nobel Laureates’ as example (mini-series: reading-11)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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17. Links to 3 milestone articles & YouTube video presentation: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2023 (mini-series: reading-10)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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16. Graph axis labels by Nobel Laureates: the secret method of scientific communication (mini-series: reading-9)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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15. Let's read a bar graph made by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-8)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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14. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 7 (mini-series: reading-7)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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13. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 6 (mini-series: reading-6)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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12. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 5 (mini-series: reading-5)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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11. 2023 Wrap-up (podcast update-3)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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10. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 4 (mini-series: reading-4)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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9. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 3 (mini-series: reading-3)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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8. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 2 (mini-series: reading-2)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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7. Let’s read a paper written by Nobel Prize Laureates, 2023: Part 1 (mini-series: reading-1)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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6. Thank you for 100 downloads of episodes (podcast update-2)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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5. Happy Birthday, Google! (mini-series: online information search-3)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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4. "Thank you for listening" in three languages (podcast update-1)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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2. ChatGPT is here. Do we still need Google search? (Part 1) (mini-series: online information search-1)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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3. ChatGPT is here. Do we still need Google search? (Part 2) (mini-series: online information search-2)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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1. Introduction to the Podcast
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Jul 15, 2023 |