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I met Sammie on a group chat, to discuss another LGBTSTEM project we're working on together. I snatched her on day while she was in Glasgow, and had a delightful time talking to her! Left out of the pod are anecdotes about meeting band members' families abroad, the crutch of caffeine, and a rant about the industry. Find Samantha online! Twitter LinkedIn Aberdeen University Want to hear from more LGBT people in STEM, then subscribe! And if you want to chat for the podcast, geet in touch by one of these methods: Check out the redesigned website Facebook Twitter Insta Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.  

This month I was joined back in the closet with Dr. Justin Sperling, a biomedical engineer originally from Ohio, studied in Glasgow, and at the time of publishing, newly postdoc-ing in Barcelona. We gabbed for this hour about the music scene in Austin, TX, a synthetic tongue for discerning whiskies, and the importance of failure. Find Justin online! Twitter LinkedIn Want to hear from more LGBT people in STEM, then subscribe! And find SciCurious on social media! Facebook Twitter Insta Pokemon Go - 4904 6958 4974 Leave a review! Recommend to a friend! Music for this episode was Mamma Mia by Austin Weber. Find his music on Spotify or Apple music.  

In this final episode of the 6 part series talking with LGBT physicists, I chat to the brand new, green-as-they-come Ph.D student, Alex Blanchard. I met Alex a years ago at a Glasgow Frontrunners social. He's a real delight - always smiling, talented musically, and a hard working physicist working in optics.  A few notes on this week's content from Alex: "A Quantum Cascade Laser works by having numerous quantum wells with an applied electric field, which tilts them energetically. The quantum wells have two energy levels of interest: the energy level before and after emitting the photon. The tilting effect makes the energy level of the electron in the first well after emitting the photon at the same energy as the energy level before emitting a photon in the next quantum well (see attached picture). So after emitting a photon, the electron tunnels into the next well, at the energy level before emitting another photon, where it emits another photon. With enough wells in sequence together, one electron emits nume

This year during the Glasgow Science Festival, we put on the very first SciCurious: Live! Listen to our panel discussion around visibility in STEM, and follow our panelists! Jon Orgill (Instagram) Emily Nordmann (Twitter) Martin Hendry (Twitter) Lawrence Chaney (Instagram, Twitter) Check out the Humans of LIGO blog here. During the discussion we mention the LGBT physical sciences climate survey. Read the report here. Follow SciCurious on: Twitter Instagram Facebook Add me on Pokemon Go Check out Austin Weber's music on spotify and itunes. I use his music for the show - thank you Austin Thanks also to Malcom the Sound Man, to Debbie and her team of helpers, to all the staff at Kelvin Hall, and to everybody who came along to SciCurious: Live! Without the lot of youse, this live show wouldn't have happened. And last, but not least, thanks to IOPScotand, for funding SciCurious, and SciCurious: Live, and making this show possible. Check out more of what IOPScotland does on their website

Last month, I took a very warm bus journey down to Manchester to have a chat with the brilliant Dr. Ben Shaw. We headed to the Jodcast recording studio, where he told me all about pulsars, glitches and living on a narrowboat part time! Huge congratulations to Ben and James, who today tied the knot after 14 years together! If you want more out of Ben you can: Follow Ben @radioquiet Listen to the Jodcast  Support the Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital You can get more from me, and from SciCurious: Get tickets for SciCurious: Live! I'm doing stand up! Get tickets! Follow the pod on Twitter @SciCurious_pod Find SciCurious on Facebook! Visit the SciCurious website Add me as a friend on Pokemon Go! Code: 4904 6958 4974 Send me an email scicurious.pod@gmail.com Follow the host @bpearlstone Our music, as ever, was "Mamma Mia" by Austin Weber. Check out his latest album, "Love Songs for No One" on iTunes and Spotify. And thanks as ever to IOPScotland for their support, and for making SciCurious possible.  

This month, I'm chatting with Dr. James Claverley! James is a "scientist at heart" based at the National Physical Laboratory. He now puts skills learned working in metrology (the study of measurements) to good use in the offices of NPL. James is also on the IOP's Diversity committee. He's been working on a report from last year's LGBT+ physical sciences climate survey. In this episode, we talk about the importance of redefining the kilogram, queer STEM heroes, and James teases some of the findings from the LGBT+ physical sciences climate survey. If you want more from James, you can find him, and plenty of pictures of his dog, River, on Twitter as @DrClaverley. BIG NEWS! SciCurious is recording a live show! To see what it's about, check out SciCurious.fm/live, and get tickets through the the Glasgow Science Festival event page. You can, of course, find more from the podcast of Twitter as @SciCurious_pod, and you can send emails to scicurious.pod@gmail.com Music, as ever, was by Austin Weber. Find his music on

I’m interrupting your podcast feed for a very special announcement! SciCurious is going LIVE! That’s right, in accordance with podcasting tradition, we’re making a live episode, in association with the Glasgow Science Festival! The live show will be a little different from the regularly scheduled programming. I’m putting together a light hearted panel discussion around the topic of “Visibility at work and in academia”. We’ve got four fantastic panellists lined up for you, first, two LGBT professionals in STEM academia: psychology lecturer and expert in lecture capture, Dr. Emily Nordmann, and Ph.D Student ad biomedical engineer Jonathan Orgill. Then we have an ally, the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow University and chair of the IOP Scotland Education committee Professor Martin Hendry, and last but far from the least, ingenue of the Glasgow drag scene, the myth, the legend, the icon, star of stage and screen, Lawrence Chaney! For more details, check out sci-curious.fm/live. You can get

Welcome back to SciCurious! Back in February, I called up Ashley Spindler for a chat. Ashley is a very busy person, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Besides working on machine learning for galaxy identification, she's using generalised methods, meaning that her work can find all sorts of anomalies in all kinds of data! Besides that, she's a twitch streamer, aspiring novelist, and amateur model! A note from Ashley: I made a slight mistake in described the timescales that different methods of star formation are related to. H alpha, the main method discussed, is related to timescales of 10^8 years, which is the lifetime of high-UV producing stars. Other methods instead look at timescales of 10^9 years, as they rely on the lifetimes of different stellar populations. (See Kennicutt 1998 for an in depth review.) You can find more of Ashley on twitter, where she's @DrAshleyNova, on twitch at twitch.tv/ashleynova, or check out her Patreon for her novel and modelling work!  Special thanks to IOP Scotland, for f

Welcome to the very first episode of SciCurious! In February, I popped into the University of Glasgow to sit down and chat with Aidan Robson. Aidan has lots going on, he's Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Glasgow, the spokesperson for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) at CERN, and much more! In this episode, we talk about Aidan's career so far, his roles in CERN, and what CLIC can do for particle physics! We also touch on being an out gay man in academia, and being a part of inclusive sports clubs. If you want to find out more about CLIC, visit their website.  You can get in touch with Aidan, and find out more about the work he does, and who he is, on twitter, where you'll find him as @AidanRobson Special thanks to IOP Scotland, for funding this short series about LGBT physicists. You can find out more about IOP scotland at their website. You can find the podcast at our website, or on twitter as @SciCurious_pod. Want to say something in confidence? Send an email to scicurious.pod@gmail.com.

Introducing to you: SciCurious! Scientists have a bit of a reputation of being a "straight man", dry humour, poor interpersonal skills, and not so fun at parties. But that isn't always true, by which I mean that not every scientist is a straight man! SciCurious is a series of interviews with the sharpest queerest minds in STEM. I'm your host, Dr. Brynley Pearsltone, and I'm a triple threat; I'm a gay man, I have a Ph.D in astrophysics, and now, I'm a podcaster! Join me each month for a different conversation with an LGBTQ+ scientist, as I get to know the queer side of science. We begin this year with a series of interviews with queer physicists, sponsored by IOPScotland. Twitter: @SciCurious_pod Email: scicurious.pod@gmail.com Music: Weber, Mamma Mia Brought to you by IOP Scotland. Click here to find out more about IOP Scotland