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While education and experience are critical for the working scientist, there is another factor that makes all the difference in the lab: happy people are more productive. Yours is a serious mission, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy carrying out that mission. Your well being impacts both your work and your career. Each episode of The Happy Scientist dials in on hands on, actionable steps you can take to make sure you stay happy, focused and satisfied in the lab. Join us to experience a more fulfilling career in bioscience.
Unknown Host hosts The Happy Scientist, a science show with 93 episodes published.
Today’s episode is part of an experiment: introducing best practices from other disciplines to the bench-based bioscientist. Dr. Kelly Chibale brings those extra-laboratory disciplines inhouse. What do you get when you c
#89 — Stop Forcing It: How to Make Progress Without Burning Out As scientists, we often rely on grit and willpower to get things done. Push harder. Focus more. Power through. While this approach can work in the short ter
#88 — Taking Back Control of Your Attention in a Distracted World It often feels like our attention is under constant attack from emails, notifications, and even our own habits. The result is scattered focus, lost time,
#87 — When Experiments Don’t Go as Planned: How to Stay Curious Instead of Frustrated In science, things rarely unfold perfectly. Experiments fail, data looks confusing, or equipment breaks at the worst possible moment.
Today’s episode is part of an experiment: introducing best practices from other disciplines to the bench-based bioscientist. Dr Jennifer Polk helps you put your hard-earned training into the bigger picture of your career
#86 — Fix it, overhaul it, or start fresh? Not everything works the way you want it to. Sometimes it is a lab protocol that needs tweaking, a workflow that feels inefficient, or a collaboration that just is not clicking.
Today's episode is part of an experiment: introducing best practices from other disciplines to the bench-based bioscientist. Declan Dunn cuts through the hype and gets practical about AI in the lab: what it's good at, wh
#85 — Are your supports holding you back? Think back to learning how to ride a bike. Training wheels help you stay upright—but eventually, you have to let them go if you want to truly ride. The same thing happens in scie
#84 — Are you avoiding what matters most? Avoidance shows up in subtle ways—sometimes we know we’re dodging a task, sometimes it’s a reflexive habit, and other times we don’t even realize what we’re avoiding. In this epi
Extra Episode — Cory Katuna — Have You Ever Heard of the Consciousness Hard Problem? Today's episode is part of an experiment: introducing best practices from other disciplines to the bench-based bioscientist. Today, we
#83 — Can you decide what captures your attention? Modern society has developed sophisticated means of engaging our attention, often for purposes decidedly against our personal interests. And in the lab, tasks like calcu
Pursuing a career in science often involves challenges and setbacks that are mentally demanding. While we all grow and learn from these setbacks, the main experience at the time is pain. But it's crucial to distinguish p
#81 — Periodically directing your gaze inward can clarify your current position, past journey, and future aspirations. In this episode of The Happy Scientist , explore the vital practice of taking a self-inventory. Hear
Ever feel a mix of frustration and nostalgia when you see new faces in the lab, fresh and full of questions? Are you the kind of person who takes them under your wing, or does their naivety annoy you and get in the way o
Naked ambition is a powerful characteristic, yet it can easily become overpowering—for you and your colleagues. This could endanger your work connections and harm your reputation, especially in situations where teamwork
#78 — In this episode of The Happy Scientist , we dive into the emotional patterns that hinder the smooth operation of any to-do list system. These emotional barriers can sabotage even the most well-crafted to-do lists.
Is your to-do list downstream of your work style, or your work style downstream of your to-do list? Do you prefer to write down everything you need to do for the day and then execute as many tasks as possible? Or do you
#76 — At the heart of the scientific method lies the idea that perspectives are not static—they evolve, shift, and intersect as we tackle scientific problems from different perspectives and uncover new ground truths. Yet
#75 — We're told from a young age that patience is a virtue. But does that hold up to scrutiny? In some respects, it seems so, given that impatience can be annoying to experience and make you unbearable to the people you
#74 — How we feel about completing certain tasks and the people they involve have a massive impact on whether or not we do those tasks or how quickly and carefully we get them done. You know—when a job involves dealing w
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