Listen. Rate, review, subscribe! Who is seen as the disease or the diseased? Psychologist Charissa Cheah received RAPID grant funding from the National Science Foundation to study the forms of anti-Chinese racism from COVID-19 and their impact on Chinese-American individuals, families, and communities. PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss with Professor Cheah the politics and histories…
Month: April 2020
S5E9 | The Migrant Precariat & the Scientific Method: Dr. Furaha Asani Against the Academic Pedestal
Listen. Subscribe! Support us here. Even scientists face deportation in an anti-immigration environment. But Dr. Furaha Asani cautions that academics shouldn’t think of themselves as “one of the good ones.” Biochemist Dr. Asani is now one of the migrant precariat because her visa was denied for questionable reasons. PhDiva Xine Yao interviews Dr. Asani about…
S5E8 | Let’s Talk about #COVID19- Dr. Kishana Taylor
Listen. Subscribe! Support us here. Do you have questions about #COVID19? Or even basic questions about viruses in general? Dr. Kishana Taylor is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis. She studies the rate of reassortment between influenza viruses during co-infection.Listen as Dr. Taylor breaks down how viruses are named, with #COVID19 is so bad and…
S5E7 | Doing Science on her Own Terms- Conversation with Dr. Laura Boykin
Listen. Subscribe! Support us here. PhDivas Podcast interviews Computational Biologist Dr. Laura Boykin. We talk about Tree Lab, the project bringing sequencing capabilities to farmers in Uganda. Also mentioned, being nervous before a TED Talk, doing science on her own terms, and dancing. You can follow Dr. Boykin on twitter @Laura_boykin and learn about Tree Lab…
S5E6 | Black Feminism in Britain: Jade Bentil &Paulette Williams
Listen. Subscribe! Support us here. There are currently fewer than 30 Black women full professors in the UK…in any discipline. If you know Angela Davis and Kimberle Crenshaw, do you also know about Gail Lewis and Olive Morris? PhDiva Xine interviews Jade Bentil, a historian of Black British women’s activism, and Paulette Williams, who heads…
