The Vulnerable Scientist
By Sarah Nyakeri
The Vulnerable ScientistMar 29, 2022
84 | Vulnerabel Dr. Vijay Kale | Scicomm and Mentorship
83| Vulnerable Dr. Vijay Kale | From India to USA | Veteriananian | Toxicology | Drug Discovery
82 | Vulnerable Michael Keenan | The East African-Effect and Phd Work
Michael Keenan is PhD Candidate at Wageningen University and Research. His dissertation focuses on understanding how risk and market access affect smallholder farmers’ marketing and investment decisions, agricultural households’ livelihoods, and internal conflict within agricultural-based economies. To understand these relationships, His research combines behavioral, theoretical, and empirical analysis at the intra-household level, household-level, and mesoeconomic level.
He is passionate about applying quantitative methods and big data to a range of economic development issues. His research is now expanding into understanding gender gaps in smallholder agriculture, urban migration patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the effects of digital innovations on rural areas' food systems.
He has been based in Nairobi, Kenya for the past three years and has experience conducting research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. I enjoy travelling, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
In this episode, He talks about pursuing a career in East Africa and his PhD Work
81 | Vulnerable Michael Keenan | Becoming a Social Scientist
Michael Keenan is PhD Candidate at Wageningen University and Research. His dissertation focuses on understanding how risk and market access affect smallholder farmers’ marketing and investment decisions, agricultural households’ livelihoods, and internal conflict within agricultural-based economies. His research combines behavioural, theoretical, and empirical analysis at the intra-household level, household-level, and macroeconomic level to understand these relationships.
He is passionate about applying quantitative methods and big data to a range of economic development issues. His research is now expanding into understanding gender gaps in smallholder agriculture, urban migration patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the effects of digital innovations on rural areas' food systems.
He has been based in Nairobi, Kenya for the past three years and has experience conducting research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. I enjoy travelling, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
In this episode, He talks about his journey moving from the United States to Europe to pursue post-graduate education.
80 | Vulnerable Michael Keenan | From Business to Research
Michael Keenan is PhD Candidate at Wageningen University and Research. His dissertation focuses on understanding how risk and market access affect smallholder farmers’ marketing and investment decisions, agricultural households’ livelihoods, and internal conflict within agricultural-based economies. To understand these relationships, His research combines behavioral, theoretical, and empirical analysis at the intra-household level, household-level, and mesoeconomic level.
He is passionate about applying quantitative methods and big data to a range of economic development issues. His research is now expanding into understanding gender gaps in smallholder agriculture, urban migration patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the effects of digital innovations on rural areas' food systems.
He has been based in Nairobi, Kenya for the past three years and has experience conducting research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. I enjoy travelling, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
In this episode, He talks about his journey into research from a business course.
79 | Verena Ras | Behind the Scenes of the Vulnerable scientist podcast recordings
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy. Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
In this episode, I point out what happens behind any podcast recording using Verena as an example. This is to promote transparency of how the recordings are done and also to give a glimpse of what it takes to have an episode out.
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78 | Milestones of the Vulnerable Scientist
In this podcast, I talk about how the community has been growing and the need to do more with podcasts. I also mention what keeps me going.
https://twitter.com/utm_org/status/1508650338370428929?s=20&t=3UOX1l-qpJ8S-ZkJ6MY8dA
https://otbpodke.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/todays-podcast-is-the-vulnerable-scientist/
77 | New Developments and Way Forward regarding The Vulnerable Scientist Podcast.
In this episode, I talk about the production limitations that I am currently facing in regards to the podcast Vulnerably and call on for support of you as a listener in any way possible.
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Ep 76 | Vulnerable Verena Ras Part 5 | Hobbies
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy. Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
In this episode, Verena talks about the things she does when she is not working, her hobbies.
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Ep 75 | Vulnerable Verena Ras Part 4 | Post Graduate Education
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy. Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
In this episode, Verena talks about her journey in postgraduate education despite not performing well in her undergraduate education. She also talks about how negative comments pushed her to pursue a PhD Education.
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Ep 74 | Vulnerable Verena Ras Part 3 | Job Search to Survive
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy. Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
In this episode, Verena talks about how she has fought through her university life to find some sought of income just to be able to get through school.
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Ep 73 | Vulnerable Verena Ras Part 2 | Unfair Education System
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy. Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
In this episode, she talks about her entering university as a first-gen and struggling to perform in tests in her university but enthusiastic when it came to practicals yet it was the course of choice that she was passionate about. She also talks about her experience how she conducts the bionformatics training.
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Ep 72 | Vulnerable Verena Ras Part 1 | Jelly Fish Scientist
Verena Ras is Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, Co-chair Training and Education Working Group at H3Abionet, Chair - Sample Collection and Processing Sub-committee at the African BioGenome Project and a PhD candidate doing marine Taxonomy.
Her work is trying to put Africa on the map in matters Jelly Fish.
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Ep 71 | Vulnerable Dr. Christian Keambou Tiambo Part 4
Dr, Christian Tiambo is a Cameroonian Scientist. Livestock Genetics/Genomics: Precision Breeding and Reproductive Technologies, Biobanking management, Access & Benefits Sharing Officer CTLGH/ILRI based in Kenya.
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Ep 70 | Vulnerable Dr. Christian Keambou Tiambo Part 3
Dr, Christian Tiambo decides to become vulnerable on the show and tells more about the struggles he had and the triumphs of his journey in science.
Scientist. Livestock Genetics/Genomics: Precision Breeding and Reproductive Technologies, Biobanking management, Access & Benefits Sharing Officer CTLGH/ILRI
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Ep 69 | Vulnerable Dr. Christian Keambou Tiambo Part 2| Post Graduate Education
Dr, Christian Tiambo explains in detail how he was able to fund his post-graduate education while running a farming business.
Scientist. Livestock Genetics/Genomics: Precision Breeding and Reproductive Technologies, Biobanking management, Access & Benefits Sharing Officer CTLGH/ILRI
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Ep 68 | Vulnerable Dr. Christian Keambou Tiambo | Part 1
Dr Christian talks about his journey into becoming a scientist starting from Cameroon and how he ended up establishing a career in Kenya.
He is a Scientist, Livestock Genetics/Genomics - Precision Breeding and Reproductive Technologies, Biobanking management, Access & Benefits Sharing Officer- at CTLGH/ILRI
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Ep 67 | Vulnerable Dr. Afrah Khairallah Part 4 | Highs and her Phd research
This is the last part of Dr Afrah Khairallah's Story where she talks about the highs and her PhD research is explained in detail.
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Ep 66 | Vulnerable Dr Afrah Khairallah Part 3 | Racism and Gender Bias
In this episode, Dr Afrah continues to share her story and some of the challenges she has faced throughout her career journey. We also had Honest Conversations on Racism and Gender Bias from Women to women.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Ep 65 | Vulnerable Dr Afrah Khairallah Part 2 | Bioinformatics Career-Life Balance
In this episode, Dr Afrah starts by explaining what Bioinformatics is, her journey in that space and balancing life and work.
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Ep 64 | Vulnerable Dr. Bill Ratemo Part 3 | Including Stuggles of Getting a Job after Phd
Dr Bill Ratemo continues to let us in for the first time and share his journey with its challenges and Joys.
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Ep 63 | Vulnerable Dr. Bill Ratemo | Part 2
Dr Bill Ratemo tells his story from how he got himself in India after not being able to secure a University placement fast enough and navigating to a PhD position in China.
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Ep 62 | Vulnerable Dr. Bill Ratemo | Part 1 and GMO regulation in Kenya
Dr Bill Ratemo introduces himself and since he mention that he works in the Kenyan organisation that regulates GMOs, the National Biosafety authority, I thought I should probe further about this. In Part 2, he will tell his story.
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Ep 61 | Check in with Sarah Nyakeri
This is the first episode of this season,
I am majorly having a check-in podcast in this podcast and testing an intro and giving developments concerning the podcast. I will talk more of it as time goes by.
Out of the booth podcast blog about the Vulnerable Scientist: https://otbpodke.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/todays-podcast-is-the-vulnerable-scientist/
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Vulnerable Bernice Waweru | Part 5 | Hobbies
Bernice Ngina Waweru is passionate about utilizing bioinformatics to uncover and understand relevant insights from genomics data, particularly for crop improvement, and further, develop pipelines to assist scientists to utilize various tools to support efficient and transparent decision making.
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Vulnerable Bernice Waweru | Part 4 | Highs
Bernice Ngina Waweru is passionate about utilizing bioinformatics to uncover and understand relevant insights from genomics data, particularly for crop improvement, and further, develop pipelines to assist scientists to utilize various tools to support efficient and transparent decision making.
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Vulnerable Bernice Waweru | Part 3 | Challenges
Bernice Ngina Waweru is passionate about utilizing bioinformatics to uncover and understand relevant insights from genomics data, particularly for crop improvement, and further, develop pipelines to assist scientists to utilize various tools to support efficient and transparent decision making.
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Vulnerable Bernice Waweru | Part 2 | Becoming a Self-Taught Bioinformatician
Bernice Ngina Waweru is passionate about utilizing bioinformatics to uncover and understand relevant insights from genomics data, particularly for crop improvement, and further, develop pipelines to assist scientists to utilize various tools to support efficient and transparent decision making.
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Vulnerable Fredrick Mbugua | Part 2
Fredrick Mbugua is a Kenyan Statistician working in agricultural research.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Fredrick Mbugua | Part 1
Fredrick is a statistician who has moved from health research to now agricultural research.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Bernice Waweru | Part 1
Bernice Waweru is a Bioinformatician at Beca-ILRI Hub who tells her story of her journey in science.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Justin Nyasinga
Justin is a Kenyan PhD Candidate and an Entrepreneur
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Dr. Afrah Khairallah | Part 1
This is the story of a woman in science who originates from Sudan and now going against the cultural current and pursuing a career in Bioinformatics in South Africa. This a story of quest for knowledge and a passion for science.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Dam Khan | Gambian Phd Candidate
Dam Khan works at the Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia and is a Phd Candidate at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey | Part 3
Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey (Ntsiki) is the founder of Siakhula Digital, a science communicator, a host, and a speaker. Siakhula Digital is a science communication and engagement platform. Through it, Ntsiki aims to showcase, celebrate and accelerate science and scientists in Africa using social media. She holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing and an MPhil in Science and Technology Studies focused on Science and Public Engagement.
Through her work in student recruitment for the faculty of science at Stellenbosch University, her passion for science communication and engagement ignited. Her agency has worked with prominent science organisations such as SciFest Africa and CSIR.
She believes strongly in representation, and that young people can only become who they see. Through her weekly Instagram live sessions, she continues to give underrepresented scientists and science communicators a voice and allow them to be seen.
Vulnerable Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey | Part 2
Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey (Ntsiki) is the founder of Siakhula Digital, a science communicator, a host, and a speaker. Siakhula Digital is a science communication and engagement platform. Through it, Ntsiki aims to showcase, celebrate and accelerate science and scientists in Africa using social media. She holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing and an MPhil in Science and Technology Studies focused on Science and Public Engagement.
Through her work in student recruitment for the faculty of science at Stellenbosch University, her passion for science communication and engagement ignited. Her agency has worked with prominent science organisations such as SciFest Africa and CSIR.
She believes strongly in representation, and that young people can only become who they see. Through her weekly Instagram live sessions, she continues to give underrepresented scientists and science communicators a voice and allow them to be seen.
Vulnerable Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey | Part 1
Nonsikelelo Amanda Sackey (Ntsiki) is the founder of Siakhula Digital, a science communicator, a host, and a speaker. Siakhula Digital is a science communication and engagement platform. Through it, Ntsiki aims to showcase, celebrate and accelerate science and scientists in Africa using social media. She holds a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing and an MPhil in Science and Technology Studies focused on Science and Public Engagement.
Through her work in student recruitment for the faculty of science at Stellenbosch University, her passion for science communication and engagement ignited. Her agency has worked with prominent science organisations such as SciFest Africa and CSIR.
She believes strongly in representation, and that young people can only become who they see. Through her weekly Instagram live sessions, she continues to give underrepresented scientists and science communicators a voice and allow them to be seen.
Vulnerable Dr. Sarabjeet Kaur | Sci-Fi lover turned Astro-Scientist
Dr Sarabjeet Kaur, originally from India, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Leuven, Belgium, a Prebiotic Chemist, Science Communicator and a Sci-Fi Enthusiast. She is fascinated by how life originated not only on earth but in the universe.
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevulnerablescientist)Vulnerable Cullen Ndun'gu | From Science to Writing to Tech Industry
Cullen Ndung’u is a Kenyan microbiologist professional with an interest in healthcare and biotechnology. He is currently in the tech industry and also a writer. Check out his medium account: cullenndungu.medium.com
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Vulnerable Amos Lucky Mhone Part 5 | Highs and Lows
Amos Mhone is currently an MSc Graduate Fellow at International Livestock Research Institute doing conducting his research in bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics to help in antimicrobial resistance.
In this episode, Amos talks about his journey before going to university to study veterinary medicine and how it was like moving from the village to the city.
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Vulnerable Amos Lucky Mhone Part 4 | Becoming a Scientist
Amos Mhone is currently an MSc Graduate Fellow at International Livestock Research Institute doing conducting his research in bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics to help in antimicrobial resistance.
In this episode, Amos talks about his journey before going to university to study veterinary medicine and how it was like moving from the village to the city.
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Vulnerable Amos Lucky Mhone Part 3 | Journey in science
Amos Mhone is currently an MSc Graduate Fellow at International Livestock Research Institute doing conducting his research in bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics to help in antimicrobial resistance.
In this episode, Amos talks about his journey before going to university to study veterinary medicine and how it was like moving from the village to the city.
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Vulnerable Amos Lucky Mhone Part 2 | Getting to ILRI
Amos Mhone is currently an MSc Graduate Fellow at International Livestock Research Institute doing conducting his research in bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics to help in antimicrobial resistance.
In this episode, Amos talks about his journey before going to university to study veterinary medicine and how it was like moving from the village to the city.
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The story of Dr. Elizabeth Kimani-Murage
Dr. Elizabeth is nutrition scientist who is also a human rights lawyer who has an interesting story to tell.
This is a repurposed from science media Africa with the help of Planet wizard Africa with the scientist's path series.
The Story of Dr. Joseph Malinzi
Dr. Joseph Malinzi is a Ugandan scientist bases in Eswatini.
This is repurposed science media Africa production with the help of Planet wizard Africa.
Vulnerable Amos Lucky Mhone Part 1 | From Malawi to Kenya
Amos Mhone is currently an MSc Graduate Fellow at International Livestock Research Institute doing conducting his research in bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics to help in antimicrobial resistance.
In this episode, Amos talks about his journey before going to university to study veterinary medicine and how it was like moving from the village to the city.
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The story of Dr. Adrienne Leussa | From academia to sales
Adrienne Leussa talks about moving from academia after a PhD and a Post-doc to Sales. She supports scientists and technicians using Biotechnology like PCR, NGS, CRISPR/Cas, other Gene editing and molecular biology techniques in Africa.
Adrienne Leussa's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-...
This is Science Media Africa and Planet Wizard Africa production where Adrienne Leussa talks about his journey in science.
The whole idea of this project (The scientist's path) is:
Give the general audience insight into what it takes to be a scientist, the Type of scientists, and their work.
To give a younger scientist a guide into a science career by learning from others in addition to knowing the diversity of careers paths one can follow after school.
To give scientists a platform to reach a wider audience with their work and hopefully increase their chances of getting collaborations on the type of work they do.
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Vulnerable Belinda Elizabeth Mudhobhi | Part 3
This is the story of a young Zimbabwean woman who moved from academia to industry and thrived in it.
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Vulnerable Belinda Elizabeth Mudhobhi | Part 2
This is the story of a young Zimbabwean woman who moved from academia to industry and thrived in it.
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Vulnerable Belinda Elizabeth Mudhobhi | Part 1
This is the story of a young Zimbabwean woman who moved from academia to industry and thrived in it.
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