As we all learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, public health is inextricably linked to mental health - Brian Kennedy talks to Julie Arnott, an epidemiologist and public health specialist. She has studied maternal health in Uganda and Tanzania, has worked with the HSE as a COVID-19 epidemiologist, and is currently researching the physical and mental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland.

The Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.

Executive Producer, editing: Molly McCrory

Research: Molly McCrory and Dan Giffney

Interviewer: Brian Kennedy

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Women provide the bulk of care within the household in Ireland - Dan Giffney talks to Dr. Maeve O'Sullivan, a lecturer/Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management & Decent Work, on how this came to be in Ireland, how it's changing and what can be done to relieve women of certain pressures and facilitate their wider and equal participation in the Irish workforce.

The Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.

Executive Producer, editing, research: Aneta Nerguti

Interviewer: Dan Giffney.

Music:

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This episode features Brian Kennedy talking to Dr Ciara Egan, a lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Galway. Ciara talks to the pod about her research into how reading works in the brain, her work with adults who have dyslexia, and reproducible research.

You can find Ciara on Twitter/X at @BrainbowPoi and her research can be found online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ciara-Egan-4.

The Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.

Executive Producer: Brian Kennedy

Editing: Kate Finucane

Interviewer: Brian Kennedy

Research: Molly McCrory and Brian Kennedy

Guest: Dr Ciara Egan

Music:

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For this episode, Peter Lebrocquy Cox interviews Kilian Murphy, an ecological research scientist working in the Lab of Willdife Ecology and Behaviour at UCD. Tune in to hear about the bigger picture ecology, our relationship with it and a message of hope for the future.

This episode is produced for POS Ireland by Eolas Productions. Follow more from Kilian Murphy on Twitter.

Producer: Peter Lebrocquy Cox

Interviewer: Peter Lebrocquy Cox

Research: Aneta Nerguti

Editor: Dan Giffney, Aneta Nerguti

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For this episode, Aneta Nerguti interviews Dr. Adrian Byrne on ethics, bias, legislation and opportunity in AI. What is the future of AI, how can/should it be regulated and what opportunities does it bring us?

This episode is produced for POS Ireland by Eolas Productions. Follow more from Dr. Byrne on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Producer: Aneta Nerguti

Interviewer: Aneta Nerguti

Research: Daniel Giffney, Molly McCrory, Peter Lebrocquy Cox and Julius Huelsmann.

Editor: Peter Lebrocquy Cox

Dr. Adrian Byrne is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Career-FIT PLUS Fellow at CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for Applied AI. He is also Lead Researcher; AI Ethics Centre, Idiro Analytics.

Dr. Byrne is in receipt of funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. This podcast reflects the author's views only. Neither Enterprise Ireland nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information disclosed.

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This episode features Molly McCrory talking to Vanessa Teckentrup, a postdoctoral researcher in the Gillan Lab in Trinity College Dublin. Vanessa talks to us about her PhD research on stimulating the vagus nerve to study how the brain deals with physical and mental disturbances, as well as her thoughts on open science and replicability!

You can find Vanessa on Twitter at @glassybrain and the Gillan Lab in TCD at https://gillanlab.com.

The Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.

Executive Producer: Kate Finucane

Editing: Kate Finucane

Interviewer: Molly McCrory

Research: Brian Kennedy and Kate Finucane

Guest: Vanessa Teckentrup

Music:

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We are taking a short break this month - Pint of Science 2023 starts next week across Ireland - you can view events on https://pintofscience.ie/

Season 2 coming soon!

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Dan Giffney interviews Marion Bartl, a computational linguist working on gender bias and fairness in Natural Language Processing - how can AI be biased and what are we doing to change that?

You can find Marion on Twitter at @marion_bartl

The Pint of Science Ireland Podcast is produced by Eolas Productions.

Executive Producer: Peter Lebrocquy Cox

Editing: Aneta Nerguti & Peter Lebrocquy Cox

Interviewer: Dan Giffney

Research: Dan Giffney, Peter Lebrocquy Cox, Aneta Nerguti, Julius Huelsmann

Guest: Marion Bartl

Music:

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