🪳 Welcome to the first episode of 2026!!! We enjoyed a lovely break but we're so excited to be back and in this first episode of the year, we are continuing our season 'TWISTED' where we talk all about the craziest stories in science throughout history. This week we are discussing the craze that went on in the 1820s where people were robbing bodies from graves and even committing murder to sell bodies to anatomy labs! Curious about how, why and what happened? Tune into this episode!

🫖 and we have a listener story who tells us all about her PI telling on her to the university DEAN, shouting at her in lab meetings and NOT doing her job properly! Liv and Taz didn't hold back on saying what they thought about this story...

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0:00 intro

4:45 the murders...

34:01 im going to be blacklisted from academia??

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🪳 Welcome to Season 7, TWISTED.

This season, we’re looking closely at the dark side of science. This week, we’re delving into a time where it was NORMAL to feed lice with your own blood, all in the name of science of course…

Typhus was ravaging populations in colder climates and poor living conditions. The bacteria spreads through body lice that live in the clothes of unsuspecting victims. This is the story of how a vaccine was developed… though it’s not as conventional as you might think…

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY JENNI! check them out here https://jenni.ai/?utm_source=soculturedpodcast and dont't forget to use the code 'SCP20' for 20% off!

🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEA. Should our listener drop everything to get away from a toxic PI and join a different lab instead? Tune in to find out!!!

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0:00 intro

3:30 the louse feeders

34:10 escaping my toxic PI

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In this week’s episode, we’re confronting the medical experiments carried out at Auschwitz. These experiments are now recognised as some of the most extreme violations of medical ethics in history. Their legacy still shapes how we think about research ethics, consent, and trust in medical institutions today. As we explore this history, we’ll approach it with as much care and respect as possible, focusing on what was done, who it was done to, and how it reshaped the rules that govern science.

If you’d like some more information on the details discussed, we’ve left some links below:

https://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1448.full

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4515&context=faculty_scholarship

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/25973/summary

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY JENNI! check them out here https://jenni.ai/?utm_source=soculturedpodcast and don't forget to use the code 'SCP20' for 20% off!

🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEAAAAA. We're back with another 'ask us ANYTHING' where we discuss lab crushes, physics teachers electrocuting themselves + messing up experiments!

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🩷 Please don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments, like, and subscribe! If you’re loving the podcast, please leave us a rating, it helps us out SOO much (we're just two STEM girlies tryna make it).

🎙️You can always find us on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify + more!

0:00 intro

4:40 twin experiments at auschwitz

40:15 my physics teacher electrocuted himself..

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?💌

Reach out to us at ⁠soculturedpodcast@gmail.com⁠

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