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b'This is the first of a 3-part series that will close the first season of Papa PhD.
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\\nThe world is still very much fighting and trying to understand the COVID-19 pandemic at the moment this episode is airing, so I am bringing you the interventions of my guests on a panel that took place in May, titled "Scientists and the News Cycle \\u2013 What Role Can We Play?"
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\\nIn this first part, I talked with\\xa0Monica Feliu-Mojer, Ph.D., with\\xa0Joana Lobo Antunes, and with\\xa0Adriana Bankston\\xa0about the impact the pandemic has had on their professional lives and on the lessons they have learned, so far.
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\\nPart 2, coming up next week, will focus on the role academic institutions and scientific associations can play, in terms of science communication, in a context such as the ongoing pandemic.
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\\nEpisode transcript:
\\nDavid Mendes: Welcome everyone here. I\\u2019m super happy to be here today, discussing the role of the scientific community in today\\u2019s, situation, which is the COVID pandemic. We\\u2019re going to talk about all the challenges that society and the scientific community has faced during this crisis and what solutions, also have been, working so far. What hasn\\u2019t been working and at different levels. I\\u2019m going to start by reading a little introduction and then I\\u2019ll also introduce the guests who are here.
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\\nIn the wake of the worldwide spread of SARS-CoV-2, these last few weeks have seen world leaders sending out mixed messages and trying to trace a path on a moving terrain with questions like social distancing, wearing of masks, and lockdown.
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\\nOn another front, while doctors, epidemiologists and virologists have been working around the clock to understand COVID-19 and take control of the pandemic, and to advise politicians and policy deciders, we\\u2019ve seen a movement of disinformation and conspiracy theories that has been gaining traction and visibility with video content circulating and passing on fake news that is tricking the general public into lending it a credibility that it doesn\\u2019t deserve.
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\\nIn our live discussion today, we are going to talk about the challenges this pandemic has faced the scientific community with, we are going to discuss what role researchers and the scientific community at large can play during a world crisis, such as this one and we are going to try and get a wide-angle view of how the scientific community has been impacted at the policy level, at the level of universities and at the community level.
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\\nTo discuss these issues today I have with me Dr.\\xa0Adrianna Bankston, Dr.\\xa0Joana Lobo Antunes and Dr. M\\xf3nica Feli\\xfa-M\\xf3jer. Dr.\\xa0Adriana Bankston is a principal legislative analyst at the University of California Office of federal governmental relations in Washington, DC. Prior to this position, she was a policy and advocacy fellow at the society for neuroscience where she provided staff support for special and ongoing projects, including SFN\\u2019s annual lobby event and the society\\u2019s annual meeting. In addition to working at UC, Adriana also serves as the director of communications and outreach for the journal of science policy and governance\\u2014JSPG\\u2014and is an associate member of the public policy committee with the American society for cell biology.
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