Laurence Hurst's guest appearances

Laurence Hurst

Heredity Podcast

The G Word

Rui Faria

Alison Bently

Enrico Coen

Dario Grattapaglia

Marc Stift

OwlTail

Adam Rutherford

Vivienne Parry

Cristina Fonseca

A survey of over 2000 British adults conducted by the Genetics Society found that trust in genetics is high and went up significantly during the pandemic. In this episode of the G Word our Head of Public Engagement, Vivienne Parry OBE, is joined by guests, Dr Adam Rutherford, geneticist, author, and broadcaster, Professor Laurence Hurst, Professor of evolutionary genetics and  Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution and Dr Cristina Fonseca, Head of Engagement and Communications at Genetics Society, to discuss findings from the survey and the supporting research paper published in Plos Biology exploring the links between someone’s understanding of science and their attitudes towards it.   You can read our transcript here: https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/Public-views-on-genetics.docx   "We're all responsible for communicating science.... and our jobs will never be done because this is a hard game it turns out."

A survey of over 2000 British adults conducted by the Genetics Society found that trust in genetics is high and went up significantly during the pandemic. In this episode of the G Word our Head of Public Engagement, Vivienne Parry OBE, is joined by guests, Dr Adam Rutherford, geneticist, author, and broadcaster, Professor Laurence Hurst, Professor of evolutionary genetics and  Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution and Dr Cristina Fonseca, Head of Engagement and Communications at Genetics Society, to discuss findings from the survey and <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001915" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the supporting research paper published in Plos Biology</a> exploring the links between someone’s understanding of science and their attitudes towards it. You can read our transcript here: <a href="https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/Public-views-on-genetics.docx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/Public-views-on-genetics.docx</a> "We're all responsible for communicating science.... and our jobs will never be done because this is a hard game it turns out."

Adam Rutherford, Laurence Hurst, Cristina Fonseca and Vivienne Parry: Public views on genetics - what have we learnt?

We tend to think of science as objective, but as with any human endeavour it is fraught with biases: cognitive, technical, personal and cultural. Interestingly, it turns out that inheritance can also be biased, with the transmission of genes often displaying anything but 'fair' segregation. As the Genetics Society celebrates its centenary, join president Prof. Laurence Hurst as he discusses 100 years of bias in genetics and evolution, how he fell in love with the field (despite poor first impressions), his thoughts on science education, and his hopes for a playful future in the study of genetics and evolution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We tend to think of science as objective, but as with any human endeavour it is fraught with biases: cognitive, technical, personal and cultural. Interestingly, it turns out that inheritance can also be biased, with the transmission of genes often displaying anything but 'fair' segregation. As the Genetics Society celebrates its centenary, join president Prof. Laurence Hurst as he discusses 100 years of bias in genetics and evolution, how he fell in love with the field (despite poor first impressions), his thoughts on science education, and his hopes for a playful future in the study of genetics and evolution. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.