Science collaborations – with Russia

BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The sub Arctic boreal forests stretch across the northern hemisphere. They represent a huge carbon sink , but are also vulnerable to climate change. Most of the forest is in Russia and most of what we know about its current state comes from long running international field studies. The Scott Polar Institute in the UK has been studying these forests for years in collaboration with Moscow university, but this year’s field work has been cancelled. We spoke to Olga Tutubalina and Gareth Rees who have been running the collaboration since the 1990s. Will the cost of living crisis lead to an increase in food poisoning ? it’s a concern for food researcher Ellen Evans from Cardiff Metropolitan University, in particular the potential for listeria to grow in our fridges if we don’t have the temperature low enough. And if you like maths how can you get better? Mathematician and Author Simon Singh, tells us about his new global Maths Circles initiative to connect maths enthusiasts around the world.

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0:00.0	Ever wondered what the world's wealthiest people did to get so ridiculously rich?
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0:11.9	And then we decide if they are actually good, bad or just plain wealthy.
0:15.5	So if you want to know if Rihanna is as much of a bad guy as she claims,
0:19.2	or what Jeff Bezos really did to become the first person in history to pocket a hundred billion dollars,
0:24.6	listen to Good Bad Billionaire with me, Simon Jack, and me, Zingsing.
0:28.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.4	Thank you for downloading this edition of BBC Inside Science.
0:34.9	It was first broadcast on the airwaves on the 22nd of September 2022.
0:41.2	Coming up on the show this week, why you shouldn't fiddle with your fridge's temperature settings?
0:45.8	Author of Fermat's last theorem, Simon Singh joins me to talk about starting maths parties all around the world.
0:51.5	And we look at what happens when international science meets international politics.
0:55.9	How is the Russian invasion of Ukraine affecting Russian scientists at home and abroad?
1:01.2	Today, flights and trains out of Russia are reportedly sold out.
1:05.3	As President Putin pushes ahead with a call up of 300,000 reservists.
1:09.8	It's reportedly the country's biggest conscription since World War II.
1:14.3	We've been hearing about a quiet exodus of intellectuals of all kinds from Russia
1:18.8	ever since the invasion of Ukraine, among them many scientists.
1:23.0	The last time we saw anything like this was after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
1:28.7	And during that brain drain, many Russian scientists went to work in Western universities, especially in the USA.
1:36.2	Back in 2001, my producer Julian Siddler visited to make a program about post-Soviet science.
1:42.6	Incredibly considering the current context, he got to visit the Iofi Institute in St. Petersburg.
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