How to Make Crucial Knowledge Accessible & Understandable for Us All With Saloni Dattani

The Rhys Show

In this episode, researcher, writer, editor and PhD student in psychiatric genetics Saloni Dattani joins us to talk about her view of the world in different movements she tracks and how she does the research process. It is possible to make progress against the huge problems we are all facing in the world by sharing new and underrated ideas of amazing thinkers. Why don’t we? Because research and data isn't accessible. Saloni works through different fields making that knowledge accessible and understandable for us all. We dive deep into science communication and how to make it better, what brings Saloni into the research space, how sub communities interact and collaborate, the importance of learning in real time from amazing people on twitter and why we should make use of that in the current academic publishing system. Stay tuned! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/PDAPkhNxrC Who is Saloni Dattani? Saloni Dattani is a founding editor of Works in Progress and an editor at Stripe Press. She is also a PhD student in psychiatric genetics at King's College London , science writer, and researcher at Our World in Data. Dattoni is also the founder of a new Substack newsletter called Scientific Discovery. Topics: Welcome Saloni Dattani to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00) About Saloni & goal of this episode: (00:01:15) Catalyzing moment in childhood that Made Saloni curious and eager to learn: (00:02:06) What influenced Saloni to be so curious: (00:03:54) Evolutionary lense from a memetic perspective & sub communities interacting and collaborating: (00:05:51) About memetic phrases & cheems mindset: (00:08:11) The goal of Saloni’s new “Scientific Discovery” weekly newsletter: (00:10:38) 1st newsletter on effective vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus: (00:12:25) Why RSV vaccine is effective according to Saloni: (00:14:17) How mRNA vaccine worked: (00:17:03) What brings you into research spaces and how do you go about it: (00:18:37) How #scicomm should be done in 20 years: (00:23:40) Learning from amazing people on twitter to share: (00:28:42) About Work In Progress: how Saloni does the process, finds the right people and edits: (00:33:47) How can we help with the memeplexes that people fall into in regards to covid reporting: (00:38:13) About Our World In Data: (00:45:04) Are meta science, Twitter and getting a PhD underrated or overrated?: (00:50:48) Mentioned resources: Horrible Science (series of books): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrible_Science “Evolve or Die (Horrible Science)” book by Phil Gates: https://www.amzn.com/dp/1407105353 Swole Dog vs. cheem: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/swole-doge-vs-cheems Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline Virological: https://virological.org/ Steven Pinker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker Connect with Saloni Dattani: Twitter: https://twitter.com/salonium Work in Progress: https://www.worksinprogress.co/ Stripe: https://stripe.com/es-us Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/