S5E2: Thriving in Team Science

NINDS's Building Up the Nerve

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the second episode of the season, we talk about Thriving in Team Science, focusing on how to build professional collaborations and guidelines to ensure success for all parties when working in team, especially across disciplines.

Featuring Bosiljka Tasic, PhD, Director, Molecular Genetics, Allen Institute for Brain Science; Heidi Baumgartner, PhD, Research Scholar, Stanford University and Executive Director, ManyBabies; and Lingfei Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Resources

• Articles from Dr. Lingfei Wu:
  • “Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas” (2023): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38030778/
  • “Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology” (2019): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30760923/
• Resources from ManyBabies: https://manybabies.org/resources/
  • ManyBabies Collaboration Agreement
• Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRedIT): https://credit.niso.org/
  • Tenzing.club
• Protocols.io

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Introductions (00:00:57)

3. Q&A (00:04:43)

4. Advice (00:50:54)

5. Outro (00:56:40)