Dr Shane Bergin
speaker
581 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Dr Shane Bergin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.
Appearances
I'm very glad to say that the number of students that I teach that are female outnumber the men, not in any significant way, but we're now at almost parity.
As you go through your career, though, you see this so-called leaky pipeline where the proportion of men to women starts to go in an unfavourable direction with every step.
Yeah, and they're saying, you know, it'll take time for these things to even out.
I think that there's some truth in that.
However, there is an awful lot to be said about the structural issues that remain in that career and in others that kind of mean that there are fewer women at the top.
Back to another forgotten hero.
Who was Maud de Lappe?
Maud de Lappe was a jellyfishologist from Valencia.
It's not a real word, but I like it, particularly when I'm talking to children.
She was from Valencia.
in County Kerry not in Spain and she was interested in jellyfish which of course are not fish and anyone swimming around that part of the world at the moment will know they're everywhere for various reasons Nicol was known about the life cycle of the jellyfish who could blame anyone for wanting to go near them
But people didn't understand how they reproduced, what they ate, how they operated.
What she did was she was able to, for the first time, keep them alive in a lab setting and understand their life cycle.
And she did this for a number of species.
She also has a sea anemone named for her.
She did this without any formal education.
She was just there in West Kerry and she was interested in the world around her.
Many people would still have the bump on their arm when they got the BCG vaccine when they were little.
which inoculated you from tuberculosis, which killed so many people in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century.
She got it here.
Showing 221–240 of 581 · page 12 of 30
← Previous
Next →