#4 Paul Middlebrooks: BrainInspired & Podcasting

An episode with my favourite podcast host, Paul Middlebrooks. Paul and I met in Berlin, and talked about his journey away from (and back into) academia and why he started his podcast BrainInspired. Yes, there is a lot of podcast meta-talk in this episode. For example, how science podcasts give you a glimpse into another field (as an outsider) and some advice for fellow podcast hosts. We also get into productivity, self-learning and some big-picture questions on what's holding neuroscience back.

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• Paul's Podcast BrainInspired
• His NeuroAI course with topics ranging from the history of ANNs to explaining variational autoencoders
• Twitter: @pgmid
• Epistimones podcast by Paco Chow and Megan Lee
• My Twitter @akseli_ilmanen
• Email: akseli.ilmanen[at]gmail.com
• Brain Space Time Podcast, my blog, other stuff
• Music: Space News, License: Z62T4V3QWL

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:51) - Interesting conversations Paul had at the conference

(00:07:57) - The why and how of podcasting

(00:11:16) - Changing one's mind in science

(00:19:34) - Paul's NeuroAI course

(00:20:46) - Podcasts for self-learning & productivity fallacies

(00:26:15) - Podcast advice

(00:30:58) - Paul is back in academia

(00:38:48) - Neuroscience needs theory (beyond manifolds)

(00:45:50) - Saying thank you to Paul