Dr Nick Oswald
Founder, Bitesize Bio
Appears in 71 Episodes
Do You Listen?
If your closest friends were instructed to list your three most prominent qualities, would “good listener” be among them? If not, tune in to this episode to learn how ...
Does Humility Harm Your Career?
In this episode, which was recorded live, you'll learn how to properly wield humility—and still get credit where credit is due. How on earth will people ever know how ...
The Difference Between Efficiency and Optimization
In this episode, which was recorded live, you'll discover more about what it takes to go from being merely efficient to optimized. Have you ever been accused of being ...
What Constitutes a Happy Scientist?
In this episode, which was recorded live, you'll discover how to do more than just get paid or add another line to your CV/résumé — and how you can be a scientist and ...
Is the Lab the Only Way to Be a Scientist?
In this episode, I interview a scientist who found out the lab is not a required component, in fact sometimes not even a desirable component for a real career in scien...
How to Manage Your Boss
Life would be great...if it wasn’t for my boss. You wouldn’t be alone in thinking that. But let's face it, bosses are a necessary part of life. And they can serve many...
When and How to Delegate
The English poet John Donne famously wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” So how do you get off of your Island and start including others in your work? It m...
How to Handle Disappointment
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. You had such high expectations. You had plans. And then came the crushing blow. Now what? In this episode, we deal with disappointm...
How to Foster Imagination
Many of us look back with nostalgia to a time when we used to just live in our imagination. But for so many of us, the necessities of math and hard science have made u...
When Should I Speak Up
You are educated, informed, and engaged. You are opinionated, and rightly so. And as you look around, you see that your lab, your industry, maybe the entire world is c...
What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
There's what you know, what you don't know...then there's what you don't know you don't know. That third category is the biggest and it's the one where all the fun stu...
Giving It All Away
How much is too much when it comes to helping others? In our quest tobe collaborative, we can make other people's priorities the onlythings that matter. Where is the l...
How to Elicit the Help of Others
So it has finally happened: you are ready to admit that you need some help. So now what? In this episode, find out how to get others to willingly and eagerly assist yo...
Going Your Own Way
There’s the right way, the wrong way, and {pick one: your government’s way, your industry’s way, your university’s way, your company’s way, your PI’s way}. What about ...
Why Hope Is Actually Weakening You
From politics to Star Wars, hope has been held out as the answer to all our problems. But let's face it, it took another couple Star Wars movies before things worked o...
The Power of Gratitude
Is gratitude for saps? Is it irrelevant? Is it a nice-to-have or is it a deal maker? And what does this have to do with happiness and especially, science? In this epis...
How Scarcity Is Hurting You
You may claim an inexhaustible allegiance to opportunity and adevotional belief in possibility. Yet a prevalent attitude of scarcityhas a way of lurking in the shadows...
Is Unconditionality Achievable?
“It depends.” How many of your positions in your work and your lifeare dependent on something else? And what is that “something else”based on? At some point, you have ...
The Siren Song of Control
Do you ever fantasize about how much better your life and career wouldbe if you could control everything in your world? An occasional idlefantasy about control is a di...
Do You Have A Not-To-Do List
Most of us have to-do lists. In fact, you may be using sophisticatedtools for this purpose, and you are well versed in their use. But somedays you only complete your l...
The Empirically Supported Benefits of Mindfulness
What would mindfulness have to do with being a scientist? What would it have to do with a scientist being productive, successful and dare we say: happy? Join us on thi...
The Multitasking Myth
Is efficiency important to you? In the quest for the shortest path between two points, many people opt for multitasking. Some folks are particularly proud of how good ...
Affirmations Don’t Work (and How to Fix It)
Surely you would willingly acknowledge you have a conscious mind. You would likely (though cautiously) also acknowledge you have a subconscious mind. But do you think ...
Marshalling Dopamine to Let You Accomplish Hard Tasks
Are you at the mercy of your brain chemistry? You can actually (and rather simply) impact your own brain chemistry without the use of drugs or substances, just by inst...
You Are Too Busy To Be Busy
Your outlook on being busy dramatically impacts your productivity and your stress levels. It is undeniable that you have a lot to get done and a lot to accomplish. So ...
The Challenge of Differentiating Between Science & Scientific Opinion
Have you found yourself called on to be an expert because you are a scientist? The problem is many who seek your expertise don’t always realize where your expertise ac...
The Difference Between Choosing and Deciding
Choosing or deciding: It’s basically the same thing, right? Wrong. In this episode we will discuss the important distinctions between a choice and a decision, and how ...
Don’t Seek Results, Ask Questions
The discipline of science is all about discovery. But the business of science often has an agenda of its own. Grants (and those who fund them) often imply that a certa...
How To Install & Use Habits For Maximum Impact
Do you have habits and you have no idea how you got them? Do you wish you could install some new good habits? Do you have some bad habits you want to get rid of? In th...
Managing Your Energy
The First Law of Thermodynamics states: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. So how are you managing your energy? Eve...
