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In this edition: A participant in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, a professor who set up a neurodiversity network, and our new poet in residence.

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– We find out about a new trial using artificial intelligence to improve ventilation for very ill COVID-19 patients, and what tracking the body and eye movements and brain waves of a Formula E driver can tell us about expertise.

– We catch up with a participant in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s COVID-19 vaccine trial after she receives her first dose, to see how she feels and why she decided to take part.

– We talk to Professor Sara Rankin, who was only diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia as an adult, about her journey and why she helped set up a network for neurodiverse staff and students at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and partner organisations in South Kensington.

Professor Rankin has also produced a series of Lockdown Lessons, talking to scientists at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø that have rapidly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

– We talk to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s new poet in residence Dan Simpson and researcher Dr Ans Vercammen about the poem they are working on together and how art and science really aren’t that different.

Their final poem will be unveiled at the , running online from 27 July to 2 August. You can also listen to Dan’s crowdsourced and some more of his .

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The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's MSc Science Communication course and the presenter of on the BBC World Service, with contributions from our roving reporters in the Communications and Public Affairs Division.