Yama-san no Labo Keikaku
A podcast and YouTube show in which “Yama-san”, a biology PhD student, talks about what research actually looks like from the inside and what daily life as a doctoral student is really like. Research topics and experiments, the realities of academia such as writing papers, conferences and funding, and what it feels like to walk the PhD path — even the technical subjects are told in plain, down-to-earth language. Episodes are in Japanese.
The long-term dream is to build a large research institute in Japan one day. This show is a running record of the “lab plan” working toward that dream.
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Also on YouTube:@yamalab_radio2
Episodes
#005
#005 About the 2nd Systems Behavioral Science Research Meeting
Held at Nagoya University in July 2026 — what the field is about and why it's exciting
#004
#004 Making Sense of SPReAD1000, an “AI for Science” Initiative
A research support program to accelerate science with AI — its aims and challenges
#003
#003 Writing Papers Is Tough… But It Really Matters!
What papers mean to a researcher — the hard parts, and why we write them anyway
#002
#002 Fruit Flies Are Actually a Global Research Subject
Why the tiny fruit fly holds the key to some of the biggest questions in life science
#001
#001 Nice to Meet You, I’m Yama-san
Launching "Yama-san no Labo Keikaku" — A self-introduction and what I hope to do with this show