A split between career capital, skills, experience and others:
Get into university (this is a working towards goal to start biomedical science in Sept 2025), dependant on alevel results (find out in August)
Podcast episodes (under the microscope) release at least 6 cell-ebrity episodes with biologists doing good and making an impact
Do frequent (e.g. weekly) bio bite episodes
Write at least 10 blog posts or forum posts on biology and biorisk topics to grow skills in comms and literature
Get an internship at a lab for the summer (ideally to learn technical wet lab skills relevant to genetics, epidemiology, vaccines, infectious disease etc)
How others can help
If anyone has any connections for wet lab internships in England or who may consider grant funding (eg charities, stipends) for 18 year old for this purpose
Anyone working in the bioscience fields interested in being interviewed on the podcast
Anyone who wants to collaborate on a paper especially in biosecurity who needs a less qualified but very ambitious and hard working individual to research or write parts of it
Awesome! Good luck on all of the above.
I'm guessing that you have, but have you listened to bio(un)ethical? It's more on bioethics than on biorisk, but it might be interesting to you if you are thinking of making a podcast which aims to explain bio topics.