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Episode 349: Co-managers catch up
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National award-winning radio show and podcast bringing a fresh new perspective on the issues that matter to you from the heart of Tasmania. We cover all things Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) from medical marijuana to science behind mental health issues, we feature expert guests and get to the guts of the issue.
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- Episode 349: Co-managers catch up · 28 min · Episode 349What’s happening in That’s What I Call Science’s future? What’s been happening behind the scenes? The co-managers catch up to discuss their visions and hopes for the future…
- Episode 348: From Fact to Fiction: Arrival (2016) · 28 min · Episode 348Can language transcend time? How likely are we to find alien life, or for alien life to find us? Join us as we bring together both science and art through a live recording of our…
- Episode 347: Spooky Science Stories · 28 minFrom the office to the field, STEMM can be pretty spooky! Join us around the theoretical campfire for some scary tales to celebrate Halloween. From the depths of galleries at…
- Episode 346: Roving Scientist Bar 2026 · 28 min · Episode 346Happy birthday, Beaker Street! Hobart’s science festival turned ten years old this year, and Olly was back at its Roving Scientist Bar to hear from some of the scientists that…
- Episode 345: Inspiring Women in STEMM 2026 · 28 min · Episode 345Welcome to this year’s episode with the Inspiring Women in STEMM fellows! Firstly, we hear from Roberta Amoah, a PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of…
- Episode 344: Tassie Climate Change-Makers · 28 min · Episode 344Young Tasmanians are taking over the microphones! Created as part of the University of Tasmania-led Young Tassie Climate Change-Makers Research Project, this episode gives Echo…
- Episode 343: The wonders of curiosity · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 343Curiosity killed the cat. Or did it? Turns out the rumours aren’t true, and the cat is off making incredible scientific discoveries. This week, Dr Jennifer Payne from the…
- Episode 342: Making Waves · 28 min · Episode 342What does it take to help people connect with the ocean? In this episode of That's What I Call Science, we chat with Dekota Mark, marine science communicator, educator, fellow…
- Episode 341: The Big Fish Card Game · 28 min · Episode 341This week kicks off our double bill on the Big Fish card game! You may remember our first guest, Matt Testoni, from Episode 185. Matt’s back to tell us all about the Big Fish…
- Episode 340: A Tune to Change Lives · 28 min · Episode 340Did you know musicking (the act of connecting to music) lights up more parts of the brain than any other activity that modern scientific studies have found so far? So how can…
- Episode 339: Our Planet, Our Future: GeoSciEd X · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 339What does the future of geoscience education look like? Hannah heads to Adelaide for GeoSciEd X, the 10th International Conference on Geoscience Education, to meet some of the…
- Episode 338: Connecting Science and Society · 28 min · Episode 338In this week’s episode of That’s What I Call Science, we are joined by science communication expert, Caitlin McLeod. We explore Caitlin's journey into science communication and…
- Episode 337: Adaptations in the Dark · 28 min · Episode 337What happens when animals spend thousands of years adapting to life in complete darkness? This week on That's What I Call Science, Dr Olly Dove and Dr Hannah Moore are joined by…
- Episode 336: Creating Galaxies from Scratch · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 336What happens when a black hole launches a jet travelling close to the speed of light? And how can scientists study events happening millions of light years away? This week we are…
- Episode 335: Lightning, crystals, action! · 28 min · Episode 335Have we got an explosive episode for you today, listeners! If you live in Hobart, you may have seen a man walking around with a briefcase full of enough gadgets and wotsits to…
- Episode 334: Protecting Potatoes · 28 min · Episode 334We sit down with Thomas Verne, a Masters researcher at the Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, to talk about his work developing probiotics that protect potatoes from disease…
- Episode 333: Reef Recovery and Marine Conservation · 28 min · Episode 333We kick off our Young Tassie Scientists series with marine ecologist Paula Ruiz, a PhD candidate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania…
- Episode 332: Hot leaves and heatwaves · 28 minDr Margaux Didion-Gency grew up playing in the forest, building tree houses and as an adult she hangs out in forests, shrublands and very hot climate chambers to study how plants…
- Episode 331: The National Museum of Computing · 28 min · Episode 331During her final week in the UK, Olly had the pleasure of visiting The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. There, she chatted with four volunteers about what visitors can…
- Episode 330: Ecological adventures around the world · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 330A long, long time ago in a university far away, TWICS host Olly studied Zoology alongside adventurer Kate Lacey. Kate’s career would take her across the world to places like the…
- Episode 329: Getting to the Root of Climate History · 28 minHow much can a tree tell us about the climate? Quite a lot, it turns out. This week, we chat with Dr Kathryn Allen from the University of Tasmania, one of Australia’s few…
- Episode 328: The Geology Behind Copper · 28 min · Episode 328Copper is all around us, from the wires in our homes to the technologies powering the transition to renewable energy. But where does it actually come from, and how do we find it?…
- Episode 327: Digging into the groundwater beneath our feet · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 327What is a hydrogeologist, why is groundwater important, and how can mine sites both contribute to and impact our hidden water sources? In this episode, Dr Elise Tuuri is joined…
- Episode 326: A Foray into Forensic Anthropology · 28 min · Episode 326Welcome back to another episode in sunny Oxford! While Olly was in the UK, she visited St John’s College at the University of Oxford. There, she sat down with the College…
- Episode 325: Avian influenza in Antarctica · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 325This week, Dr Jane Younger returns to the TWICS mic to tell Olly about her recent adventures down south to Antarctica. Unfortunately, the trip involved seeing staggering rates of…
- Episode 324: Saving lives, one donor at a time · 28 min · Episode 324In this episode of That's What I Call Science, Dr. Elise Tuuri sits down with Dr. Andrew Turner, Medical Director of DonateLife Tasmania, to explore the life-saving world of…
- Episode 323: Pint of Science · 28 min · Episode 323With Pint of Science just around the corner, we’re joined by three of the presenters from Hobart’s 2026 event, “From Inner Workings to Icy Worlds” at Shambles Brewery. First, sea…
- Episode 322: Fungi of the Forest · 28 minHenna Tyyskä is a PhD student in Catalonia, Spain studying how historical land-use affects fungi under the forest floor. Inspired to be a scientist after reading Gorillas in the…
- Episode 321: Electrics, Leaves and Outer-Space · 28 min · Episode 321From Catalonia, PhD student Marc Busuldu grew up fascinated by the stars. Internships across Spain led him to a position at CREAF and to his current PhD on how characterising the…
- Episode 320: Oceans, climate, and the weather · 28 min · Episode 320From the posters at the 2026 AMOS conference, we bring you a podcast episode with the latest science on oceans, the climate and weather! We hear from a range of experts who tell…
- Episode 319: Science in the Park 2025 · 28 min · Episode 319In this episode, Olly and Georgia journey to the Tasmanian ‘Science in the Park’ event held in late 2025. Science in the Park is a hands-on event where science comes alive in all…
- Episode 318: Leaders of The Present, Not The Future · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 318In this episode, we speak with Alyssa Seckinger-Crow, who is studying Marine and Antarctic Governance at the University of Tasmania. Alyssa is the founder of the Tassie Student…
- Episode 317: Echoing Ecosystems · 28 minRaised on the coast of Maine, Dr Haley Viehman has been drawn to the ocean her whole life. Starting in civil and environmental engineering, she discovered her passion for marine…
- Episode 316: Shark Codes and Sound Waves · 28 min · Episode 316In this week’s episode, we chat with Ella Burgun, our Social Media Team Coordinator and local science communicator! We dive into Ella’s path into science communication and…
- Episode 315: Science communication with Scientell · 28 min · Episode 315This week, Dr Simon Torok and Dr Cintya Dharmayanti from Scientell join Olly to talk about their experiences in scicomm, what Scientell is, and the evolving landscape of…
- Episode 314: Tropical Tales · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 314Growing up excited for every visit to her grandparents’ farm where she could sit amongst the trees eating tropical fruits, Dr. Lucette Adet has always been fascinated by plants…
- Episode 313: Busy Forests · 28 min · Episode 313Join Dr Kate Johnson and Laura Wynne Stewart to hear about the busy, beautiful forests that Laura is working to understand and advocate for. Growing up on islands, Laura’s…
- Episode 312: The Science of Science Fiction · 28 min · Episode 312Welcome to the last episode of 2025! Earlier on in the year, we had a mini-series on literacy and numeracy. Today’s episode continues on from that theme as Olly is joined by…
- Episode 311: STEMM Solutions for Our Island · 28 min · Episode 311Join us to hear from the winners of our STEMM Solutions For Our Island Competition 2025! STEMM Solutions For Our Island was open to grade 10, 11 and 12 students in…
- Episode 310: The Ethics of AI · 28 min · Episode 210Computer implants into human bodies powered by AI is no longer a dystopian, science fiction trope - it is real life. Whilst the fiction is gone, the dystopian still remains…
- Episode 309: Looking to the Future with Climate Engineering · 28 min · Episode 309“Engineers got us into this mess…it’s engineers who will get us out again.” This is a catchphrase of one of our guests today, Associate Professor Evan Franklin. Along with…
- Episode 308: What’s new with renewable energy? · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 308Welcome back to our third week of climate engineering! This week, we’re joined by Dr. Pooyan Alinaghi Hosseinabadi, a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in electrical…
- Episode 307: Learning About Landslides · 28 minLandslides can bring devastating consequences to the communities they affect. Dr Ashley Dyson, a geotechnical engineer, joins Sarah and Olly for part two of our climate…
- Episode 306: Shedding a light on agrivoltaics · 28 min · Episode 306Ever wondered what sheep and vineyards have in common? Turns out it’s agrivoltaic systems: generating solar power alongside agriculture. Olly and Sarah are joined in today’s…
- Episode 305: CoLab 2025 - Part 2 · 28 min · Episode 305Welcome back to Part 2 of our CoLab 2025 double bill! In case you missed last week’s episode, CoLab pairs scientists with high schoolers, who, after workshops and lab visits…
- Episode 304: CoLab 2025 - Part 1 · 28 min · Episode 304What happens when you pair research scientists with high schoolers? Incredible art, that’s what! Through CoLab, six scientists are paired with two to three high schoolers each…
- Episode 303: From Fact to Fiction · 28 min · Episode 303Arnold Schwarzenegger, popcorn, AND science?! What more could you want? As part of National Science Week 2025, That’s What I Call Science hosted From Fact to Fiction: a live…
- Episode 302: Inspiring Women in STEMM 2025 Part 2 · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 302Last week, you heard from two of this year’s cohort of the Inspiring Women in STEMM Fellowship. This week, we have Rose Aawulenaa and Dilini Manage on the mic to share their PhD…
- Episode 301: Inspiring Women in STEMM 2025 Part 1 · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 301From the sea to how we see! Barbara Labbe and Isabelly de Lima may have very different research fields, but what they do have in common is that they are both in the 2025 cohort…
- Episode 300: TWICS turns 300! · 28 min · Episode 300We’re proud to share That’s What I Call Science’s 300th episode! This milestone is an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come since our café planning sessions in 2018 and…
