Podcast Episodes

Episode 305: CoLab 2025 - Part 2

Episode 305

Welcome 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, make art out of research!…

Published on 8 hours ago

Episode 304: CoLab 2025 - Part 1

Episode 304

What 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 who, after a series of …

Published on 1 week ago

Episode 303: From Fact to Fiction

Episode 303

Arnold 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 screening of Total Recall …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Episode 302: Inspiring Women in STEMM 2025 Part 2

Season 1 Episode 302

Last 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 research topics and p…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Episode 301: Inspiring Women in STEMM 2025 Part 1

Season 1 Episode 301

From 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 of Inspiring Women in S…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 300: TWICS turns 300!

Episode 300

We’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 first live broadcast in …

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 299: The Roving Scientist Bar 2025

Episode 299

It’s that time of year again! Beaker Street Festival 2025 came to Hobart in August and, with other 100 events going on, the TWICS team wanted to pop in to say hi to the scientists sharing their work.…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 298: Ask A Scientist!

Episode 298

Ever had a burning question you’d hoped to ask a scientist? Dr Olly Dove and Katya Bandow answer your burning science questions in a candid conversation covering everything from sci-fi favourites to …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 297: Chasing Krill in a Changing Southern Ocean

Episode 297

Join us as we dive into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean aboard the Denman Voyage to Antarctica. In this episode, we chat with marine biologist Dr Haiting Zhang (IMAS & AAPP), who studies the phy…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 296: Plastic governance in Antarctic regions

Episode 296

In the final episode of our plastics series, we head to the world’s most remote continent, Antarctica. PhD candidate Vaibhavi Dwivedi (University of Tasmania) joins us to explore how plastic pollutio…

Published on 2 months ago