The World's Only Science Podcast
Our group of science experts refuse to take anything seriously. Join Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff, and some incredible co-hosts and guests for a nerdy look at the stories and culture aroud us.
Episodes
The podcast that treats science with the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we watch Interstellar with physicist-turned-engineer Leah Morgan and talk a lot about therapy, parenting, our intimate knowledge of corn lifecycles and Men Of Physics.
This episode will offend microbiologists because we don't mock The Blight enough.
The podcast that treats science with the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we watch the non-Marvel Marvel movie Morbius with molecular biology expert Dr Aimee Eckert. It is NOT GOOD.
The podcast that treats science with the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week it's time for Never Explain, our occasional science comedy panel show, to take a look at 2024 and give out some points.
With:
Steve Cross
Sarah Jones
Lynsey Smart
Kate Slade
Claire Price
Helen Wilkes
The podcast that treats science with all the seriousness and preparatin it deserves.
This week we meet anatomist Rebecca Shepherd to find out about teaching medical students, fitting a science life around kids and turning your celeb crushes into first author papers.
Featuring:
Steve Cross - that science jokes one
Rebecca Shepherd - @special-stains.bsky.social
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we're joined by Liz Johnson, to find out the secrets of veterinarian training and to look at the animal new
Starring:
Steve Cross - Lover not a fighter
Liz Johnson - Animal appreciator and co-host of https://www.instagram.com/huh.thatsfunny/
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week Leah is picking the movie so it's got a MASSIVE fusion reactor in it. Also it doesn't really understand what people are like but there's a lot of whiskey.
We watched Passengers (Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Trolley Problems etc) so you don't have to.
Starring:
Leah Morgan - catastrophic thinking employer and engineer
Steve Cros...
The podcast that treats science with all the seriousness it deserves.
This week we meet the founder of PostDoc Appreciation Week, Dr Joan Chang, and get tips on how to get your own research group without following all the rules.
We also talk collagen in beauty products, the vagaries of science funding, and building your own community.
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we watched the 2013 Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion, which was an awful trick to play on a woman who just watched MOON.
Spoilers for Oblivion (2013) and MOON (2009).
Starring:
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Steve Cross - Listens to vintage vinyl, would never wear a Yank...
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we try and find out how to build a career in science communication, with Dr Leigh Wilson from King's College London. Leigh is a neuroscientist, science comms educator and creator of some wonderful projects about the brain.
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we watched the 2009 movie MOON, which prompted a discussion about the ethics of the materials of technoscience, and what we'd be willing to suffer to make fusion happen.
Spoilers for MOON (2009). Oh we spoil it so much.
Starring:
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Steve Cross - SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This week we're joined by Helen Wilkes for a look at the big science stories that are shocking the world all the way back to 2015. Helen doesn't know what a news story is, apparently.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Respecter of Ancient Ways
Helen Wilkes - DNA Copyist
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
Today we meet psychiatric genetics researcher turned standup comedian Lynsey Smart to find out about the South-West's nerd-friendly comedy scene and discover what the Raggy Dolls can teach us.
With
Steve Cross - generic nerd
Lynsey Smart - Radio 4 voice haver but Scottish.
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
Today we meet Nell the physicist to find out about a new astronomical object that she absolutely didn't make up.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Space monkey.
Nell Grabham - Looks up, understands it.
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
Today we fly to Leeds to talk to Max about how to get kids to love numbers again.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Runs the numbers
Max Hughes - Lovable maths clown
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
Today we meet Kate Slade from the University of Lancaster to finally discover why our minds are in such a terrible state and why we've never won Olympic gold
Starring:
Steve Cross - ADHD influencer and actually knows about sport
Chloe Slevin - Vacationer extraordinaire
Kate Slade - Future Vice-Chancellor
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This is the eighth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Pore little guy
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
Today we meet Jaimie Smithson from the University of Liverpool to find out about what's really going on in the sea, and how climate change is even going to ruin your fish n' chips.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Fish refuser
Chloe Slevin - Overcome with cephalopod fandom
Jaimie Smithson - Friend of all that lies beneath the waves
Go and get a ticket f...
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This is the seventh in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Wall fighter
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This is the sixth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Poon Lim Enthusiast
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org
The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.
This is the fifth in a series where we watch Three Body Problem, now on Netflix. It's a Four Body Problem, by the way.
Starring:
Steve Cross - Haver of awkward conversations
Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion
Science Showoff gigs are on sale: http://www.scienceshowoff.org
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