That's What I Call Science!
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.
Episodes
340 episodes
Episode 342: Making Waves
What 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 podcaster, and Master of Marine and Antarctic Science graduate...
Episode 341: The Big Fish Card Game
This 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 card game: a locally-made game aiming to engage the community in the ...
Episode 340: A Tune to Change Lives
Did 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 music transform from a catchy tune to therapy? In this episode ...
Episode 339: Our Planet, Our Future: GeoSciEd X
What 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 people working to inspire the next generation of earth scientists. W...
Episode 338: Connecting Science and Society
In 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 the experiences that shaped her career. From delivering hands-on wo...
Episode 337: Adaptations in the Dark
What 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 Josh Greenhill, a recent Honours graduate from the Universit...
Episode 336: Creating Galaxies from Scratch
What 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 joined by Sophie Young, a PhD candidate in astrophysics at ...
Episode 335: Lightning, crystals, action!
Have 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 make an international spy envious. And that man is Sam ...
Episode 334: Protecting Potatoes
We 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. We also dig into his path from drought science to plant microbiolog...
Episode 333: Reef Recovery and Marine Conservation
We 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. Paula shares her journey from Colombia to Australia a...
Episode 332: Hot leaves and heatwaves
Dr 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 respond to climate change. Recording in the middle of...
Episode 331: The National Museum of Computing
During 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 see at the museum, as well as their own experiences in computing a...
Episode 330: Ecological adventures around the world
A 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 Amazon, South Africa, and beyond. On her recent trip t...
Episode 329: Getting to the Root of Climate History
How 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 dendroclimatologists, about how she uses tree rings to reconstruct ...
Episode 328: The Geology Behind Copper
Copper 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?In this episode, Dr Hannah Moore is joined by geologist Dr ...
Episode 327: Digging into the groundwater beneath our feet
What 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 by the recently conferred Dr Birte Moser, a hydrogeologist at Flind...
Episode 326: A Foray into Forensic Anthropology
Welcome 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 President, Professor Lady Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strom...
Episode 325: Avian influenza in Antarctica
This 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 avian influenza, affecting multiple species of seabirds as ...
Episode 324: Saving lives, one donor at a time
In 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 organ and tissue donation. Tasmania is leading the nation in donation ...
Episode 323: Pint of Science
With 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 ice researcher Dr Johannes Lohse takes us to the Arctic and...
Episode 322: Fungi of the Forest
Henna 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 Mist by Dian Fossey, Henna grew up in Finland, hanging...
Episode 321: Electrics, Leaves and Outer-Space
From 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 electrical signal of leaves can help us to better understand and ...
Episode 320: Oceans, climate, and the weather
From 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 us about the science laid out on their data-filled posters, ...
Episode 319: Science in the Park 2025
In 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 its forms! Despite a day of rain, wind, and sunshine, visitors of...
Episode 318: Leaders of The Present, Not The Future
In 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 Science Communicators Network and Young Ocean Innovators, and serve...
