The Jodcast

Through a Lens. In the show this time, we talk to Hugo Messias about Gravitational lensing [34:50 - 1:01:41], Bob Watson tells us about Three decades of Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB) in this month's JodBite. [00:52 - 34:43], and your astronomy questions are answered by George Bendo in Ask an Astronomer [1:23:02 - 1:32:27].

Still Standing. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Robert Minchin about how to do astronomy after a hurricane [08:23 - 39:45], Emma Alexander rounds up the latest news [02:38-08:13] and we find out what we can see in the February night sky from Ian Morison and Claire Bretherton [1:10:44 - 1:29:53].

New Year, New Missions. In the show this time, we talk to Dr Allison Kirkpatrick about the use of infrared in the detection of star forming regions in other galaxies [07:33.158 - 24:33.561], Josh Hayes rounds up the latest news [01:38.213 - 07:10.960] and we find out what we can see in the January night sky from Ian Morison and Claire Bretherton [52:25.286 - 01:08:17.891].

Commencing countdown, engines on! In the show this time, we talk to Prof. Andrew Coates about the hunt for life in our Solar System [26:04 - 47:47], Dr. Iain McDonald tells us about stars, planets and chromosomes in this month's JodBite [04:45 - 25:56], and your astronomy questions are answered by Prof. Tim O'Brien in Ask an Astronomer [1:01:05 - 1:16:12].

Rocky bodies are operating in this area! In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Romain Tartese about the upcoming PROSPECT lunar mission [07:37 - 22:15], Jake Morgan rounds up the latest news [00:48-07:30] and we find out what we can see in the December night sky from Ian Morison and Claire Bretherton [49:41 - 1:10:17].

Pulsars and beyond. In the show this time it is almost all about pulsars with most of the interviews from IAU 50 Years of Pulsars conference in September 2017 but first Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell joins to talk about Advocating for women in science [01:16.9 - 19:04.8], Rob Archibald and Emily Parent tells us about Pulsars [19:31.6 - 21:55.9],Rebecca McFadden talks about identifying pulsars with machine learning [22:05.1 - 25:23.9], Emma Osborne tells us about mountains on Neutron stars [25:31.4 - 28:08.7], Anne Archibald also talks about pulars [28:18.3 - 34:26.2], and your astronomy questions are answered by Prof. Anna Scaife in Ask an Astronomer [57:57.3 - 01:06:25.8].

... and under new management, but still not on time! In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Premana Premadi, Dr. Hesti Wulandari, Dr. Taufiq Hidayat and Dr. Mahasena Putra about recent highlights in Indonesian astronomy [07:09 - 28:04], Josh Hayes rounds up the latest news [00:56-06:56] and we find out what we can see in the November night sky from Ian Morison and Claire Bretherton [39:31 - 59:01].

The Parting Of The Ways. In the show this time, we bring you a second whistlestop tour of the amazing science that came to the 2017 Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank. Dr. Beth Rogers tells us about Guerilla archeology [00:58 - 09:23], Jon Spooner tells us how he hacked his way into space [09:33 - 22:29], Dr. Grant Munro talks about the hidden heroes of astronomy [28:16 - 48:59] and Dr. Amy Vincent tells us all about mitochondrial diseases [50:19 - 55:26].

Blown Away. In the show this time, we talk to Dr Federico Urban about bigravity, graviton and dark matter [08:01 - 22:54], Beth Jones rounds up the latest news [01:27-07:53] and we find out what we can see in the October night sky from Ian Morison and Claire Bretherton [42:08 - 61:01].

Measuring Star Formation. In the show this time, we present a series of interviews with Sarah Leslie [03:31 - 20:14], Jacinta Delhaize [20:25 - 40:43], Dillon Dong [40:52 - 58:41], and Anna Kapinska [58:50 - 73:47] from the Measuring Star Formation in the Radio, Millimetre, and Submillimetre meeting.