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The Jodcast
by Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
The Jodcast is an student-led astronomy podcast based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. With our first episode airing in 2006, we are one of the longest running astronomy podcasts in the UK. We aim to share cutting-edge astrophysics research with the wider public, and challenge the stereotypes of who can be an astronomer. In our episodes, you can listen to interviews with researchers about their work, hear the latest space news and get your astronomy questions answered. Over the years we have featured interviews with Professor Brian Cox, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Buzz Aldrin and Rosemary Coogan just to name a few! So, if you want to get a peak behind the curtain (or massive 76 metre dish!) and find out what's happening in astronomy - The Jodcast is the podcast for you!
Episodes
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October 2026: Darkened Skies and Nebulous Space
Darkened Skies and Nebulous Space. This month, we talk to experts about searching for transients, multiprobe cosmology and planetary nebulae. We also discuss what it’s like doing a PhD with some of our guests and talk about what we got up to over the summer.
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July 2026: Teaching Machines the Cosmos
Teaching Machines the Cosmos. In this month's episode, we talk to Dr Seshardi Nadathur from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth about his work in cosmology. Then, from the University of Nottingham we talk to Dr Maggie Lieu about her endeavours to use machine...
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June 2026: Reach to the Moon:
Reach to the Moon. In this month’s episode, we talk to Dr Harry Bevins from the University of Cambridge about the cosmology experiment REACH. Then, from the University of Exeter, we talk to Dr Claire Davies about her experiences as a queer person in academia. In the jodbite, we talk to JBCA’s own...
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May 2026: Astronomy in the North
Astronomy in the North. In this month’s episode, we talk to Jane Hurley from RAL Space about how the space sector shapes daily life. Then, from our live event at the Chester Astronomy Society in March, we listen to Jodcasters Phoebe and Josh talk about their research.
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April 2026: Dawn of the Very Luminous Dinosaurs
Dawn of the Very Luminous Dinosaurs. In this month’s episode, we talk to John Weaver about EUCLID, galaxies, and black holes. Then, from our live event at the Chester Astronomy Society in March, we listen to Jodcaster Jamie’s talk about their research We want to hear more from our listeners, so…
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March 2026: Into the Cosmic Void
Into the Cosmic Void. This month, we have a double cosmology interview special where Sohini and Jamie chat with Marika Asgari about her work on cosmic shear with KiDS and the future of KiDS, and her favourite models of dark matter and dark energy. Whilst Jamie talks with Leon Koopmans about his...
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February 2026: Blue Skies Ahead!
Blue Skies Ahead! This month, we have an interview with Professor Jonathan Tennyson where he chats to Louisa and Lily about his founding of the satellite launching company Blue Skies Space, and in our Jodbite, Louis and Josh talk to postdoc Will McGenn about his work here at the Advanced Radio...
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January 2026: Same Planet, New Year
Same Planet, New Year. This month, we are kicking off the new year with a special interview with Science communicator and climate advocate, Dr Simon Clark. He talks to Jessy and Louisa about why climate literacy is important, and what a day in the life of a YouTuber really like. In our Jodbite,...
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December 2025: Feeling the Cosmic Pulse
Feeling the Cosmic Pulse. In this month's episode, Jessy and Barbara had the opportunity to speak to Dr Kai Schmitz of the University of Munster about the first results from the Pulsar Timing Array and how this could affect our understanding of early universe cosmology. Louisa and Sohini provide…
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November 2025: Reaching the Stars
Reaching the Stars. In this month’s episode, we’ve got lots of exciting interviews. This year, the UK Space Conference was held in Manchester so we had the opportunity to interview the CEO of the UK Space Agency, Paul Bate, and ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan. In our Jodbite, we hear more about the...
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October 2025: Simons Observatory Special
Simons Observatory Special.With Manchester playing a key role within the Simon Observatory’s development, we’ve recorded a special episode during their face-to-face meeting here. We talk to SO:UK Principal Investigator Prof Michael Brown about what makes this project so exciting and a Jodbite…
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July 2025: From Stars to Cells
From Stars to Cells. In this month’s episode, we interview Dr Mel Ifran about her research adapting machine learning techniques from radio astronomy to detecting cancer cells. We also answer some of your questions from our live event last month.
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June 2025: Galaxy Redshifts - A hard thing to nail down
Galaxy Redshifts - A hard thing to nail down. In this month’s episode, we interview Prof Joe Zuntz about his research into clustering galaxies for cosmology. Our next Jodbite comes from this year’s PhD cohort, Georgie, as she submits her thesis on molecular line fitting using ALMA.
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May 2025: Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations
Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations. In this month’s episode, we have a double interview special as we get the opportunity to talk to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her discovery of pulsars and resilience against the challenges she faced. We also talk to Louise Carvahlo, the diversity…
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April 2025: Bursting with Mysteries, FRBs
Bursting with Mysteries, FRBs. Welcome to our first themed episode of 2025. This month’s episode is everything to do with Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs - their exciting discovery, mysterious origins and paving the way to using them as probes in space. This episode features double FRB interviews…
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March 2025: Exoplanets from the Archives
Exoplanets from the Archives. In this month’s episode, we have another interview from the archive where Fiona talks to Faith Hawthorn about her work in exoplanet detection and astronomy outreach. George and Jessy also answer your questions about potential dark matter candidates and Mercury’s...
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February 2025: A Blast from the Past
A Blast from the Past. In this month’s episode, we are hearing from a familiar voice as we are joined by now Dr. Ian Harrrison as he talks to us about weak lensing. We will also be diving into the archives with familiar the familiar voices of Imogen and Jonathan discussing theoretical cosmology...
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January 2025: Cloudy with a Chance of Stars
Cloudy with a Chance of Stars. In this month’s episode, we have two interviews from back in 2022: one with with Eloy de Lera Acedo and another with Mark Magee. Louisa and Barbara talk about the Arecibo Message, imaging stars and flying to space! Bijas chats with James Turner about his work…
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December 2024: Shining a Light on Dark Matter
Shining a Light on Dark Matter. In December's episode, we have delved into the archive for an interview with Grace Lawrence from 2022; she talks with Jonathan and Imogen about her work in dark matter detection. Nastassia and Louisa answer some listeners’ questions in Ask an Astronomer, delving…
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November 2024: Exploring Exoplanets with JWST
Exploring Exoplanets with JWST. In November's episode, Mel talks to Dr Hannah Wakeford on her work in the field of exoplanets, utilising JWST to delve into planetary atmospheres. For our Jodbite, we talk to postdoc Dr Aishrila Mazumder about her research mapping hydrogen.
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October 2024: How to build your own radio telescope!
How to build your own radio telescope!. In this episode, Louisa talks to Dr. Danny Jacobs about radio cosmology and the physical challenges that face building and operating radio telescopes today. In October’s Jodbite, Honor and Phoebe talk about their masters projects, and it’s all things lunar...
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September 2024: Exoplanets, Brown Drawfs, and Sepantics
Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, and Semantics. In the show this time, Mél Azombo interviews Dr. Ed Gillen about the evolution of stellar and planetary systems, we review the status of each of the next-generation optical/near-infrared telescopes currently under construction, and George Bendo answers an...
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July 2024: The Euclid Special
To celebrate the first images from the Euclid Mission, we are doing a special Euclid episode
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June 2024: The CMB and it's B-modes
The CMB and it's B-modes. In this episode, Kammy and Jonathan interview Dr William Coulton from the Centre of Computational Astronomy in New York and they discuss early universe cosmology and the detection of CMB B-modes. Bijas and Phoebe discuss the discovery of a protoplanetary disk around a...
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May 2024: Galaxy evolution: not so sim(ple)ulations
Galaxy evolution: not so sim(ple)ulations.This month, Kammy and Jessy are joined by Dr. Ana Duarte Cabral from Cardiff University, where she discusses her work on understanding the connection between star formation and galaxy evolution and clues us in on how simulating these processes are not a...
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April 2024: ABC's of GRB's
ABC's of GRB's. In this episode, Soheb interview Dr Gavin Lamb from Liverpool John Moores University and they discuss the exotic nature of gamma ray bursts. Fiona is joined by Mel and Honor and they discuss NASA's DART mission, the oldest 'dead' galaxy yet and why Gallifrey must not exist. The...
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March 2024: Feel the Magnetic Pull
Feel the Magnetic Pull. In this episode, Jessy Marin talks to Dr. Kate Pattle about her work studying the involvment of magnetic fields in star formation. We discuss some of the newly released images from the Event Horizon Telescope and JWST and test a new format for our Odds and Ends section…
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February 2024: Blueberries and Peas
Blueberries and Peas. In February's episode, Fiona interviews Dr Alex Cameron on his work understanding the properties of early galaxies using JWST, and we take a whistle-stop tour around some of Bluedot's stalls from July 2023.
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January 2024: Bluedot 2023 Special
Bluedot 2023 Special. In this episode, Fiona Porter travels to Bluedot and interviews Dr. Rebecca Bowler, Sheena Cruickshank, and Jen Gupta. Additionally, Fiona Porter conducted a separate, extended interview with Dr. Tim O'Brien about organizing Bluedot and about the history of Jodrell Bank.
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December 2021: Hello? Is there anybody there?
Hello? Is there anybody there? In the show this time, we talk to Tom Scragg about Pulsar timing arrays [07:43:00 - 00:41:43], Jonathan Wong rounds up the latest news [00:01:02-00:07:33] and we find out what we can see in the December night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske...
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May 2021: Back in Business
Back in Business. In the show this time, we talk to Bert Hawkins and Matt Morgan about their work at the NRAO [06:32.5-37:49.0], Amy Suddards rounds up the latest news [01:17.5-06:23.0] and we find out what we can see in the May night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske...
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December 2020: 2020 Is Over
2020 Is Over. In the show this time, we talk to Kaustav Basu about The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect [6:32 - 16:39], Cameron Bogue rounds up the latest news [1:19 - 6:22] and we find out what we can see in the December night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [38:05 - 55:43].
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November 2020: A-RIP-bo
A-RIP-bo. In the show this time, we talk to Taïssa Danilovich about the chemistry of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars [05:46 - 27:57], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:31-05:38] and we find out what we can see in the November night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske...
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October 2020: Worthy Winners
Worthy Winners. In the show this time, we talk to Sofia Wallstrom about Studies of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars with TESS [09:03.00-27:14.00], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:45.00-08:55.00] and we find out what we can see in the October night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu...
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September 2020: A Pair of Planets
A Pair of Planets. In the show this time, we talk to Andrew Tkachenko about Stellar astrophysics in the era of big data [04:43.00-29:21.00], Fiona Porter rounds up the latest news [00:50.00-04:34.00] and we find out what we can see in the September night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu…
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August 2020: Sights Scarce Seen
Sights Scarce Seen. In the show this time, we talk to Rosita Kokotanekova about her work on Jupiter family comets [07:42 - 25:51], George Bendo rounds up the latest news [02:20 - 07:34] and we find out what we can see in the August night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske...
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May 2020: Breaking Apart
Breaking Apart. In the show this time, Emma Alexander rounds up the latest news [00:56.96-07:22.00] and we find out what we can see in the May night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [07:27.82 - 40:51.00].
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Month 4 2020: Keeping It Simple
Keeping It Simple. In the show this time, we talk to Stewart Eyres about his study of a star that blew up a long time ago [03:48 - 21:30], Luke Hart rounds up the news that has happened in the near past [01:11-03:41] and we find out what we can see in the Month 4 night sky from Ian Morison,...
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March 2020: Kaboom
Kaboom. In the show this time, we talk to Rebecca Bowler about galaxies in the early universe [04:09.0 - 20:25.5], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [00:54.5-04:02.5] and we find out what we can see in the March night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [1:00:00.1 -...
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February 2020: A Fond Farewell
A Fond Farewell. In the show this time, we talk to Anais Moller about machine learning to find supernovae for cosmology [04:42.00 - 26:19.20], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [01:13.00-04:34.00] and we find out what we can see in the February night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu...
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January 2020: Now You See It...
Now You See It... In the show this time, we talk to Alexandre Lazarian about magnetic fields in astronomy [07:38 - 30:49], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [00:48 - 07:31] and we find out what we can see in the January night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske…
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December 2019 Extra: Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Novae
Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Novae. In the show this time, we talk to Simon Johnston about Searching for pulsars [32:53.3 - 46:54.0], Laura Driessen tells us about the first new transient source discovered with the MeerKAT telescope, a flaring stellar system in this month's JodBite [10:37.3 -...
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December 2019: Who's afraid of big, bad numbers?
Who's afraid of big, bad numbers? In the show this time, we talk to Bobby Seagull about the mathematics of astronomy and popularising maths among the public [07:30.46 - 52:26.84], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:32.27-07:15.94] and we find out what we can see in the December night…
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November 2019: Baby Black Holes and Blobs
Baby Black Holes and Blobs. In the show this time, we talk to Connor Smith about searching for blobs in the submillimetre regime [05:53 - 21:19], Fiona Porter rounds up the latest news [01:10 - 05:46] and we find out what we can see in the November night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu…
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October 2019 Extra: Mission to Transition
Mission to Transition. In the show this time, we talk to Atsuhisa Ota about his work studying anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background [10:02 - 17:02], Shahbaz Chaudhry tells us about the coronal heating problem in this month's JodBite [01:17 - 09:54], and your astronomy questions are...
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October 2019: Worlds Big and Small
Worlds Big and Small. In the show this time, we talk to Sadie Jones about her outreach work at the University of Southampton [03:58 - 14:57], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest news [00:48 - 03:48] and we find out what we can see in the October night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and...
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September 2019: Circling in
Circling in. In the show this time, we talk to Fabio Antonini about modelling gravitational wave sources[08:57 - 26:09], Michael Wright rounds up the latest news [01:04 - 08:50] and we find out what we can see in the September night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel Leske [56:52…
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August 2019: Small Steps
Small Steps. In the show this time, we talk to Jonathan Pober about his work with 21cm line and understanding galaxy formation and cosmology [06:42.0-28:31.5], George Bendo rounds up the latest news [00:48.0-06:33.5] and we find out what we can see in the August night sky from Ian Morison…
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July 2019: To The Moon and Buck(yballs)
To The Moon and Buck(yballs). In the show this time, we talk to Jess Wade about her work within public engagement with science [05:56.2 - 38:11], Fiona Porter rounds up the latest news [01:39.8-05:43.9] and we find out what we can see in the July night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and...
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June 2019: Milky way mergers, moon mining and mice
Milky way mergers, moon mining and mice. In the show this time, we talk to Stephane Corbel about the Nancay observatory [09:01 - 36:19], Emma Alexander rounds up the latest news [02:07-08:51] and we find out what we can see in the June night sky from Ian Morison, Haritina Mogosanu and Samuel…
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The Jodcast is an student-led astronomy podcast based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. With our first episode airing in 2006, we are one of the longest running astronomy podcasts in the UK. We aim to share cutting-edge astrophysics research with the wider public, and challenge the stereotypes of who can be an astronomer. In our episodes, you can listen to interviews with researchers about their work, hear the latest space news and get your astronomy questions answered. Over the years we have featured interviews with Professor Brian Cox, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Buzz Aldrin and Rosemary Coogan just to name a few! So, if you want to get a peak behind the curtain (or massive 76 metre dish!) and find out what's happening in astronomy - The Jodcast is the podcast for you!
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