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 Cross - arty creative type and the subject of many parasocial relationships

And in an uncredited writing role Leah's partner who says things.

The podcast that treats science with all the seriousness it deserves.

This week we meet the founder of PostDoc Awareness 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 Yankees cap.

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