The Jodcast
The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast created by students and staff from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The episodes include the latest astronomy news, interviews with astronomers, stargazing information, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 323
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
July 2025
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 …
00:48:01 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
June 2025
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 …
00:54:04 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
May 2025
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…
Thu 01 May 2025
April 2025
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…
00:52:45 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
March 2025
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. Geo…
00:35:37 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
February 2025
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 a…
Sat 01 Feb 2025
January 2025
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 Areci…
Mon 13 Jan 2025
December 2024
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 matte…
00:39:43 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
November 2024
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…
00:55:40 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
October 2024
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. I…
00:39:35 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
September 2024
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-gene…
00:49:10 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
July 2024
To celebrate the first images from the Euclid Mission, we are doing a special Euclid episode
00:31:38 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
June 2024
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 det…
00:42:42 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
May 2024
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…
Wed 01 May 2024
April 2024
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 …
Mon 01 Apr 2024
March 2024
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…
00:57:10 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
February 2024
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 Bl…
00:40:12 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
January 2024
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, extende…
00:45:12 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
December 2021
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 o…
Sat 18 Dec 2021
May 2021
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 o…
Fri 21 May 2021
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