In this episode we chat to writer and science historian Audra Wolfe about organised labour, constructing a union for scientists, and the myth of apolitical science.

In this episode we chat to Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West authors of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in Data-Driven World.

In this episode we chat to Richard Ovenden OBE, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack!

In this episode we chat to Kat Arney author of Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life.

In this episode we chat to Stuart Ritchie author of Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science!

In this episode we chat to Akshat Rathi an energy and climate reporter at Bloomberg. He is also the editor of United we are Unstoppable, the topic of this episode, a collection of 60 inspiring stories from young climate activists across the globe.

In this episode we talk to economist Rob Larson about the immense power of the big 5 tech companies, the economics of how they got to be so big, the tyrannical rulers at the helm, and the perverse business practices that insure them against competition.

In this episode Gemma chats to journalist and author Tim Maughan. Tim’s first novel Infinite Detail (2019) which tells a dystopic time-shifting tale of the pre and post-apocalypse following the global technological shutdown was selected by The Guardian as their Science Fiction and Fantasy book of the year.

In this episode we chat to Adam Hart Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire and author of Unfit For Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World. In this episode we talk about armchair evolutionary biologists, why evolution is so attractive for life-hackers and self-helpers, and the responsibility of science communicators.

In this episode we spoke to materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez about her brilliant new book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, all about the 8 inventions that shaped our society and the materials behind them.

In this episode we chat to Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and the bestseller Utopia For Realists (2014), about what it means to go back through the history of science and revise big ideas, how being an activist and an academic fit together, and whether kindness really is ‘enough’ to uproot problematic societal systems and actually change the world.

We chatted to Mark O'Connell, author of To Be a Machine and Notes From An Apocalypse, about how to find lessons about humanity in the strangest of places, being an awarded science writer (and who gets to write about science), and privilege, decency and purpose.

Today we chatted to Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist and author of Lost in Math, about how physicists are caught up in ideas of beauty rooted in maths over concrete data and how to radically re-evaulate how physics is done.

Today, we’re chatting Science Disrupt 2.0 - what we mean when we talk about ‘disruption’, what deeper conversations we now need to have about science, and how and why our own ideas have evolved over the last 4 years.

In this episode we chat to Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, about the myth of the meritocracy, reclaiming entrepreneurship, and what innovation looks like beyond capitalism.

In today’s episode, we chat about the difference between communicating science and #scicomm in the age of coronavirus, what is and isn't working, who is nailing it and what it means if we get it wrong...

In this quickfire episode, we chat about the podcast coming back to life and Gemma’s brand new book ‘Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It’.

In this episode, we chat to Harriet Brettle of Astroscale and London Space Network about solving the problem of space junk and what responsible innovation looks like in the space industry.

In this episode we chatted to award-winning science fiction writer Anne Charnock about the role of sci-fi in envisioning (and thus shaping) our future, and what responsibility writers have.

In this episode we chat to Charles Fracchia, CEO and Co-Founder of BioBright to chat about how hoovering up every drop of experimental data can help make science more reproducible.