Scitech's Wonder Kids

Happy Halloween Particle Podcast listeners! We are celebrating the spooky day by chatting to Dr Leanda Mason about trapdoor spiders. Listen in to have all your fears debunked and fall in love with the not-so-creepy crawlies.

You can follow Leanda on twitter @ Mygal_Lady and read more about her work on her website https://leanda.life/

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

Today, the Particle Podcast is joined by Emilie Dotte-Sarout to chat all about her career as an archeobotanist. She shares some of her discoveries - both scientific and of the women who have been forgotten in science history.

You can read more about the Pacific Matildas project at https://www.uwa.edu.au/projects/pacific-matildas-finding-the-women-in-the-history-of-pacific-archaeology

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

This week we are joined by Patrick Shober, PhD student at Curtin who previously did an internship at NASA (yes, we have MANY questions about this). He stopped by to chat about space tourism and space as an environment.

You can find Patrick on Twitter @ planetarypat

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

We are headed on an ocean adventure!

This week, the Particle Podcast is joined by Mat Vanderklift, who researches "blue carbon" as a potential way to combat climate change. We also ask him about his advice for early career scientists and researchers.

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

Can you bee-lieve it? We're buzzing! Hive you heard our new episode?? Okay enough bee puns...

This week we are joined by Jessica Moran, who's PhD is all about bee diseases (bee-seases??) We had a chat about how to manage a hive and why the bee movie is entirely wrong.

You can find Jess on @ Jessica_M_Bee on Instagram and twitter.

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

Noongar Ranger Elisha Jacobs-Smith joins us for the first episode of season 3! This season we are deep diving on environmental careers and topics. Elisha joined us to chat about connection to country and just how cool our native species are.

Find more of our content at particle.scitech.org.au or @ particlewa on instagram or twitter. Our podcast host is @ rose.zkerr on instagram.

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Welcome to an exciting bonus season of Wonder Kids, made with the MS Readathon. Join us each week to hear a special guest talk about a book that inspired their science journey. This week, Leah joins us to talk about "Black Beauty".

Welcome to an exciting bonus season of Wonder Kids, made with the MS Readathon. Join us each week to hear a special guest talk about a book that inspired their science journey. This week, Charlie joins us to talk about "Looking For Crabs".

The Particle Podcast is off to the zoo! Join us as we chat to zookeeper Holly Thompson about playing matchmaker for gibbons. We also talked about zoo management, designing habitat and weird animal encounters.

You can follow Perth Zoo's socials to see more cute animals @perthzoo on FB, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok

Particle Podcast is about science and the people who just love it. It's produced and presented by Rose Kerr (@rosie.zkerr). You can find more Particle at particle.scitech.org.au or @ParticleWA on Twitter and Instagram.

Welcome to an exciting bonus season of Wonder Kids, made with the MS Readathon. Join us each week to hear a special guest talk about a book that inspired their science journey. This week, author and scientist Lee Constable joins us to talk about her book, "How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet".