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The Science Write Now (SWN) Podcast is a podcast for people who love science and the arts. If you’re interested in learning more about great books, plays, and films; writing, research or editing; the lives of scientists; and creative insights into contemporary science; then you’ve come to the right place! The SWN Podcast is hosted and produced by the SWN editorial team with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. www.sciencewritenow.com
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Meeting the Wildness Within with Lauren Keegan
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Unearthing Stories: Flipping Funghi and Licking Rocks with Romy Ash and Verity Borthwick
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May 17, 2026 |
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Cognitive Conversations #10 A Final Note from the He(art): Music as Medicine with Dr Sue Wilson and Helen Carrington
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Landscapes of Fear: The Complexities of Large Carnivore Reintroduction with Jonny Hanson
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The wonder of science with palaeontologist Dr Kaylene Cooper
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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SWN special: Meet Queensland's Chief Scientist, Professor Kerrie Wilson
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #9 Re-writing the narrative of Functional Neurological Disorders (bonus episode!)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #9 Language Matters: Re-writing the Narrative of Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #8 Wired to Write part one: On Neuroscience and Creativity with Dr Sue Woolfe and Dr Nicola Redhouse
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #8 Wired to Write part two: On Neuroscience and Creativity with Dr Sue Woolfe and Dr Nicola Redhouse
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #7 On Brain Preservation and Existential Optimism with Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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SWN Live at Books@Stones: 50 Ways to Die in Space with Dr Eileen O'Hely, Nico O'Sullivan & Jacinta dan Besten
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May 28, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #6: Exploded View - Philosophies of the Brain and Mind
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May 13, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #5: Ooh, ah, um, ouch! On speech pathology and the language of pain with Dr Jules Mead and Diane Clarke
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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New Light: Joachim Froese on salt printing, slow art and photography now + then
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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‘We’re All Preppers Now’: Preppers, bunkers and bugging out with Dr Tom Doig
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Cognitive Conversations #4: Out of the Box: Navigating Neurodivergence with Madonna King
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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SWN LIVE: The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 with Carl Smith & Amanda Niehaus
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Cognitive Conversations #3 Narrative Medicine: On Writing the Mind and Body
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Cognitive Conversations #2 – Under the Microscope: Art and Science as Intervention
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Cognitive Conversations #1: Synergies - The Art of Living a Double Life
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Michael Brissenden on 'Smoke' - (writing) crime, corruption, and climate-fuelled wildfires
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Imprinting Empathy: Art, AI and Fungi with Bianca Tainsh
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Storytelling to Save the Reef with Dr Paul E Hardisty
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Spinal Tap... but make it Joycean with G. S. Dickson
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Exploring Big Questions and Big Feelings through Speculative Fiction with Grace Chan
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Comfort in the Cosmic with Alicia Sometimes
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Curiosity, Kindness and Storytelling with Jodi Rodgers
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Cells, Ears, Impairments and Memoir, with with Amanda Tink, Lauren Poole and Heather Taylor Johnson
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Bursting with Science and Story
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May 03, 2023 |
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All Things Comedy with Anne Libera (The Second City)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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The Absurdist Truths of Climate Change
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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The stories of seeds with Fiona McMillan-Webster
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Keeping Secrets and Finding Science with Danielle Clode
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Writing Beyond the Human with Chris Flynn
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May 21, 2022 |
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Lost Lives Found in Fiction and Ecobiography with Melissa Ashley and Jessica White
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May 11, 2022 |
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The Nature of Trees and Rivers with Ashley Hay and Simon Cleary
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Science in Virtual Realities with Michael Angilletta
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Time, memory and the stories of our lives with Sven Birkerts
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Writing, re-writing, and the scales of change with Matt Bell
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Re-imagining Darwin for the stage with David Morton
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Texture and mood with Kathleen Jennings
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Writing and painting nature with Inda Ahmad Zahri
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Eco-fiction for every reader with Andrea Baldwin
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Animal characters and authentic environments with Renée Treml
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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The future of sex with Rob Brooks
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Writing ecological emergency with Rebecca Giggs
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Science in poetry with Tricia Dearborn and Benjamin Dodds
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Writing de/extinction with James Bradley, Donna Mazza & Chris Flynn
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Women in science in fiction with Laura Elvery
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Sep 16, 2021 |