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Science Shambles Tech Run

Welcome to a live QnA edition of our Science Shambles podcast. Please keep in mind that today is a tech run for the show so there may be a few little glitches here and there, bear with us! Science Shambles is hosted by comedian Robin Ince and physicist Dr Helen Czerski. Guests on today’s show are t…

Ep 18: Ada Lovelace Day Live!

This month, we’re coming to you straight from our annual STEM cabaret, Ada Lovelace Day Live! Chemical engineer Yasmin Ali and Natural History Museum curator Miranda Lowe both talk about their careers. Some of our audience members tell us about the women in STEM that they admire. Geek songstress …

E7: Decolonising Natural History with Miranda Lowe

Miranda Lowe has been an amazing advocate for highlighting the hidden stories of the role of people of colour in the history of natural history. This podcast is a conversation about her journey becoming a museum curator, uncovering the story of Graman Kwasimukambe, whom the medicinal plant Quassia …

What if… we wanted to better equip young people to address climate change? | IOE Debates

Environmental degradation is the global challenge of our times. As demonstrated vividly by the climate strikes among school pupils, many young people feel passionate about ‘saving the planet’, but this cause is also a source of anxiety and even helplessness. Is the National Curriculum and the knowl…

Episode 19: Episode 19: Hog lice, freshwater shrimp (and a cheeky hydra)

For our final episode, Jules is joined by the fantastic Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustacea at Natural History Museum, London. We talk about freshwater hog lice and water shrimps and how cool crustaceans are! Miranda talks about why crustaceans are so good at colonising new places and, in…

Miranda Lowe in conversation with Roger Kneebone

As Principal Curator of Crustacea and Cnideria at the Natural History Museum, Miranda Lowe is responsible for the museum's vast collection of marine invertebrates, dating back over two hundred years. In addition to her own research she is passionate about inspiring and mentoring young people and in…

Decolonizing Spaces of Knowledge ft. Emil Eleftheriotis-Pratt

Joined by half-Scottish half-Greek spatial historian Emil Eleftheriotis-Pratt, this excruciatingly long episode tackles the question: How can decolonization be more than a buzzword that Claire embarrassingly wears on an overpriced t-shirt? We discuss Boris Johnson's not very hot takes on the Parth…

Imperial Loot Gallery

Subhadra Das, Writer of Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024), considers how museums are dealing with the challenge to honestly interpret object provenance linked to empire. She questions if museums lie by omission. #Empire #Eugenics #Genocide #Loot  #Racism #NaturalHistory  #Restitution…

2: The Immortal Jellyfish – Miranda Lowe

The Jellyfish that refuse to die. MIRANDA LOWE CBE, a principal curator in the Department of Life Sciences at the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM in LONDON, introduces us to the extraordinary world of the immortal jellyfish. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Miranda Lowe of the Natural Hi…

5: Time, Mortality, and the Immortal Jellyfish

In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Patricia Kingori, Miranda Lowe, Felix Flicker and Martin O'Brien come together for a discussion on time, mortality and immortality. Sociologist Patricia Kingori brings together the ideas on time, mortality and immortality of museum curator and je…