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Episodes: 78
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: Australia
Instagram: 82 followers
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Publicly listed emails
thehpspodcast@gmail.com
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Host
Thomas Spiteri - Lead host of the University of Melbourne podcast covering history, philosophy, and social studies of science for a general audience.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Peter Galison - Scientific Images, Experimentation, Objectivity, Secrecy, The 2019 M87* Black Hole Image, Distributed Knowledge, And The Design Of Large Scientific Collaborations.
Jahnavi Phalkey - India's Place In The History Of Modern Science, Particle Accelerators, Postcolonial Science, National Laboratories, Big Science, And Public Engagement With Research.
Mazviita Chirimuuta - Simplification In Neuroscience, Scientific Models, Reduction, Mathematical Representation, Analogy, Neuroscience And Artificial Intelligence, And Theoretical Pluralism.
Magdalena Skipper - Scientific Publishing, Evidence And Rigor, Replication, Meta-science, Transparent Peer Review, Research Inequities, And Public Trust In Science.
Steven Shapin - The Social Foundations Of Scientific Knowledge, Credibility, Expertise, Rhetoric, Political Influences On Science, Digital Communication, And The Relationship Between Objectivity And Shared Judgment.
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Episodes
Peter Galison & Sophie Ritson on Imaging the Invisible
September 11, 2026
This week, Dr Sophie Ritson is in conversation with Professor Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University, a founding member of the Black Hole Initiative, and coordinator of the History, Philosophy and Culture (HPC) Working Group of the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT).Galison is a historian and philosopher of science whose work has explored how experiments end, how scientific images are made and interpreted, and...
Jahnavi Phalkey on India's Place in the History of Modern Science
August 27, 2026
This week, Thomas Spiteri speaks with Dr Jahnavi Phalkey, historian of science and technology, filmmaker, and Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru. Phalkey is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India, and producer-director of the documentary film Cyclotron (2020) – a film about the world's oldest functional particle accelerator and the people who keep it running today. Her writing spans the history of science, technology, and the state in twentieth-cen...
Mazviita Chirimuuta on Simplification in Neuroscience
August 12, 2026
This week, Thomas Spiteri speaks with Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2024) – winner of the 2025 Lakatos Award and the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Philosophy.The conversation centres on the central argument of the book: that the leading ideas which have shaped ...
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