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About Nyuroscientist
I am a singing scientist: I sing in the laboratory and contemplate science in the shower.
I started as an immunologist and am now an enthusiastic science communicator and educator. I teach STEM students how to communicate their research or complex scientific information, and also share science myself with a broad range of audiences - often while singing and dancing. I regularly engage with mentoring and outreach programs to share science online, in print publications, on radio, and in schools across Australia and beyond.
In addition to my work, I am an advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM. I am passionate about lifting up women and non-binary people in science, creating opportunities for rural & regional students, and support LGBTQIA+ students and workers in STEMM.
Songs written for Scienceworks
Scientific Earworms
Songs by the "Singing Scientist"
All Videos
Solving COVID-19
Solving COVID-19
A Taxonomy Song (King Phillip Claps Often For Good Science)
I am who I am (and that's ok)
States of Matter
Day and Night
Seasons
Journey in the Solar System
Mask Up!
SARS-CoV-2: Looking for every clue
Central Dogma (DNA - RNA - Protein)
NKTs for Immunity
Everything's better with your MAITs
Poos Blues - A Journey of Digestion
As You Are
Mother Dearest
Science Queeries on JOY
Science Queeries brings the joy and curiosity of science. The show will explore scientific topics, from the ever-expanding, massive cosmos to microscopic cells in our bodies. Each episode features explanations of scientific concepts we’ve all heard of but may not know too much about, interviews with local LGBTQIA+ scientists, and listener questions, creating a welcoming space for the JOY community to learn about and engage with science in a meaningful way.
The show is broadcast on Tuesdays from 6-7pm on JOY 94.9 (FM).
Listen to previous episodes at https://joy.org.au/sciencequeeries/ or wherever you listen to podcasts.
 The hoppy world of marsupial reproductionDr Cat chats to animal lover, Ingrid Crossing, about marsupial reproduction. From the male yapok that has a pouch to tuck his testes in before he goes swimming, to the kangaroos that have not one, but three vaginas and two uteri! Dr Cat and Ingrid hop through the way marsupials bring life into the world. It’s a real joey-ride with pouchfuls of interesting facts. |  Somewhere over the rainbow there’s gay spaceSpace is soooo gay. Let’s go star gay-zing. Dr Cat and Zofia Witkowski-Blake, presenter at Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks, orbited queer cosmic stories, launched into what happens when humans are in space, and reflected (or should we say refracted?) on rainbows. Queerness – like the universe – is vast, dazzling, and ever-expanding. This week, we’re going full galactic glam and reaching for the stars, bending light, and being our own rainbows. |  Over the MoonWe’re over the Moon about science, cultural stories, and celebration! Quoc Viet Tran from Vietnamese Museum Australia reminisces with Dr Cat about cultural stories of the Moon and the Vietnamese version of the Mid-Autumn Festival: Tết Trung Thu. They discuss the science of the Moon and share the light of Tết Trung Thu. |
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 Science, Sass and Song: The Radiothon Riff-OffFor a fabulously nerdy Radiothon special, Dr Cat goes full STEAM ahead with a science-packed extravaganza. She tests her history buff brother Sasha Kober’s knowledge of scientific discoveries and historical episodes of Science Queeries. She fields questions in an Ask Me Anything, runs a quiz showdown between her brother and Little Jase from Big Bi+ Questions, and belts out some science karaoke. It’s brains, banter, and belting for a brilliant cause: supporting JOY. |  Bi-le meansCelebrating World Hepatitis Day, we have an un-bile-liver-ably great episode of Science Queeries in store for you. The 2025 theme was “Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down” – and that’s what Jon Kok and Dr Cat are going to do. Around 354 million people worldwide live with hepatitis B or C, and most of them have no access to services for testing and treatment. Even in Australia. Jon and Dr Cat chat about where to from here. |  Nature Bi DesignWe’re talking about the animal “queendom”, because same-sex sexual behaviour is quite common among animals – in at least 1,500 species. For a crossover episode with Big Bi+ Questions, Dr Cat, and two of BBQ’s co-hosts Dave Samuels and Jason Turner, go on a wild ride through some of the animal kingdom’s queerest species. (Stay tuned for a future BBQ episode, on which they will discuss whether animals that display same-sex sexual behaviour are gay, bi+, or something else…) |
 You'll be hooked on this episodeWe’re casting a net to reel in some knowledge. Dr Cat dives deep into the tangled world of ghost nets with marine conservation ecologist, Jess Leck. She is the GhostNets Australia Program Coordinator for OceanEarth Foundation, working with communities across Northern Australia, Asia and the Pacific to address fishing debris in our oceans at their source. Their work shows us that when communities come together, we really can turn the tide. |  Soooo bandi-cute!Dr Cat chats to Eilish Roberts about bandicoots. Eilish is the Southern Brown Bandicoot Outreach Officer at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, working to engage communities around creating bandicoot-friendly suburbs. Jump on the bandi-wagon as they dig deep into these cuties, what’s threatening their survival, and their groundbreaking impact on the environment – literally. |