Bonus Episode - Coded in Curiosity with Science Week
I'm Grand Mam
Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby
4.7 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The them for Science Week 2025, which is supported by Research Ireland is 'Then, Today, Tomorrow.,' and Kevin and PJ are exploring how Artificial Intelligence has evolved from a futuristic fantasy to one of the most powerful tools in modern science. To guide them through it, they’re joined by Professor Alan Smeaton, one of Ireland’s leading experts in AI and data analytics at DCU. The conversation takes in AlphaFold and the breakthroughs it’s bringing to drug discovery, the use of computer vision to analyse medical scans and biopsies and the rise of wearable tech that helps us monitor our own health and wellbeing. Alan also shares insights from his own fascinating research using AI and assistance dogs to detect epileptic seizures.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey girlies, I'm Kevin. |
| 0:02.5 | And I'm PJ. |
| 0:03.5 | And welcome back to I'm Grandam. |
| 0:07.2 | Woo! |
| 0:08.4 | Right, so this week we have a very special episode that's sponsored by Science Week. |
| 0:13.1 | We've worked with them before, but in case you don't know the score, Science Week is a national celebration of science, technology, engineering and mats, with hundreds of events for people |
| 0:21.1 | of all ages taking place across Ireland. Science Week 2025 will be taking place from the 9th to |
| 0:27.3 | 16th of November. It's our third year of working with Science Week because we are what, curious, |
| 0:32.9 | and what, lifelong learners, knowledge is power girlies. In 2025 2025 marks the 30th year of science week |
| 0:40.4 | three whole decades of harnessing the power of curiosity and collaboration to advanced science |
| 0:47.4 | in Ireland so very fittingly girlies the theme for Science Week 2025 is then |
| 0:55.3 | today, tomorrow. |
| 0:58.2 | Alexa, play |
| 0:59.4 | boom, boom, pow by the black eyed |
| 1:01.5 | peas. |
| 1:03.0 | It's because |
| 1:03.8 | the reason we're going with this song, they have the line |
| 1:05.6 | I'm sold |
| 1:07.7 | 3,000 and age, so 2,000 in late. |
| 1:10.2 | Which, put that on my tombstone. Just in case people back home didn't get it.000 in late Which put that on my tombstone |
| 1:11.5 | Just in case people back home didn't get it |
| 1:13.5 | I'm obsessed |
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