A group of science students and researchers at Queensland University have started a petition seeking 20,000 names in support of a letter urging Australian youth radio network Triple J to feature more science news. The group dubbed And in Science quote research from ANU University that suggests the public is very interested in stories about […]
MoreI spent an enjoyable morning at the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes where the glow of last night’s premiere of The Hobbit was obviously still buoying attendees – particularly the Prime Minister, who at one stage suggested there were “cauldrons of opportunity” in science. The PM’s Science Prizes spell the end of the science awards season, […]
MoreIf you are a blogger writer or science communicator, you should seriously consider checking out the upcoming Writing Science event being held at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Auckland in October. I’ll be there and the programme looks pretty impressive. What’s the workshop about? The following quote from the workshop promotional material pretty much sums it up: […]
MoreWhat a show for the re-launched Sciblogs podcast! I talk to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the creator of the Apple I and the engineering genius to Steve Jobs’ design brilliance. We catch up with futurist Mark Stevenson who was in Wellington recently as a “brain for hire”. And I ask Sciblogger, Professor Shaun Hendy, what […]
MoreThere’s a new player in science communication that has emerged across the Tasman, in the form of The Conversation, a website backed by numerous Australian universities and overseen by a highly experienced team of journalists and scientists. I’ve known The Conversation was coming for some time – our colleagues at the Australian Science Media Centre […]
MoreListen to past and present world leaders like Barack Obama, Tony Blair and even George W. Bush and you’ll hear a particular speech-making tool in action – chunking. I was introduced to chunking today at a presentation at the Foo Camp “unconference” held at Mahurangi College just out of Warkworth by Olivia Mitchell, a speech […]
MoreThe Wellington workshops of the Emerging Researchers roadshow featured the highest number of social scientists of all the main centres. Here’s how they summed up their research in a couple of sentences… My colleague Dacia Herbulock stepped in to run these sessions while I was down in Dunedin for the science festival. Here are her […]
MoreSlightly belated, but here are the results of the Palmerston North workshops on the Emerging Researchers roadshow, where scientists had five minutes to sum up their research in one or two sentences only. My top 10 favourites from Palmy… Imagine if we could have the FIFA World Cup stadium surface area condensed into a one […]
MoreThe Emerging Researchers roadshow trucks on and more researchers who participated in my Communicating your Research workshop have come up with succinct ways of describing their science or research. Apologies to those in Palmerston North, I left your workshop exercises in Wellington while I was home briefly so will post them on my return. See […]
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