When scifi becomes scifact: Seven insights from the pandemic
Science fiction, or scifi, can be prescient, and scifi writers can become as ‘prophets’. Pandemics - and wars – have been used in scifi to hold a mirror to humankind...
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Free videos highlight expert support for social sector
Small to medium sized Australian charities and not-for-profit organisations now have access to a resource to support their organisations during times of change, challenge and transformation. The X-Change Video Library...
Read MoreJust like riding a bike
It's amazing how some things just seem to flow when you start up after a break. In July this year, I was approached to write some stories about innovative ongoing...
Read MoreEndangered Regent Honeyeater explained online
Learn more about Australia’s most endangered songbird in three podcasts available online that were produced by The Comms Doctor®. The three stories describe: the Regent Honeyeater; how it is being...
Read More2020 – the year people re-discovered the value of Science
Widespread droughts, catastrophic bushfires, floods and typhoons, topped with a global pandemic and subsequent economic downturns: the world has endured a year of challenges, both natural and arguably man-made. These...
Read MoreArt, science together grab community and media attention
Great to see art and science attracting local (and media!) attention in NE Victoria. This new nature-based mural is fantastic and deserves accolades for Chiltern-based artist Kirrily Anderson.Come and have...
Read MoreLand and water episodes in Charles Sturt Stories
The latest series of podcasts at Charles Sturt Stories (on Soundcloud) includes interviews I recorded in 2019 with leading ecological researchers from Charles Sturt University. This included Professor Lee Baumgartner...
Read MoreWeaving your story using social media
Social media are important tools in a modern researcher’s box of communication tricks. Since the advent of Facebook in 2004, social media has been used to promote research stories locally,...
Read MoreWeb power
Websites can play a powerful role in communicating research, combining colour, sound, movement, words, pictures, connection, access, history and engagement with information - all in one package. Since they exploded...
Read MoreIt’s a moving feast
Ever seen a movie about making movies, and the director says to the actor standing in front of the camera, “Now do it again, this time with feeling!” This statement...
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