Australia’s central deserts support rich assemblages of animals and plants: add water, and the seemingly barren landscapes transform and pulsate with colour and activity. In this lecture, Professor Dickman will take us through the extraordinary ‘boom’ and ‘bust’ cycles that characterise inland Australia and examine how life persists during good times and bad. You will […]
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One of Australia’s leading independent documentary production companies, Electric Pictures, is seeking expressions of interest (and evidence of ability) from science communicators with the potential to join the company’s development team. In recent years, Electric has produced a variety of award-winning science films for Australian and international television, including ‘Cracking […]
A lot of people have seen Saturn and its rings through a small backyard telescope. But 400 years ago, the first telescopes couldn’t even show that Saturn /had/ rings.
Today we’ve got telescopes that can see right back to when the Universe was young and galaxies were in their teenage years.
Dr Kim-Vy Tran is a […]
As part of Queensland Museum South Bank’s exciting Science for Life! program celebrating National Science Week, we are holding a special event: DIY Chemistry.
DIY Chemistry
Chemistry is all around us, from farts to food but have you ever wondered what a chemist really does? This is your chance to find out!
Chemists from the ARC Centre of […]
As part of Queensland Museum South Bank’s exciting Science for Life! program celebrating National Science Week, we are holding a special evening event: Science After Dark: Radical Wine.
Science After Dark: Radical Wine 27 August, 5pm- 8pm
We have all heard that wine is good for us in moderation because it contains antioxidants. But what exactly are […]
As part of our National Science Week program, Queensland Museum South Bank is hosting a special presentation by science broadcaster and journalist, Robyn Williams.
Robyn Williams
The Promise of Miracles: How to survive the 21st century
Join us for a special presentation by one of Australia’s foremost broadcasters and science journalists.
Robyn Williams first Science Show was broadcast in […]
Job opportunity: Science in Society Project Officer The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) is rapidly establishing itself as a dynamic, contemporary and accessible national home for science – a place for people to listen, talk, blog, download and think about science in all its shapes and forms.
In a joint venture with the Federal Government (DIISR […]
UWA’s Friday Science Communication Seminars start this week
When: 4:00PM – 5:00PM
Where: Centre for Learning Technology http://www.uwa.edu.au/campus_map?id=2173 Drinks and nibbles provided.
Our first speaker is Jesse Shore, President of Australian Science Communicators. Jesse is the owner and content developer of Prismatic Sciences, an organisation providing in science communication services.
http://www.prismaticsciences.com
Jesse has over 25 years of experience as a […]
ASC Dinner with Jesse Shore
Date: 29 July 2010 Time: 6.30pm Location: The Oxford Hotel 368 Oxford St, Leederville, WA RSVP: at http://dinnerwithascpresident.eventbrite.com
Dr Jesse Shore will be visiting Perth! Jesse is the brain behind science communication consultancy company Prismatic Sciences (based in NSW).
His bio states: Jesse aims to make science meaningful to a variety of […]
Science communication colleagues,
My arm is being twisted to offer a NSW chapter session on ‘TRUST’ … trust me.
The request was stimulated by my brief presentation on this topic at the ASC conference in Canberra. After much harassing by Phil Dooley, I have agreed to organise a session to occur here in Sydney in the […]