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“Slugs and snails, and puppy dogs’ tails” – these and the 95% of animals species that are invertebrates (well, except for the puppy tails) – are the critters that preoccupy this week’s Real Scientists...
We bid thanks and farewell to the scienceytastic, word-and-punctuation-inveting, map-loving social media butterfly Will J Grant/@willozap after an engaging week tweeting for us at Real Scientists. Will’s real-time tweets from his own lectures, coal-hunting...
Dr Will Grant of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU joins RealScientists this week as our curator. Will is a political scientist and sociologist by training, with a...
Astronomical thanks to @astrokiwi, Michele Bannister of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, for her star turn as this week’s @RealScientists curator. Michele’s kept up our meteoric standards of universally fascinating science tweetage, and...
From the jungles of Peru to…. OUTER SPAAAAACE. Because why not. Next week we are welcoming planetary astronomer and expatriate New Zealander Michele Bannister, aka @AstroKiwi. Michele is a postdoctoral researcher with the Outer...
Jaguars, beetles, pumas, butterflies, beetlejuice drinking wasps, monkey-riddled cacao…this is a shortlist of some of the things our very own tweeting-Gerald Durrell, Phil Torres, has shared with us on his adventures in the Peruvian...
We are thrilled to welcome to RealScientists conservation biologist and science educator Phil Torres, who will be curating the account this week (March 10-17) from the field. And when we say ‘the field’, we...
Huge thanks to Dr Kristin Alford for curating Real Scientists this week. It’s been a real eye-opener and privilege to have an insight into her incredibly busy life, and to the kinds of big...
From the beamline to the role of science in society and the future: this week we welcome Dr Kristin Alford: TEDxAdelaide organiser, science communicator, ex-engineer, future strategist and founding director of Bridge8. We thought we’d...
Our thanks to Dr Helen Maynard-Casely of the Australian Synchrotron for a brilliant week of curation here at RealScientists. Excitement, despair, ennui, frustration and elation… and that was just one late-night run on the...