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Azure, tropical water, golden beaches, turtles…This week’s Real Scientists curator may have the coolest job ever. I know we say that every week, but it’s true. Real Scientists takes you to sunny, semi-tropical Townsville,...
Wow. Not much else to say after a full-throttle week of natural history tweetery from Dr Andy Warren, Senior Collections Manager at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, at the Florida Museum of Natural...
Can this be true? Is this for real? YES. See? We wouldn’t fib about something as important as this. Is RealScientists coming to Facebook the single most significant happening in science communication since (a) the...
A confession. We always start these curator intro posts by saying something along the lines of ‘We are tremendously thrilled to welcome this week’s curator…’ Because, basically, we are. Always. We started this thing...
Crikey, this week has fair dinkum flown past like a kookaburra with its arse-feathers on fire and it’s time to farewell bonzer sheila @reneewebs from Rool Scientists. Ay. No wucken furries! …Sorry, no idea...
Life’s a gas (chromatograph) when you’re our next RealScientist curator, Renée Webster of Monash University. As Renée has pointed out at her blog, she’s the very first chemist we’ve had on RS, but not the...
Blue and green frequently seen together, soft featheredged cats, scarves with echocardiograms – this week with artist Michele Banks has been an eye opener for the Real Scientists community. Michele came from a management...
Dustin Welbourne, papparazzo and biogeographer to Australian fauna, has left us after a magnificent week’s tweeting about everything from snake venom, human ears and the magnificent birds and beasts that people our landscape. This week...
Thanks to @DustinWelbourne of UNSW, ANU and various outback paddocks for his past week curating @RealScientists. Dustin brought his PhD research on optimising non-invasive techniques for detecting animals (such as motion activated cameras and acoustic...