Going Down to Hobart: Dr Hannah Thompson joins Real Scientists
One of the things we really love about Real Scientists is that we, along with the community, get a feel for what it’s like to be in other fields of science, or to be...
Monthly Archive: November 2013
Mutate or die: farewell and thanks, Dr Trent Yarwood
‘Real science from real scientists, communicators, writers, artists, clinicians.’ OK so this year hasn’t seen so much of the latter, until this week where RealScientists featured our first clinician curator, infectious diseases specialist Dr...
Superbugs, stewardship and sci-fi: welcome Dr Trent Yarwood to RealScientists
Our curator for this coming week is Dr Trent Yarwood, infectious diseases clinician by day, public health specialist by night… or something like that. We’ll let Trent introduce himself: I work half-time as an...
Life in numbers: thanks and farewell, Dr Lindsay Waldrop
Humans like to categorise things, and scientists like to categorise things more than most humans – there are entire scientific disciplines based on the putting of living things into categories on the basis of...
Cross-Disciplinary Action: Welcome Dr Lindsay Waldrop
Our next curator for Real Scientists hails from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr Lindsay Waldrop (@inverternerd) is a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics whose work focuses on how tiny animals...
#jameshutson – Thanks and Farewell
Real Scientists has been lucky this week to “curate” [sorry] a series of wonderful discussions and tweets around science, communication and art with animatin’ writin’ illustratin’ host, James Hutson. James gave us a great...
Get Animated: Welcome James Hutson to Real Scientists!
From London back to Melbourne, we thank The Conversation UK’s Science and Tech editor Akshat Rathi for his week curating as Real Scientists. And now it is our great pleasure to welcome our next...
Conversation starter: thanks and farewell to Dr Akshat Rathi of The Conversation UK
For the past week on @RealScientists we’ve been honoured with the curationary company of Dr Akshat Rathi, Science and Technology Editor for The Conversation UK. Like its Australian forebear, The Conversation is an independent...