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Our curator for the coming week on RealScientists is @ickbat, better known within the Physics department at the University of Sydney as Dr Nicholas Bate. Nick is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sydney Institute...
This week RealScientists has been joined by Michelle Weirathmueller, PhD candidate at the University of Washington in the US, tweeting about (amongst other things) her research using data from ocean bottom seismometers to track...
“When Seattle scientists set out to monitor earthquakes off the Northwest coast, they expected their underwater seismometers to occasionally pick up the booming voice of the fin whale — the second-largest creature on Earth....
Dr Simon O’Toole of the Australian Astronomical Observatory was our curator on @RealScientists this week, talking planets, stars, weird astronomy and science communication. @drsimmo took on some Seriously Big Science Questions during his week,...
In response to a few queries we’ve had over the past while about how people can become @RealScientists curators, how we in Team RS go about selecting potential curators, and general advice-seeking about the...
Dr Simon O’Toole of the Australian Astronomical Observatory is our next contestant on The Science Is Right @RealScientists: discoverer of worlds, enabler of research, communicator of science, manager of information and writer of words....
Anytime you think you’re having a bad week, remember this: you could be infected with entomopathogenic nematodes. Thanks and farewell to Dr Matt Hill aka @InsectEcology for a great week of insect ecology and...
From fisheries, sustainability and motorbikes to mites, beer and evolutionary genetics: this week’s Real Scientists curator, Dr Matt Hill/@Insectecology, studies bugs and ecosystems for fun and sort of profit. Hailing form Australia but now...
We’ll let our curator for this past week, Maylynn Nunn, summarise her story in her own words – taken from some of her first few tweets a week ago: I work with the Marine...