The last article from the Are We Alone night (with Q&A video) focussing on rogue planets that are flung from their orbits due to other planets/stars and which may yet host life... This feature was in The Age but syndication meant it appeared in several other national papers (Canberra Times as well as the Newcastle Herald).
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My continuing interviews with Peter Spinks now on rogue exoplanets, which came up in our succesful Are We Alone night in Federation Square, Melbourne. This was originally printed in The Age (but thanks to syndication appeared in the Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald!)
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My first interview with Peter Spinks on the search for exoplanets, features a plug for the Are We Alone night in Federation Square, Melbourne. This was originally printed in The Age (thanks to syndication also appeared in Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald).
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I made it all the way to UK when the Daily Mail picked up my research for the new surveys using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder... known as WALLABY and DINGO. Great pun leading this... "Forget Skippy: WALLABY and DINGO to find 700k galaxies". Also the comments at the end are fun too.
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A feature by the always superb Guardian newspaper on my work predicting the performance of the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.
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An extended interview in The Age on the possibilities of finding galaxies with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.
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What started off as a chat about my latest research on finding galaxies with a soon to be built telescope ended up in a massive discussion about the Big Bang!
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In 2011/2012 I was chosen by the Sunday Times Magazine as one of Western Australia's Best and Brightest. Incredibly I'm in the same list as rugby international legend David Pocock, which is absurd but definitely flattering!
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Article on my evening planaterium show hosted at SciTech in my local (at the time) newspaper
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An article about my work on investigating the so-called 'backreaction' of the baryons, i.e. gas and stars, in galaxies on the surrounding Dark Matter. Typically the latter is assumed to dominate and the effects of the galaxies are ignored, this work showed that this isn't the case when one is close enough to the centre.
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A brief explanation of the role of simulations in aiding the construction of next generation telescopes. Essentially, how do you know what you will see with a telescope that doesn't exist yet?
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I came back to the town of Kalgoorlie to speak at the WA Museum, absolutely fascinating place if you've never been there... I highly recommend a visit!
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A feature article in the prestiguous journal Nature on construction efforts for ASKAP and my own small role in this next-generation telescope.
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Together with the wonderful Renae Sayers we were brought on the show to talk about a live debate called Profs and Pints that was running that week. Then questions (and inappropriate plugs on air) went wild.
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A brief interview on my talks trip round the Goldfields of WA. Fascinating countryside and incredible history in this frontier, goldrush town!
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Yours truly and WA Chief Scientist Prof Lyn Beazley on a school talk tour around Boulder and Kalgoorlie.
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A brief article detailing my initial efforts at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research to create simulations that follow the formation of galaxies across millions of lightyears of space.
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A letter concerning the developments for (what will be) the World's largest single dish telescope, the Five-Hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope. Precocious and self-promoting but I had nearly finished my PhD and was feeling pretty opinionated!
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