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An interview (10th Jan 2014) with ABC 774 Drive time presenter Michael Veitch ended up being a 40 min show with me taking calls from around Australia. A lot of fun with some seriously challenging questions!
Read MoreThe story of the 18th century French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil.
Read MoreA fun chat about a free-floating planet and water-rich asteroids with a very well-versed Brian Carlton breaking astronomy stories..!
Read MoreA phone interview about the latest research into the meteorite which caused so much damage in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Read MoreInterview about the UN efforts to combat the threat of asteroid
Read MoreA great opportunity to chat about my hero, Prof Stephen Hawking, with Al Jazeera.
Read MoreI was honoured to be given the chance to tell the school my life and what lessons I've learnt from working in science and how they might be able to follow. And of course I mention the SKA!
Read MoreThe Pilbara is big, isolated and gorgeous. It's also a beautiful place to view the stars from and is filled with curious school kids who attend my talks on indigenous astronomy and dark matter. I also got to explain just what it is I do as an astronomer and how they could get into science too.
Read MoreI got to indulge my geek side with the rest of the awesome panel on the Splendid Chaps' podcast discussing the Science of Doctor Who. Little did I know this would lead to a BBC supported national tour with the RiAus' Science of Doctor Who Live.
Read MoreAn interview for The Age the success of NASA's Voyager 1 in leaving the Solar System. This was an extremely tight lead time, a fun process to beat the deadline, and was used for other newspapers around Australia as well as The Age (e.g. Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald).
Read MoreA very flattering feature on the excellent website, Australia Unlimited, that showcases breakthrough Australian talent - my co-interviewees in the other sections are impressive to say the least!
Read MoreThe 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).
Read MoreI spoke at Fed Square for The Age's Science at the Edge event discussing the search for habitable worlds as part of the search for life with three other scientists.
Read MoreI spent a fun day in the gorgeous Dandenong ranges East of Melbourne chatting to the schools there as part of the Mt Burnett Observatory Science Day. Hundreds of pupils attended a day-long series of talks at the Observatory (where I got to show off the helioscope to view the Sun in H-alpha) and then I headed to Emerald High School to speak there about Australian astronomy.
Read MoreIt was an honour to make it all the way to the State Finals for the national Fresh Science competition to find great science in the country and learn how to present it to the general public.
Read MoreI was part of an amazing initiative by Jacinta Lee Den Besten to get astronomy as part of schools curriculum across the State. Known as Telescopes in Schools a dozen quality telescopes have been housed in schools that then run regular evening night sky tours. I swung round a few schools to chat about what you can see (and what you can't like Dark Matter).
Read MoreMy 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!)
Read MoreMy 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).
Read MoreIn this paper, we present a fascinating technique using the outbursts of supermassive blackholes as barometers to measure the pressure of the gas around the galaxies, as the outbursts inflate 'bubbles' of ionised gas. These pressures were then compared with the hydrodynamical simulations and found to be significantly rarer, over-pressurised regions than normal. Reference: Malarecki, Staveley-Smith, Saripalli, Subrahmanyan, Jones, Duffy, Rioja 2013 MNRAS 432 200M.
Read MoreCan science be taught through comedy? I headed to the Adelaide Fringe to test the theory out. I will never do stand up again but yes particle physics lessons were remembered by the audience later that evening which was cool
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