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Watch “The infinite life of pi – Reynaldo Lopes” on YouTube
A good primer on Pi if you want to brush up on your numeracy.
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Watch “What can Schrödinger’s cat teach us about quantum mechanics? – Josh Samani” on YouTube
More kitties and Schrodinger.
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Watch “Schrödinger’s cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics – Chad Orzel” on YouTube
An explanation of why cats rule the internet and how electrons behave for the science journalists out there. 🙂
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Watch “How statistics can be misleading – Mark Liddell” on YouTube
Numeracy can be a stumbling block for journalists. For people used to working with words, it can be a struggle to figure out what statistics are saying and if they actually are hiding anything or misleading anyone. This TED Ed lesson is a good place to start with an explanation of Simpson’s Paradox.
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Tips for being a science journalist
A brief summary of my seminar (part of the UWA Science Communication Seminar series) on 6 August 2010.
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Interviewing as the science journalist
This was an area of great interest and concern when I curated the @realscientists Twitter account a couple of months ago. People had their horror stories and others wanted to know how it should be done. We tried to get a live interview up and running so people could actually watch me in action but time zones and technology conspired against us. Maybe one day we will manage it. If you are a scientist who would be up for a mock interview via a G+ hangout to be archived on Youtube let me know. Preparation: Research the person and the story and the science involved. Set up your notebook and…
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53 free ways for science journalists to brush up on their science… and counting
This is a list of FREELY AVAILABLE basic science primers, courses and videos that science journalists can take to brush up on their beats/niches/topics of interest. NOTE 1: MOOCS = Massive open online courses = free, short, online, provided by universities to give you a primer in the basics of a scientific topic of study. Both MOOCs and the Coursera courses will use Youtube videos so don’t eliminate them on that basis. NOTE 2: Coursera courses vary in length and whether you get a certificate at the end and are offered at different times so some of the ones listed below may drop off and on again depending on when…
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Australian Women Writers Challenge, Book Reviews, Events, IPEd Con 2013, Journalism, Political journalism, Projects, Science journalism, Updates
Where have I been?
Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer the most often asked question via email now: Conference proceedings will be posted on the website and you will all be emailed to be told when they get uploaded. But what else have I been up to? Well, I have had a particularly weird and busy time of it and a lot of it has involved writing. So without further ado, here is the list: I have reviewed: Amanda Curtin’s Elemental which will end up in…
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The Naked Scientists' Mexican Twave
So I suddenly saw that the BBC wanted to cancel the science Q & A radio show The Naked Scientists and that they had organised a massive #savethenakedscientists mexican twave where they tried to get one tweet retweeted around the world within the hour that they usually have their show on the air. Here are the tweets because it’s going on now and you can join in. Tweets about “#savethenakedscientists”
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Live Tweet: The National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference, Perth
I am reporting on the National Carbon Capture & Storage Conference in Perth (part of National CCS Week) for Science Network WA. I am hoping to curate all the tweets live from the conference in this post so if it works and you cannot follow the hashtag #ccsconference then check back here and follow the conversation below. I am also hoping to live blog the event and I will add the twitter feed to the end of any posts I do. this is very much an experiment so cross your fingers! Tweets about “#ccsconference”
