I speak from my experience as a science communicator and offer tips to tackle common facilitation foibles in university classrooms. My tips are easy to implement, shift agency and effort from the teacher to the students and are well-supported by education research.
Your next steps with(out) plastic
A shopping list for those unsure about the next steps in reducing your plastic consumption.
Not thirsty at all: when trees get too much water
Much of the research on climate change in tropical forests has focused on drought, but too much water could be even more important.
Losing your loved one to global conspiracy
An insidious battle with belief in global conspiracy is taking casualties. These six podcasts capture the phenomenon.
Two impossible things
The COVID pandemic makes doing a PhD all the more challenging, but so does going unheard by enthusiastically supportive colleagues and supervisors.
Best of #ESA2020
Today marks the end of this years conference with the Ecological Society of Australia. Having attended talks ranging from Indigenous land management to Functional Ecology, this is my unashamedly biased list of best talks from the conference (feat. guest appearances in pictures by other speakers I enjoyed). Vanessa Cavanagh, UOW @nessscavvv Vanessa is a Bundjalung... Continue Reading →
Orangutan versus jungle man
A creative recount of the orangutan viewing-experience of a lifetime.