The dust is starting to settle over the carcass of the main teaching year, though it feels like I'm still whacking it with a stick because it keeps twitching. Marking is the gift that just keeps on giving. And it means we've reached that part of the year where I've got a bunch of things going on which I agreed to long enough ago that I've forgotten about.
One of those things is a double-header talk and "workshop" around science and media, with guest speaker John Kerr talking about our own work and research experiences in the context of science and media.
Kerr is a senior research fellow and science lead for the public health communication centre at the University of Otago, Wellington. Full disclosure, I've worked with him on and off since 2016.
Kerr has a lot of experience in communication as a scientist and as a person working to support scientists in their communication endeavours. In 2020, he got a job working for the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the UK, and headed there just in time for a lockdown that lasted about 18 months.
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A hint of mermaids
Erin Palmisano's latest novel once again has food and romance at the heart of its well-plotted story.
Execution over innovation
Big and bold ideas are fine, but being the best beats being first.
Something's wrong with all of them
Engaging dissection of the 20th-century novel likely to send the reader in search for the book under discussion.
Cell warfare
A NZ trial using immunotherapy to beat a form of blood cancer is expanding after promising results – and it's hoped the 'gold standard' treatment will soon be widely available.
The virus that stole all the smells
In this edited extract from The Forgotten Sense, Jonas Olofsson traces the rise in anosmia as a result of Covid-19 infections.
When caring is ‘woke'
Some years ago, I sat in a small plane circling over Punta del Este in Uruguay. There was a delay and we sat in tense silence until we began our descent. Outside the tiny airport, a taxi ferried us past private Lear jets; these had been the cause of the hold-up. The driver pointed to two planes side by side. \"This one is a Trump plane.\"
Getting along swimmingly
The presenters of Endangered Species Aotearoa spend a fair bit of time on and in the water in the second season.
That clingy feeling
Our pets display the same types of attachment behaviours as we do, or so it seems.
The famous furred
A peaceful little spot in LA is the final resting place for the pets of some of Hollywood's biggest names.
Gone girl
She wandered in on Thursday morning looking very wan, and climbed into her bed. I sat on the edge and stroked her back.
