Each year, Science in Public publishes a collection of stories that share highlights of recent Australian research and prize-winning science with journalists in Australia and overseas, politicians, schools, museum visitors, and others. The 2017 collection is now online, along with stories from previous years. Here are links to a couple I wrote for the 2017 … Continue reading Stories of Australian Science 2017
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A week of tweeting public health @WePublicHealth
I’ll be taking the reins of the @WePublicHealth – a rotational Twitter account (with a different curator each week) that’s providing a new model for citizen journalism with a public health focus. I'm the Tweetybird for the week commencing Monday 27 February. What’s my background and what does it have to do with public health? I … Continue reading A week of tweeting public health @WePublicHealth
Taking a city’s pulse: touch-ons, transactions and tweets
Tweets, transactions and transport card ‘touch-ons’ could give urban planners the big data they need to make our transport systems work better, identify accident black spots and make our cities more liveable. University of Melbourne researchers – armed with the right analytical tool – are finding Twitter data surprisingly useful. They’re mining the data and … Continue reading Taking a city’s pulse: touch-ons, transactions and tweets