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Ahh #Qantas! Tried to redeem refund vouchers. A litany of lies, delay and misinformation: flights were fully booked, only business class available. Took 3 months to get the refund, and 4 hours to book ticket the final insult. At least new flight is codeshare Emirates @jennimet

Happy to celebrate 50,000 downloads Communicating Science. A Global Perspective. A best-seller? Perhaps in its field. PCSTNetwork ANU Press Free download press.anu.edu.au/publications/c…

Major partnership between science centre Questacon and Shell to end after four decades theguardian.com/science/2022/n…

Blood moon

Bulletin of atomic scientists: Arms Can Bring No Security by Albert Einstein This article was originally published in March 1950 issue after Us President Harry Truman announced that the United States would pursue a hydrogen bomb. johnmenadue.com/bulletin-of-at…

New paper `Pandem-icons' — exploring the characteristics of highly visible scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic'. Covid-19 demanded scientific explanations and more scientists become visible. We compared characteristics of 16 scientists. jcom.sissa.it/archive/22/01/…

Will Steffan has died. A giant of climate change research and policy, and emeritus professor at ANU’s Fenner School of Environment and Society. Co-founder of Climate Council. I had a personal connection, succeeding him as editor at CSIRO in 1991

Prejudice, poor pay and the 'urinary leash': naming and claiming Australia's forgotten women scientists theconversation.com/prejudice-poor… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Econnect's newsletter is out! mailchi.mp/39dda8ed2e79/e… Five big issues: Putting the case for science communication Talking ethics at PCST 2023 Scientists writing news: The Conversation Ladders of power: meaningful citizen engagement Emotion or science? PCSTNetwork @JenniMet

Our R&D system is in crisis. johnmenadue.com/r-d-system-in-… @senatorKimCarr Australia’s national innovation system in a lamentable state. Expenditure on R & D at the lowest levels ever. National innovation system lacks cohesion, coordination and program scale of other advanced economies

How shit can @qantas get? Tried to book to Venice online:  the best they could do was $5,550! Tried phoning. Mistake. Fruitless 30 minutes with QF work-experience boy, and lost confidence when he asked how you spell Venice: “Venus”? If only there was an alternative. Sigh...

A new edition of Econnect's newsletter mailchi.mp/a135e526e985/e… It deals with how to be inclusive: selecting plenary conference speakers, training, and in editing, with focus on PCST conference in Rotterdam @JenniMet PCSTNetwork

Ig Nobel communication prize scooped by scientists investigating people who are expert at speaking backwards. But there's more... PCSTNetwork theguardian.com/science/2023/s…

'Frustrating as hell': Graeme Pearman’s climate research should have warned the world - video theguardian.com/science/video/…

Top scientist, top interviewer. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg received death threats for his work. He kept fighting anyway – video theguardian.com/australia-news… Sub System 【公式】 @JenniMet ASC

Econnect has trained 26 CGIAR communicators to write on gender responsive solutions in agriculture. Women farmers have many hurdles to cross! @jennimet CGIAR GENDER CGIAR cgiar.org/news-events/ne…

Ted O’Brien’s fact-free nuclear cheerleading is cover for the same old climate vandalism | Katharine Murphy theguardian.com/australia-news… The only company to have a small modular nuclear power plant approved in the United States recently cancelled its first project due to rising costs

Lovely story on women farmers in India using solar power to pump water! reasonstobecheerful.world/solar-based-ir…. Training workshops over 8 weeks by @econnect and @cgiargender PCSTNetwork. Author is Tanmoy x.com/tanmoy_pj

#Nemisis was excellent. It’s tempting to think you just open a microphone and the politicians do the rest. But it requires meticulous research, and a thorough understanding of the politics. A credit to the team.

Mentoring | Econnect newsletter Jan 2024: mailchi.mp/9df22b6a82b2/e… More pearls of wisdom from the team at Econnect, this time on mentoring young writers. They appreciated it: “It was really helpful having someone to bounce ideas off."