My research in the media

My three minute thesis presentation was aired on ABC Radio National’s The Science Show presented by Robyn Williams. You can here it here:

It is also available to view on youtube!

A publication from my research was featured in an article in Plantae, Plant Science Research Weekly, Jan 2021, the authors made a great graphical abstract about the paper:

My research was featured by two fantastic scientists and communicators (@PurpleNeety  and @plyon_act) who came along to a poster I gave at the Ecological Society of Australia’s conference. They wrote an amazing song about it and performed it in the science meets art symposium at the conference!

Other media:

My scientific journey to my first postdoc in Switzerland and the research I undertook in Switzerland as part of the BugNet project was covered by the University of Bern and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research Newsrooms in English and German!

Our co-authored paper (Xirocostas, Everingham & Moles, 2020) which was a meta-analysis that showed that the sex with the reduced sex chromosome (e.g. the XY chromosome in humans) dies earlier across many organisms, was featured in a range of media articles including: ABC National Radio, Suddeutche Zeitung, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, IFLS Science, the UNSW Newsroom and Science Magazine.

I contributed some keys points and quotes to an article written by CUA Health Australia about the importance of growing plants in your home and garden.

I was featured in online article by the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, 16 August 2019, Botanic Scientists in Sydney battle climate change,   https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Stories/2019/Botanic-scientists-in-Sydney-battle-climate-change

I was featured in media release, 8 April 2019, Native plants are taking back their homes, Ecological Society of Australia Media Releases,   https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2019/04/native-plants-are-taking-back-their-homes

I have been featured on UNSW Science’s instagram on multiple occasions, including on their instagram story, talking about my research and the plant ecology research facilities at UNSW: