Australian science + culture journalist, podcaster, radio presenter (now - Big Ideas, ex - Science Friction, All in the Mind, Life Matters), audio storyteller, event facilitator + much stuff (plants, nature, dogs, music).
MIT Knight Journalism Fellowship alumni.
Engineering degree.
@natashamitchell on the imploding bird site.
Views here my own and do not represent my employer.
Was a Usenet kid alt.music.alternative.women
In Naarm, on Wurundjeri country.
She/her
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/natasha-mitchell/2914164
And find me on BIG IDEAS, your front row seat to live events with big minds on big ideas.
Everything!
https://abclisten.page.link/77YnipeUZ24ccKFt6
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas
(miss my dear steampunk monkey of Science Friction, but Big Ideas is wayyy more than its podcast graphic ... oh yes indeed)
On the Science Friction podcast in recent weeks (as I move to hosting the ABC's Big Ideas show)
I've been bringing you
REAL WILD CHILD
Some of the wild stories I've loved sleuthing & telling about kids colliding with science
...cults, cellular secrets, chaos with nukes, a real-life Lord of the Flies, utter heartwrench, utter delight
Dive in!
Wherever you get your podcasts & on the ABC Listen app
And follow BIG IDEAS podcast where I am now
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction
Out of jail, is the CRISPR-baby scandal scientist at it again?
Did you miss my interviews on with
@DrJoyZhang
and Katie Hasson
@C_G_S
Science Friction
Anywhere you get you podcasts or on the ABC Listen app
https://abclisten.page.link/faAGYDyAyiXyPhWd8
More info about what we discuss here
https://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/crispr-babies-jiankui-he-gene-editing-bioethics/102057914
#HGESummit
#geneediting
#CRISPR
#Humangeneediting
#bioethics
#biotech
#China
#Governance
Let's be clear, this is my haircut now, years after that ridiculous photo was taken. And the clothes have long since stopped fitting. #amcoolwiththat
I'm about the ideas.
Photo is truly *ridiculously* out of date. But yes, new gig. With gratitude, appreciation, congratulations to Paul Barclay (@PaulBarclay on the bird site) for curating & hosting so many rich conversations.
Tell me & the Big Ideas team about events you have coming up that we might consider hosting & recording!
@julie he created incredible-ness in everything
@sburall these sudden catastrophic ends certainly put everything into perspective. Or at least the fleetingly precious nature of existence.
I actually predicted this last week!
Now that outages have massively increased, Elon Musk pronounces Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved -- and there will be a re-write:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993?cxt=HHwWkoCw1ceH9KgtAAAA
This is Stage 3 of Twitter's demise.
Now pay attention to the next stages.
It will be awhile before Twitter 3.0 will arrive. When it arrives, it won't be "real" Twitter.
See: https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109949723816737406
See screenshots.
My beloved genius cousin who we lost suddenly & catastrophically last year due to a cancer diagnosis he received a matter of hours before.
A tech visionary with a big ❤️
A ❤️ still beating in these projects
Still can't believe he's gone. Truly unfathomable and unprocessable.
But thx to #AIObjectives
The work being continued as part of his legacy is so encouraging
Thank you to the
@internetarchive
for hosting a celebration of our loved and revolutionary Peter Eckersley today in San Francisco. Watching from Melbourne, with gratitude. ❤️
x
Weekend listening.
ROCK CELEBRITIES!
The Science Friction podcast ( links below, via your favourite podcast app, ABC Listen app, or on ABC Radio National's airwaves.
Pt 1 The Black Beauty saga
https://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/black-beauty-nw7034-meteorite-space-astrogeology-mars/14139604
Pt 2 Space rocks get geoPOLITICAL! Meet the Arab world's first - and first female - meteorite scientist with a message for millionaire meteorite collectors
https://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/meteorites-space-morocco-nomads-business/101919768
#meteorites
#BlackBeauty
#capitalism
#space
#politics
#ethics
#colonialism
#science
#Sahara
Vale Professor Will Steffen.
Thinking of your vast community worldwide ... pioneers in environmental, climate, atmospheric sciences...policymakers...students...journalists...the wider public....all those who learnt from your generous sharing of knowledge.
Will was a generous public communicator of climate science in the media over many decades. We were lucky he called Australia home.
Gasped out loud at the sad, sad news of Professor Will Steffen's death this week.
He made an immeasurable and global impact as a pioneering environmental and #climate scientist, public communicator, policy advisor.... and more.
The last time I interviewed him was in 2021 on the legacy of one of his equally extraordinary peers https://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/paul-crutzen-anthropocene-human-climate-pollution-ozone-hole/13333958
J&J and Novavax playing hard with @gavi and #Covax
"Drug companies have so far declined to refund $US1.4 billion in advance payments ... confidential documents obtained by @nytimes"
https://theage.com.au/world/north-america/vaccine-makers-kept-1-4-billion-in-prepayments-for-cancelled-covid-shots-for-world-s-poor-20230202-p5ch9r.html… #vaccineequity
Watching how this has played out with secret commercial-in-confidence deals and big profits at every turn..
2022 episode of Science Friction from me (during #vaccine roll-out)
2021 episode (just before vax trial results)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/moderna-mrna-australia-covid-pharmaceutical-profits-business/13849344
"Why Aren't Russians Abroad Doing More to Protest the War?" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/01/12/why-arent-russians-abroad-doing-more-to-protest-the-war-2-a79899
Relevant to this week's re-podcast/broadcast of the Science Friction episode with Ilya Kolmanovsky (linked above).
#Russia
#Ukraine
#HumanRights
#UkraineInvasion
#War
#Activism
#Dissidents
Superstar science journalist, podcaster, biologist Dr #IlyaKolmanovsky is no stranger to the brutality of #Russia's leadership...
A chance to hear my interview with Ilya again on the Science Friction podcast this week (as part of our Summer Season).
He's one of thousands to escape since Putin's horrific invasion of #Ukraine - perhaps never to be able to return.
Podcast or stream here https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/russia-science-escape-putin-iron-curtain/14102450
