It's #ScienceWeek Downunder and #GeoscienceAustralia has a #geoscience education display at the Woden Plaza for the weekend. The displays explain how #EarthScientists use the properties of rocks like magnetism to map what is deep underground to better understand the #geology. Also a very cool display about the rocks in #Minecraft. No idea how many of you are local Canberrans, but go have a look if you can!

National #ScienceWeek runs for NINE days, so maybe you can’t trust scientists 🤣

I know we’re not supposed to talk about money but, man, it’s expensive to do #SciComm or #Outreach.

This year I will earn $14,000 for being a part-time #PhD student, even though it takes up tonnes of my time. Scholarships and a bunch of contracting and internships might get me up to another ~$40,000 but also give me months of health issues from lack of sleep, trying to work ~full-time on top of a PhD.

This August (#ScienceWeek month) I will do about 16 days of events on top of my normal work, which combined will likely take me over 100 hours to prepare for. I have never been paid to speak at an event, and they typically don’t offer any stipend even when I have to spend hundreds of dollars renting a car or staying in hotels around Tasmania.

Science outreach is so important to me; I love Tasmanian, community-focused efforts to uplift people into higher education and STEM. I give freely as much as I am able to. And everyone involved in organising events are doing their best with what they have….

…but this might honestly be the last year I can afford it if I don’t manage to turn it into an actual job. Expecting scientists (especially grad students) to do both is getting totally infeasible.

We are heading into #ScienceWeek here in Australia.

And there is a poll :goose_hacker:

Favourite #AustralianAnimal sound.

I am really lucky that so many of these sounds form the sonic backdrop of my day.

But there are no #penguins listed *humph!*

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-07-31/australia-favourite-animal-sounds/102577008?utm_id=2174486&sfmc_id=111315118

The month of #ScienceWeek begins! I've got an action-packed ~5 weeks coming up, full of #SciComm and #Space content all around lutruwita / #Tasmania! If you're keen to hang out, or see some great local #science content, check out some of the events below 👇

🌘 Aug 4 - presenting at Beaker Streets "Young Tassie Scientists After Hours: Science for Kids (for Adults)" at #TMAG
🤖 Aug 5 - watching @parisba argue that #AI is anything but #creative in "The Great Debate" at The Theatre Royal
🍎 Aug 6 - speaking at the ABC Ockham's Razor event, LIVE at Willie Smith's Apple Shed down #Huonville
🛰️ Aug 12 - speaking at TastroFest up in #Devonport, as part of a series of presentations running all next week with the support of Libraries Tasmania
🏰 Aug 14 - mingling at the Government House launch of #ScienceWeek 2023, likely whispering in people's ears about my plans for a science centre out west...
🚗 Aug 15-18 - travelling around Tas on the #YoungTassieScientists Southern road trip! This includes about a dozen schools plus at least one event with Children's University!
🎙️ Aug 16 - giving the ECR address at Hobart's #ScienceMeetsParliament dinner, hosted by Minister for Science and Technology, Hon Madeleine Ogilvie MP
🎪 Aug 19 - staffing a booth at Inspiring Tasmania's #FestivalOfBrightIdeas / #FoBI down at Salamanca
🎓 Aug 22 - talking futures and opportunities as the occasional address at the afternoon session of Winter Graduations for #UTAS's College of Sciences and Engineering

(Then I take a week off to catch up on normal work + sleep, and do 2 days of #SciComm training with #SuperstarsOfSTEM)

🏫 Sep 1 - back at it, as a keynote for the 'It Takes a Spark!' #STEM #Education conference, alongside the fantastic Dr Lila Landowski!

(Then maybe I get a break from speaking for a bit, at least until the Australian Space Research Conference comes to town a few weeks later 😬)

Links and tickets:
🌘 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/young-tassie-scientists-after-hours/
🤖 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/great-debate/
🍎 https://www.beakerstreet.com.au/2023events/ockhams-razor-live-at-willie-smiths/ (Sold Out)
🛰️ https://libraries.tas.gov.au/event/tastrotalk-with-mars-buttfield-addison-devonport-library/
🏰 https://westcoastspacecentre.com
🚗 https://youngtassiescientists.com
🎙️ None (seemingly not public/on the internet at all this year?)
🎪 https://festivalofbrightideas.com.au
🎓 https://www.utas.edu.au/about/events/graduation#content2-1381297
🏫 https://spark-educonferences.com.au/tasmania-2023/

Profiles are up now for #YTS2023 - a program in which STEM research students from UTAS travel around the state presenting #scicomm talks and interactive demonstrations to kids of all ages during #NatSciWeek!

Young Tassie Scientists is a hoot (last year I even got to speak at a science centre and travel to King Island!) and it’s a great way for kids to meet scientists in a casual and friendly environment. We especially like to take our Tasmanian scientists back to their roots, to show students people just like them who became #science superstars.

If you’re involved with a school or museum or similar, make sure you sign up on the website!
🛰️🧪☀️🌱🐈🔬
#schools #tasmania #hobart #scienceweek https://youngtassiescientists.com/scientist/mars-buttfield-addison

Prof. Bruce German of UC Davis presents the periodic table of food initiative to a full house at Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT in Cali Colombia. An ambitious global partnership initiative to catalog the composition of all food products worldwide, with implications for food systems, diets, and health. More at https://foodperiodictable.org/

@alliancebioversityciat
#ScienceWeek #food #agriculture #science #ucdavis

RT @MaREIcentre: SUPERGRIDS - Future Power Systems

#ScienceWeek encourages us to explore the infinite possibilities science offers. Below @_barryhayes in #MaREI @UCC explains the concept of future 'Supergrids'

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CiaranCuffe/status/1593151102387884034

It’s National Science Week and Johnathan Davis and I are celebrating the cerebral with badges!

Find out what’s on in Canberra:
https://www.scienceweek.net.au/your-state/act/

I can highly recommend ANU Cybernetics: Speech Recognition Technology with Kathy Reid on 18 August;
and Rainbows in Science with Bry the Fly Guy on 19 August.

Text on badges:
Johnathan’s says “Science doesn’t care what you think”.
Emma’s says “You Matter. Until you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared. Then you energy.”
Background image on Emma’s office wall is artwork created about and at the Honeysuckle tracking station in the ACT.

#science #scienceweek #nationalscienceweek #cbr

Looks like I know where I will be on the holiday...

RT @ARC_EQUS@twitter.com

Drop by UQ Gatton Campus on 8 Aug and chat to the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trippers!

✅ FREE entertainment for the public holiday
✅ Interactive demos
✅ Presentations
✅ Activities for all ages

👉https://www.qdmroadtrip.org/event/demo-workshop-gatton/

@UQscience@twitter.com @QLD_ScienceWeek@twitter.com #ScienceWeek

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ARC_EQUS/status/1554378491935989760