Jacinta Bowler
@jacintabowler.bsky.social
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ABC science reporter and bad tap dancer.
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Bianca Nogrady
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For
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reporting the terror attack on Bondi beach, here's an important and good resource from the Global Centre for Trauma and Journalism on how to report ethically and safely:
gcjt.org/resources/re...
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Reporting a traumatic community event - resources for media workers
https://gcjt.org/resources/reporting-traumatic-community-event-resources-media-workers
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Bianca Nogrady
8 days ago
Fantastic news from ABC Science today: a wonderful donor - former librarian Ms Margaret Bales - has given $1 million to establish a Science Journalist Fellowship Program.
www.abc.net.au/about/the-ab...
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The ABC and ABC Friends Victoria announce Science Journalist Fellowship Program - About the ABC
The ABC is delighted to announce the establishment of the ABC Science Journalist Fellowship Program, a new initiative within the ABC Radio National Science Unit.
https://www.abc.net.au/about/the-abc-and-abc-friends-victoria-announce-science-journalist-fel/106049840
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Reckon you know mushrooms?!
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Science quiz: Can you put the 'fun' back into fungi?
Mushrooms hit the headlines this year, but not for the best reasons. It's time to change that ā take our quiz to see how many fun fungi facts you know.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-02/quiz-fungi-mushrooms-death-cap-what-the-duck-toxins/106009876
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www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-11-19/csiro-cuts-tip-australia-science-funding/106026174
27 days ago
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For everyone in my real life, this is why I disappeared for a month. Wrecked my sleep schedule, had a brilliant time.
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29 days ago
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Lenore Taylor
29 days ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The short answer is no. Weāre around the middle of the pack, and a little further down the list after accounting for our relatively high incomes.
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Are Australians really paying more for electricity than other countries?
Australiaās electricity prices have gone up a long way over the past decade or so, but global energy trends have also pushed up bills in other countries
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/17/are-australians-really-paying-more-for-electricity-than-other-countries
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Potential for big auroras tonight. Worth getting out for if you can!!
about 1 month ago
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This is a really fun piece from Adam with so many good pictures!
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The secret history of Melbourneās particle accelerators
With names like the Neutron Howitzer, MUVEC, and the Pelletron, the University of Melbourneās particle accelerators have been the hidden engines driving research for almost a century
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-secret-history-of-melbournes-particle-accelerators#:~:text=Just%20six%20years%20after%20Cockcroft,as%20the%20'Neutron%20Howitzer'
about 1 month ago
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Jennifer Ouellette
about 1 month ago
Rubin Observatory Discovers Surprise āTailā on Iconic Galaxy
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Surprise ātailā found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history
First image from Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious properties.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03665-6
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Royce Kurmelovs
4 months ago
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
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Cutest little lizards in cute little science backpacks.
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Bearded dragons in backpacks reveal speed can be a killer
Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670
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Go and get your flu vaccines (plus your Covid one while youāre there). Itās not too late!!
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Elective surgeries paused at major Queensland hospitals 'overwhelmed' by flu cases
Elective surgeries have been paused for 48 hours while resources are diverted to emergency departments.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/elective-surgery-paused-flu-brisbane-hospitals/105538986?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
5 months ago
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Jacinta Bowler
Royce Kurmelovs
5 months ago
Climate change an "existential threat to humanity" but Australia law offers no recourse to Torres Strait islanders in class action against the government for negligence. My report on today's decision in
@reneweconomy.com.au
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Until the Erin Patterson case, posting the locations of death cap mushrooms was seen as a public goodā¦
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Post mushroom trial, experts suggest changes to location sharing on iNaturalist
Experts are weighing up whether to continue posting the locations of poisonous mushrooms on public databases like iNaturalist in the wake of the Erin Patterson trial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-10/inaturalist-death-cap-poison-mushrooms-fungimap-erin-patterson/105505976
5 months ago
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Jacinta Bowler
Bianca Nogrady
9 months ago
And congratulations also to
@angusdalton.bsky.social
for being highly commended in that category, and to
@jacintabowler.bsky.social
and
@petrastock.bsky.social
, whose podcast 'Cosmos Debunks' won Best Audio Program. Hooray for Australian
#ScienceJournalism
!
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Iāve never been much of a tweeter, more of a lurker, but I love the people who just post non-stop. Iāve missed all you!
10 months ago
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My favourite part of this app so far is that thereās a feed exclusively for fungi pictures. Big (fungi) fan.
10 months ago
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Jacinta Bowler
Bernardita Ried Guachalla
10 months ago
I was not expecting this paper today when I was reading the ArXiv š®
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This week I took a look at statewide central cooling, with a technology that can turn down air conditioners remotely and stop blackouts.
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Giving up control of your air conditioner may reduce blackouts: experts
Queenslandās power companies can force thousands of air conditioners in homes into low-power mode on the hottest days of the year. Experts say systems like this need to be part of the energy solution.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-02-26/peaksmart-flexible-loading-energy-demand-reduction/104949388
10 months ago
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