Olivia Congdon is a Senior Communications Officer at the ANU College of Science.
Articles
A groundbreaking PhD: earthquake data is the key to exploring the Earth’s interior
Dr Thuany Costa de Lima remembers the day that a geophysics professor came to her high school in…
A museum heist 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today
Lepidopterist Michael Braby is sitting in his lab, peering at a photo of a butterfly specimen on his…
Maremma sheepdogs are very good dogs – so why aren’t they used more?
Ever since Europeans introduced sheep into Australia, farmers have needed to protect them from dingoes. It’s a constant…
These lizards gave up on sex in favour of cloning themselves, and you’re still scrolling on a dating app
Hiding beneath scrap metal and abandoned cars in the Australian desert, you can find an ordinary-looking species of…
Bake Your PhD: the sweetest side of Earth Science
Explaining complex scientific research is no piece of cake – unless you’re in the Bake Your PhD competition…
Meet Koda, a very good girl who is sniffing out technology to advance ecology
This is Koda. She’s got an adorable snoot, and an insatiable curiosity for exploring the world with her…
Science by the letter: conversations with the next generation of scientists
Climate scientist Dr Georgy Falster has an unlikely pen pal: a junior school student in Euclid, Ohio who…
Clever cockies: the social and innovative birds living in our cities
Surrounded by a crackle of sulphur-crested cockatoos (yes, that’s the collective noun), Dr Julia Penndorf sits on the…
Supporting the re-emergence of cultural burning
Many Australians understandably see fire only as a danger, based on collective experiences of devastating bushfires. But if…
Chough love: what’s behind the strange antics of the white-winged chough?
They have bulging red eyes, gather in packs and engage in gang warfare. And they can be found…
A croc’s life: below the surface, there’s more than meets the eye
Saltwater crocodiles are large predators that lurk in muddy waters, with jaws powerful enough to attack anything from…
Alone while a million people watched on
I’d never met Dr Kate Grarock, but after watching Alone Australia I felt like her proud friend. As…
It’s arguably the cutest Australian animal, so why have most of us never heard of it?
Picture a lemur crossed with a super fluffy cat. It’s an outrageously adorable but mysterious, leaf-munching creature that…
Slip into your waders, we’re off to catch Latham’s snipe
On a calm, summer evening, to the background of frog calls and buzzing mosquitoes, a group of volunteers…
Aussies snakes are undervalued: here’s how to be a friend from afar
We often worry about encountering snakes and how they impact us and our safety – but do you…
‘It’s like a soap opera’: The secret lives of superb fairy-wrens
“Cumquat needs to leave very soon,” Helen Osmond says in a concerned, parental kind of way, as she…