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OUTREACH​
Outreach summary
I have contributed to a variety of outreach projects in multiple media types. I enjoy it and will continue to get involved.
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Science Outreach Organisation
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2024 Australian Entomological Society AGM and Annual Scientific Conference, organising committee member.
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2018-2021 Science in the Pub Tasmania, organizing committee member. Organised monthly science communication events featuring three panelists speaking at a local pub.
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2019, 2020, 2022 Survey leader, Bob Brown Foundation takayna Bioblitz. Led groups of 3-15 in activities recording occurrences of terrestrial invertebrates and uploading to iNaturalist over a weekend.
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2021 Campus leader, Intervarsity BioBlitz Challenge. Led UTas students and staff (with the help from Kawinwit 'Ink' Kittipalawattanapol) to collect 245 observations into iNaturalist on university campuses over a two week period. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/intervarsity-bioblitz-challenge-university-of-tasmania
The 'bug toilet' at Underland 2025, featuring an 8 hour of recorded insect facts and noises
Speed date a scientist event at Beaker St, TMAG 2022
Volunteering as a 'Roving Butterfly' at Woodford Folk Festival 2018/2029 and 2019/2020
​Public Talks (selected)
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2025 Melbourne Museum: Nocturnal up late, public talk 'Ants and Grasshoppers: The science behind the Fable.
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2025 Melbourne Museum: Science on Show, National Science Week 2025, 'Beetles of the rainforest.'
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2024 International Congress of Entomology, Kyoto, Japan. Regular 15mins speaker on PhD.
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2024 Australian Entomological Society annual conference, Hobart. Regular 15mins talk on PhD.
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2024 National Science Week Tasmania, 'Vaginal Vignettes with Dr. Tiana Pirtle'. Paid speaker on the sex life of the Neotrogla cave booklouse.
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​2024 Future Science Talks: Comedy edition. Three week training course followed by an event where scientists presented standup comedy talks about their research.
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​2019 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 'Girls Dig Dinosaurs!' event for International Women's Day. MCd the event and spoke about female Palaeontologist Mary Anning.
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2018-2020 Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland. volunteering as a 'Roving Butterfly' providing information on local butterflies of the Woodford area, and the re vegetation activities going on at the festival site throughout the year.
​Podcasts
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2024 That's What I Call Science radio show, invited guest for 'Episode 224: Let it Beetle' .
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2019 That's What I Call Science radio show, guest co-host 'Episode 27: Biosecurity in Tasmania' interviewing Dr Ryan Wilkinson (Director of Biosecurity operations, Biosecurity Tasmania).
Creative and Fun works
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2022 National Science Week 'Vaginas' event, 2022. Wrote a romantic book parody called 'Tension and Tenderness' about the reproduction of the Red-backed Water Strider (Gerris gracilicornis) that was read out to over 100 adults. North Hobart, TAS.
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2021 The Poetry of Science competition. Created and sung a sea-shanty 'Pippette away me Tessa!' on the topic of insect DNA extraction. Hobart, TAS.
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Emperor Gum moths at the takayna bioblitz 2018
Imaginary cover for 'Tension and Tenderness' the Red-backed water strider story created for National Science Week 'Vaginal Vignettes' in 2021
Drawing of Hemiodoecus leai produced for a short video on my PhD thesis for the CABAH annual symposium, 2020