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The Chem Coach Carnival
I’m still waiting for feedback on my science communication video (hurry up, hurry up!). In the meantime I’m contributing an entry to the Chemistry Coach blog carnival, a great initiative for (US)...
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Video Project for Science Communication Course
Here lies the post in which I show you the video project I made for the science communication course I mentioned in my previous post. It’s supposed to be a Catalyst-style video about my research,...
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An Evening with Brian Cox
A few years ago when I first discovered Professor Brian Cox, I wrote a gushy, crushy post about him on this very blog. Last night I had the good fortune of seeing him speak in person at the Melbourne...
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The intersection of food and fuel chemistry – #foodchem carnival
CENtral science are hosting a blog carnival from November 11-18 about food chemistry, #foodchem. As a non-US chemist, the Thanksgiving theme of the #foodchem carnival is not all that relevant to me, so...
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Papes for the peeps – Aircraft Oil Contamination
This is the first in what I hope to be an ongoing series of posts explaining in simple terms what my scientific publications are about. The first paper A Method for the Identification and Quantitation...
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Chemical Free Cookware
On a recent stroll down a shopping strip while I was away from home for a conference, I came across this startling advertisement: You can imagine my shock and amazement that the cookware company...
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Chemical Free Cookware Redux
Following on from my last post, I decided to email Baccarat, the company selling the ‘chemical free’ cookware range, Bio+. My email is reproduced below. I tried my darnedest not to be snarky, but I...
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Chocolate Chip Cookies – Science Style
Because we can just never get enough chemophobia, See Arr Oh from the Just Like Cooking blog has alerted the chemblogosphere to some more ridiculous scaremongering about the chemicals in our food. He...
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The Up-Goer Five Challenge for Chemists
Once again, SeeArrOh has started a chemblogo/twittersphere storm with the Up-goer Five Challenge for chemists. Using the online text editor, I had a couple of goes at this, one for twitter on the...
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Papes for the Peeps – Fuel Oxidation #1
The latest research article to come out of my group is now available online in the American Chemical Society journal Energy and Fuels (paywalled). The title “Oxidation of neat synthetic paraffinic...
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#ChemMovieCarnival – On teenage angst and the importance of a great science...
Here we go with another of the bloggy doggy’s great Chemistry-themed carnivals, and this time it’s the #ChemMovieCarnival. Although it’s not really chemistry-related, I’ve chosen a scene from the 2001...
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Who’s a Real Scientist? I’m a Real Scientist!
For one whole week starting 7 PM tomorrow night (AEST) I will be tweeting from the curated twitter account @realscientists. Real Scientists is a totally awesome rotational twitter account run by...
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Aroma analysis of vegemite 1. Sample preparation and aroma sampling
Vegemite: that salty, yeasty, vitamin B-rich, Australian sandwich spread. Its taste and odour are distinctive, iconic and entrenched in the Australian cultural identity. But what are the chemical...
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Aroma analysis of vegemite 2. Separation of vegemite aroma chemicals by gas...
This is Part 2 of my vegemite aroma analysis series. If you haven’t read Part 1, you can do so here. Now that the vegemite aroma compounds have been extracted from the sample, and onto the SPME fibre,...
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Aroma analysis of vegemite 3. Data analysis and interpretation
This is Part 3 of my vegemite aroma analysis series. If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2, you can do so here and here. In a wonderful complement to my vegemite posts, Vittorio Saggiomo of Labsolutely has...
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The CERN Song
For Upulie, (and all of the team, friends and followers of Real Scientists). To the tune of Tina Arena’s Burn. Do you wanna be a particle, and collide? Do you wanna be a neutrino, faster than...
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Whitesides say ‘Analytical Chemistry’ is best chemistry!
Fellow analytical chemist and chemblogospherian Marc, recently brought this article from renowned Harvard chemist George Whitesides to my attention. Here’s my response, and there’s also an excellent...
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When is a chemist not a chemist?
The following is a post I wrote while participating in the course Science Media Space. The course aims to “provide scientists with the practical knowledge needed to use social media effectively” and is...
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Books in Scientia
I’m starting a new category of posts where I’ll be posting short reviews of books that I’ve read. If you are one of the 4 or 5 regular readers of this blog, you will of course be shocked to discover...
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Books in Scientia – Periodic Tales
This is the first instalment of Books in Scientia; short reviews of books I’ve recently read. Title and author Periodic tales, by Hugh Aldersey-Williams What’s it about? It is a personal and...
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