Ravenous caterpillar that eats hundreds of plant species, unstopped by pesticides, and that's never been to the Americas arrives in the Americas and hybridises with the locally adapted caterpillar. What more?
EAT. LAMPREY. LOVE. A pun infused with a dozen or so hours to make a confusing comic. Enjoy.
Posters I did to celebrate two of RV Investigator's voyages, Search for Macumba (~Star Wars) and Sampling the Abyss (Dr. Seuss).
LOG 3: My final log after two weeks at sea. We found a shipwreck, lost for 70 years, saw flocks of boobies, flying fish, turtles, and sharks, and formed a strong bond doing so.
LOG 1: Went on a research voyage on RV Investigator from Sydney to Broome across the top of Australia. Seasickness, STEM teachers, iron fertilisation. Here's blog one.
September 2017 Cassini made its last loop around Saturn before burning up. Here's the story in cartoons plus a live broadcast I made from the tracking station.
Interronauts the CSIRO podcast I'm lucky enough to co-host. Here are the episodes, films clips, and a bit of background
'Where's Wallaby?' A game to find our native flora and fauna (and fungi) to celebrate the Atlas of Living Australia.
Australian white ibis: the smelly canaries in our city. Here's a piece I wrote for the Australian Geographic.
My two artworks for the book 'Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials' (2017).
2SER has given me a regular weekly segment to discuss science news. Yabbadabbadoo.
Cactus-inspired fuel cell membrane — oil painting and radio spot.
CSIRO recently developed a new way to harvest stem cells for leukaemia patients (comic).
CSIRO recently sequenced a part of a bat's genome, revealing how they might stave infections (comic).
Some pixel art I've been doing recently for a game, and more...
A Garfield parody I drew up for a CSIRO press release about 'space lasagne'.
A time-lapse video I did for Refraction Media and their work in STEM.
Uggh, this ravioli is revolting (cartoon).
A regularly updated collection of musings about science, culture, and everyday minutiae, sometimes sincere, sometimes facetious, sometimes I can't even tell.
A collection of arthropod illustrations.
The time I tried a music review without knowing how to do a music review.
Graphic for ANU's sci-comms pamphlet.
DNA was analysed to write out the complete family tree for birds. They found that bird species diversified only once dinosaurs went extinct.
A cartoon of the pigeon health care system.
I recently moved out by myself after living with my partner for almost all of my adult life. I had an idea that I would be supremely productive. So far so good, actually.
Here are my latest illustrations of great CSIRO research: New Horizons Pluto flyby, and the submarine Sydney volcanoes.
My next commission is for the Logan City Council in Queensland, who are restoring Slacks Creek, a tributary of Logan River.
With a big oil painting project coming up, I had a look through my previous oil artworks. It was helpful to see my earliest attempts to see what I botched, and spark some memories for what I found difficult at the time.
A comic about a bat propositioning another bat. There's no significance apart from the influence of The Far Side on my humour.
Researchers used a carefully designed experiment to show that anole lizards in Florida evolved in just 15 years to cope with an invading lizard species.
My tuna pixel art for a gallery event about sustainable seafood.
I did a time-lapse painting and post production animation of the newly discovered 'Dinosaur' or 'Enigma' moth (Aenigmatinea glatzella).
Bumblebees have been shown to misremember traits of desirable stimuli, conflating two familiar traits to pursue an unfamiliar mix.
A pixelated self-portrait using an iOS app, 'Dots'.
PEZman, a cartoon of how a human might appear if they were a PEZ dispenser.
I sat down to draw some arthopods in various media. Beetle larvae, ladybird spider, psyllid, and scales in pen, water colour, and pencils.
A comic inspired by a talk I saw by JP Higham from NYU's anthropology department where the colour of monkeys' body parts take advantage of the red-green colour blindness of cats.
Down at the cabanossi farm (cartoon).
One of the first times I went running on a treadmill and what I expected to happen happened.
Eleven years after the Beagle 2 spacecraft disappeared on Mars, NASA’s orbiting reconnaissance satellite has snapped photos of what appears to be the Beagle 2’s hull in the dusts of the Red Planet.
A peak inside the marketing world of gametes (cartoon).
Critically endangered spotted handfish have taken to artificially created ceramic nests, used in unique springtime courtship rituals.