Description: It's all about me. Why I'm doing this, why it may be worth your time reading, and a bit about Science communicators and confidence
I’m a born Research Scientist – or in other words, I’ve been annoying my parents, family, teachers and colleagues since I could communicate by asking why things were the way they are. I decided early on to have a simple goal – determine how everything in the Universe works.
I believed it when I was told that I would eventually find out answers to questions like why clouds float, why ice doesn’t sink and how come if the Sun is a nuclear explosion why is it so stable once I went through University – but that didn’t happen.
After finishing University and becoming a professional Research Scientist (which I was for 20 years in TRL and CSIRO) I started to work out that a lot of “settled science” was far from it, and that my initial view as a child of scientists being dispassionate people who only put forward well-thought-out logical ideas was also wrong. We Scientists are just like everyone else – most of us are doing the best we can and are honest, hard-working individuals. However, there are a large amount of people who are in