WRITING

• "Your smartphone is a parasite, according to evolution" The Conversation, 2 June 2025 (co-authored with Rob Brooks, UNSW) 
  • Covered in The Canberra Times, Vice and others.
  • Republished in numerous venues including the New Zealand Herald, Gizmodo, ScienceAlert and The Straits Times.
  • Covered by WIN TV Canberra, ABC Local Radio nationwide, ABC Radio Sunday Evenings Nationwide, LIfe Matters _ ABC Radio National,   Sunday Extra - ABC Radio National, Radio New Zealand.
  • Has been accessed over 110,000 times .
  • Has been re-published in French, Spanish and Japanese.
  • The associated article in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy has an Altmetric score of 510 and has been accessed over 17,000 times making it the "most read" article in the journal since AJP went online. 
• “3 fallacies that blighted this year’s COVID commentary — have you fallen foul of any of them?” The Conversation. December 29, 2020.
  • Has been accessed more than 50,000 times.
• ”Scientific Modelling is steering our response to coronavirus. But what is Scientific Modelling?” The Conversation. April 9, 2020
  • ​Covered on Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, ABC Radio National. Link to audio. and ABC South East NSW Breakfast
  • Cited in article in Sydney Morning Herald

TV/RADIO/PODCAST INTERVIEWS
"Grandmother Hypothesis and Human evolution"

• 29/06/25:  ABC Radio Weekend Evenings

"Is your smartphone a parasite?"

• 02/06/25: ABC Local Radio Canberra Mornings
• 02/06/25: ABC Local Radio Adelaide Mornings
• 02/06/25: WIN Canberra Local TV News
• 03/06/25: ABC Local Radio Darwin Mornings
• 03/06/25: ABC Local Radio Perth Mornings
• 03/06/25: ABC Local Radio Melbourne Drive
• 03/06/25: 2GB Sydney Drive
• 03/06/25: 2CC Canberra Drive
• 04/06/25: ABC Local Radio North Queensland Mornings
• 05/06/25: ABC Local Radio Sydney Afternoons
• 08/06/25: ABC Radio Weekend Evenings (Link to Audio)
• 08/06/25: ABC Radio National Sunday Extra (Link to Audio)
• 09/06/25: ABC Radio National Life Matters (Link to Audio)
• 12/06/25: Radio New Zealand Afternoon Show (Link to Audio)

"Fri-losophy: Personal identity, the self and aging"

• 07/02/25: ABC Radio Canberra 666 Afternoon Show. 

"Science and the Value-Free Ideal"

• July 2023: The HPS Podcast https://podbay.fm/p/the-hps-podcast-conversations-from-history-philosophy-and-social-studies-of-science/e/1689188400​

"Roundtable on Animal Sentience with Liz Irvine and Jonathan Birch (Vodcast)

• July 2022: The Brains Blog https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/10/06/brains-blog-roundtable-animal-consciousness.aspx

“Exploring Consciousness” Panel discussion on the nature of consciousness and how we understand it

• 23/08/20: God Forbid, ABC Radio National. Link to audio.

“The Myth of Value Free Science”

• 15/07/20: ABC South East NSW Breakfast.

“Better safe than sorry? The challenge of incorporating new evidence of invertebrate and fish pain into our animal welfare legislation”

• 17/06/20: ABC South East NSW Breakfast. Link to audio.

“What are scientific models?”

• 11/05/20: Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, ABC Radio National. Link to audio. 
• 08/04/20: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Science or Pseudoscience?”

• 11/03/20: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“The secret(s) of our success: The role of intelligence in human evolution”

• 09/10/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast. Link to audio. 

“Why did Grandmothering evolve?” 

• 11/9/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“What is creativity?”

• 28/9/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast.

“Revolutions & Trust in Science” (with Adrian Currie and Kirsten Walsh – Exeter)

• 31/07/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast. Link to Audio

“Were ancient humans as smart as us?”

• 03/07/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Misinformation in the information age” (with Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall – UCI)

• 19/06/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Brains in Vats?”

• 05/06/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Science of Animal Welfare” (with Heather Browning – ANU)

• 08/05/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Robot carers”

• 24/04/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Insectageddon? Biodiversity, why care?”

• 10/04/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Animal Cultures?”

• 27/03/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Geoengineering: Planetary saviour or disaster?”

• 27/2/19: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Thylacine genetic diversity and conservation ethics”

• 13/12/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Memory and Extended Cognition”

• 29/11/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast
• 29/11/17: ABC Canberra Drive
• 30/11/17: ABC Perth Breakfast

“Ethics of Genetic Testing and Insurance”

• 15/11/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Big Gods and the Evolution of Religion”

• 01/11/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Are fish sentient? What if they are?”

• 18/10/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Cultural Evolution”

• 20/09/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast

“Launch of Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences”

• 06/09/17: ABC South East NSW Breakfast
• 08/08/17: ABC Canberra Drive