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 National, Radio New Zealand.
  • Has been accessed over 81,000 times .
  • Has been re-published in Spanish and Japanese.
• “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.

TV/RADIO/PODCAST INTERVIEWS
"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
• 08/06/25: ABC Radio National Sunday Extra
• 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​

"SRoundtable 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