🥳 Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!! May 2024 be kinder and happier for you all - and filled with new adventures great and small. #HappyNewYear

✨Starting something new

✨Lovely day out.

🧧🐉 Happy lunar new year! Wishing everyone a wonderful Year of the Dragon, filled withgood fortune, health and prosperity. 🎨: Ivy Shih #LunarNewYear2024

🆒A cool solution for the overheated... A mobile cooling hub – designed in collaboration with people who are homeless – provides shade and relief from the heat in Sydney, 🇦🇺 Australia. Read more ➡️ preventionweb.net/quick/82106

Thoroughly enjoying ‘Feijoa’ by Kate Evans - each page filled with tasty and wonderfully written details. ✨ I’ve never had feijoas before and now on a mini quest to find some in Aus!

Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser. It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment. To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends. More on the project below.

Mission ‘find a feijoa’ is a success! They’re delicious. 🤩

I hope no one left mildly annoying buzzing experiments running over the weekend that they are expecting data from

Also happy to share some of the media coverage on our research from The Sydney Morning Herald Sarah Berry smh.com.au/lifestyle/heal…

⛈️Bringing to you the latest News Cycle forecast. “Intense high pressure front bringing with it intense activity even when cloudy when details.” 🎨: Ivy Shih

✨Cockatoos have learnt the art of opening bins - in an escalating 'arms race' between them and humans! Drawing the roly poly cockatoos was definitely a highlight. :D 🎨 Art:Ivy Shih #cartoon Inspired bythis lovely The Sydney Morning Herald Angus Dalton article: smh.com.au/national/nsw/f…

Have you seen cockatoos opening bins too? Help our researchers to learn more about these behaviours: clevercockies.com Biology at ANU Lucy Aplin

🧬A new 'genetic map' of the greater Australian Bilby has been revealed for the first time! Sadly lost bilbies can't use genome maps for directions. So happy the cartoon was used in a story! sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n… 🎨:Ivy Shih #scicomm #AmDrawing #cartoon #bilby #conservation

We are so thrilled to announce the contributors for The Best Australian Science Writing 2024. With a foreword by DeadlyScience founder Corey Tutt and edited by Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith, discover the finest voices in Australian science writing. unsw.press/BASW2024

Delighted to host the inaugural Sydney ID EMCR retreat “Scientifically Speaking” with media & comms experts outlining storytelling, writing for lay audiences, developing your pitch, camera skills & more. Thank you Sophie Scott Julie Leask AO & Ivy Shih 🙏 #LeadershipForGood

✨It was wonderful being able to take part and teach/ share experiences of media/ health communication to the researchers. Thank you Jocelyne Basseal and Sydney ID for the kind invite and chance to present alongside Julie Leask AO Sophie Scott . I was so touched by the flowers!

💊🔭Excited to go to the 'Medical Moonshots' talk Sydney Ideas today - about oral insulin, nanomedicines, AI being used in imaging and more! ✨More info: sydney.edu.au/engage/events-… 🎨: Ivy Shih

🧁 Someone at work brought muffins and found it hilarious how big it looked in my hand compared to how tiny it looked in another colleagues’s hand. 😆 Artist’s re-enactment 👇 🎨 Ivy Shih