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michaeljwest

@Brettskies @miss_jasminr What an introduction… always classy Brett! 5:47 AM May 30th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Brettskies
@contacthelen Yes Kahan's work is interesting, see also bit.ly/KuJRMu about framing geoengineering in different ways. PS how are you? 1:41 AM May 30th via Twitter for Mac in reply to contacthelen
@Brettskies Brigit's birthday is coming up again! Plus I can think of a few people who'd make good use of those "cloaks for little people"… 3:47 AM May 27th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Brettskies
BrianBoyleSKA Australia/New Zealand and South Africa announced as joint site for #SKA_telescope. ANZ low frequency/RSA mid frequency. 5:34 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by michaeljwest and 71 others
@Brettskies The social worker has basically just invented Fifteen 3:20 AM May 6th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Brettskies
mattjpsmith If anyone is having a bad day, remember that today in 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800. Now it's worth $58,065,210,000 8:50 AM Apr 13th via web Retweeted by michaeljwest and 16437 others
New Demos report on religion and politics - British think-tank Demos has released a report, Faithful... tmblr.co/Zk05xxJIZ2US 6:54 AM Apr 8th via Tumblr
Demos Download our report by @jdbirdwell on religion and politics, covered by the Observer demos.co.uk/publications/f… 3:58 AM Apr 8th via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by michaeljwest and 10 others
Visualisation: Research spending ranks - My first go at putting a Processing visualisation online: a sort of... tmblr.co/Zk05xxIv07W0 6:16 AM Apr 1st via Tumblr
RogerHighfield Numbers of young scientists declining in Japan nature.com/news/numbers-o… 11:33 PM Mar 20th via web Retweeted by michaeljwest and 3 others
Didn't know Tanya Plibersek was from the Shire - nice to see a non-Jersey-Shore-esque public representation of us #kitchencabinet 2:57 AM Mar 21st via Twitter for Mac
jameswilsdon Looking forward to the House of Lords S&T committee report on Chief Scientific Advisers, out tomorrow bit.ly/xIM5mD #scipolicy 10:51 AM Feb 28th via web Retweeted by michaeljwest and 2 others
Aus Parliamentary Library does prepare issue briefs - including coal seam gas example Anna-Maria mentioned. bit.ly/zCqKQM #smpm2012 8:52 PM Feb 23rd via Twitter for Mac
Apple is now the largest public company in the world, overtaking ExxonMobil. Good to see tech finally catching up to oil, at least in part. 10:26 PM Jan 24th via Twitter for Mac
Apple posts record quarterly revenue - Apple just posted spectacular holiday quarter results. Revenue of $46... tmblr.co/Zk05xxFJA59B 2:32 PM Jan 24th via Tumblr
dzeaiter An amazingly beautiful, stunning video of Africa's lightning storms & the Milky Way rising over the horizon from space: gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/this-i… 3:39 AM Jan 21st via Twitter for Android Retweeted by michaeljwest
Misinterpretation masterclass - Writers in The Australian continues to misinterpret scientific statements on... tmblr.co/Zk05xxEyBecz 6:48 PM Jan 17th via Tumblr
iftf 'Biohackers' Get Their Own Space to Create - on.wsj.com/ziXGN2 #OpenScience 12:32 AM Jan 17th via SocialEngage Retweeted by michaeljwest and 3 others
Huntsman pulling out of the GOP race. Sad to be losing him instead of Gingrich, whose new ads attack the fact that Romney can speak French. 8:20 PM Jan 15th via Twitter for Mac
The Apollo 11 rocket in Lego, almost 6 metres high! flickr.com/photos/ryanmcn… 3:31 AM Jan 15th via Twitter for Mac

Name Michael West
Location Sydney, Australia
Web http://mjwest.org
Bio Science, policy, and sometimes food. I work in international science policy for the Australian Government, but all views expressed here are personal.