Tech reporter @ABCscience, formerly with @triplejHack. Contact: [email protected]
Perth, Western Australia
Joined May 2011
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James Purtill retweeted
New *paid* 3-4 month residency for science journalists in Australia from @ScienceJournOz
Full editorial independence, get your apps in by Nov 24!
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I don't tweet often but this is annoying. @Channel10AU's @theprojecttv interviewed me Thursday, after the ABC published my story about 23&Me on Wednesday. Their story on Sunday is v similar to mine + I'm the main talent, but doesn't mention (a) my story (b) I'm a reporter 1/
Our podcast won an award in Istanbul! Special shout out to pod-making colleagues @TamarCranswick, Jordan Fennell and @CarlSmithAUS ... pic of birkenstocks that melted on way up volcano in Rabaul, PNG, for making of episode
I don't tweet often but this is annoying. @Channel10AU's @theprojecttv interviewed me Thursday, after the ABC published my story about 23&Me on Wednesday. Their story on Sunday is v similar to mine + I'm the main talent, but doesn't mention (a) my story (b) I'm a reporter 1/
The result is quite funny. This random guy (me), without any professional title, is making these apparently well-researched points about DNA testing. The absence of job title is very conspicuous. Which makes me wonder ... Why didn't they include it, like we'd agreed? 4/
I texted the producer this morning and he said it was an error. 🤷🏻 I'll leave it to others to speculate.
My story: abc.net.au/news/science/2024…
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Woohoooo! Our podcast won a @eurekaprizes
🏆 Hello AI Overlords @jamespurtill @jordaaaye @erica_vowles is awarded the @austmus Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. #EurekaPrizes
Learn more: youtu.be/UVByR0Z3jXQ
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James Purtill retweeted
It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installing their first MBA/finance CEOs, who then promptly made fundamental strategic errors that nixed the company's future, that are now becoming obvious.
My story on the controversy around AI-generated articles at the popular science mag Cosmos, where staff, contributors and even the editors weren't told the publisher was developing a tool to generate content @ABCscience
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Hello AI Overlords @jamespurtill @jordaaaye @erica_vowles is a finalist in the @austmus Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.
Learn more: youtu.be/UVByR0Z3jXQ
#EurekaPrizes @abcnews
Our six-part AI podcast is up for a big award - the Eurekas @eurekaprizes. Hello AI Overlords was presented by me and produced by Jordan Fennell, Erica Vowles and Will Ockenden for @ABCscience .... aaaand now this post will be used to train xAI's new LLM australian.museum/get-involv…
James Purtill retweeted
#MEAAmedia members at @WAtoday are now on strike! Come down and show your support at their 253 St George’s Terrace. #DontTorchJournalism
My latest for @abcscience. Twenty years ago Australia helped China build a solar industry that changed the world. Now it's turned to China for help boosting its own tiny output of panels - and relying on this history of collaboration to make its case
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I grew up next to Whistlepipe Gully in Perth hills, Western Australia. Today I went to look at trees I’d walked under with my grandma when I was little, that I was looking forward to showing my baby, and they’re dead 😢 Experts are warning of “forest collapse” across southern WA
