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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)

@natashamitchell.bsky.social

Australian journo. NOW: host of ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS, THEN: Founding presenter/creator of All in the Mind & Science Friction podcasts, host of Life Matters, MIT Knight fellow, World Federation of Science Journalists board. Owned by a wolfhound-x.

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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ALERT: Sc*mmers are targeting authors pretending to be ABC presenters & producers (including from Big Ideas). This is a widespread scam. More info & guidance: help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/art... E.g NatashaMitchellPresenter@gmail.com is NOT an email from me It has been reported to Google fwiw

How can I tell if an email or ad claiming to be from the ABC is a scam?

The ABC is aware of scam emails and social media ads that falsely claim to be from ABC presenters, producers, staff or programs. These emails may offer an interview, appearance, editorial opportuni...

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@dreid63@dreid63.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"If there was more to do, I would do it." A brilliant and moving lecture on failure from Siang Lu. @natashamitchell.bsky.social

Six years of writing, 200 rejections — how Miles Franklin award-winning writer Siang Lu learned to live with failure - ABC listen

Failure is a part of life, whether we like it or not. While most of us don't ever want to fail, failure does have things to teach us — about ourselves, about resilience, about persistence, and about d...

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Jo Dyer@instanterudite.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website. Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Love and light, and stay off social media if the imagery, footage, grief, shock, and comments sections, are all too much right now (as they are). All we have is our shared humanity. Words matter. Choose them carefully and with sensitivity. Connect with loved ones. Reach across.

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UWA Institute of Advanced Studies@iasuwa.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Podcast Alert: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge We recently marked our 25th Anniversary at UWA with a conversation about the value of enquiry for its own sake. 📻 You can listen to this discussion on ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas with @natashamitchell.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

What are universities for today? The usefulness of "useless" knowledge - ABC listen

Are our universities facing an existential crisis by trying to be too many things? Places for learning, research, the production of new knowledge, the production of job-ready graduates, and profit-mak...

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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is a must listen on ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS wherever you pick up your favourite podcasts. Thanks Simon, and welcome back to Australia.

Simon Adams@simonadams.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Universities and other antidotes to authoritarianism. (Where I ask the question, what would George Orwell or Hannah Arendt expect of us?) Thanks @natashamitchell.bsky.social ‬⁩from Big Ideas at ⁦‪@RadioNational in Australia for broadcasting this. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Oh my gosh the late great science journalist Sharon Begley wrote an obit about Watson. Logging into STAT....

Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 11mo ago

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

WE ASKED FOR WORKERS, WE GOT PEOPLE Hear this timely event I hosted. On BIG IDEAS www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... And read recent related excoriating reportage on PALM visa scheme issues Pregnancies, abuse, discrimination www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Slavery www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog...

We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate - ABC listen

A workforce we rarely hear about, lives in limbo, and stories from the coalface. From economic gains and cultural exchanges to exploitation and absconding,  what are the successes and problems of the ...

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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)@natashamitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

Mark Z*ckerberg claims corporations are being culturally neutered - are they? Joining me: journo #CatherineFox (author, The Boss Bias) & lawyer @joshbornstein.bsky.social (author, Working for the Brand:How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech) We roam far & wide! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Mark Zuckerberg claims corporations are culturally neutered — are they? Men, women, work, and the manosphere - ABC listen

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has said “a lot of the corporate world has become culturally neutered” and that it needs more “masculine energy”? Has it and does it? At Meta, he recently shut down initiatives ...

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National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia@ausstemcell.bsky.social · last yr.

Tune in tomorrow and Thursday for ABC Radio National’s broadcast of the ‘Making cancer treatment worth it’ public forum with Big Ideas presenter Natasha Mitchell in conversation with top cancer and stem cell scientists: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @natashamitchell.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social

How do we make cancer treatment worth it, work better, and less harmful? - ABC listen

Cancer is common and chemo and radiotherapies can save or extend our lives. But sometimes they don't, or they stop working, or they come with disabling long-term side effects. In a state of desperation, some of us seek out unproven alternatives which might even put us at greater risk of cancer. Join Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell and guests to find out how scientists are attacking the problem of cancer treatment. This event was organised by the Australasian Society of Stem Cell Research, University of Adelaide, and National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia. Speakers Professor Mark Dawson Haematologist and clinician-scientist Associate Director of Research Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the University of Melbourne. Associate Professor David Elliot Stem cell researcher and leader of the Heart Disease group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Principal investigator, Novo Nordisk Foundation for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW).  Professor Megan Munsie Immediate Past President, Australasian Society of Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) Professor of Emerging Technologies (Stem Cells)  Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Thank also to Tanya Ha from Science in Public and Dr Luke Isbel from the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute. Further listening How surfing writer Tim Baker and doctor Peter Goldsworthy learnt to live well and laugh with cancer (Big Ideas, 2025)

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Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · last yr.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.