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28 August 2020

Here's a presentation I gave that answers the question I'm sure you have asked yourself (!), is Twitter is an effective tool for communicating research findings in psychology? WATCH the Video. VIEW slides on Slideshare. READ the Article.

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06 August 2020

I was recently interviewed by the lovely Patrick McAndrew for his Relate podcast. We talk about avoiding passive interaction with the world, understanding technology, and (my term) digital equilibrium. Listen on Anchor, Apple, Podbay, PodBean, Spo...

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04 June 2020

My favourite book of the year so far: Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, BREXIT, and Facebook Broke Democracy by Brittany Kaiser (who you may recognise from the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack) and who runs DATA (Digi...

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20 March 2020

Here's NAO (pronounced "Now") a humanoid (human-like) social robot I'm working with for my honours research project this year at university. WATCH the Video.

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11 March 2020

Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! celebrates the 10th anniversary of Brisbane's FIRST all-vegan, environmental festival, Green Earth Festival, which took place on 13 March 2010. She organised and promoted this event which would not have been as suc...

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03 January 2020

One of the newer books I read from the cyberpsychology field I'm getting into is The Psychology of Social Media by Ciaran Mc Mahon, a historian, and philosopher of psychology, whose research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and technol...

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30 December 2019

It was another year of great music, so here's my favourite songs for the past year: Have you seen my Favourite Albums for 2019 list?

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23 December 2019

So much great music released this year, especially a lot of pop artists (see end), and after a 12-year hiatus, a release from my favourite Australian band of all-time, Art of Fighting. Enjoy my list in alphabetical order below.   SEE MORE OF MY M...

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20 December 2019

Finished the new Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Sports Gambling in Australia by Titus O'Reily, AFL satirist and sports historian recently.  Here's a photo from one of my favourite watering holes, Palm Beach in Queensland, A...

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02 July 2019

On Saturday, I devoted the day to reading the extraordinary beautiful and captivating, Boy Swallows Universe, by Brisbane journalist Trent Dalton.   I love when my favourite journalists write books. As this is a novel and I prefer non-fiction, it ...