The Science Social

Ages: 18+ years

The Sydney Science Trail presents a free after-hours event for the science community, hosted by award-winning science writer and broadcaster Bernie Hobbs. Bring your colleagues and form connections with like-minded science enthusiasts while enjoying live music and pop-up exhibits at the Australian Museum.

Spark curiosity and conversation with special science talks presented by UTS and UNE. Discover the breadth of research covered at the Australian Museum and Botanic Gardens of Sydney by breaking the ice at the speed-dating-style activity Meet a Scientist!

Enjoy after-hours access to the Museum's ground floor galleries including the Climate Solutions Centre's Future Now exhibition and the Sydney Science Trail Expo. Drop-in to science activations such as Prototype Corner featuring never before seen digital software and play Remediate, the strategy card game developed by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. Plus try your hand at botanical drawings guided by the Botanic Gardens team or drop-in to the Theatre to watch episodes of What the Flora.

This is a free event for all science enthusiasts. Register now and receive a complimentary drink from the pop-up bar upon arrival.

Bernie Hobbs appears by arrangement with Claxton Speakers International.

Bernie Hobbs is best known as a popular judge from ABC TV's The New Inventors, and her many years presenting science on ABC Radio and Australian television.

With a first class honours degree in biochemistry and microbiology, Bernie's passion for science extended to brief stints in medical research and science teaching, before joining the ABC. Bernie has won awards for the kids tv show the experiMENTALS and for her greenhouse website PlanetSlayer.

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