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25.01.2022 Squished in between some lovely Mars Rover-inspired piano music (courtesy of Sam Colcheedas) and a frickin @NASA Geobiologist (Darlene Lim) was 20 minutes of me standing on stage with a mic., commenting on the fact that my last name is also an occupation ITS OK NO COMPLEX HERE THANKS
24.01.2022 Pint of Science AU is underway! Had lovely times speaking at The Exchange Hotel in Port Melboure last night. Ill be back again tonight, this time as MC for New Threats and Old Understandings featuring Ricardo De Paoli, Veronica Cashin and Sieh Ng. Such science! So pint! https://pintofscience.com.au//old-threats-and-new-understa... #PintAU19
24.01.2022 I regret to inform you all that the entire run of my show Breathe? Easy. at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2020 has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances (which is to say NOT because of a virus). All tickets will be refunded in the next day or so. If science with comedy is your thing, there are some other lovely science comedy shows on this year and I would urge you to go and see and support them! Cancellation is disappointing and I am disappointed, b...ut fear not: Dr. David Farmer will return. Many thanks. Humbly yours, Dr. David Farmer
23.01.2022 Everyones favourite kind of promo: BATHROOM PROMO. Bathroom is gender neutral for MAXIMUM EXPOSURE. THANKS if you came along tonight and SEE YOU SOON if you didnt.
23.01.2022 Finishing work soon? Come see me (and 4 hapless others) attempt to talk about science without using any jargon at all. Theres science, theres drinks, theres a bell, its a whole thing. Come down. 430 pm TODAY at the Melbourne Brain Centre on Royal Parade, Parkville.
23.01.2022 Fibre-optic strippers, sapphire knife, fibre-optic cable: Ingredients for LASER-PROBE! #optogenetics #postdoclife
22.01.2022 I am very sad that the Melbourne Comedy Festival has now been completely cancelled. I will just have to console myself with the thought I cancelled MY SHOW back when it was STILL COOL and would thank you all to remember that. #hipstercancellation
22.01.2022 Ooft! WHY YOURE NOT DEAD YETS first sell-out show of 2019 is Sat the 6th of April! Apparently, people are mad for a bit of Saturday the 6th of April. Tickets for March 30, April 13 and April 20 are still available. Get involved! https://www.trybooking.com/BAHGZ ... Melbourne International Comedy Festival Loop Project Space & Bar Jackson Voorhaar
21.01.2022 HALLO! We are down to low single-digit numbers of tickets for both the 30th of March and 13th of April shows of Why Youre Not Dead Yet (Melbourne Comedy Festival 2019). If you were thinking of coming on those nights then please book soon! Else, come see us on the 20th of April! Wheeeeeee.
19.01.2022 More of this silliness-tinged seriousness for The Conversations Curious Kids. What causes brain freeze? I am both not terribly sure AND not terribly convinced that anyone else is either. #brainfreeze #headache #curiouskids #icecream #neuroscience
17.01.2022 If anyone was thinking of coming to The Exchange Hotel for Pint of Science 2019: Melbourne, there is now a Facebook event. I suppose it must really be happening! Im speaking on the Monday and MCing on the Tuesday and not there on the Wednesday but recommend you still go on the Wednesday because it will still be good on the Wednesday. Wednesday (but also Monday, Tuesday).
14.01.2022 Pint of Science AU is a festival where you listen to scientists talk about science in the pub and, as it happens, its happening soon! I will be speaking about brain science at The Exchange Hotel pub (Port Melbourne) on May 20th. Hooray!
14.01.2022 Etching tungsten electrodes at work #justthetip
14.01.2022 If you saw Why Youre Not Dead Yet at National Science Week 2018 then bloody thanks for a bloody amazing time. Special thanks if you found out about the show via the ad in the bathroom at Loop Bar. This bloody show was for bloody you. #lifegoals #advertisedinthetoilet
13.01.2022 This morning I was woken up by a truck that said Turd Burglar on the side. Apparently, turd burglary requires the making of huge amounts of noise outside my apartment at 5am. In future, turd burglars, just pay for turds like the rest of us.... AND PLEASE TO DO IT QUIETLY.
11.01.2022 Radio is limited to audio, so heres a picture of my face to gaze at while I chat to David Astle (@dontattempt) about the importance of #curiosity in #science on @abcmelbourne 774. Im sorry about the quality of the photo, and sorrier about the quality of the FACE
10.01.2022 What a fall from grace. After failing to kill John Connor in 1992, the T-1000 has (a) been forced to take a clothes manequin gig just to make end meet, and (b) gone inexplicably bling. I walked in there and was all like "I need your clothes, your boots, and your massive dollar sign medallion."... #terminator #sydneyroad #brunswick #bling
10.01.2022 I wrote an article about the brain. You know, for kids! The Conversation Please to tell us in article form how much the human brain weighs? Me: Will you accept answers in the form of equivalent weights of rainbow lorikeet parrots? ... The Conversation: ...I dont know... I mean... yes? Me: HAHA, excellent, Also: #PANCAKES. https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-much-does-a-br
09.01.2022 Recent correspondence. The Conversation: Please to write an article about sighing Me: I WILL MAKE IT HILARIOUS AND SLIGHTLY RUDE! *Types furiously* ... The Conversation: ...its for a 4 year old. Me: *Backspaces furiously* I WILL MAKE IT ACCURATE AND NICE. https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-why-do-we-sigh-116 You must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a neurobiological reflex that prevents alveolar collapse.
09.01.2022 Spotted and fixed on Sydney Road, Brunswick. I got your back, Daffy. #brunswick #sydneyroad #duckseason #wabbitseason #duckseasonwabbitseason
08.01.2022 The Melbourne International Comedy Festival guide is out tomorrow! In celebration of this amazing use of ink and paper, tickets for Why Youre Not Dead Yet (Melbourne Comedy Festival 2019) are 25% off THIS WEEKEND (from now until 25/02/2019, discount will be applied automatically at checkout). Once youve got some lovely tickets to our show, get yourself a lovely festival guide and then get lots of lovely tickets to lots of other lovely shows with other lovely comedians. Lovely. https://www.trybooking.com/BAHGZ
08.01.2022 The Conversation: Please to tell us in article form what a headache is. Me: Its when your "Head" "Aches". FTFY. The Conversation: We need more words for an article. You are making OUR head hurt. ... Me: Are you sure you didnt burn it on a stove? The Conversation: ...what?
07.01.2022 Ill be at Extrasensory tonight at Parliament House, Victoria. Come along, enjoy the many exhibits and help me come up with alternative names for the night! What Ive got so far follows below... Extrasensory Or: "Sense youve been gone"... "Sense of a woman" "Extra(non)sensory" "More than a feeling" And my favourite: "All smell that end smell"
07.01.2022 Part 2: coating tungsten electrodes with MOLTEN GLASS #useprotection
07.01.2022 LOVELY LAMINATED POSTERS FOR THE SHOW! Also pictured, my unlaminated (for now) face. Tickets for Why Youre Not Dead Yet are about half gone. Get involved!... Tickets: https://t.co/1HTjFmBigv #unlaminated
07.01.2022 COMEDY FEST IS DONE I HAD A LOVELY TIME AND THANKS FOR COMING TO A SHOW IF YOU DID IT OK SEE YOU SOON xxxxxxxxxxxxx
06.01.2022 Breathe? Easy @Melbourne International Comedy Festival . Tickets now on sale! https://www.facebook.com/events/169311111067163/ Photo Credit: Matthew Sillars
06.01.2022 I had a lovely time answering questions about the #brain posed by the grade 4, 5 and 6 kids at Baden Powell College yesterday. Actually answering is GENEROUS: it turns OUT that kids ask HARD QUESTIONS. One girl (aged ~10) used the words Theta Waves. SRSLY
04.01.2022 Throughout your entire life, youre at it. You know: doing the old in and out. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but constantly at it. And when you finally stop you die? Dr. David Farmer returns to the Melboune Comedy Festival in 2020 with a new infotainment/storytelling/comedy science show about BREATHING. Breathe? Easy. was co-written with the lovely Jackson Voorhaar and stars little old Dr. David Farmer... **Early bird tickets** (30% off) are available until the full comedy festival programme launch on the 11th of Feb. Event link below. HOORAY!
03.01.2022 More of this silliness-tinged seriousness for The Conversations Curous Kids. What causes brain freeze? I am both not terribly sure AND not terribly convinced that anyone else is either. #brainfreeze #headache #curiouskids #icecream #neuroscience
02.01.2022 Someone took one of my laptop keys?! When I get my hands on them, Im going to tea them limb from limb. Im going to ip them apat. In the meantime, Im going to wite to my local membe of paliament. #theft #cimedoesntpay
01.01.2022 I KNOW that this is just one shop above another but, deep down, what I WANT to believe that this is actually the headquarters for The Jiu Jitsu Salvation Army: an organisation that aims to help people by satisfying their physical, spiritual, grappling and especially ground fighting needs. #jiujitsu #salvos #sydneyroad #brunswick
01.01.2022 This is just not right... shoe. At least, not in the context of the left. Thatll teach me to rehearse science comedy while getting ready to leave the house. #GROWNUP... #postdoclife #sciencecommunication #scicomm See more
