Michelle Littlefair is a PhD student at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society researching frogs in agricultural landscapes. She is also a dancer who uses her performances to spread awareness about frog declines. We spoke to her about how frogs have become such a large part of her life.

After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

What business does a wild animal have in contributing to our domestic bliss?

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

What happens to all those stories which start with the promise of an exciting new scientific breakthrough, but don’t end that way?

For more than a century, the Night Parrot has inspired gripping tales of obsessive odysseys and miraculous discoveries. But now the truth has gotten in the way of a good story. And Dr Penny Olsen is wearing the cost.