science
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Systems & complexity
Harnessing the collision of four ways of knowing
How can solving today’s most complex challenges reckon with four fundamentally different ways of knowing?
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KM in sustainable development
![Anaiwan Elder and cultural knowledge holder Uncle Les Ahoy at Bulagaranda near Armidale, NSW. From the Rola[STONE] documentary, 2022.](https://realkm.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/file-20241128-15-jf6dqn-2-640x360.jpg)
‘Everything is Country’: these 4 projects blend First Nations knowledge and science to rewrite our understanding of the past
First Nations cultural knowledge has much to share with archaeology, palaeontology, and Earth sciences.
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KM in sustainable development
Indigenous knowledge merges with science to protect people from fish poisoning in Vanuatu
Ambae islanders combine their ecological observations with scientific data to develop an early-warning system for fish contamination.
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Brain power
If ‘correlation doesn’t imply causation’, how do scientists figure out why things happen?
It’s easy to link two things – the hard part is working if one causes the other.
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
Indigenous science can help solve some of the great problems of our time. Here’s how
Australia has committed to elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge as one of five national priorities in science and…
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Artificial intelligence
A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem
AI systems mass-producing cheap research would be bad news for an already struggling scientific ecosystem.
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Quality of science & its communication
Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself
Big tech doesn’t just fund research into itself – it also controls researchers’ access to data. Even big tobacco didn’t…
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
Why scientific knowledge needs to be decolonised
Is science inherently objective and immune to the influences of coloniality?
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Brain power
Michael Mosley used science communication to advance health and wellbeing. We can learn a lot from his approach
Mosley is recognised as making scientific information accessible in a way that has advanced public health.
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Brain power
How overconfidence harms decision making
People tend to be more overconfident than knowledgeable, especially when they have some knowledge but not a lot.
