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The keyboards of our 91Ô­´´ researchers and academics have been on fire this month, publishing six new articles on The Conversation, reaching readers across Australia and beyond.

Their pieces cut through on everything from what’s hot on the screen and reading habits to native bees, literary trends, and gender bias in crash testing.

• Associate Professor Jess Carniel l ‘Wog’ humour, tense US politics and real-world monsters: what to watch in November.
• Dr Jessica Cook l It will take more than the new Children’s Booker Prize to arrest the dramatic decline in reading enjoyment.
• Dr Kit Prendergast l I discovered a new Australian native bee, but there are still hundreds we need to identify.
• Professor Jessica Gildersleeve and Dr Tara East l Why Jane Harper’s ‘outback noir’ novels make for comfortable – and uncomfortable – reading.
• Natasha Heap l Amelia Earhart disappeared almost 90 years ago. Why are so many people still looking for her?.
• Natasha Heap l Plane and car crash testing is still designed to keep men safe. That puts women in danger.

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