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Hi, I'm Suzannah Lyons
I'm an accomplished science journalist, editor, educator and researcher, working across words, audio, video and data.
I spent more than a decade with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, including working for ABC Science, ABC Emergency and ABC International. I have also worked in communication roles for Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Burnet Institute.
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My reporting was selected for The Best Australian Science Writing anthology in 2020 and 2022 and has been broadcast on Radio National's The Health Report and The Science Show, on other ABC radio programs and on ABC television.
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I've reported on topics as diverse as how black holes aren't actually holes, why it's not you but the universe to blame for your messy house, the silent epidemic of traumatic brain injuries, bushfires, quantum supremacy and a mummified cat.
Some of my more memorable achievements include convincing a soil scientist to speak about soil as if he was describing a fine wine, chasing after ringtail possums in regional Western Australia and getting hungover worms on national television.
From 2023 to 2025, I was a senior commissioning editor with
research newswire 360info where I led their science coverage and produced stories on the politics of home ownership, lab-grown meat, virtual humans, biodiverse cities, eco-friendly eating and how we're already on the fast track to 100 per cent renewables. The more than 180 stories I edited and produced for 360info reached a potential audience in excess of 330 million people.
I'm passionate about storytelling and science, and particularly the intersections between the two.
I believe in making science accessible so that people from all walks of life can appreciate the ideas, stories, humans and history behind scientific research and discoveries.
In 2025, I completed the Lede Program for Data Journalism run by Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism to further build my data analysis and visual storytelling skills.
My honours research into what journalists can do when the public doesn't trust science was published in Australian Journalism Review in 2024.
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I'm a committee member of the Science Journalists Association of Australia where I help coordinate events and workshops for SJAA members. I trained as both a chemist and a journalist but found I was better at telling stories than hanging out in the lab. I can still make a mean batch of cornflour slime.
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You can connect with me on LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub or via this website's Contact page.