https://www.alantacolley.com/home daily 1.0 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581570864188-6OZVWNAUIESKPSM1XCEK/_MG_5738.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581570412867-6DZO2K6G3D0433SK66LH/_MG_6460.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581570624494-WGOR0BR3LZ7Q3J97I6HT/Cropped+for+mail+out+.jpeg Home https://www.alantacolley.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-02-13 https://www.alantacolley.com/recordings daily 0.75 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/a95d9713-5978-431f-a3ed-b84e5ec040e1/Screen+Shot+2023-10-05+at+12.04.24+pm.png Video and audio recordings - ABC News Breakfast On April 3 I had the pleasure of joining ABC weatherman Nate Byrne on ABC News Breakfast to talk about how Chat GPT4 is very bad at Wordle, and why. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/ae68ff98-ea19-492b-b367-fb37e5d1c9ee/pop+test.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/fde7ab7e-a293-44b0-91a2-eb96f869d65f/maxresdefault.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581565868126-LYPYEJ6UJ8Q63EBX5LLU/DrKarlandAliceandAlanta Video and audio recordings - Dr Karl interview I was delighted to be a guest on Dr Karl’s podcast ‘Shirtloads of Science’. Dr Alice Motion, Dr Karl and I chatted parasites, bees and all things in between. Given Dr Karl helped invent the selfie we celebrated by taking one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/b6effdcf-a36c-4194-b4d0-56ceb6dc85b7/sci+fight+banner.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/dd4838ef-8039-4dc4-9a3e-0526e99997cd/abc+listen+.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581566980974-PHOABURZ8PCQW87KX9QU/DomKrapski+Photo Video and audio recordings - The Laborastory: On Marie Stopes The Laborastory is a storytelling night where scientists tell the tale of their science hero. Alanta tells the complex history of the woman who brought family planning to the UK; Marie Stopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1582765079632-2NJBUPZPBCGMZYHCAPMV/Frankie Video and audio recordings - Interview in Frankie Magazine Leta Keens captured my origin story in a lovely interview in Frankie magazine. https://www.alantacolley.com/upcoming-gigs daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/8c6ce10b-2b33-4041-8963-a43086bce906/trivia.jpg Upcoming Gigs - Trivia at Melbourne Museum Come along for Melbourne's nerdiest trivia that will challenge your logic circuits, stress-test your year 10 biology class chops, and reward those who read the descriptions on Melbourne Museum's exhibits. Hosted by science communicator, comedian and public health nerd Alanta Colley! When: April 2, 8pm to 9pm Where: Melbourne Museum: 11 Nicholson St, Carlton VIC 3053 | Foyer, Ground Level | ] https://www.alantacolley.com/about-me-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581569513049-M25MUXBAV5ZRSPJ8F9SP/_MG_6481.jpg About Me - What’s it all about? Alanta is a comedian, science communicator and story teller from Melbourne. With a background in international public health, her first solo science comedy show 'Parasites Lost' sold out its entire run at Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2017 and has been enjoyed by audiences in Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and for the Gates Foundation in Seattle. Since then she’s written and performed 'Days of our Hives' about bee keeping and bee losing, dived into gut microbiomes with ‘On the Origin of Faeces’, and interrogated the evidence behind alternative medicines in ‘Trick or Treatment’. She's toured nationally with her science comedy debate series 'Sci Fight', was a recipient of the Inspiring Australia Science Arts Grant in 2019, and is a regular guest on ABC radio. She's appeared on ABC TV News, in Frankie Magazine and written for ABC TV . She also moderates for the odd film festival, convention, MCed a book launch or two, and runs trivia at Melbourne Museum. Alanta is available as an MC, panelist, moderator, nerdy trivia host, facilitator or general fool. She loves talking all things bees, parasites, poo and the state of the planet. https://www.alantacolley.com/showbackcatalogue daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/8dede601-16a7-4815-8fc1-121426dec143/Trick+or+Treatment+poster+smaller.png Shows Back catalogue - Trick or Treatment Big pharma gets a bad rap, but what about big chakra? Could horse de-wormers cure a global pandemic? Can I mainline the placebo effect? Come on a science comedy journey through the wild and weird and occasionally effective world of alternative medicine with Alanta Colley as your test subject. While we grapple with the daily perils of a life confined within these fragile mortal vessels, it seems entirely sensible to search for any balm that might alleviate our aches, and make us healthier, happier and better at parallel parking. But who do we turn to? How do we navigate the litany of therapies offering access to ancient wisdom, invisible energy flows, the healing powers of exotic plants, animals and gurus? What is harmless, what is harmful and what does the evidence say? Can science measure the healing powers of alternative medicine? Or is time spent googling clinical trials better spent pursuing influencers on instagram? Come on a science comedy journey through the wild and weird and occasionally effective world of alternative medicine with Alanta as your test subject, putting her money where her mouth is and trialling some of the more out there alternative treatments so you don’t have to. This show is not covered by Medicare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/91434bf7-765c-4d46-8d36-1a97cf4c59ef/Alanta+MICF+2021+A3+Poster+Template+copy.jpg Shows Back catalogue - On the Origin of Faeces Join science comedian Alanta Colley for a celebration of excrement; exploring our gut feelings, what’s lurking in our bowels, how gut bacteria makes us who we are. Everyone does it. Darwin liked to collect it. Elvis died on the toilet doing it. Gwyneth Paltrow flushes it with a coffee enema. Several million people are doing it right now. Poo brings us all together. So, you know, wash your hands. This is a shit show. The show takes a bottom up approach to some scientific scat chat, as we dive into the bowels of the matter, to learn about poo horoscopes, DIY faecal transplants, and why dogs defecate on a north south axis. So grab a stool and join us for a diarreally good time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581657064258-1B19Z7WG5LCM50S291GB/YouChosePoorly+final.jpg Shows Back catalogue - You Chose Poorly A comedy experiment exploring the psychology behind all our bad decisions! We make an infinite number of choices every day - in relationships, in finance, in Buzzfeed quizzes. But how do we make them - and why are some of them so terrible? In their first collaboration, science comedian Alanta Colley and 'geek comedy's patron saint' Ben McKenzie will use sketch, stand-up and gentle (and highly ethical) audience participation to gather data each night and across the season to explore the psychology behind the bad decisions we all make. Join them as they dive into our psyches, paddle about in the collective subconscious, and sun themselves on the deck chairs of our hopes and fears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581657240458-E2F2I7OI68MZIREK6ZQ8/ALANTA_%28screenonly%29+%281%29.jpg Shows Back catalogue - Days of our Hives My name is Alanta. I’m a beekeeper. The main thing that you keep when you keep bees is other people away. Even my bees left, once. I guess I’m a bee loser. I think I’d quite like it if you came to hear my tale about bees, wasp heat death, and friendship. You know, if you’re in to that sort of thing. Days of Our Hives is the tale of Alanta’s adventures and misadventures in urban beekeeping. After fleeing from a swarm in the Czech republic Alanta turned her fear into fascination and is now a proud member of Melbourne’s urban beekeeping community; removing swarms from her neighbour’s kitchen, sharing bee trivia and upsetting people by explaining honey is, in fact, bee vomit. Days of our Hives combines stand-up, storytelling and scientific revelations about the weird and wonderful world of bees. It’s a master class in ways to cook a wasp, strategies to placate irate neighbours and what to do when you literally have a bee in your bonnet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e44b248a7669a737667ce87/1581657429380-Y9KXY0J3BP94VWJM7WOI/Alanta-Colley-Parasite-Lost-A3-v3-ADEL2017-LOWRES.jpg Shows Back catalogue - Parasites Lost Parasites Lost was Alanta’s debut solo show, and sold out the entire season at the Melbourne International Comedy Fest in 2017. It has also been performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Sydney Science Festival, the Lake Macquarie Science Festival, Perth FRINGE WORLD and for the Gates Foundation in Seattle. The story of one woman, who has contained multitudes. You’re never alone, when you’ve got a parasite. Ten years of travelling and working in Asia and Africa, Alanta has seen a few things. And eaten a few things. And yelled her lunch into not an inconsequential number of toilets. Alanta's job was to teach people about how to avoid diseases. In the process she contracted most of the world’s least pleasant parasites. Essentially she’s terrible at her job. Come on an adventure, across the globe and through Alanta’s intestine; and learn about some of the world’s cheekiest micro-organisms, and how Alanta contracted each of them. Not a show for the faint of heart. Parasites Lost is equal parts scientific, entertaining and comedic. It is a pathos-addled adventure across the globe and under the microscope. 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