We are less than a month out from the New Zealand International Science Festival, the biennial showcase of events, lectures, art and people that sees Dunedin become science-central for a full week. The festival runs July 8- 16. This year’s line-up looks particularly good. I’ll be heading down myself and am particularly looking forward to hosting […]
MoreThe Government claims it will put around $100 million extra into science and innovation each year for the next four years in a series of funding top-ups revealed in today’s Budget. It is always hard to tell for sure this early in the piece whether some of that is money reallocated. But the big ticket […]
MoreThere had been rumours of a significant science-related Budget announcement and yesterday we discovered what it was – a $97 million funding boost over four years for the Health Research Council. Following some of the awkward self reflection that went on around the science system last week as Shaun Hendy’s book Silencing Science appeared, the unexpected […]
MoreSciblogs was born in 2009, a time that could now be considered to have been the tail end of the golden age of blogging in general. Back then, commenting on blog posts was a relatively popular thing, lots of people did it. Then Facebook, Twitter and Reddit came along and much of the commentary shifted to those platforms. […]
MoreIn September – October 2015, I completed a fantastic cycling trip through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, taking in such wonderful sights as Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, the Mekong Delta, Ho Chi Minh City and rural Thailand along the way. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting a series of blogs and photos from that […]
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PETER GRIFFIN 