Health and Medicine
Malaghan, Otago, GNS among rising stars in science
The scientific journal Nature has just published its annually updated Nature Index to identify the rising stars among research institutions around the world and a couple of New Zealand institutions get a mention. [UPDATE: I left out GNS Science, which came in 18th!] In the Asia Pacific picks for the top 25 rising stars are […]
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180 seconds of science
New Zealand’s early career researchers are being challenged to showcase their science in videos up to 3 minutes long, as part of the Trans-Tasman competition, 180 Seconds of Science. I’m on the judging panel for the New Zealand entries and am really looking forward to seeing what the researchers come up with. 180 seconds is […]
MoreScifest – heading south for a dose of science
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 […]
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Researchers go after blogger and lobbyist for defamation
We all know the blogosphere can be a brutal place. While we’ve become desensitized to some of the mud slinging and smearing that goes on in blog posts and their comment sections, some people forget that the online realm is still subject to the law. Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater and lobbyist and PR consultant Carrick Graham […]
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Budget 2016: On the face of it, science did well
The 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 […]
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