This crazy letter comes courtesy of Sciblogs reader Alistair Mowat, who describes it as “priceless”. “Here is something akin to the discovery of the Japanese soldier found in the late 1970’s on a Pacific Island who was oblivious to the end of World War II,” he adds. “A man has been discovered in Tauranga, NZ, […]
MoreThe Wellington workshops of the Emerging Researchers roadshow featured the highest number of social scientists of all the main centres. Here’s how they summed up their research in a couple of sentences… My colleague Dacia Herbulock stepped in to run these sessions while I was down in Dunedin for the science festival. Here are her […]
MoreThe Foundation for Research, Science and Technology has today unveiled its main “public good” funding round grants which total $48 million and fund everything from the development of the New Zealand titanium industry, through to restoring wetlands. More details of these interesting research projects will hopefully emerge in the media in the course of the […]
MoreSlightly belated, but here are the results of the Palmerston North workshops on the Emerging Researchers roadshow, where scientists had five minutes to sum up their research in one or two sentences only. My top 10 favourites from Palmy… Imagine if we could have the FIFA World Cup stadium surface area condensed into a one […]
MoreMore researchers from the workshops at the University of Auckland describing their research in one to two sentences. These were the largest workshops yet so I came away with a huge number of slips of paper – not all of them are listed as a result, but this should give you a flavour of the […]
MoreThe Emerging Researchers roadshow trucks on and more researchers who participated in my Communicating your Research workshop have come up with succinct ways of describing their science or research. Apologies to those in Palmerston North, I left your workshop exercises in Wellington while I was home briefly so will post them on my return. See […]
MoreAnother city and another few dozen emerging researchers attempting to describe their research goals in a couple of sentences after just five minutes of thought. One interesting thing, Dunedin-based scientists are certainly a lot more legible than their colleagues in Christchurch! I’ve had to leave out several samples of the latter group as I couldn’t […]
MoreI’ve been travelling around the country talking to emerging researchers about the interesting projects they are working on for their PhD theses or as part of their post-doc research. In particular, I’ve been giving them tips on how to effectively communicate their science and in an exercise during the workshop, I ask the researchers to […]
MoreUsually I need to trawl the letters pages of the country’s newspapers and magazines to find examples of crazy science letters to the editor. This letter came direct to my inbox. The use of different fonts and colours is a fair warning of what to expect should you choose to read on… I wonder what […]
MoreThe Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman is in London for the 350th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Society of London and this week gave an interesting speech on the history of UK-NZ scientific collaboration. You can read the speech below or download it on the PMCSA website. A few interesting statistics […]
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