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University of Auckland Equity reporting – also not such a silly idea?
By Caleb Gemmell and Catherine Webb The Equity Office - Te Ara Tautika – at the University of Auckland has published an equity profile of the university for 2014. The purpose of these yearly publications is admirable – to transparently report how the university is...
Meet the team: Q&A with Stephen Marsland
Meet Stephen Marsland - a professor of scientific computing in the computer science cluster of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) at Massey University. Stephen is also Te Pūnaha Matatini's new Theme Leader: Complex Data Analytics. "Data is cool...
Meet the team: Q&A with Mike Plank
We recently caught up with Principal Investigator Dr Michael Plank, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury. Mike has taken on the role of Theme Leader: Complexity and the Biosphere while Alex James is on hiatus....
My First Conference(s)
By Jonathan Goodman Never do things by halves, jump in the deep end, give it a go, eat your vegetables, trust your supervisors. This is all good advice and I now realise I must have taken it, having presented at the first conference I have ever attended, then...
Silencing Science – panel discussion
When: Thursday May 12, 5 pm-6:30pm Where: Auditorium, Auckland Museum Cost: free – bookings required. Please register attendee names at friends.events@aucklandmuseum.com or call 09 3026249 or 09 3067923. What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis – to the...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #5
Welcome back to Not Such a Silly Idea! In this exciting new season, two summer students continue to critique a government document, and this time they have interactive visualisations! In case you missed the first part of our epic journey, you can read instalments one,...
Win tickets to Adam Rutherford ‘Gene Genie’ tour
WIN TICKETS TO Dr Adam Rutherford's Royal Society of New Zealand 'Gene Genie' tour! Follow Te Pūnaha Matatini on Twitter or Facebook and tell us your #sciencehero for your chance to WIN tickets to the below events. GENE GENIE TOUR Te Pūnaha Matatini is proud to...
The First Post
By Ben Curran It’s an interesting thing, writing the first post. It’s an interesting thing writing the first line. Whether it’s the first line of a paper, a chapter, a grant application or a blog post, I always find the first line … daunting. It’s only now, having...
Video Workshop for Scientists
Wellington - Wednesday March 30 / Auckland - Thursday 31 March 2016 The Science Media Centre is hosting a workshop on communicating science in 90 second videos aimed at an online audience and leveraging platforms like Youtube and Vimeo. Great short videos can be...
Conference: Multicore World 2016
Conference Summary 15 - 17 February 2016 Shed 6, Queens Wharf - Wellington, New Zealand Bringing together business and technical know-how of developing and deploying multicore and manycore based solutions (5th edition). Including panels and debates on: “HPC in the...
Te Pūnaha Matatini Cycle Challenge
What: Te Pūnaha Matatini Cycle Challenge - join the team and commit to reducing your climate impact. When: February 1 to 29 Where: From wherever you are across Aotearoa Something wheely good is happening at Te Pūnaha Matatini HQ - Director Shaun Hendy bought a bicycle...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #4
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we started deconstructing the National Statement of Science Investment and considering the claims it makes. Our first blog post ended with an unanswered question – is the proportion of a...