Plus dozens of Science Week stories around WA: Can we future-proof our food and fibre crops?Forgotten physicist defends her life – on stageGut feelings: what to eat to improve your moodMeet …
Exposing quacks, eating crickets, gaming climate change, and growing food in space
Plus dozens of Science Week stories around ACT: Can we science our way out of multiple crises?Growing food in space and on MarsCrickets – the new superfood?Exposing the fake medicine, wellness …
Teddy bear dissection, dark skies, tardigrade art, ravens
Plus dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania: Teddy bear dissection reveals our reliance on plasticsOne in five bags of food is thrown away – can we change?A party to celebrate Tassie’s …
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Crunchy crickets, lab-grown meat, fishless caviar and more. Oh, and beer
Great National Science Week FOOD stories up for grabs now around Australia. Cellular agriculture – growing meat in vats (online with NSW talent)The science of beer – with sampling! (TAS & …
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Professor Mmantsae Moche Diale: “In big conferences, there are very few black women.”
Professor Mmantsae Moche Diale is a senior physicist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. All too often, she recalls, walking into an unfamiliar laboratory was an experience that sheeted …
Dr Anisa Qamar: “I was the only woman in the physics faculty.”
Dr Anisa Qamar is a professor of plasma physics at Peshawar University in Pakistan. “I was born in a small village in the north of Pakistan where cultural stereotypes mean females are not …
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Professor Prajval Shastri: “Such bad mentoring has no consequences.”
Professor Prajval Shastri, astrophysicist and adjunct professor at Australia’s International Centre for Radioastronomy Research (ICRAR), is often confounded by the advice senior physicists, mostly men …
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Draft Recommendations from the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics
IUPAP Conferences Endorsement & Funding to conferences should be contingent on an anonymised review process for selecting contributed abstracts to the conferenceEndorsement & Funding to …
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Summaries of plenaries at the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics
Plenary 1: Gender Gap in the Global Survey: Igle Gledhill, Rachel Ivie and Susan White Plenary 1: Gender in publication practices in maths and physics, Helena Mihaljević Plenary 1: Australia …
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Where are the world’s women in physics?
Highlights from the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics 14 July 2021 Women are less likely to have access to essential career resourcesWomen are massively under-represented in physics …
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50+ countries, 300 physicists meet to address global shortage of women in physics
11 July 2021 We need all our best brains to solve global challenges. And we need to empower women who want an intellectual life to explore big ideas. But, over 99 per cent of physics students …
IUPAP speaker call out
We’re assisting with media liaison for the 7th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics next week. We understand that you will be speaking at a session of the conference. We’re …