Plus dozens of Science Week stories around ACT: Can we science our way out of multiple crises? Growing food in space and on Mars Crickets – the new superfood? Exposing the fake medicine, wellness crazes, cons and quacks Inclusive dance company explores the birth of the Universe Can gamers help save the planet? A LEGO…
Plus dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania: Teddy bear dissection reveals our reliance on plastics One in five bags of food is thrown away – can we change? A party to celebrate Tassie’s dark skies Finding Australia’s oldest sour dough, and fermenting at home Matthew’s mad about ravens Ice cores reveal past and future…
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 & NT) Yum or yuck? The chemistry of flavour (SA) How will we produce food in a warming climate? (Online) What’s for dinner on…
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 home the gender disparity that pervades her profession. “If there was equipment that I hadn’t encountered before, I would ask others how to use…
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 allowed to go to school,” she says. “My parents were well-educated and held education to be a priority, regardless of gender. Indeed,…
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 but also women, sometimes provide to aspiring women. “I constantly encounter colleagues who mentor young men to ‘stick to your passion and press on’, but to women they say, ‘you need to…
IUPAP Conferences Endorsement & Funding to conferences should be contingent on an anonymised review process for selecting contributed abstracts to the conference Endorsement & Funding to conferences should be contingent on a plenary session on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion which should be embedded within the schedule and include expertise from the social sciences on intersectionality. …
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 inequity, Lisa Harvey-Smith Plenary 2: Women in physics in Sudan, challenges and opportunities, Nashwa Eassa Plenary 2: Molecular motors and switches at surfaces, Petra Rudolf…
Highlights from the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics 14 July 2021 Women are less likely to have access to essential career resources Women are massively under-represented in physics journals Only 18 per cent of Australian STEM professors are women. “On the first day of the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics we…
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 at Burkina Faso’s largest university are male no women have graduated in physical sciences at The University of El…