21 Mar Science & Health Lessons from social science forecasting during the pandemic 21/03/2023 By Cendri Hutcherson 0 comments Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to ...Continue reading
05 Mar Science & Health How amateur scientists are making important discoveries 05/03/2023 By Mark Lorch 0 comments What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures...Continue reading
09 Feb Science & Health The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research 10/02/2023 By Virginia Barbour 0 comments Researchers can't progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and th...Continue reading
29 Jan Science & Health Success without substance 29/01/2023 By Adrian Barnett 0 comments New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel d...Continue reading
05 Jan Feature series Expert knowledge and scientific thinking under siege 05/01/2023 By Paul Monk 0 comments This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the Winter 2017 edition of Austra...Continue reading
28 Nov Science & Health Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe 29/11/2022 By Nathan Kilah 0 comments To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration ...Continue reading
25 Sep Philosophy & Psychology Why we should trust science 25/09/2022 By John Wright 0 comments Many of us accept science is a reliable guide to what we ought to believe – but not all of us do. Mistrust of science has led to sce...Continue reading
02 Apr Science & Health Scientists, working together, can prevent future pandemics 22/07/2022 By Grace Wangge 0 comments Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of a different ki...Continue reading
20 Mar Philosophy & Psychology Why we trust experts – even when they admit they don’t know the answer 22/07/2022 By Erik Gustafsson 0 comments We constantly make decisions about who to trust. Much of the time we’re bombarded with massive amounts of information on all sorts o...Continue reading
13 Mar Science & Health Future-proofing research 22/07/2022 By Christobel Saunders 0 comments The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by br...Continue reading
15 Feb Science & Health Women in science still jumping hurdles 23/07/2022 By Michelle Rank 0 comments “Can I see a future with gender equity for women and girls in science?” If you had asked me 15 years ago, I would have said no. But,...Continue reading
16 Jan Feature series A reflection on Karl Popper’s insights into the origins of scientific method and the pre-Socratics 07/09/2022 By Paul Monk 1 comment If I was asked to teach an undergraduate course on Rationality 101, I would begin by introducing the students to the work of Karl Poppe...Continue reading