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InfectedNZ – Twitter Q+A

15 Dec 2016 | Our stories

Did you miss our InfectedNZ campaign with Figure.NZ? Don’t worry – we’ve put together a collection of resources and Twitter Q+A to help answer your burning questions. Resources InfectedNZ blogs Science Media Centre – Antimicrobial resistance...

Reception for Women in Mathematics and their Supporters at NZ Mathematics Colloquium

1 Dec 2016 | Our stories

After the AGM for the New Zealand Mathematical Society on Monday 5th of December, there will be a reception for women in mathematics and their supporters. Everyone is welcome. The reception is sponsored by Te Pūnaha Matatini and will be chaired by Principal...

SciGlow at Silo Park: the art of bioluminescent bacteria

1 Dec 2016 | Our stories

Be wowed by the eerie glow of bioluminescent bacteria as art and science unite for SciGlow at Silo Park Auckland, 3-4 December. Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles has teamed up with artists, schoolchildren and bioluminescent bugs to create the unique bacterial paintings...

We take antibiotics for granted at our peril

25 Nov 2016 | Our stories

I am an ardent defender of people being free to choose what they do with their own life, even when I would not make the same decision. Partly this is because studying economics gave me an appreciation of how individual decision making is surprisingly effective at...

What the NZ science system is doing to combat infectious disease

25 Nov 2016 | Our stories

Two years ago, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the original Longitude Prize, the UK government offered a ten million pound prize for the solution of a significant global problem. The original Longitude prize was set up in the eighteenth century by the British...