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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...
Call for nominations for Software Carpentry Instructor Training
New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) is pleased to announce the offering of a Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop at the University of Auckland, 28-29 January 2016 and would like to invite candidates from Te Pūnaha Matatini. This workshop kicks off...
Our December Hui
By Dr Rebecca Ford Last week I attended the Te Pūnaha Matatini Investigator Hui in Christchurch. While this is not the first time the group of academic investigators have come together at such events since the launch of the new Centre of Research Excellence in...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #3
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer The adventures in data-sleuthing continue. In this blog series, two summer students examine the National Statement of Science Investment 2015-2025, and appraise its use of data. So far we have found one case of...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #2
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer In this blog series we pull apart the National Statement of Science Investment and scrutinise its use of data. In case you missed it, in our last post we checked out the graph on page 19, and what it says about New Zealand's...