I was talking recently to someone in the UK who's waiting for a Schengen visa and in the meantime is refusing invitations to conferences all over Europe, at a key stage of their career.
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Could we improve the research funding ecosystem in Australia by giving funding bodies a more explicit, year-on-year memory, to catch repeat near miss high performers before we lose them?

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Igor Aharonovich Macroarc

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Today's guest is Francis Su (Francis Su) author of 'Mathematics for Human Flourishing', a book about the joy, wonder, and beauty that we innately desire in the world & how mathematical discovery can help us find them. This ep is full of deep questions and big ideas - links below!

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Hey Australian Labor👋

Wouldn't it be great to re-write this headline? Like…

'Government triples funding for Australian research after a decade of underfunding and consultation with available evidence'

That'd have quite a different legacy!
#JustSaying
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Hey Francis Su

Any chance you're coming to the Melbourne area while you're in this part of the world?

If not, next time you come to Sydney, I'd love to try to arrange a visit for you here.

Application deadline coming up - looking forward to meeting y'all, but need to apply first!

U Sydney has a position. [in the ad, it says 'associate professor/senior lecturer - for nonAustralians, 'senior lecturer' \approx 'assistant professor'.]

I did a thing today... a radio interview and the first ever. I talked about infectious disease modelling and mpox with Dr Shane Huntington OAM, Dr Scarlett and Dr Ray at the RRR studio!
rrr.org.au/explore/progra… (48:00)

A perspective on developing ethically aware models of infectious disease interventions. Collab with ethicists Julian Savulescu and Simon Coghlan along with epi modelers Freya Shearer Michael Plank Dr. Joel C. Miller Kylie Ainslie, PhD and Nic Geard
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What RFK Jr. is proposing here, is the preventable suffering and death of children. No way around it.

We’ve already done these studies. Every randomized placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine showed that the control group suffered greater incidences of disease. Every large scale…

Me: due to harassment & threats from the lab leak crowd, scientists are nervous that someone will shoot them to death

Lab leak proponents:

I'm still on the search for a potential PhD student to join our group - especially someone with a strong background in behavioural ecology. Would appreciate a retweet :)

Great opportunity to work on network inference problems in a great environment in Sydney, in collaboration with our group CEU Department of Network & Data Science in Vienna!

Please RT:

I am looking for potential PhD students to work on infectious disease models.

My university has a deadline of Mar 30.

Australian students will have an advantage in the application, but I would welcome applications from strong foreign students.