Learning with the Fang

Not sure if I am more excited or relieved to be able to share the great news that a team led by Prof Tanya Monro from the University of Adelaide has won significant funding for research here in Adelaide!
In case you missed it in the good-news blitz of the Prime Minister’s ‘nation-building infrastructure package announced [...]

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Since my earliest tinkerings with the social web, I have thought the digital trails we write to the internet would make ideal data for anthropologists to study. My instincts regularly ‘give me feelings’ that the things I experience through my online networks are profound and perhaps mirror the inner workings of my brain or maybe [...]

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Congratulations to Professor Tanya Monro from the Centre of Expertise in Photonics at the University of Adelaide for winning the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year.
According to this website, the prize was awarded at tonight’s Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science awards in Canberra. Following this link will give you more information on [...]

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It’s just after 1.00am and I am sitting at my desk in my PJ’s as I take part in a Science Blogging Conference in London. This ‘remote/online’ conference experience has been rather special for a number of reasons. First, the event is a kind of ’soft-launch’ for my new collaboration with Kristin, Lisa and the [...]

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This Sunday (Aug 17) is Open Day at the University of Adelaide and I will be involved in some LaserTAG goodness in the Bragg Lecture theatre most of the morning. Here is a little video with rough directions, starting from the Pultney street entrance on North Terrace:

Come along, have a go [...]

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