Over the past 10 years, R&D gross funding value has stayed the same, despite an increase in the cost of doing research, coupled with the increase in the population of scientists.

Over the past 10 years, R&D gross funding value has stayed the same, despite an increase in the cost of doing research, coupled with the increase in the population of scientists.


If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.

Not going to lie, I spent a lot of time playing with this! Put your thesis or publication name into this app to generate a piece of art based on the text.

A quick (and engaging!) TED talk about what we might be missing when we just focus on the average.


Australia’s PhD graduates can be better utilised in the non‐academic workforce “Our research shows that 80% of job ads looking for employees with high levels of research skills did not mention the PhD as a qualification.”

You can see right through the Ghost Catfish, which shimmers with rainbow colours in the the light. Scientists now know why.

Whether you’re displaying data or preparing a presentation or report, the effective use of colour is crucial to getting your message across. Have a play with ColorBrewer 2.0 to get started.
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