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.” Read the short article here and find the full paper here.
Wonder got humans to the surface of another planet. Watch the Perseverance Rover land on Mars.
Getting funding for your research requires some skill with persuasion and knowing how to articulate your ideas succinctly. This short TED talk demonstrates how to integrate both to make a great persuasive argument:
Animations are an invaluable data/concept visualisation tool in your science communications. Learn more about how cartoons and animation help communicate your science and ideas.
To interpret the world through vision, human eyes have four photoreceptors, birds have six, mantis shrimps have 16.
If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.
“Tortured phrases” — are probably the result of automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism.
Listen to the reaction of these scientists when they find a bigfin squid – a deep sea creature rarely sighted.
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