
Life In Academia
Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.

Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.

63-year-old artist Simon Beck makes colossal yet intricate designs on the unlikely canvas of enormous snowfields. Beck treks for hours carving with his feet, creating snow sculptures over a quarter mile long.


NHMRC have revised their Open Access Policy – all peer-reviewed publications from NHMRC-funded research must now be made available immediately upon publication.

All our ancestors had plenty of fur. According to a new study on relatively hairless mammals, we still have the means to be hirsute. Those genes, it seems, have simply been switched off.

It’s amazing the things scientists can do with robotics – watch this robot do gymnastics.

Visual descriptions of text are incredibly powerful. Some key ‘good practices’ in preparing your figures.

Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) both seem to impact the oldest parts of the brain in a curiously similar fashion.
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