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🧬 This week, we celebrated the 2024 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes—recognising NZ’s best scientific talent 👏
🏆 Top honour: Dr Linda Johnson & the Endophyte Discovery Team @AgResearchNZ for transforming ryegrass to boost farm productivity 🌱
#PMSciencePrizes #NZScience
Hugely excited to be here for @DrShaneRetiMP to announce strategic research funding for @PaihauRobinson to push on with our world-leading #superconductivity and #magnetics R&D https://t.co/0mNkU31Fzv #nzscience
Great article on the #Space R&D programme @PaihauRobinson , written by @lauriewinkless ! That's my institute, developing #superconducting ion thrusters to propel satellites, all done just outside Wellington. #nzscience #physics https://t.co/x1vRcejBeP
It's a grey cool morning in Christchurch CBD to start day 1 of the #amn11 conference, but the striking Te Pae Convention Centre is there to welcome me and my coffee. #advancematerials #nzscience @macdiarmidinsti
Free teacher resources available for many of our books:
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#NZhistory #NZscience #NZculture #childrensbooks #childrensliteracy #oratiabooks @L2_S2S @LearnWellNZ @Schoollibsnz @lianzaoffice @WheelersBooks
Congrats also to chemistry @MacDiarmidInsti colleague @VicUniWgtn Patricia Hunt on her Distinguished Researcher Fellowship, working on ionic liquid propulsion fo satellites. Some fantastic #nzscience under way in these projects. https://t.co/S2VeMhdQGB
HUGE congrats to my @PaihauRobinson and @MacDiarmidInsti #physics colleague Will Holmes-Hewett on getting one of the first @royalsocietynz Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader fellowships, studying materials for #superconducting and #quantum computing ! https://t.co/q9N9npuv1G
#nzscience
Read our full story and explore the upgraded webmap here 👇
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#earthquakes #nzscience
Oops, forgot to tag them as, rare for my colleagues, they're both on here @mallett4physics @drjolatunji #nzscience #superconductors
Great article on new Lower-Hutt #superconductor #space thruster business JXB, run from @PaihauRobinson by the brill Jamal Olatunji and @MacDiarmidInsti Investigator Ben Mallett. #nzphysics students - yes, the name does come from the Hall effect equation! https://t.co/HIzMy0l8tv
Text article (with photos) for those who prefer to read their news! @PaihauRobinson #superconductivity #nzscience #space @VicUniWgtn https://t.co/Kuz2kWwYhK
Just on @NZMorningReport before - an item about the space-bound #superconducting magnet Hēki, with construction nearly finished by NZ's superconductivity research institute @PaihauRobinson. #nzscience #physics 1/3
Hēki space #superconducting magnet item from @NZMorningReport is already online! That was fast. https://t.co/WqgC2EAfTU #rtp @PaihauRobinson #nzscience #physics
Just on @NZMorningReport before - an item about the space-bound #superconducting magnet Hēki, with construction nearly finished by NZ's superconductivity research institute @PaihauRobinson. #nzscience #physics 1/3
Right on the heels of the @MBIEsci Endeavour Fund research funding results announced last week, the latest industry report on #photonic and #quantum technologies in Australia and New Zealand is being launched right now in Wellington. @DoddWalls @FredVanH @UliZue #nzscience
And it’s a movie and the character is Burt Munro from New Zealand 🇳🇿 a real life example of brilliance, resilience & guts. #GoNZ #NZTech #NZScience
https://t.co/SJuO1rcIh8
The only guy who knew he's gonna go fast enough to require a helmet and goggles
Given the recent cuts to science funding in the Budget, cancelled and shortly-expiring science projects (Wellington Science City, National Science Challenges), and continuing job losses at multiple CRIs and universities - this does indeed look like a joke. #nzscience
A great (if somewhat North-American-centered) quote from today's @MacDiarmidInsti discussion on planning our future research directions: "Skate to where the hockey puck is going, not to where it is". #nzscience
"(NZ) need(s) a strategic research focus on #cleantech to give our efforts more critical mass. @MacDiarmidInsti has become the default research organisation focused on this area." #nzscience
#TechWeekNZ
https://t.co/Bg37mua7ok
Of the universities, Canterbury (12.8%) and Massey (17.9%) didn't do so well, with Auckland, Waikato, Otago and VUW all at 25-28%. And boy can you see the effects of Massey cutting all those scientists over the last few years. #MarsdenFund ##nzscience
Marsden EOI results are out today
https://t.co/OcCLa1i5Lw
Wow, that's a *lot* of government investment in one #quantum company! H/T @igordownunder The per capita equivalent in NZ would be a ~NZ$200m investment - more than double what is about to expire in the #nzscience system, spread over ALL our National Science Challenges.
-@PsiQuantum Receives $940 Million (AUD) From Australian Government 💥
🔹Silicon Valley startup to develop world’s 1st commercially viable quantum comp in Brisbane.
🔹 Among largest investments under Albanese govt policy.
https://t.co/86HaduqfCJ
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