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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Occasionally there are opportunities to tell a little maths outreach story and show how maths can be used to understand our world a bit better - and it’s especially fun when looking at pop culture topics that initially seem very far from related to maths and computational simulation.

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

while government/universities are getting research output for bottom-dollar, because of goodwill and sweat equity students/staff put in, it won’t change. also, isn’t it so weird the argument huge salaries are “essential to aTtrACt tOp tAlEnt” to university VC roles never applies to PhD students?! 🤔🤔

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yes but there are also risks with caving to peer pressure or trying to be popular too.

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Oh shit sorry, I now see your earlier post. Reinventing man made horrors beyond my comprehension from first principles.My bad!

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Ironically enough there seems to be somewhat of a slight correlation between student satisfaction and poorer PSC scores! (Comparison to THE rank included also but not as interesting)

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Look, the main thing we must be grateful for is that the space weather site style sheets haven’t been updated www.sws.bom.gov.au/Solar/1/10

sws.bom.gov.au

SWS - Solar Conditions - Solar Flare Forecast

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Does it still count as citizen science identification if I claim I’ve seen one of those kangahoof creatures late at night after a slab of VB?

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Another fun tidbit I saw, which to be fair is not as egregious as the gambling one, but in the most recent reported tax credit data Atlassian got about $200m for their for-profit software development and in the same period the total Discovery DP round budget was around $260m

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Agree on the reluctance to do anything that risks lower property prices. Question - do you see any opportunity for either major party to take a brave stand against the weight of vested interest to keep house prices skyrocketing? Or is the risk of political suicide still realistically there on this?

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Not to defend the universities - more to partition blame alongside them - but the international student fees also help support positive things like R&D since decades of both ALP and LNP governments have chosen to neglect fixing that, and so we've ended up with these castles built on sand.

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Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And if the Senate inquiry into higher education governance is serious, they really should extend to look over any deals and works done by Nous Group et al. with any of the Aus universities who have frequently gone down that path.

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