Royal Society of New Zealand Wellington Branch

16 SEPTEMBER LECTURE POSTER PART 1

POSTER PART 2

Last night David Lillis presented Dr Professor John Lekner of Victoria University of Wellington was presented with the inaugural "Royal Society of New Zealand Wellington Branch Lifetime Achievement Award" for his outstanding contributions to science.

Congratulations to our President, David Lillis!

Nine new Companions recognised for leadership and innovation Nine new Companions—Ngā Takahoa a Te Apārangi—of Royal Society Te Apārangi have been elected for their decades-long commitment to their fields.

This will be a major reshuffle of the Government owned Research organisations.

Six Crown Research Institutes merge into Public Research Organisations Scientists are hopeful a supercharged weather forecaster will be one of the winners in the biggest overhaul of the science sector in 30 years.

Magnetic storm 8pm Wellington south coast New Zealand. For some reason if I load the original image, facebook send it around as a black screen.

This may be of interest, if only because it mentions ways that Facebook circumvents Apple tracking security.

Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History | Malwarebytes Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?

HELP! Taxonomy under threat. Please add your name?

(PDF) Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication PDF | The fundamental value of universal nomenclatural systems in biology is that they have enabled unambiguous scientific communication. However, the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Science Fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry. In many countries there are watchdogs, but not in Australasia (yet).

Independent watchdog essential to combat research misconduct - The Australia Institute The Australia Institute is calling for the establishment of an independent research integrity watchdog, with a new report raising serious concerns about research misconduct, including data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism.

For those of you who saw the article on ChatGPT and leydig cells in the Newsletter, you may be interested in: Alkaissi H, McFarlane S I (February 19, 2023) Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing. Cureus 15(2): e35179. doi:10.7759/cureus.35179
It seems ChatGPT can be useful, may uncover links in literature that are not obvious - but is prone to making stuff up (like references). It can also trip plagiarism monitors.