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Post · October 06, 2025
Climate change turned sea urchins into a pest, scientists are finding a solution
Warming oceans are pushing marine life out of familiar habitats, and as the long-spined sea urchin migrates south to Victoria and Tasmania it is wreaking havoc on ecosystems and commercial fisheries.
Where climate change has created a pest, sc...
Post · October 06, 2025
Episode 5: Blurring the Lines – A Conversation with Luis Quijano.
Podcast caption: Luis Quijano is a pioneering designer-scientist and Fulbright scholar with one foot in the sciences and the other in the arts. We discuss his work with bacterial cellulose and other biological materials, which is rapidly redefini...
Post · October 06, 2025
Exploring level-p-complexity for subclasses of Boolean functions
In their MSc thesis [1], Arvid Rydberg and Selina Sand Engberg explored the complexity of Boolean functions (functions from n bits to one bit). Measuring their evaluation cost, especially using the probabilistic level-p-complexity (D_p(f)), is an...
Post · October 05, 2025
My personal experience of having my scientifc research funded
There has been a lot of talk about funding science in recent months. As a scientist, I wanted to share the impact and my experience of having my research funded by the government. I completed all my post-secondary education in Canada. My PhD resea...
Post · October 02, 2025
The Astiz Lab hosts the Spielmann Lab for their group retreat in Bilbao 🧠🧬🤝
The Astiz Lab was very happy to welcome Dr. Malte Spielmann and his team for their lab retreat in Bilbao this September. Dr. Mariana Astiz started collaborating with Dr. Malte Spielmann in Lübeck (Germany) in 2020. This collaboration has resulted...
Post · October 02, 2025