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Bayesian statistics help decide what email you get is spam. It can assess security and medical risks, decode DNA, enhance blurry pictures, help explain stock market volatility, predict the spread [...]

Professor Eduardo Eyras, along with his team and collaborators at the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research has developed a tool to detect viral [...]

EMBL Australia group leader Professor David Lynn has been appointed as interim director of a new $7 million state-of-the-art centre for genomics in South Australia that he played a vital role in [...]

Reserve Bank of Australia economist Stephanie Parsons provides an insight in the latest RBA quarterly bulletin on Quality Change and Inflation Measurement. Read more.

The AustMS annual Award for Teaching Excellence and the annual Award for Teaching Excellence (Early Career) are a new initiative encouraging excellence in mathematics teaching at tertiary level. [...]

Breastfeeding is important, just like immunisation. It protects children against illness and disease, yet still there is no funding available for a national data collection network, despite its [...]

Interactive data mapped by the Mitchell Institute shows how international students are intertwined in the social and economic fabric of Australia’s cities. Read more in The Conversation.

Check the stats by state and municipalities in ‘The Australian’ [News Limited paywall access may be required].

Boston Consulting Group is offering annual scholarships to penultimate year university students in Australia or New Zealand (and at Masters level at the University of Melbourne and UWA) who [...]

AMSI Deputy Director and QUT applied mathematician Professor Mat Simpson discusses mathematical biology and leading at AMSI with ACEMS’ Tim Macuga [40 minutes]. Listen now at ACEMS.