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The odds of carrying recessive genes explained, coinciding with the launch of a landmark preconception carrier testing trial screening 10,000 couples for conditions including, spinal muscular [...]

Latest ABS snapshot about how Australian households are faring in response to the changing social and economic environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Educated at the University of Western Australia and at Oxford, Professor Robyn Owens’ academic focus and research interests span computer vision, robotics, discrete structures, and [...]

Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University, on the challenges of modelling in health. Read more in The Conversation

MATHSTALKS, the new podcast from AMSI Schools is enabling teachers to access high-quality, practical professional development, and bringing new knowledge aligned to key learning outcomes into [...]

The theme for #NRW2020 – “In This Together” – is resonating in ways that could not have been foreseen when announced by Reconciliation Australia last year. At AMSI, we are committed [...]

What will happen when we lose faith in modelling? Parnell Palme McGuinness in today’s Financial Review (Nine Media paywall access required).

Mathematicians Professors Robyn Owens and Gary Froyland, and statistician Professor Aurore Delaigle are three of the 24 top scientists elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Sciences. [...]

One in five Australians is eating more snack foods with a similar proportion increasing alcohol consumption. Household chores, hobbies and cooking participation levels increased. Read the latest [...]

We turn to epidemiologists and infectious disease models; during the Bubonic plague people turned to astrologers. [Read more history from UQ’s Michelle Pfeffer at The Conversation]