#unimelb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unimelb, aggregated by home.social.
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Alright! Today we premiered the logo of my subject Quantitative Methods 1. Ofc, it presents linear regression output. My question to you is: what's the applied problem we're talking about here? Can you guess?
Reproduction scripts: https://github.com/donotdespair/naklejki/tree/master/qm1
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Quantum batteries flip the script on energy storage: instead of slowing down as they grow, they charge faster at scale and CSIRO has built the first working prototype chip. ⚡🔋
https://techglimmer.io/quantum-battery-explain-2026/#QuantumBattery #QuantumTech #CSIRO #RMIT #UniMelb #CleanEnergy #EV #TechGlimmer
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🍆Human penis size may indicate male attractiveness and fighting ability, with a larger size more attractive to women and more likely to intimidate rivals, according to #MonashUni #ANU #UniMelb and South African researchers
✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://buff.ly/FGjdHzb#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #sizematters
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
New examples of Abelian D4D2D0 indices
Joseph McGovern
SciPost Phys. 20, 015 (2026)
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Noncommutative resolutions and CICY quotients from a non-Abelian GLSM
Johanna Knapp, Joseph McGovern
SciPost Phys. 19, 156 (2025)
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#MentalHealth is urgent and often hidden - we all know someone struggling. I’ve worked with great researchers at @[email protected], so it’s good to see more funding for youth mental health. Still not sure #AI belongs in this space just yet. #YouthMentalHealth #UniMelb #Orygen #MOSTNexus #DigitalHealth
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The @[email protected] team at @[email protected] is fantastic and has some amazing job openings! Please share this with anyone who might be interested. #HASS #RSE #DigitalHumanities #ResearchSoftwareEngineering #UniMelb #JobOpening #Recruiting #Hiring #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
A graph-theoretic approach to chaos and complexity in quantum systems
Maxwell West, Neil Dowling, Angus Southwell, Martin Sevior, Muhammad Usman, Kavan Modi, Thomas Quella
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 081 (2025)
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🌡️ Need someone to help discuss Trump's climate statements at the UN?
🔦 Talk to our #EXPERTSPOTLIGHT Arthur Wyns from #unimelb
🔎 You can find his details here: https://www.scimex.org/experts?name=arthur-wyns&a=1065470
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💊 The Trump administration has outlined an update to the use of the drug #leucovorin to include being used for the treatment of cerebral folate deficiency, which they state has been associated with #autism
Experts from #latrobe #TheKids_AU #Sydney_Uni #UniMelb #MCRI_for_kids and #SCU respond:
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-trumps-proposed-treatment-for-autism#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #autism
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📱 The Federal Government has published the final report of the independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, and experts from #RMIT #Uni_Newcastle #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #Griffith_Uni #latrobe #UniMelb #Swinburne #ANUmedia respond
#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #learning #socialmedia #socialmediaban
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🚨 Privacy Alert: The University of Melbourne was found to have illegally used Wi-Fi location data to track students during 2024 protests, violating privacy laws. Wi-Fi tracking was ruled an invasion of privacy due to lack of transparency. CCTV use was deemed lawful. More on data rights 🛡️📶 #Privacy #DataProtection #UniMelb https://www.heise.de/en/news/Data-protection-Melbourne-University-not-allowed-to-track-protesters-via-Wi-Fi-10613966.html
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🧴 Need someone to talk to about SPF ratings?
🔦 Look no further than today's #EXPERTSPOTLIGHT Dr Anneliese Willems from #UniMelb
😎 Anneliese is an expert in #dermatology, #skincancer and much more
🔎 Details here: http://scimex.org/experts?name=anneliese-willems&a=1137805
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💊 Newly prescribed meds for people with #ADHD has been linked with significantly reduced risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, traffic accidents and criminal behaviour
W/ expert commentary from #Sydney_Uni #UniofAdelaide #UniversitySA #UniMelb #CurtinUni #MCRI_for_kids #EdithCowanUni
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🌊 Coastal communities in the #Pacific Islands are facing increased risks as a result of #climate change, and #UniMelb #CSIRO #UQ researchers have studied the case of a small Fijian village to look at how the community is adapting
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/how-are-pacific-islander-communities-adapting-to-climate-change
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💉 #MCRI_for_kids #UniMelb has confirmed a minor, transient increase to menstrual cycles presentations in women and premenopausal people following mRNA COVID-19 #vaccination, validating what many people who menstruate suspected during the pandemic
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🦎 New research from #UniMelb that monitored the behaviour of Australian central bearded dragons via tiny fitness tracker has revealed a surprising twist – the fastest lizards were most likely to die than the slower ones
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👩⚖️ The Federal Court in Cairns will rule on a landmark case brought by two Torres Strait Islanders who have filed a lawsuit against the Australian Government for failing to protect the Torres Strait from climate change and #UniMelb #latrobe and #UNSW experts respond
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-australias-landmark-australian-climate-case
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💉 #BurnetInstitute #MonashUni #UniMelb have looked into the critical role of global #vaccine stockpiles in preventing the spread of deadly diseases during #outbreaks at a time when routine #immunisation rates are falling globally
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/global-vaccine-stockpiles-prevented-more-than-5-8-million-cases
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🦇 A man has died in NSW from a 'rabies-like' lyssavirus after being bitten by a bat. Experts from #MonashUni #Sydney_Uni #UniMelb respond
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-man-dies-in-nsw-from-lyssavirus-after-bat-bite
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👷 Young Australians find themselves working below their full capacity–working less, earning less and using their skills less, which also means that they are working in jobs that are of poorer quality, according to #UniMelb
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✈️ The #Qantas #cyberattack has puts 6 million customers' data at risk, and Aussie experts from #UniversitySA #latrobe #RMIT #EdithCowanUni #Swinburne #UniMelb #CurtinUni and #UniofAdelaide respond
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-qantas-cyberattack
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Reflections on Ancient Roman food and wine — Il Globo https://www.diningandcooking.com/2130861/reflections-on-ancient-roman-food-and-wine-il-globo/ #AncientRome #HellenicMuseum #Italia #Italian #ItalianFood #ItalianFoodRecipes #ItalianRecipes #ItalianWine #italiano #italy #NationalArchaeologyWeek #ProfessorTamaraLewit. #unimelb
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Alright! ✨ The teaching semester is over and it was so cool to work with such brilliant first-year students 👩🏫 on Quantitative Method 1 👩💻 at the @unimelb We covered quite some essential topics, and now... I can't wait for the Monday's exam! 🚀
Good luck, everybody! In culo alla balena! 🤗
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Classical weight-four L-value ratios as sums of Calabi-Yau invariants
Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Joseph McGovern
SciPost Phys. 18, 181 (2025)
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Taiwanese Bookshelves events in Australia — a conversation with Dr. Paelabang Danapan, to explore the rich history of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples
In Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne 7-9 May 2025
https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/paelabangdanapan
#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #Indigenous #Australia #ANU #unimelb #museum #台灣
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
B-type D-branes in hybrid models
Johanna Knapp, Robert Pryor
SciPost Phys. 17, 165 (2024)
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Duality and hidden symmetry breaking in the q-deformed Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model
Tyler Franke, Thomas Quella
SciPost Phys. Core 7, 078 (2024)
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This was such a nice day! And so good presentations!
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ICYMI: Professor Eduard Hovy of Melbourne Connect at #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.
Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading
📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd Dec 2024📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU, #CanberraHuge thx to Defence Australia, Google, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Commonwealth Bank, UniMelb, #ANU School of Cybernetics, School Of Culture, History & Language
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We're delighted that Professor Eduard Hovy of Melbourne Connect at #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.
Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading
📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd Dec 2024📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANUHuge thx to Defence Australia, Google, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Commonwealth Bank, UniMelb, #ANU School of Cybernetics, School Of Culture, History & Language
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We're delighted that Prof Eduard Hovy of #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.
Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading
Interested in #GenAI, #RAG, #NLP or related areas? In #Canberra? This is a must-see!
Tickets are free and now available via the link below (choose "Public Lecture Only").
📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd December 2024📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU Campushttps://events.humanitix.com/alta-2024/tickets?hxchl=mkt-sch
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While you're thinking about what to submit to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (link below), we're sharing with you the 2nd-place winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, where participants distinguished between #LLM-generated and human-generated text.
Here, Yunhao Fang of #UniMelb used #fineTuning and #EnsembleModels to achieve accuracy of 99%
🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls
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In the lead up to #ALTA2024 in December at @ANUResearch, we're featuring interesting papers and talks from #ALTA2023
In this paper, Steven Nguyen at #UniMelb, Daniel Beck at #RMIT and Katja Hölttä-Otto also of #UniMelb work on the novel task of cognitive #empathy.
Using paired sentences from #design interviews and #NLP techniques, they show similarity of vectors from an #LLM is a promising approach in this space.
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In the lead up to #ALTA2024
we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events.This paper, from Vlada Rozova, Jinghui Liu, and Mike Conway at #UniMelb from #ALTA2023, applies #NLP to help solve problems of ambiguity and complexity in #medical #clinical data.
This paper also formed part of the informative #tutorial series at #ALTA2023.
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Go with the flow! A new #paper by E. Gaston, F. Ullén, L. W. Wesseldijk, & M. A. Mosing, provides new evidence for a potentially #protective effect of #flow on our #health and #wellbeing. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02855-6
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It was a pity that the beautiful sunny weather of day one of our week-long strike at the University of Melbourne didn't continue into day two... but as we chanted this morning: "we will hold the picket line - rain, hail, or shine!"
And that we did! Surrounded by a solid turnout of amazing union members, it was an awesome day regardless of the non-stop rain. 😄✊💜
#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #strike #picket #Melbourne
(Images are selfies taken each day.)
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The #NTEU Has a Plan to
Improve Working Conditions
More Secure Work
Manageable Workloads
Better Parental / Carer's Leave
Restrict Restructures
Fair Pay
Better Flexible & Work from Home Arrangements#Strike Week (2nd-8th October)
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SAFE WORKLOADS. The union has proposed a range of improvements to workloads, which are in crisis across the sector. These include:
• promptly filling vacancies;
• backfilling absent staff;
• limiting restructures;
• consulting on reasonable workload allocation policies;
• a ≥40% research component for new academic roles by default, factoring in the time required for academic staff to maintain currency in their field and undertake their research.#UniMelb #NTEU #strike #workloads (3/5)
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Spent the day wading though the translation of written exams to digital format for #unimelb - some observations:
Commercial OCR is cactus
Handwriting is a dead art form
Scans are unreliable and vary hugely in colour
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In this stunning #keynote from #EverythingOpen, Professor #RebeccaGiblin from #UniMelb takes us on a tour of #ChokePointCapitalism - her new book with @doctorow - showing how #BigTech has place chokeholds on the work of #artists and #creators, and how the #OpenSource ethos can help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-o9J-IVFU
Get the book at:
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The University of Melbourne and the Government of Goa are among the organizations that have been added to #Cl0p's list. #GoAnywhere #UoM #Unimelb
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My University of Melbourne library blog post on our 2023 #OpenAccess publishing agreements is now live. It aims to not just highlight our new and continuing agreements, most of which are #ReadAndPublish agreements negotiated by #CAUL, but to contextualise these alongside other pathways to open access, including open access journals (many of which don't charge APCs), Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and our institutional repository.
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-library/2023/01/16/2023-open-access-publishing-agreements/
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Good evening #Fediverse :fediverse:! How are we all doing this fine Tuesday? I'm taking a break from #LaTex and #OverLeaf to bring you this evening's edition of the #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday post, where I try to more closely connect the Fediverse together.
Please meet:
@rowlandm is a #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #DEI practitioner and #writer 👋
@natashamitchell is the host of the #ScienceFriction #podcast, and you might want to catch the episode that was recorded live at the #AustralianCybernetic exhibition with @feraldata last year - at https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/timnit-gebru-ai-ethics-google-technology/14101668
@InclusiveLucie is the author of Queer Roma and has a #PhD in applied social science and is interested in #OpenAccess and #CriticalWhiteness #academic #researcher
@SuzeNorth is the #research #manager for the School of Biomedical Sciences at #UniMelb. Interests in #OzChemistry and #WomenInSTEM #academic #researcher
@yinaar is a #Creative #FirstNations person of Weilwan, Gamilaraay and Dharawal descent and is into #OffGrid, #tech, #politics and #solar 👋
Who is on your #ConnectionList?
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I just changed instances. Hello #aus.social! Glad to be here!
Here's an #introduction.
I'm a #prof in computational #cogsci at #UniMelb. I use behavioural experiments and mathematical models to study how people #learn and #reason. I think a lot about how we make #inferences from sparse #data, how we #share information with each other, and how this affects our #cultural and #informational #systems.
I am a #parent to two amazing kids, love #teaching #rstats to psychology undergraduates, am an #American living in #Australia (citizen of both) in the beautiful #Dandenongs, and am #trans (see post below). I try not to take myself too seriously, especially on social media.
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Okay #folx, and early edition of my daily #connectionlist #connections #introduction - where I'm shouting out people to help people connect around shared interests.
@jrf_nl is based in der #Nederlands #Dutch and is a #php dev who I met through #phpwomen 🇳🇱
@cameronpat consults on #statistics at #unimelb and is based in #Naarm/#Melbourne in #Australia 🇦🇺
@janeadams is a #CS and #dataviz researcher at #Northwestern #PhD. She has an interest in #XAI and #genomics. She's also an #artist :flag-us:
Professor @florasalim is at #UNSW in #Sydney and researches #responsibleAI #AI and #ML. She like #coffee (me too, Flora!) ☕ 🇦🇺
@ewenmcneill is in #Aotearoa 🇳🇿 and they are into #IT and #linux stuff. Kia ora, Ewen!
@GreatDismal is one of my favourite authors of all time, and I've just finished reading Agency for the fourth time. He shows me the futures I both want and want to avoid (jackpot!). Because the #future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed 🇨🇦 #author #writer #scifi #sciencefiction #cyberpunk
