Geoff Willmott

Inaugural lecture after work, Tues May 21 in Akl. Alt. title "What have I been up to for 20+ years?" ... eek. All welcome, and free (incl. drinks/nibbles). Register here: GeoffWillmott.eventbrite.co.nz @MacDiarmidInsti @AucklandUni and thanks @MatheuBroom for poster images

2 fully-funded PhD Scholarships are currently available in our lab in Auckland, NZ . 1 on the self-assembly of stimuli-responsive molecules findaphd.com/phds/project/o… and the other on the chemical modification of cellulose to make Janus particles findaphd.com/phds/project/c…. Pls share!

Handling errors made in the #RWC2023 Quarter-Finals: 🇫🇷 11 🇿🇦 8 🇨🇮 8 🇳🇿 1 🇫🇯 8 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 12 🇦🇷 10

Exciting news for budding researchers! We've announced details of the new research fellowships and an applied doctorates scheme opening next year. mbie.govt.nz/new-initiative…

@FredVanH @VolkerNock @ZareDave @MacDiarmidInsti @DoddWalls @UoA_Physics @SCSatUoA

Stoked with some Smart Ideas funding to develop soft microparticle mechanics with @fredvanh @VolkerNock @ZareDave and other excellent collaborators ... first order of business, we're recruiting for 2 PhD students! See: findaphd.com/phds/project/m… and findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

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🚨🚨Attn: @Colloids_AusNZ is excited to announce ACIS2024.🎉🎊 Abstracts Close - Sept. 3rd. Act now!!!!! 🚨⏰ 🔗: acis2024.org At a beach-side venue in Terrigal NSW Aus for an exciting, interdisciplinary meeting to discuss all things #Colloids & #Interfaces. 🧐

Our amazing Good Bitches have made the news!🤩📰 The Spinoff has published a brilliant article all about our Prison Bake programme. We're super proud of all our GBs for their mahi and support of this programme! Make sure you check out the article below... thespinoff.co.nz/kai/05-08-2023…

@drsciman So do yous still have those vacuum heating tubes in the Robinson building?

It's terrific for there to be so much buzz right now around #physics - with #OppenheimerMovie and #lk99 with the prospect of room T #superconductivity (yes yes it's super unlikely, we're all skeptical bla bla shutup!). Stoked that it's condensed matter in the news for once too!

@JohnBallingall @drdeanknight (respectfully) bollocks, forward from foot into hands.

@drdeanknight Absolutely accurate under law. It didn’t clearly leave the mark off the foot.

Nonsense.

We had more NZ #physicists than that at our conference just 2 weeks ago (we do count physics secondary teachers too). And don't try to tell us that #Barbie isn't also a physicist!

@hendysh @nicgaston @TectonoFluids Well this is the view that I think teachers are expressing, and the draft curriculum is part of this problem because it's an unnecessary distraction. But also re your original point, clearly it's not just 'disciplinary discomfort' motivating those speaking up.

@nicgaston @hendysh @TectonoFluids It can of course be a negative sum, both in terms of demands on teachers and quality of education; and the draft looks like it's heading that way.

@hendysh A bit patronizing. It's a secondary school curriculum (not research), it's a fragile workforce, and they're rightly worried about decreasing rigour in what's being taught. In that context transdisciplinarity is firmly a nice-to-have not the basis for a curriculum

It's fantastic to see so many NZ #physics educators, practitioners and students at the 2023 NZIP Conference, as we kick off 3 days of presentations, workshops and long-awaited catchups with colleagues @MasseyUni #nzip2023

Time for Hackathon at CRISP, the @MacDiarmidInsti career skills programme. People should be scrambling to recruit these students! @PEPworldwide was next door ... yesterday was all about finance (ta @EY_NewZealand) and visits (incl @DawnAerospace) Thanks @UCNZ for having us!

🚨🚨Attn: @Colloids_AusNZ is excited to announce ACIS2024.🎉🎊 Our biennial meeting is now live! Abstracts open. 🔗: acis2024.org At a beach-side venue in Terrigal NSW Aus for an exciting, interdisciplinary meeting to discuss all things #Colloids & #Interfaces. 🧐