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• 2013
  • May
    • Monday Micro - Is the new Saudi coronavirus a pandemic in waiting?
    • New Zealand's National Science Challenges announced
  • April
    • Monday Micro: living night lights
    • Why stereotyping scientists matters
    • Press Complaints Commission upholds homeopaths complaint
    • The legacy of the MMR debacle
    • Monday Micro - Influ-Venn-Za!
  • March
    • Astrosquid!
    • Monday Micro - World TB Day
    • Monday Micro - roller derby micro!
    • Monday Micro - extremophiles & 50 shades of ... immunity!
    • Monday Micro - smart viruses
  • February
    • Monday Micro - Fantastic Farts
    • What Kiwis die of - Part III: Changes with age
    • Monday Micro - the sore throat vaccine
    • So just how did I get my name?
    • Monday Micro - just who are we?
  • January
    • What Kiwis die of - Part II: The battle of the sexes
    • Monday Micro: wiley bacterium makes 'stem cells' to aid dissemination
    • Is there such a thing as tattoo removal cream, or is it a scam?
    • 'Science & Society' Bullshit Bingo
    • Sir Paul Nurse and 'science bingo'
    • What do Kiwis die of?
    • What do you think Kiwis die of?
    • Monday Micro
    • Monday Micro: vomiting robots, oysters and the Ferrari of viruses!
• 2012
  • December
    • Outbreak of shellfish poisoning in the Bay of Plenty
    • What makes a good communicator?
    • Monday Micro
    • Enough is enough
    • More party pills...
    • Monday Micro
    • Animal testing back in the news
    • Monday Micro
  • November
    • Monday Micro
    • Credit where it's due?
    • Monday Micro
    • The Great NZ Science Project begins!
    • Increase your functionality, coherence and structural integrity! Astonishing "aerobic frequency" woo.
    • Monday Micro
    • The funding 'lottery': how many grants should we be applying for?
    • Psychics fail challenge
  • October
    • Monday Micro
    • Open Access - A Challenge
    • Open Access Week 2012
    • So just how do amphetamines work?
  • September
    • Antibiotic myths
    • Help at hand for scientists to get media SAVVY!
  • August
    • Citizen science....
    • Now this is how we should be doing science!
    • Melons and glowing eggs
    • Deadly melons....
    • Statistically illiterate....
    • Academic dilemma
  • July
    • Crowdfunding update
  • June
    • The Innovate TB contest
  • May
    • Never mind open access - let's make science really accessible!
    • Last few days of the #SciFund challenge
    • SciFund Challenge - Target achieved!
    • SciFund Challenge Day 13!
    • Nature publishes first of the 'weaponised' flu papers
    • Just who are these SciFunders anyway?
    • SciFund Challenge - Day 1!
    • Round 2 of the SciFund Challenge is now live!
  • April
    • Crowdfunding science: The SciFund Challenge
    • Coming soon: more science crowdfunding
  • March
    • Antibiotics and asthma
    • Glow sushi!
    • Vitamin C: Primal panacea? Yeah, right!
    • Emotive hysteria trumps opportunity to educate (now there's a surprise!)
    • Survival of the brightest
    • NZ Herald does no research, helps spread false hope (again)
    • The NZ Herald "alternative relaxation and therapies" series revisited
  • February
    • From fireflies to space invaders
    • 'Flu' flight triggers mild panic
    • The return of sanatoria?
    • What do scientists look like?
    • Journalists vs scientists
    • Academic publishing - are the winds of change starting to blow?
  • January
    • Why I refuse to be a spectator
    • NZ Herald's Alternative Therapies week: Letter to the Editor
• 2011
  • December
    • Suppressing superflu recipe: NSABB say sort of....
    • Get nominating for the Skeptics Awards 2011!
    • From fireflies to superbugs....
  • November
    • Suppressing superflu recipe: nanny state or drawing a sensible line in the sand?
    • Illegal lollipops, bad teeth and a new 'apple'!
    • Holistic (aka hocum) technology: YCTinside®
  • October
    • Discovery of a new Ebola-like virus in Europe
    • Vaccine preventable outbreaks
  • September
    • Beware the glowing millipede
    • Sniffer bees
    • If you think the All Blacks shirt was a rip off, think again.
    • Is your dog as healthy as you? Not likely in your case, Ms Kelland.
    • 'Pseudoscience' for profit
  • August
    • Mind altering microbes Part I: Suicidal crickets
    • A swift and deadly foe
    • Students unhappy over university travel bill
  • June
    • Should we be rethinking the HPV vaccination strategy?
    • It was the bean sprouts! The veggie-burger disease revisited.
    • Marketing headache - an apology
    • Marketing headache
    • An outbreak of crowdsourcing
    • And then came the conspiracy theories....
  • May
    • The veggie-burger disease?
    • Back-breaking work
    • The end to herbal remedies in Europe?
    • National Immunisation Week
  • April
    • The vaccination 'debate'
    • Vaccination fear-mongering
  • March
    • Is it time to integrate medical and natural health care?
    • My favourite place in New Zealand
    • My favourite fish
    • What makes a bug super? Part II
  • February
    • What makes a bug super?
  • January
    • When microbiologists go bad (or in praise of google alerts)
    • My second favourite fish
    • 1Above: the world's first aerotonic flight beverage. Seriously.
    • Wakefield's (bad) science: when measles isn't actually measles.
    • The Wakefield-Autism BMJ editorial revisited
• 2010
  • December
    • When science really doesn't mean science.
  • November
    • Melancholic
    • Tinkerbell and the great propaganda machine
    • More to Pseudomonads than the kiwifruit crisis....
    • The great publication fiasco
    • An introduction
    • Why I have a platinum wedding ring

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