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UK and Ireland conference for undergraduate women and non-binary physicists

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ABOVE: © STUART ROBINSON Asked what initially drew her to science, Izzy Jayasinghe has a modest answer. “I wasn’t very good at very many other things in school,” she says. “And I had, I guess, a general curiosity.” While in high school in New Zealand, Jayasinghe built a viscoelastic damper, a type of shock absorber used in cars and in buildings in earthquake-prone areas, and tested how various design parameters affected its performance.  The project won an award at a science fair fo...

9 July 2021 12.30pm – 5pm Scientific Organisers: Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Hari Shroff The workshop this year will be centred on the current challenges in developing and using super-resolution microscopy with short talks and lots of time for discussion.  It will be split into 2 sessions, focussing on the topics of ‘using machine learning and AI in super-resolution imaging’ and the other will be ‘expansion microscopy’. Thoughts and ideas are encouraged to help define what is ...

Skynesher/Getty Images Just 10 senior researchers who received public funding in the UK during 2018-19 were Black, the first breakdown of UK science funding by individual ethnic groups reveals. The number, just 0.5 per cent of the total, was described as “profoundly upsetting” by the government body in charge of funding. Advertisement Researchers can apply for three categories of funding, in descending seniority: principal investigator (PI), co-investigator or fellow. Today, data published ...