By Sara Fazeli, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney
Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Moe Mohammad Mojtahedi, Senior lecturer, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
Taha Hossein Rashidi, Professor of Transport Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Survivor accounts reveal how quickly evacuation routes become fatal, and why the danger of getting behind the wheel is often underestimated.
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By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
It it time to get rid of group assignments at university? Federal Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser thinks so. On Thursday, he called for universities to drop group assessments entirely, arguing they are fundamentally “unfair” and “cheapen” degrees.
In a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra, Leeser said:
Students feel, instinctively, that in many cases it is deeply unfair to assess them individually based on others’ work.
His logic is one many students will find familiar: one person inevitably…
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By Nicholas Morieson, Research Fellow, Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question.
Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text prompts, with a casual disregard for copyright…
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By Hazel Dalton, Senior Research Fellow, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
Karen Hayes, Occupational health researcher and lecturer, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University
One Nation is proposing to force doctors to do a regional stint before they can work in the city. But would that work in practice?
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By Rachael Mead, Fellow, J.M. Coetzee Centre, Adelaide University
Rachael Mead’s body once carried her across Antarctic ice sheets. At 55, she set out to reclaim her resilience – and what she discovered was surprising.
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By Amy Hume, Lecturer In Theatre (Voice), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Michael Caine has licensed his distinctive voice to the AI company ElevenLabs. Here’s what people actually hear when he speaks.
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By James J Bell, Professor of Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Manon Broadribb, Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
A new study challenges a common assumption that deeper marine ecosystems act as refuges which could reseed damaged shallower reef systems.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
This article was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox.
It would be wrong to say Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, four years ago this week, came out of the blue. For months there had been worrying reports of a huge build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border. Through the winter of 2021/22, Moscow scoffed at suggestions…
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By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous,” said the great Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner. Once again this year, events have proven him right. Harsh weather has triggered deadly avalanches around Lake Tahoe in California, as well as across the Alps in Europe.
According to figures from France’s National Mountain Safety Observation System (SNOSM), fatal accidents…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to a landmark judgement by an Athens court which found four individuals linked to spyware maker Intellexa, guilty of unlawful access to private communication systems and data, and of violating privacy and data protection laws, Rebecca White, Amnesty International’s Security Lab Researcher said: “Almost four years since the ‘Predatorgate’ scandal hit Greece, we are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology. “Amnesty International and other organizations have shown time and again that Intellexa’s products have […] The post Greece: Convictions…
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