MACSYS is entering its next chapter, with Prof Jennifer Flegg appointed as Centre Director and Prof Mike McDonald appointed as Deputy Director. Together, they represent the complementary strengths of the wet- and dry-lab sciences that underpin our collaborative approach. 👉 macsys.org/new-director...

I am so excited for this! I'll be in Melbourne to launch another season of The Random Sample podcast - something I've been involved with since 2018. If you're in town, please stop by and say hello. Thanks to MACSYS for its support of the podcast.

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🎙️Come See a Podcast Come to Life! MACSYS is launching a brand‑new season of The Random Sample podcast by bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the University of Melbourne campus - and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout the launch event. Come watch the magic happen!

Meet Dr Joshua Hamey, one of our outstanding MACSYS Research Fellows. Based at our UNSW node, Josh is a molecular biologist studying how proteins are made inside cells. In this video, Josh shares insights into his research and what inspired him to join MACSYS. youtu.be/MuAfPxFXWZk?...

Dr Joshua Hamey - MACSYS Research Fellow

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MACSYS at ANZIAM! This past week, members from three of our nodes represented the Centre at the Conference of the Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) held this year in Canberra. Among the highlights, PhD Student Yong See Foo winning the prize for best student paper.

What a week it's been at the 2026 Lorne Proteins Conference! Centre Director Trevor Lithgow & members of his lab from Monash University attended - showing off their work and taking in the latest research that this important conference showcases. @lorneproteins.bsky.social #lorneproteins2026

To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts. Or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/mult...

How are official statistics agencies dealing with the dramatic decline in survey response rates? In our latest episode - how official statistics agencies are evolving thanks to multi-source data. Our guest is Dr Anders Holmberg from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Meet Dr Alex Sneddon - a MACSYS Research Fellow at The Australian National University. Alex's research focuses on incorporating domain-specific knowledge into the data-driven AI methods that she uses to help MACSYS unlock insights from complex biological datasets. 📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok

Dr Alex Sneddon - MACSYS Research Fellow, ANU

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I really enjoyed hosting this episode. It's very inspiring to hear these five people talk about using technology for social good.

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A global hackathon meets cutting-edge #AI to fight modern slavery in corporate supply chains. In our latest episode🎧, we meet the project lead for Project AIMS (AI for Modern Slavery) & the winning teams from the just-completed Project AIMS hackathon: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/aims...

📢PhD Scholarship Opportunity! Join our Centre at the University of Melbourne and work with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, mathematicians and biologists to build experimentally validated models of metabolism. 👉Apply/more info: findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/... #maths #biology

The MACSYS mission - as told by more than two dozen of our researchers - 📽️VIDEO: youtu.be/JyvifQ41RZU Why it's important, why it's so challenging, and why it's going to take a team of interdisciplinary researchers like the one MACSYS has put together to tackle this challenge.

The MACSYS Mission (to Mars)

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This week on #WorldStatisticsDay, the Statistical Society of Australia & the Australian Data Science Network co-hosted a lively panel discussion on "trust in data". Since both are partner organisations of our podcast, we’re excited to share that discussion: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/data...

Coral reefs are under threat - and the race to protect them depends on better data, smarter tools, and global collaboration. In our latest episode, we explore ReefCloud , a project that’s helping scientists monitor coral reef ecosystems using AI intelligence, statistics & shared data infrastructure.

Just out! Our new episode explores 'complex systems'- how mathematics reveals hidden patterns in our messy, chaotic world- from pandemics & social networks to psychiatric illness & engineering with guest Prof Michael Small from The Univ of Western Australia www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/comp...

“Confidently wrong, friendly, & authoritative" That description of #GenAI from a recent workshop stuck with me. As someone who spent 25+ years in newsrooms, I’ve learned how crucial it is to question things that sound true. That same mindset now helps me with GenAI: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-jo...

How Journalism Helps Me Navigate the New World of GenAI

I heard a lot of wild stories during my 25 years working in TV newsrooms. As journalists, our job was to investigate - to dig into the details and figure out whether a story was really what it seemed.

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Our Centre is well-represented at this year's Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Edmonton, Canada. As part of #SMB2025, we organised a two-session minisymposia: 2025.smb.org/MS03/MS-MFBM... Well done, team MACSYS! @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

“Confidently wrong, friendly, & authoritative" That description of #GenAI from a recent workshop stuck with me. As someone who spent 25+ years in newsrooms, I’ve learned how crucial it is to question things that sound true. That same mindset now helps me with GenAI: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-jo...

How Journalism Helps Me Navigate the New World of GenAI

I heard a lot of wild stories during my 25 years working in TV newsrooms. As journalists, our job was to investigate - to dig into the details and figure out whether a story was really what it seemed.

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Join me online Thursday as I a present a communications workshop on behalf of the Statistical Society of Australia: Communicating Across Disciplines - a workshop for statisticians and data scientists. 📆Thursday, 10 July ⏰11 am AEST 👉REGISTER: statsoc.org.au/event-6201399

We’re also proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the 2025 ATSIMA - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance Conference, being held in October this year on Lunawuni (Bruny Island), Lutruwita (Tasmania) 👉https://events.atsima.com/ATSIMA2025BiennialConference (🧵3/3)

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ATSIMA 2025 conference theme palawa kani pumili waranta rrala Our Language Our Strength

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At MACSYS, we’re committed to partnerships that support that future through new pathways into #STEM education. In partnership with UniMelb’s Ofc of Indigenous Employment & Development, we’re hiring an Indigenous Outreach & Education Coordinator: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External... (🧵2/3)

This NAIDOC Week (6–13 July), we reflect on 50 years of celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 2025 theme — “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy” — speaks to the strength, vision, and legacy of the next generation. (🧵1/3)

🎙️New episode alert! We explore how #DataScience & #Statistics help bridge the gap between disciplines. Our guest is Prof Galit Shmueli from the Institute of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. 🎧 Listen: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/inte... Host: @cynthiahqy.bsky.social

In our latest episode🎧 of The Random Sample, we're talking autonomous vehicles (AVs). We explore how AVs gather & use data, and the complex mathematics that helps them navigate an unpredictable world. What are the challenges still standing in the way? Our guest is Prof Michael Milford from QUT.

There’s nothing quite like coming together in person! Researchers from across the MACSYS nodes gathered at the Monash University for the first of two intensive workshop days. Through individual, small-group & whole-group discussions, we’re diving deep into the complex challenges we aim to tackle.

What a fantastic day with the team at the Australasian Leukaemia & Lymphoma Group (ALLG) in Melbourne! I was honoured to run a communications workshop for their members — and even more delighted by how enthusiastically everyone jumped into the exercises. Thanks, team ALLG!

The 2025 ATSIMA Conference: 📆Weds-Fri, 1-3 October 📌lunawanna-allonah (Bruny Island , Tasmania) MACSYS is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Conference. For more information about it, head to: atsima.com/atsima-2025-...

Are you a teacher working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students? The AUS Assoc of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) is offering up to 3 fully funded grants for teachers to attend the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance (ATSIMA) Conference. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Changing someone’s mind—especially when they strongly disagree with you—is hard. It’s tempting to just tell them they’re wrong. But let’s be honest: that rarely works. This past week at a conference, I learned something unexpected about it takes to create change. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i...

What I Learned About Change at InSTEM

This past week, I attended the InSTEM Conference in Melbourne—a gathering of leaders, allies, and members of marginalised and underrepresented groups in STEM. Its mission: to foster inclusion, share practical strategies for advancing diversity, and build stronger allyship.

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The MACSYS team was well represented at this year's InSTEM Conference in Melbourne. The InSTEM Conference brings together leaders, allies, and members of marginalised groups with a goal to foster inclusive environments, share effective diversity strategies, and strengthen allyship.

To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/hadl... #rstats #rstudio #datascience #statistics #opensource #programming #rstudio @robjhyndman.com @posit.co

In the latest episode🎧of The Random Sample, host Cynthia Huang catches up with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz! Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio), where he leads the Tidyverse team. This team is behind some of the most widely used open-source packages in the R programming language.