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'''Mar 28th 2013''': Mat's [https://theconversation.com/open-publishing-is-happening-the-only-question-is-how-13100 piece about open access and open science comes out in The Conversation] in response to number of Nature articles on the subject. | |||
'''Feb 15th 2013''': Congratulations to new Honours student [http://115.146.85.229/ Kat Badiola] for winning a [http://sydney.edu.au/about/profile/honour_roll/2012/index.shtml University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize]. | '''Feb 15th 2013''': Congratulations to new Honours student [http://115.146.85.229/ Kat Badiola] for winning a [http://sydney.edu.au/about/profile/honour_roll/2012/index.shtml University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize]. |
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Mar 28th 2013: Mat's piece about open access and open science comes out in The Conversation in response to number of Nature articles on the subject. Feb 15th 2013: Congratulations to new Honours student Kat Badiola for winning a University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize. Jan 30th 2013: Congratulations to Althea on submitting her PhD thesis. Jan 30th 2013: The OSDDMalaria team is featured in an article on crowdsourcing in the RSC's Chemistry World magazine. Jan 25th 2013: Mat is interviewed in the Nature Chemistry blog The Sceptical Chymist. Jan 17th 2013: Mat publishes an opinion piece on open access on the ABC News site, The Drum. Nov 7th 2012: The group's open source research featured on SciDev.Net in a story on science networks. This follows an earlier story covering the case study (below) analysing The Synaptic Leap's achievements. Sept 20th 2012: Study published comparing The Synaptic Leap and Indian OSDD Projects. Sept 20th 2012: Open letter to the new CEO of the Australian Research Council about the value of open data is published in The Conversation with a link to the Google Doc that can be signed. Please feel free to add your name. Stephen Matchett comments on it in The Australian. Sept 19th 2012: Mat delivers keynote about open source drug discovery at the 1st Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki. Sept 13th 2012: Interview with Mat on open science published by the Results for Development Institute. August 31 2012: Congratulations to Mingfeng, Nilupa and Soo for submitting their PhD theses. May 4th 2012: Mat presents some of the group's research at the University of Sydney Integration in Biology and Medicine Conference. May 3rd 2012: Althea is awarded a RJW Le Fevre Research Travelling Scholarship from the School of Chemistry to present her research at an overseas conference later this year. February 24th 2012: We play host to the first Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria meeting. An account of the meeting is here, and the current playlist of talks is here. A Sydney Uni news feature on the meeting is here and here. February 18th 2012: Mat talks at a session on "Innovating Innovation" at the AAAS meeting in Vancouver. January 27th 2012: Mat's blog post on open access is republished on the LSE blog. November 23rd 2011: Mat wins a NSW Science and Engineering Award in the "Emerging Research" category for open science. Story is here and here. November 1st 2011: Two Australian Research Council grants awarded. ARC Discovery (DP120104035): Charting Intercellular Space, M. H. Todd, P. J. Rutledge and P. J. Smith ($348K) and ARC Linkage (LP120100552): Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria, M. H. Todd and T. N. C. Wells ($320K). October 28th 2011: Mat talks at Sydney University's Open Access Week - recording here and on Youtube. October 20th 2011: Mat's article entitled "We eat what we are – let's detoxify the word 'chemical'" appears in The Conversation. September 23rd 2011: Our second open science paper is published, describing how Open Science is a Research Accelerator. September 21st 2011: Our first open science paper is published, on the Resolution of Praziquantel. August 19th 2011: Ahamed submits his corrected PhD thesis today, and we welcome two new postdocs to the group, Paul Ylioja and Murray Robertson. April 8th 2011: Mat talks about the future of web-based chemical collaboration at the Cyberchemistry meeting at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington State. February 21st 2011: Congratulations to Swapnil on his award of a Henry Bertie and Florence Mabel Gritton Research Scholarship. Drinks are on him... February 15th 2011: A new industry-sponsored PhD position in medicinal chemistry is available. If you're interested, please contact Mat. Only Australian residents are eligible for this opening. February 15th 2011: The awesome and long-awaited Treasure Hunt paper comes out in J. Chem. Ed. - this turns a campus map into a play area for a Chemistry-themed treasure hunt. January 27th 2011: Mat is named as one of the University's top 10 lecturers for 2010 in a nationwide poll. November 3rd 2010: Congratulations to Ahamed for being selected as one of the three Sydney University Chemical Society Le Fevre Lecturers for 2010. October 6th 2010: Mat talks about open science and electronic lab notebooks at USyd's eResearch showcase. September 23rd 2010: Yu Heng's first paper is accepted into Chem. Eur. J. And he's off to start his PhD with Dave Spring. Paper available here September 20th 2010: Ahamed, Thiru and lots of other peoples' paper on how dihydroisoquinoline reacts with nitromethane is published. September 6th 2010: Ahamed's review on catalytic asymmetric additions of C-nucleophiles to N-heterocycles is published. August 6th 2010: Mat speaks on Open Science at Ignite Sydney. Mat's talk's currently the most watched from the night. June 2010: Our lab's open science approach featured in Chemistry in Australia May 11th 2010: Mat is awarded a Citation for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Science at The University of Sydney. April 6th 2010: Mat talks about open science at Google. The talk is picked up here. February 4th 2010: Our open science project is the subject of a feature article in Nature |