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    <title>Nature Network - australia</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for australia</description>
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      <title>Popular science outlets in Australia</title>
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        <![CDATA[William Burns - Newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, radio and TV programmes that cover science here in Australia. If we need to engage with the community more, wouldn't it be useful to make a list of where we need to go to do it?]]>
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      <title>Hallelujah!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Turnpenny - "... and quite right too!!!":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7506716.stm]]>
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      <title>PhDs in the workforce, good or bad?</title>
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        <![CDATA[William Burns - The Australian newspaper reported last week that Australia is "short of PhD students":http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23880186-12332,00.html They quoted a report to an Australian parliamentary committee that said that in some disciplines, such as forestry and radiography, "there were fewer than 10 PhD commencements]]>
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      <title>UCL downunder</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - University College London will "open an outpost in Adelaide":http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0805/08052901, South Australia. The UCL School of Energy & Resources, Australia is the first overseas campus for UCL, and will open in 2010. Hang on, the Royal Institution are doing "exactly the]]>
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      <title>I'm not a pedant...</title>
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        <![CDATA[Richard Grant - ... I just play one in real life. So. Out here in the "boonies":http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boonies , surrounded by man-eating "spiders":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2008/03/18/its-a-jungle-out-there , spider-eating snakes, man-eating sharks and "shark-eating":http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23745533-5001021,00.html crocs (shut up, Henry), an internet connection is a very good thing. For one,]]>
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      <title>One step ahead</title>
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        <![CDATA[Richard Grant - One of the unforeseen benefits of living in Australia is that on Thursdays I get to read _Nature_ at least 10 hours before my colleagues in Europe and the US (because I'm usually in the office when the RSS feed]]>
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      <title>Australian National Data Service (ANDS) similarities</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matthew Walker - I noticed that grant funding is not available to organisations outside the US. The Australian government is supporting an Australian National Data Service (ANDS) project through "NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration":http://www.ncris.dest.gov.au/capabilities/collaborative_investment_plan_platforms.htm This project would seem to have some similar aims/goals to]]>
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      <title>Introduction (and on being an "idiot")</title>
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        <![CDATA[Alan Kobussen - Hi all, and welcome. I want to begin with a little introduction of this blog and the topics I plan to cover during our time here together. First a little about me: I'm a student pursuing a PhD degree in]]>
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