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Oceanography

Industrial fisheries are starving seabirds all around the world

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UBC robo chemist could speed up discovery of clean energy materials

Biodiversity

Newly discovered wasp turns social spiders into zombies

Biodiversity

New CRCs in oceans research, machine learning and quantum materials

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Eight UBC students receive inaugural women in tech scholarships

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Finding strength in numbers

UBC professor Malabika Pramanik has launched a novel mathematics mentoring program to connect women, Indigenous youth and recent immigrants.

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Members of Curtis Berlinguette's chemistry lab sit in the atrium of the Earth Sciences Building. #ubc #science Researchers and students stand in front of ADA, UBC’s “robo-chemist.” 🤖 #ubc #science #robotics 🤖 The Christmas tree competition is now on at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre. Don't forget to vote for your favourite one. 🌲 #ubc Researchers from #UBC and the University of Toronto have designed a robo chemist with capabilities to perform and learn from its own experiments. http://www.projectada.ca/ 🤖 #science #ubcscience #chemistry #robotics 🤖 Zoologist and #UBC alumnus Philippe Fernandez-Fournier, together with UBC researcher Samantha Straus, have discovered a new species of wasp which ‘zombifies’ spiders. Here is Philippe in the field, looking at spider colonies. 🕸️ https://science.ubc.ca/news/newly-discovered-wasp-turns-social-spiders-zombies 🕸️#ubcscience #science #spiders UBC’s annual Faraday Show is back with fun for the whole family. This year, our theme is UBC professor Malabika Pramanik has launched a novel mathematics mentoring program to connect women, Indigenous youth and recent immigrants. Learn more: https://medium.com/ubcscience/strengthnumbers-25d7fe2598fe #mathematician #stem #science #UBC #ubcscience

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CBC’s Emily Chung is upbeat on the science beat

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