Name: The Ian Langham Memorial Lecture – Uncle Rob Cooley, Gamay Rangers
Start: 2025-11-17T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-17T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Michael Spence Building

September 2025
September 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

If peer review is broken, what can fix it? Some suggestions from the repliCATS project (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science) – Prof Fiona Fidler

Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract In many scientific fields, post-publication surveys of the literature find that peer reviewers routinely overlook methodological flaws and statistical errors, avoid reporting suspected instances of fraud, and commonly reach […]

Free
September 22 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

A Defence of Minimal-Rewrite Counterfactuals in the History of Science – Prof Gregory Radick – University of Leeds

Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract: What if, at the 1927 Solvay conference, the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics had received a more sympathetic hearing? What if Charles Darwin had died on the Beagle voyage […]
October 2025
October 13 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Quantifying the Human? – Dr Cristian Larroulet Philippi – The University of Melbourne

Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract: Quantitative measurement in the human sciences remains both widespread and controversial. Are depression scales, intelligence tests, etc. valid measurement instruments? Do they deliver quantitative or merely ordinal information? I […]
November 2025
November 3 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

GenAI and mental health – Elena Walsh – University of Wollongong

Michael Spence Building F23, Ground Floor, Auditorium 1, The University of Sydney, Australia

Human beings are social and dependent creatures. We rely on friends, romantic partners, family, communities, therapists, and other confidantes for support, insight, and understanding. And yet, we have recently entered […]
November 17 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

The Ian Langham Memorial Lecture – Uncle Rob Cooley, Gamay Rangers

Michael Spence Building F23,Level 5, Room 501, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bio: Uncle Rob Cooley is a saltwater man with connections to Gamay-Botany Bay and the NSW South Coast. Currently, Uncle Rob is Senior Ranger and Leader of the Gamay Rangers, a […]