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Twitter tries to tackle abuse as research shows that most of us can be trolls online

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageOnline trolling is the normShutterstock

As Twitter announces new measures to deal with abuse on its platform, new research from Stanford and Cornell universities has highlighted how big a challenge that is going to be.

It turns out that the majority of people will post “trolling comments” given the right circumstances and that trolling...

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Indonesia should support interfaith community programs to help Myanmar end ethnic violence

  • Written by: Dio Herdiawan Tobing, Research Manager at ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada
imageIndonesia can assist Myanmar to find a long-term solution for peace in Rakhine state. Reuters

After years of refusing to protect ethnic Rohingya from persecution, Myanmar’s government is seemingly showing signs of change.

Following reports of massacre, arson and rape targeting ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state late last year,...

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The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science

  • Written by: Ian Godwin, Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics, The University of Queensland
imageIn Soviet Russia, the science tests you.Wikimedia

A few years ago, one of us (Ian) was lucky enough to be invited to visit the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry in St Petersburg, Russia. Every plant breeder or geneticist knows of Nikolai Vavilov and his ceaseless energy in collecting important food crop varieties from all over the globe, and...

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