The IDEMS Podcast
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Episodes: 262
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Stories from a social enterprise that uses mathematical sciences in impact-oriented work around the world. Our experiences range from helping some of the world's poorest farmers get value from data, to enabling academics to use AI responsibly in their teaching. We never know what our next task will be but the last 6 years have shown that it is likely to lead to a story.
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262 – Rainfall Data and Quality Control
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May 15, 2026 |
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261 – Embedded Scaling in Farmer Research Networks
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May 12, 2026 |
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260 – Farmer Research Networks
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May 08, 2026 |
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259 – Building the ePICSA Summaries Database
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May 05, 2026 |
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258 – Exploring the STACK AI Assistant
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May 01, 2026 |
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257 – Behind the Open App Builder
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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256 – The Facilitator Apps
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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255 – Authoring STACK Questions as a Service
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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254 – Farmer Research Networks and the Future of Participatory AI
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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253 – Pan-African Community-Owned Digital Futures Workshop
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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252 – AIMS Rwanda 2026
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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251 – Reflections on the West Africa COP 20th Anniversary Meeting
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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250 – The Context and Challenges of the West Africa COP’s 20th Anniversary
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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249 – Organising the 2026 STACK Conference
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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248 – PBDM and Public Health
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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247 – Scaling PBDM (Physiologically Based Demographic Modelling)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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246 – Organising The IDEMS Podcast
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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245 – Open GCSE Textbooks with PreTeXt
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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244 – Scaling Open Textbook Variants with PreTeXt and AI
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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243 – Individualism and Collaboration
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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242 – Reflections on Humanoid Robots
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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241 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Proxy Variables
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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240 – Integrating Deep Student Assessment into Open Statistics Textbooks
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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239 – Converting Open Statistics Textbooks for Software-Agnostic Learning
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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238 – Open Textbooks and Beyond
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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237 – Open Textbooks
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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236 – Is STACK Necessary in the Age of AI?
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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235 – An Update on The CBC Open Textbooks Project
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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234 – Data Collectors as a Source of Variability
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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233 – An analysis of ANOVA as a Descriptive Tool
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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232 – ANOVA and Degrees of Freedom
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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231 – Unexplained Variability
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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230 – Introduction to Sampling
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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229 – Reflections on the Joint Mathematics Meeting Part 2
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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228 – Reflections on the Joint Mathematics Meeting Part 1
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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227 – Managing vs Leading
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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226 – Is Diversity Always Good?
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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225 – Expanding on Personalised Education
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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224 – Turning Challenges into Opportunities
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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223 – Investigating Personalised Education
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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222 – The Five Interns of Christmas
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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221 – Ethical Investments: Social Enterprise Impact Bonds
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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220 – RMS Workshop Reflections: Presenting Results
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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219 – Factors in Statistics
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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218 – SmileyCoin
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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217 – A Dive into PreTeXt
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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216 – The Five Quiz Framework for Electronic Assessment
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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215 – The History of Computer Assisted Statistics Textbooks
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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214 – Teaching Statistics from the Data Up
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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213 – STACK in Africa
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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212 – Personalised AI-Driven Textbooks
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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211 – Open vs Open Source
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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210 – Two Years of The IDEMS Podcast: The IDEMS Collaboratories and CommonTech
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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209 – Individual Initiative and Collective Responsibility
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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208 – The Significance of the Turing Test
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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207 – AI in Low Resource Environments
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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206 – Explore, Describe, Present: a Statistical Analysis Framework
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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205 – An Interview with Rikin Gandhi from Digital Green
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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204 – What does responsible AI really mean?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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203 – Developing Pan-African Digital Maths Textbooks and its Challenges
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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202 – Building Custom AI Assistants
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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201 – Reflections on the World Statistics Congress
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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200 – Behind the Scenes of The IDEMS Podcast
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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199 – The Pan-African Convening on the Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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198 – Introducing Michele Pancera
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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197 – From Exams to Experiences: How Gamification Could Transform Education
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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196 – Scalable AI Tools for Farmers
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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195 – When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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194 – Twenty years of RMS for CRFS: Next Steps
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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193 – Using Generative AI in IDEMS Work
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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192 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Crop Simulation Models
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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191 – Gamification of Education
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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190 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Multi-year trials
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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189 – How do people really live around the world?
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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188 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Designing Real-World Agricultural Experiments
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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187 – An Introduction to Presentation Graphs
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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186 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Measurements
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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185 – Enabling Access to STACK through PreTeXt
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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184 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Controls
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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183 – Using AI for Qualitative Analysis
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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182 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Levels of Variability
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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181 – Tricot Participatory Breeding Trials
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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180 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: On-Farm Agricultural Trials
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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179 – Challenging the Dead Internet Theory
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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178 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: On-Station Agricultural Trials
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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177 – Mathematical Modelling vs Statistical Modelling
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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176 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Multimethod Agricultural Research
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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175 – The PhD to IDEMS Postdoctoral Fellow Journey
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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174 – Twenty Years of RMS for CRFS: Introducing Roger
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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173 – Twenty years of RMS for CRFS
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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172 – Proxy Variables
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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171 – Building a Local Research Methods Support Team
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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170 – Marketing IDEMS: From R&D to Products
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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169 – Marketing IDEMS: The Website Redesign
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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168 – Collecting Data for Community Research
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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167 – “Moral Ambition” by Rutger Bregman
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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166 – Solarpunk and Positive Visions of the Future
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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165 – Systemic Change
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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164 – Further Reflections on the ICMS Workshop
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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163 – Rethinking Statistics Education
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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162 – The Origins of the Food Innovation Centres in West Africa
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May 30, 2025 |
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161 – Tool Agnosticism in Modern Education
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May 27, 2025 |
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160 – Developing Modelling Courses for the Maths Innovations MSc
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May 23, 2025 |
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159 – Innovative MSc Programme for Maths Teachers in Kenya, Part 4
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May 20, 2025 |
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158 – Innovative MSc Programme for Maths Teachers in Kenya, Part 3
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May 16, 2025 |
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157 – Innovative MSc Programme for Maths Teachers in Kenya, Part 2
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May 13, 2025 |
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156 – Innovative MSc Programme for Maths Teachers in Kenya, Part 1
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May 09, 2025 |
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155 – Agroecological Possibilities of Solar Panels
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May 06, 2025 |
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154 – Fuma Gaskyia and Human Urine Fertiliser
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May 02, 2025 |
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153 – Paving the Road for Biological Pest Control in Niger
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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152 – Types of Graphs
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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151 – Data Variability
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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150 – Building Impactful Teams in West Africa
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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149 – Battling Millet Head Miners in Niger
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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148 – Transforming Research through Community Collaboration
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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147 – Cultivating Change: Local Solutions for Nutrition
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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146 – Reflections on the CRFS Leadership Meeting 2025
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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145 – Problematising what it means to ‘help communities’
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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144 – Who can be activated for impact?
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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143 – The Impact Activation Book
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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142 – Reflections on Impact Activation Workshop at ICMS Edinburgh, Part 2
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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141 – Reflections on Impact Activation Workshop at ICMS Edinburgh, Part 1
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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140 – Electronic Maths Textbooks in Kenya
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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139 – Scaling the Maths Camps
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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138 – AI in International Development, Part 2
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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137 – AI in International Development, Part 1
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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136 – A Role of Technology in Education
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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135 – Resource Constraints and Technological Innovation
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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134 – Introducing Michael Obiero: Rethinking Maths Textbooks
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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133 – Schooling and Alternative Education Systems
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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132 – Paris AI Action Summit
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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131 – USAID Revisited
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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130 – Equality and Equity
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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129 – USAID
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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128 – Experiences of Using STACK for Data Skills
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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127 – Scalable Solutions vs Individual Impact in Education
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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126 – Mathematics in Africa: Stories of Success
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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125 – AI Summaries
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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124 – Communities and Development
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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123 – Unpacking the Question, “Why don’t we just give money?”
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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122 – Technology in Secondary Education
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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121 – Reflections on Research Methods Support (RMS) Workshops
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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120 – Reflections on Past and Future New Years
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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119 – The New Year’s Special
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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118 – Festive Special: Another Perspective on Giving
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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117 – Festive Special: Giving
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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116 – Collective Intelligence
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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115 – Research Methods Support Teams
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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114 – International Impact Award 2024
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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113 – Research Methods Workshops and Trainings
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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112 – Why don’t we just give money?
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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111 – Sustainability, Scalability, and Systemic Change: IDEMS’ Approach to Impacting Grand Challenges
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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110 – Further reflections on the FRN Convening
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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109 – Mathematical Scientists as Impact Activators
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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108 – James’ Journey of Innovative Statistics Education
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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107 – Where Do We Draw the Line on Transparency?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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106 – Reflections on the FRN Convening
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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105 – Wicked Problems
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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104 – Misusing Data
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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103 – Collaborative Modelling
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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102 – Communities of Practice, Part 2
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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101 – Introducing Sue Johnson: Corporate Insights into Communicating the Value of Technology for Social Impact
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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100 – Episode 100
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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099 – Is AI Making Me Lazy?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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098 – Institutional Change in Ghana: Abib’s Experiences and Observations
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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097 – The Agroecology Hub
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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096 – Data Literacy Continued
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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095 – How to Tell the IDEMS Story
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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094 – Is Data Maths?
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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093 – Communities of Practice, Part 1
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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092 – Data Literacy
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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091 – Introducing James Kaleli Musyoka: Climatic Data Science for Agriculture
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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090 – Introducing George Simmons: Mathematical Modelling in Agroecology
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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089 – Exploring Digital Parenting Innovations in Kuwait
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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088 – Technologies for Secondary School Education
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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087 – Chatbots and AI
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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086 – The R-Instat Calculation System
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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085 – A Service Mentality
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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084 – Community Tech
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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083 – Reflections on the Mentoring Scheme
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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082 – Innovations in Internships and Workshops
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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081 – The Second African STACK Conference
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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080 – Franca Hoffmann: Global Maths Education
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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079 – American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) Workshop in Kenya
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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078 – Open Research, Science and Data
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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077 – Looking to the Future of AI for Higher Education
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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076 – Data Systems for Low Digital Literacy
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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075 – Changing The Question 2
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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074 – Changing the Question
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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073 – AI in Education: Friend or Foe?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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072 – Demystifying Data Science
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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071 – Introduction to R-Instat
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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070 – Games Without Advertising: A Potential New Business Model, Part 2
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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069 – Games Without Advertising: A Potential New Business Model, Part 1
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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068 – Do we know what we are doing?
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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067 – Multilevel Data
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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066 – Polly Noyce: Manor House
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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065 – Hallucitations
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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064 – Defining Simplicity: When Money Isn’t Enough
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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063 – Chris Sangwin: STACK
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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062 – Revolutions in Data Collection
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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061 – Simplicity vs Complexity
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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060 – Teaching Data Science
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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059 – Inception Meetings: IDEMS’ Pathways to Supporting Project Beginnings
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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058 – Farmer Research Networks
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May 31, 2024 |
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057 – Empowering Mathematics Educators with STACK
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May 28, 2024 |
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056 – Responsible Research and Modelling
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May 24, 2024 |
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055 – Scalability vs Sustainability in IDEMS Internships
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May 21, 2024 |
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054 – Beyond the Hype: The Reality of AI-Powered Shops
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May 17, 2024 |
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053 – Investment as a Service
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May 14, 2024 |
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052 – Maths Camps: Engaging Minds, Expanding Horizons
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May 10, 2024 |
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051 – Digital Jobs in Rural Environments
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May 07, 2024 |
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050 – The Role of Observation in Shaping IDEMS
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May 03, 2024 |
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049 – Artificial Words: The Unseen Bias of AI in Everyday Language
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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048 – An Approach to Language and Tolerance
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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047 – Kate Fleming: IDEMS’ Strategy
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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046 – Moustapha Moussa: Processing Food
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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045 – Bruce Hamaker: Processing Nutritional Foods in Low Resource Rural Environments
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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044 – An Interview with our Incoming Director, Kate Fleming
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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043 – The Journey to IDEMS Internships
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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042 – Navigating the Future: Work and Skills in an AI-Influenced World
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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041 – Scalable Impact Through Internships
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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040 – The STACK Internships
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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039 – How to Lie with Smoking Statistics
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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038 – What Does Development Look Like?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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037 – Generating AI Images: Between Bias and Absurdity
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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036 – Response to “IDEMS’ Vision and Mission”
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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035 – Generating AI Images: Do AI implementations suppress diversity?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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034 – IDEMS’ Vision and Mission in practice
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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033 – IDEMS’ Vision and Mission
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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032 – Impact Activation Postdoctoral Fellow
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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031 – Who wants to be a trillionaire?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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030 – Cross Disciplinary Study Types
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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029 – AI Transforming Education
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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028 – AI Transforming Work
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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027 – Why doesn’t IDEMS simply focus?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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026 – GUIDE-ing Principles vs SMART Goals
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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025 – AI and Consciousness
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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024 – The Privilege of Wealth
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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023 – Research and Academic Publications
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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022 – Evidence, Research and Society
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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021 – Where Things Have Gone Wrong with AI
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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020 – Research and Impact in Challenging Contexts
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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019 – Is Nepotism always harmful? Part 2
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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018 – Is Nepotism always harmful? Part 1
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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017 – Responsible AI: How Data Lies
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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016 – Responsible AI: Regulation
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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015 – New Year’s Resolutions
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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014 – IDEMS Blunders of the Year 2023
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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013 – Responsible AI: Festive Special
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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012 – Fundamentally Profitable
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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011 – Response to “Reluctant Entrepreneurs”
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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010 – Reluctant Entrepreneurs
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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009 – Demystifying AI
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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008 – The IDEMS Business Model
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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007 – IDEMS’ views on agriculture
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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006 – Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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005 – IDEMS as a Community Interest Company
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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004 – Zach Mbasu and INNODEMS, The Follow-Up
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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003 – Interviews 01: Zach Mbasu and INNODEMS
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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002 – What is IDEMS?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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001 – Maths Minds: Thinking Hard About Supporting a Collaborative Society
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Nov 14, 2023 |