Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US--and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test. Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list of new followers. A PhD candidate in political philosophy at Boston College, Zhuge had previously only lurked on X to keep up with the latest debates and gossip in academia.

Four University of South Australia researchers have been awarded ARC Discovery grants collectively worth $1.8 million, for projects starting in 2023. The project will investigate the ways in which existing Australian induction policies support "precariously employed" early career teachers – those on casual and short-term contracts – to effectively manage student classroom behaviour. "We hope to propose alternative policy and practice recommendations to support the transition of insecure replacement teachers within the profession," Prof Sullivan says. "The benefits of this research include improving teachers' classroom management practices; the retention of new teachers; improving teacher workforce development; and building a healthier education system." Australia's 117,000 km of concrete sewer pipes are currently internally corroding at a depth rate of 1-3 mm per annum.

Hai Zhuge is an ACM (Association of Computer Machinery) Distinguished Scientist and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has made a systematic contribution to semantics and knowledge modelling through fundamental research on the Semantic Link Network and the Resource Space Model based on multi-dimensional methodology. He is leading research on cyber-physical-social intelligence using methodological, theoretical and technical innovations. As an ACM Distinguished Speaker, he has delivered 20 keynotes at international conferences and invited lectures at universities in various countries. As a Professor, he is head of an international research network consisting of the Guangzhou University, the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing at the Institute of Computing Technology in Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the System Analytics Research Institute at Aston University.