Siouxsie Wiles
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is a Senior Lecturer and head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland. She and her team make nasty bacteria glow in the dark to find new medicines and to study how bacteria evolve to cause disease. Siouxsie is also a keen blogger, tweeter and podcaster and has won the hat trick of NZ’s science communication prizes for her efforts, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science Media Communication in 2013.

Enough is enough. Academics must stand up against this bullshit
Shocking revelations around a clinical trial of a new tuberculosis vaccine are just the tip of the iceberg. Maintaining public trust in science depends on a new approach to transparency.