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Brilliant ANU scientists take out Eureka prizes
The brains behind a book aimed at inspiring children with a gravity-defying emu and the team helping to save endangered languages are among the winners of Australia's top science awards - the Eureka Prizes.
Move over magpies: are cuckoos the meanest bird?
Since it’s Bad Bird Season, we ask cuckoo apologist - sorry, cuckoo expert - Professor Naomi Langmore to explain how it could possibly be that the cuckoo doesn’t mean to be mean, when it sure looks like it does.
Older males come out on top in battle of the breeders
Age is no barrier when it comes to reproducing for male mosquitofish.Pages
PhD Exit Webinar: Does age matter? Effects of age and mating history on male reproductive success
37th meeting of the Australian New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Event recordings
21 October 2021
Emily DuVal, Florida State University
Social behaviors are essential to the lives of many animals. “Complex” social behaviors are interactions among conspecifics take many forms, including repeated associations with...
8 October 2021
Yi-Yang (Alex) Chen, Jennions Group, E&E, RSB
Canopy-forming seaweeds, generally brown macroalgae, are worldwide dominant primary producers and habitat constructors in our marine environments.
23 September 2021
Jun Otsuka (Kyoto University), Tobias Uller (Lund University)
Invited Panel: Simone Blomberg and Shinichi Nakagawa
2 September 2021
Prof Rebecca Kilner, Cambridge University, UK
For more than 50 years, the scientific study of animal behaviour has been defined by Tinbergen’s Four Questions. Two of his questions consider the connection between evolution and...
12 August 2021
A/Prof Patrick Savage, Keio University, Dr Xia Hua, Australian National University
Invited Panel: Michael Kasumovic & Dominique Potvin
5 August 2021
Rob Brooks, University of New South Wales
New developments in robotics, virtual reality, and especially artificial intelligence (AI) are giving rise to a new type of technologies: the ‘artificial intimacies’.
27 May 2021
Prof Anna-Liisa Laine, University of Zurich, Dr Ben Ashby, University of Bath
Invited Panel: Ary Hoffmann, Karyn Johnson, Ben Schwessinger
14 May 2021
Zoltan Kocsi, Zeil Group, E&E, RSB
Visual insect navigation is an active research topic. Insects have low resolution eyes and a tiny brain, yet they continuously solve very complex navigational problems; an ability...
13 May 2021
Suzanne Alonzo, University of California Santa Cruz
Sexual selection is an important evolutionary force, driving the evolution of striking traits that can appear not only beautiful, but also counter-intuitive and even ridiculous.
6 May 2021
Fernanda Alves, Langmore Group, E&E, RSB
Despite conservation efforts, the number of species that have recovered after management remain small. Low success rate in species management can be attributed to severe lack of...
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