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News

Wednesday, 05 Jun 2024

Australia’s ski industry is at risk of major disruptions and shorter seasons if the current level of climate pollution continues, according to new modelling from Protect Our Winters Australia (POW) and The Australian National University (ANU).

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Friday, 31 May 2024

In new research published in Science, biologists show how coevolution drives the creation of new species of cuckoos.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

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Tuesday, 27 Feb 2024

We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.

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Friday, 23 Feb 2024

Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.

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Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

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Events

18 Sep 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Iteroparous animals often express dramatic variation in life-history traits over the course of a lifetime.

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3 Sep 2020 | 12 - 1pm

Metascience, or metaresearch, is a field of research that has grown out of the replication crisis. Amongst other things, metascience evaluates and monitors open science initiatives and other interventions to improve scientific practices and cultures.

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27 Aug 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Menno Schilthuizen is an evolutionary biologist with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. He is also an active science writer and speaker.

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21 Aug 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Captive breeding and reintroduction are key to modern conservation, but high predation in recently released animals means reintroductions often fail.

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20 Aug 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Why is there a Replication Crisis? That is, why are there so many findings in the published scientific literature that can't be replicated, or are exaggerated far beyond reality?

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19 Aug 2020 | 12pm

Agriculture and ecosystems are tipping toward collapse due to land use and climate extremes. Irreversible feedbacks in the land system can lock in food insecurity, biodiversity loss and a hot house world.

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