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Peiyu Yuan
Tuesday, 07 May 2019

We may be in the middle of an insect mass extinction. The once abundant Rocky Mountain locust was last seen in 1902. Under the Mikheyev Group, Peiyu Yuan used data from a related extant locust species and comparative genomics to identify artifacts in museum data of the Rocky Mountain locust.

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Monday, 04 Mar 2019

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered several new species of butterflies and moths in Northern Australia, identifying a conservation stronghold of national and international significance.

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Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

Fairy wrens can learn to recognise the alarm calls of other species.

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Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

Seaweed plays an important role in coral reef biodiversity, with an important role in the lifecycle of several fishes.

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Bukit Timah, Singapore. Image Shoshana Rapley
Thursday, 20 Dec 2018

Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.

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Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018

The amazing diversity we see in Australian animal developed early and has slowed considerably in the last 10 million years, say Ian Brennan and Scott Keogh from the ANU Research School of Biology.

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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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