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News

Tuesday, 02 May 2023
Wednesday, 12 Apr 2023

A new study shows that we can use existing conservation data to predict which currently unthreatened species could become threatened and take proactive action to prevent their decline before it is too late.

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Friday, 10 Mar 2023

Superb fairy-wrens are more likely to take risks to help members of their close social circle, according to a new study.

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Tuesday, 13 Dec 2022

Dr Tobias Hayashi studied a delicate little native orchid with a cool and clever adaptation to attract pollinators.

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Monday, 28 Nov 2022

While most spiders are creatures of solitude, a study involving researchers from ANU has found some species have become more gregarious.  

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Wednesday, 19 Oct 2022

Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.

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Events

Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
23 Nov 2020 | 3pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
16 Nov 2020 | 4pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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A black and white patterned longhorn beetle on a green leaf.
13 Nov 2020 | 4 - 5pm

The taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of longhorn beetles have been debated for decades, with neither morphological nor molecular data reaching a consistent solution. 

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12 Nov 2020 | 10 - 11am

By nature of their conspicuousness, sexual signals can cause a conflict between natural and sexual selection, with natural selection favoring a decrease in exaggeration of an ornament and sexual selection favoring an increase.

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10 Nov 2020 | 5 - 6pm

The Peer Community in (PCI) project offers an alternative to the current system of publication - which is particularly expensive and not very transparent.

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