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News

Friday, 17 Dec 2021

Deeply entrenched scientific beliefs that for more than a century have explained why more men than women are high achievers because of biology are not backed up by evidence, according to new research.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

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Monday, 13 Sep 2021

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.

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Friday, 30 Jul 2021

Age is no barrier when it comes to reproducing for male mosquitofish.

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Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021

An Australian mammal thought to have been wiped out over 150 years ago can now be crossed off our list of extinct animals, following a new study.

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Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021

Australia has the world’s worst track record for wiping out mammals, with 34 species declared extinct since European colonisation. But today, we bring some good news: one rodent species, Gould’s mouse (Pseudomys gouldii), is set to be crossed off Australia’s extinct species list.

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Events

Fatema Akhter
20 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

My research contributes to broader insights into sexual selection, life-history evolution, and the potential impacts of environmental change on reproductive dynamics in natural populations.

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Diep Ganguly
14 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

Plants employ a suite of gene regulatory mechanisms that enable them to occupy a diverse range of environments and respond to ongoing perturbations.

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Ettore Camerlenghi
30 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.

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Dr Thomas Schmidt
2 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

As genomic data have become increasingly cheap to generate, they have seen a range of new uses for understanding pest populations.

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Diego C
11 Mar 2026 | 4 - 5pm

Phenotypic plasticity is an important adaptation for organisms that live under fluctuating environmental conditions.

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Kate O'Hara
6 Mar 2026 | 1 - 2pm

In this presentation, I show that geographically widespread triploid parthenogenetic forms of the Australian gekkonid Heteronotia binoei are considerably diverse despite their clonal reproductive mode, with patterns of SNP variation consistent with two previously identified reciprocal hybrid origins and numerous backcrossing events.

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