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New horizons: what can a biologist bring to the study of language endangerment?
The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says it wasn’t difficult to see the benefits in the two disciplines coming together.
Listen to the Albert’s lyrebird: the best performer you’ve never heard of
Mention the superb lyrebird, and you’ll probably hear comments on their uncanny mimicry of human sounds, their presence on the 10 cent coin, and their stunning tail. Far less known – but equally, if not more, impressive – is the Albert’s lyrebird.
Changes to bird behaviour linked to climate change
A new study from researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) rolls back the curtain on half a century of evidence detailing the impact of climate change on more than 60 different bird species.Pages
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Genomic epidemiology of oat crown rust disease in Australia and abroad uncovers diverse mechanisms to generate diversity
Event recordings
20 August 2020
Stuart Ritchie, King's College London
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...
13 August 2020
Dr Rod Peakall, Division of Ecology and Evolution, RSB, ANU
Native Australian orchids have featured strongly in Rod's research, where he has explored a range of fascinating ecological, biochemical, molecular and evolutionary questions...
6 August 2020
Jonathan Losos, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Jonathan Losos will speak on his career-long experimental research program manipulating the presence of lizards on small islands in the Bahamas to test ecological and evolutionary...
30 July 2020
Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Konstanz, Germany
There is an increasing body of evidence for the existence of animal cultures. Recent work has also suggested cultural traits can be subject to selection, changing in form,...
28 July 2020
Rod Peakall, E&E, RSB
Annals of Botany Special Lecture by Professor Rod Peakall (ANU) at the Botany 2020 - Virtual meeting July 27-31, USA
28 July 2020
Rod Peakall, E&E, RSB
Annals of Botany Special Lecture by Professor Rod Peakall (ANU) at the Botany 2020 - Virtual meeting July 27-31, USA
23 July 2020
Vivek Nityananda, Newcastle University
Praying mantises are the only insects known to have stereo vision. We used a comparative approach to determine how the mechanisms underlying stereopsis in mantises differ from...
9 July 2020
Rob Lanfear, E&E, RSB
Having spent much of the last 15 years trying to improve molecular phylogenetics, I had formed the fairly firm view that my research was very interesting (of course!!!) but rather...
9 July 2020
Stephanie Courtney Jones, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB
The central islands of Indonesia, between Java, Bali and Kalimantan (Borneo) on the west and Papua on the east - are a living laboratory for the study of evolution, known as the...
2 July 2020
Douglas J. Emlen, The University of Montana
Every animal has a weapon of one sort or another, but the overwhelming majority of weapons stay small. Yet, sprinkled through the tree of life are species where weapons become...
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