2 Nov 2021

While Angus Rae focuses intently on a captivating microscopic world, he is actually working towards a solution for an environmental catastrophe occurring on a...

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...

5 Jul 2021

Professor Bruno von Schmarotzersindwunderbarhausen in his idiosyncratic attire is not something you would see during a regular day on campus. He only appears...

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...

8 Apr 2021

We met Professor Nicotra in the Snowy Mountains and asked what she learned from 2020.

18 Mar 2021

In healthy populations, the song of regent honeyeaters is complex and long. But where the population is very small, the song is sadly diminished.

16 Aug 2020

Striving toward malaria eradication: Development of a single drug to kill malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that transmit them.

11 Aug 2020

Jeremy Debrulle discusses (Torchin et al. 2003) and the question of what role do parasites actually play in regulating and stabilising populations?

11 Aug 2020

Studies have shown that some parasites can control their hosts, manipulating their behaviour often to the benefit of the parasites.

10 Aug 2020

Tunan (Nicole) Yu discusses Horwitz and Wilcox (2005) and taking a multi-faceted view towards parasites to manage disease risk.

7 Aug 2020

"How could I have been so naive to think that parasites would not have an intrinsic role to play in every ecosystem considering the fundamentals of...

7 Aug 2020

Parasites have a crucial role in the earth’s ecosystem and are often left out of the climate change conversation. A blog post by Margot Schneider