Macquarie became one of the first universities in Aus to establish an SLL when the milestone transaction – a refinance of $450 million of bank facilities – was finalised last July. We are also the second organisation in the country to include biodiversity among its SLL targets.

The pioneering sustainability-linked loan (SLL) signed by Macquarie University last year has been honoured by Environmental Finance as part of its international Sustainable Debt Awards 2024.

Shot! A review of 400 Australian moments captured on film: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/april-…

📸A photograph is more than an image: it is an event, sometimes an object, always a fragment of a broader story to be told. Photography researcher Dr Jane Simon reviews the State Library of NSW's exhibition, Shot

Before 2022, scientists had never before seen whales actually having intercourse.

The first observation of humpback whale se x, was the between two males, writes Dr Dr. Vanessa Pirotta :

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While humpbacks are the most sighted whale species in Australian waters, we actually know very little about them, Dr Dr. Vanessa Pirotta explains: theconversation.com/sex-birth-and-…

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In her latest article in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand, Marine Scientist Dr Dr. Vanessa Pirotta shares that thousands of bus-sized humpback whales are currently on their way to Australian waters.

Could tiny doses of synthetic psilocybin – naturally found in magic mushrooms – help people with moderate depression?

Macquarie University researcher Dr Vince Polito is running the biggest clinical trial of its type in the country to find out↙️

Meet Dr Anthony Waddle, a synthetic biologist who is coming up with new ways to fight 'amphibian chytrid fungus' - which has caused mass die-offs in frogs around the world.

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New research has found that when ant-mimicking spiders do a bad job of hiding their spider qualities – potentially exposing themselves to predators - it might give them other advantages, such as finding mates and greater fertility.
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Can pretending to be an ant help a spider find a mate?

Farmed pythons may offer a sustainable and efficient new form of livestock to boost food security, according to new research from #MacquarieUniversity :

lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/march-…

🎓We met up with Dr Dr. Vanessa Pirotta before her occasional address at our Science and Engineering @ MQU graduation this week, to get the inside word on how she plans to inspire our new graduates

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🐍Snakes on a .... Plate?

Would you be open to substituting snake meat for other livestock protein, as a part of your regular diet?

Tiny, transparent fish have made it possible for our neuroscientists to observe damaging protein clusters forming in real time, opening the way for testing potential early interventions for motor neuron disease (MND) and dementia.

🔗 lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/march-…

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World first: Zebrafish discovery to speed testing of MND and dementia treatments

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Romeo, accordingly, is pushed to the side of the action of & Juliet – and rightly so, given the title and the subject of the musical. He does, however, get the best entrance of any Shakespearean hero A/Prof Stephanie Russo

Befitting the name of the show, Juliet (played by Lorinda May Merrypor) is at the centre of the action here as the show explores what an empowered, very contemporary Juliet might be like.

& Juliet is a jukebox musical, using the many many hits of Swedish songwriter Max Martin to tell this very modern, feminist, queer and diverse adaptation of the most famous tragedy of all time.

Read the full review here: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/march-…

A/Prof Stephanie Russo