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Promoting science in Victoria, Australia. This is a legacy account - find us online via https://t.co/Uw8NRTqmGU
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Thank you to Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC for supporting young people in #STEM ! NYSF participants from Victoria were honoured to excitedly share their pathways and ideas for a better future. #GovernorVic Governor of Victoria
The scale of the fires currently burning across northern Australia is pretty unfathomable.
This animation visualises just the last two months of fire captured by #DEAHotspots - for context, the map covers an area larger than France, Spain and Germany combined...
Research led by Wing Y Chan and Madeleine van Oppen finds a heat evolved symbiont can help an adult #coral species, Galaxea fascicularsis, better tolerate heat without compromising growth.
Read more ➡️ow.ly/iAWZ50Q2sjk
University of Melbourne #RRAP
We’re kicking off with “Aiming Higher: Improving Science Education in Victoria” with Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering and The Science Teachers Association of Victoria in about five minutes (6pm). Join the livestream on YouTube - youtube.com/@RoyalSocietyV…
Important research from Australia Institute and Kate McBride
Turns out there's overwhelming public support for the Australian Government to buy back water to benefit the environment...including in rural areas.
'Is our democracy failing us and how can it do better?'
Yesterday, Michelle Grattan delivered the House of Representatives (@AboutTheHouse) Speaker’s Lecture.
Read her speech + comment to let us know how you would improve Australia's political system: theconversation.com/view-from-the-…
New in International Journal of Wildland Fire:
Quantifying the flammability of living plants #OpenAccess
Transitioning operational satellite grassland curing from MODIS to VIIRS #OA
Improved logistic models of crown fire probability in Canadian conifer forests
#IntlJWildlandFire
publish.csiro.au/wf
I've seen in my lifetime, a glacier retreat on Heard Island,” “I've seen plants go from healthy to critically endangered in 3 yrs.” “When I first started with climate change, we thought time scales of 50 or 100 yrs, not 3.” 💧Steve Davies Stories to tell abc.net.au/news/2023-10-2…
Is there a link between eating ultra-processed foods and your brain health?
Leading researcher in nutritional psychiatry and Alfred Deakin Professor Prof Felice Jacka OAM says yes, thanks to her discoveries about the role of diet in mental and brain health.
theguardian.com/food/2023/oct/…
Happy #WorldWombatDay - celebrate by logging a #wombat sighting on the new WomSAT website (no app needed) #wildlife #citizenscience #Australia #roadkill #mange #disease #conservation #education #wildoz #mammal Australian Citizen Science Association Western Sydney University Western News The Australian Mammal Society