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Victorians are struggling to access fresh food due to costs and shocks to food supply. Rachel Carey, Maureen Murphy and Tara Behen are calling on the Victorian government to legislate food access for all. Tap to learn more ➡️ unimelb.me/44o6qP6
'Contested Riverscapes in Jakarta: Flooding, Forced Eviction & Urban Image' by Prof Kim Dovey, Dr Amanda Achmadi & Science at Melbourne's A/Prof Brian Cook is featured in Erasmus Huis Jakarta' What If Lab: The Sustainable Society → unimelb.me/4aSdk1O
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While the sugar gum is notorious for dropping branches, botanist Dr Gregory Moore says sugar gums have remarkable properties - like generating after bushfires and serving as a home for wildlife 🐝🦜 Tap to learn more in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand ➡️ unimelb.me/3JBRkfk
Today is the first day of CityNatureChallenge, where citizen scientists record observations of wildlife in their local area.
Luis Mata and Estibaliz Palma write in Pursuit on the impact of citizen scientists ➡️ unimelb.me/3UzwqDZ
👏 Congratulations Danielle Tang, #Horsham #SmartFarm Science at Melbourne PhD student on receiving the 2024 Best Student Presentation Award for #NIR Science for her presentation on how to predict #FabaBean quality using sensors pre-harvest at the 20th ANISG conference #NZNIRSS #AgChatOz
We must act now to design power grids that can withstand future massive thunderstorm events, say academics from the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology. Tap to learn more ➡️ unimelb.me/3vXQaYw via The Melbourne Energy Institute
Are meteorologists always wrong? 🌧️ 🌤️ Weather prediction is actually getting better. Andrew King 🌈 along with academics from University of Tasmania and Monash Science explain the evolution of weather prediction and modelling in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand. Tap to learn more ➡️ unimelb.me/3W4r30K
Great paper led by Alex Wood (Science at Melbourne) with Artur Lozovoi, Russell Goldblatt and Carlos Meriles examining optically mediated charge cycling processes of the NV centers in diamond.
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Are you looking for inspiration to join the 2024 Wattle Fellowship cohort? 🌼
Master of Environment student Izrael from Science at Melbourne has been working on a sustainability action project to transform film and TV productions into less wasteful ones. Apply now → unimelb.me/3agq9sa
Honoured to be featured on the front cover of the #ASPnewsletter . Interview regarding our recent publication on anthelmintic resistance in horse parasites on page 34. Thanks, ASP 😊 Dr. ABDUL GHAFAR Abdul Jabbar Science at Melbourne The PhD Story
More greenery in the city is beneficial for biodiversity and humans, and that’s what PhD candidate Katherine Horsfall is working on in her studies. Tap to learn more ➡️ unimelb.me/43ThC6d
The ocean is a noisy place - which inconvenient for whales, who use sound to navigate 🐋
We can’t test on real whales, so Stuart Johnston is using mathematical modelling to understand how noise affects whale migratory patterns.
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Could neutron stars help us 'see' dark matter?
Physicists from Dark Matter Centre have calculated that dark matter reacts and transfers energy quickly when particles collide inside a dead neutron star. Tap to learn more ➡️ unimelb.me/3J9MrtL Prof Nicole Bell
