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Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers

  • Written by: Andrew Lowe, Director of Food Innovation, University of Adelaide
imageBirdwatchers are keeping the location of the newly rediscovered night parrot a closely guarded secret.Adventure Australia, Author provided

Highly collectable species, especially those that are rare and threatened, can potentially be put at risk from poaching if information describing where they can be found is published. But rather than withholding...

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Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy

  • Written by: Virginia Kilborn, Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
imageEfforts praised to get more women in Australian astronomy, but more needs to be done.Flickr/Paean Ng, CC BY-NC-ND

The number of women at the most senior levels in the Australian astronomical community remains low despite many positive steps in supporting gender equity. Women make up only 17% of positions at full or associate professor level.

Astronom...

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Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'

  • Written by: Myles Russell Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria and Phd Candidate, University of Melbourne
imageDetail from Percy Leason, Thomas Foster, 1934, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 60.8 cm, State Library Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mrs Isabelle Leason, 1969 (H32094) © Max Leason

During the night of September 7 1936, the last remaining thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, popularly referred to by the name of “Benjamin” since his death, died in the...

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The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
imageKeep calm and get your stoic on many people today are heeding the advice

From Cynicism to Stoicism

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, to paraphrase Monty Python. We live in strange times. But few people could have expected today’s rise of a global movement of self-describing Stoics.

Stoicism was the ancient Greek and then Roman...

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  27. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
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