Latest from the AM Blog
Writing from the frontiers of science, culture and education, as well as all the latest news from the Museum.
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At The Museum
Live at the AM podcast: HumanNature 2019 – Andrea Gaynor
Hold the past to account with Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia as she proposes `radical remembering’ to actively confront the challenges of the Anthropocene.
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At The Museum
Live at the AM: HumanNature Series 2019 - Mark Carey
The culture and politics of ice. University of Oregon’s Mark Carey explores the fundamental role of glacial ice in global economics and politics, and within imaginative, historical and colonial narratives.
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A century plus of marineinvertivol
The year was 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister and a remarkable association began in the Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates section.
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The language of frogs: what are your backyard frogs saying?
When a frog calls out, what is it saying?
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At The Museum
Live at the AM: HumanNature Series 2019 - Katherine Gibson and Juan Francisco Salazar
Lessons on resilience from a bamboo bridge Katherine Gibson and Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University) explore life within the rhythms of nature in resilient community economies.
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AMRI
Solomon Islands archipelago workshops
In mid-September three AM scientists, Dr Rebecca Johnson, Dr Tim Flannery and Paul Flemons travelled to Honiara and Gala to participate in two workshops to mark 3 years of co-operation in environmental conservation between the Kwaio and the Australian Museum.
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The Kaputar Rock Skink – one of New South Wales’ most range restricted reptiles
A formal introduction to a skink at home on a single range in inland NSW
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What does a frog eat when the forest disappears?
How habitat disturbance impacts the diet of a forest-dependent frog species.
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AMRI
Blood worms – more diverse than fishes can tell
Currently, we know that Australian bloodworms, traditionally thought to be a single species, make up at least seven different species.
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At The Museum
Podcast – Lunchtime Conversation Series: Gabi Hollows
Gabi Hollows talks with Sandra Sully about the work of her late husband Fred and the Fred Hollows Foundation.
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AMRI
Lace corals around Lizard Island
Due to over exploitation for economic uses, stylasterids are considered threatened with extinction. After 33 dives to 29 sites around Lizard Island and the outer reef, Dr Daniela Pica preliminarily identified the presence of up to 11 species.
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At The Museum
Podcast - Lunchtime Conversation Series: Glenn Murcutt (with Sandra Sully)
Acclaimed Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt discusses his life and work with Journalist and Broadcaster Sandra Sully.
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At The Museum
Podcast – Lunchtime Conversation Series: Dr Terry Percival
Dr Terry Percival AM, representing CSIRO WLAN, discusses the invention of Wi-FI
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At The Museum
Live at the AM podcast: HumanNature 2019 – Macerena Gomez-Barris
Venture into the cacophonous space of the forest with Macarena Gómez-Barris of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn USA, as she considers its contested conceptual, indigenous and potentially regenerative narratives
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AMRI
Mountain hopping for frogs
Surveying the “roof of Indochina” for two of Vietnam’s most threatened frogs.
