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25.01.2022 "There are two relationships, one between land and one between people," explained Adjunct Associate Professor Mary Graham. "We are obliged to look after land and each other." A Kombu-merri person through her father's heritage and Wakka Wakka clan through her mother's tradition, Dr Graham describes an Indigenous conception of stewardship and care for Country in the insightful keynote presentation that formed the cornerstone of the virtual series, Stewardship of Country. Take... a look: https://bit.ly/3qQqohN Stewardship of Country is presented by the Royal Societies of Australia and Inspiring Victoria with thanks to our partner and sponsor organisations the Royal Society of Victoria , The Royal Society of Queensland, the Royal Society of New South Wales and CSIRO. #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2021 #HealCountry

25.01.2022 In these socially distant times Australia's Royal Societies offer a rich program of virtual events designed to deepen our understanding of science, art and philosophy... July 8 at 6:30 pm - join Elizabeth Ann Macgregor Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the Royal Society of NSW for an open lecture 'Why Art Matters in a Time of Crisis': https://bit.ly/3iD2sKy July 9 at 7 pm - 'Imagine a world - postcards from the pandemic' brings together the Royal Societ...y of Victoria and a multi-disciplinary panel of experts to discuss what sort of world they hope emerge from the tumult of 2020: https://bit.ly/31P9Vjl For more news and events from Australia's Royal Societies see here: https://bit.ly/2DdsW50

25.01.2022 In an announcement yesterday, NASA confirmed the presence of water molecules on sunlit areas of the lunar surface, suggesting that water might be spread across ...the surface and not just in colder, shadowy corners. Here are some views of our Moon from the Royal Society Picture Library, with a view of 'the lunar landscape at sunset' from 1910, and a photographic study of the moon from 1853. https://www.nasa.gov//nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sun/ See more

24.01.2022 ARE YOU READY FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK? Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology transpires each year in August. It features hundreds of events from around the country; including those delivered by universities, schools, libraries, museums and of course, Australia’s Royal Societies. This year the event program has gone virtual; with the Royal Society of Victoria and Royal Society of New South Wales offering a fantastic array of online events. ... For details read more: https://bit.ly/2XM3hrw #scienceweek National Science Week

21.01.2022 Did you miss National Science Week? Events by Australia’s Royal Societies can be found online! The Royal Society of Victoria is hosting livestreams of their vast virtual program on their Facebook page while the Royal Society of New South Wales has made their Science Week lectures - "The Covid Curve in Context" and "The Periodic Table: a medley of haphazard facts" - available on their YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3grgix0 #scienceweek

21.01.2022 This Friday be like the Purple-crowned wren! Today is Wear it Purple - an international day to champion supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for young LGBTIQ+ people everywhere. Read more at https://bit.ly/2Eoxxln

20.01.2022 The Royal Societies of Australia supports #NAIDOCWeek 2020 To celebrate this year’s theme, the Australian Museum has worked with First Nations people to translate ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ into their respective languages in recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65, 000 years. Take a look https://bit.ly/3eCSgzU

20.01.2022 TO LOOK UP at the sky is one thing, to capture its wonders through photography is something else entirely.... The CWAS 'David Malin Awards' for 2020 have been announced and recognise the spectacular achievements of Australia's best astrophotographers

18.01.2022 Our increasingly unpredictable climate, together with persistent droughts and floods and their often devastating impacts on people and communities, underscores the need for new ways to manage our land and seascapes. The Stewardship of Country webinar series convened Indigenous experts, industry practitioners and thinkers to discuss an expansive new model for the care and regeneration of ecosystems that bridges Indigenous, agricultural, scientific, economic and social perspectives. View webinar recordings and learn more at: https://bit.ly/3qgmSgi With thanks to our partner and sponsor organisations Inspiring Victoria, the Royal Society of Victoria, The Royal Society of Queensland, the Royal Society of New South Wales and CSIRO .

18.01.2022 "Curiosity is inherent in all of us," according to new Member of the Order of Australia, John Hardie. Mr Hardie has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for his significant service to science education and professional societies. As the current President of the Royal Societies of Australia and a long-time member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, his work has focused on promoting the role of professional societies in intellectual inquiry and discussion, advancing knowledge and bridging the gap between research and the general public. Learn more in this feature by the Blue Mountains Gazette https://bit.ly/3gHSJ5m or at www.scienceaustralia.org.au.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to all the winners of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, especially those from Australia's Royal Societies. Professor Thomas Maschmeyer of the University of Sydney is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and has been awarded the 2020 Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation for translating his research in fields that address environmental problems into two pioneering technologies: the Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTRTM), and zinc-bromide... energy storage design. Mr Darren Hamley of Willetton Senior High School has been recognised as an inspiration to his students and colleagues with the award of the 2020 Prime Minister's Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. Mr Hamley was instrumental in the inclusion of observatory in the school's new science building. Willetton Senior High School is the only public school in Western Australia with a fully robotic, 36-centimetre telescope. He is a Councillor of the Royal Society of Western Australia and a previous winner of the RSWA Doug Clarke Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Science Teaching at High School. Find out about this year's award recipients at https://bit.ly/2I8d5rj #pmprizes

16.01.2022 Can you spot the science in the world around you? Thin-film interference is a phenomenon in which light waves reflected in the upper and lower boundaries of a thin film - like a soap bubble, or oil on water - interfere with one another. In the case of a soap bubble, colours vary dramatically with the thickness of the film; the closer the bubble is to bursting, the duller the colours. ... #SciArt #Optics #Science Image: Soap bubble photographed through polarising filters at 1:1 magnification Clare McLellan

13.01.2022 Parramatta Observatory once captured the imagination of the scientific community in Australia and much of the world. Australia's first private observatory was built in 1821 in the gardens of Old Parliament House by Sir Thomas Brisbane, the sixth Governor of New South Wales and the first President of the Philosophical Society of Australasia, now the Royal Society of New South Wales. A stroke of good luck quickly brought the Governor's observatory to the attention of the globa...l community. Encke's Comet was seen low in the sky on June 2, 1822, exactly a month after regular observations at Parramatta began. The comet's orbit had been calculated in 1818, and the sighting was only the second example of a predicted return of a celestial body. This was a welcome confirmation that the mathematics of celestial mechanics worked and a great relief to astronomers everywhere. By 1847 the observatory's good luck had turned bad, and it was in such a poor state of repair that it was obliged to close immediately. The transit telescope was found to be faulty and the stone pillars on which it sat unstable. These factors undermined the work of the observatory and rendered its most famous publication, the 'Parramatta Catalogue of 7385 Stars (1835)' completely inaccurate. Today, all that remains of the Governor's observatory is the base of the structure and the eroded pillars of the transit telescope, now set in Parramatta Park Read more: https://bit.ly/30on3Ln #AustralianScience #HistoryofScience #Astronomy #Parramatta #Sydney Old Government House - National Trust of Australia NSW

10.01.2022 Congratulations to Professor Bronwyn Fox on her appointment as Chief Scientist at CSIRO, almost 30 years after beginning her career at Australia's national science agency as a research assistant.

09.01.2022 The 2020 Australian Geographic Photographer of the Year winners are here! Which one is your favourite?

08.01.2022 Off with their heads Scientists say more research is needed to explain their recent discovery that two species of sea slug can remove their own heads and regenerate entire new bodies in less than a month. Researchers theorise that Elysia marginata and Elysia atroviridis, do this to rid themselves of internal parasites. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3d1m4Xf Elysia marginata or Elysia ornata, found underwater in Mediterranean (aegean) sea in Greece

08.01.2022 The Royal Societies of Australia is committed to telling the stories of women whose contribution to science may have been overlooked.. Elizabeth Gould has not been entirely lost to history, but she has been blurred by lack of focus - often seen only as her first initial or replaced by the name of her husband. Elizabeth illustrated the species of finch that gave rise to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and made thousands of sketches while collaborating with her husband Jo...hn on the remarkable 1848 manuscript 'The birds of Australia: in seven volumes.' This publication is still in print today, and it made John Gould famous - he is often remembered as 'The Birdman' and the 'father' of Australian ornithology. He was a talented naturalist, but he could not draw. Yet for many years, museums and libraries listed John Gould as the artist next to his wife's work; preferring to view Elizabeth as the supportive Victorian era companion and willing assistant. There is a growing body of research that acknowledges Elizabeth's contribution, and scholars now recognise Elizabeth Gould as one of the great natural science illustrators! Image: Elizabeth Gould in collaboration with Edward Lear c1830s. Endpapers back, Gouldian Finches by University of Kansas Libraries

07.01.2022 While working in the Natural History Department of the British Museum, curator of coral and future President of the The Royal Society of Queensland William Saville-Kent dreamed of seeing the beautiful lifeforms in front him "in their native sea and wonderful living colours". Years later, he would realise this dream at the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. Saville-Kent traveled to Australia in 1884 and spent the next twenty years laying the foundation for fisheries developmen...t in the country. Spellbound by reef organisms found on the Queensland coast he grew determined to bring public awareness and awe to this otherworldly ecosystem - eventually authoring the first popular science book on the topic. The encyclopedic Great Barrier Reef of Australia was published in 1893 to great acclaim, illustrated with a number of extraordinary colour lithographs created from Saville-Kent's original watercolour sketches. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities has been made available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library thanks to Smithsonian Libraries https://s.si.edu/313scGM #HistoryofScience #SciHistory #ScieArt #MarineScience

07.01.2022 The Royal Societies of Australia support #NAIDOCWeek 2021 This years theme - Heal Country! - calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration and destruction.

06.01.2022 Whether they fly, swim, crawl or run, we are endlessly fascinated by the creatures of our planet! Over the last 300 years their astonishing diversity has been depicted with increasing precision through scientific illustration. Melbourne Museum have made the very best of The Art of Science exhibition available online featuring working drawings and rare books from centuries past, field sketches and contemporary photographic records. See https://bit.ly/3mi4ykH Full text digi...tised versions of many of the works shown here are available in the Biodiversity Heritage Library Image: Molucca Opossum, Didelphis molucca and Armadill... (1734)by Albertus Seba Museums Victoria

05.01.2022 Once found across northern Australia in their millions, endangered Gouldian Finches have seen their numbers decline dramatically in recent years - with an estimated 2,500 mature individuals remaining in the wild. The species now occurs only in select locations in the Kimberley and Northern Territory with the largest remaining populations under the protection of the tireless Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Gouldian Finches so impressed colonial ornithologist John Gould that ...he hoped to name them after his late wife Elizabeth - an artist and natural history illustrator who completed a superb folio depicting over 600 species of flora and fauna over the course of her short life. Image: Red-headed Gouldian Finch 2020, and Poephila mirabilis [Gouldian finch] Elizabeth Gould c1840

03.01.2022 Picture alien life? How would it look? Perhaps there are odd-looking creatures with many limbs, translucent skin and dangerous venom. You do not need to go into outer space to find such things, the deep-sea makes up the largest and oldest habitat on earth and is home to some of the strangest animals you can imagine! Siphonophores may resemble jellyfish, but each specimen is a colony of genetically identical organisms living closely together; each individual has a function, ...and none can survive alone. Certain species emit light that attracts the small fish on which it preys, and others attack those same small fish with hollow, dart-like barbs that emit toxins... Image: ‘Marras orthocanna’ a siphonophore that can grow up to two metres long Kevin Raskoff, NOAA; public domain #MarineScience

02.01.2022 This Thursday join the Royal Society of New South Wales for the annual Four Academies Forum live from Government House in Sydney. One hundred years after the 1918 Spanish flu claimed more than 50 million lives, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the social and economic vulnerabilities of our highly interconnected world. The Royal Society of NSW will host the four learned Academies of Australia on Thursday 5 November. The forum will examine how COVID-19 has become a wake-up call for all of us to drive a wide-ranging, national program that will create a more resilient, self-sufficient and prosperous Australia. Registration is required, for details see: https://bit.ly/34MIBTY

02.01.2022 #OnThisDay in 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. This was the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and quite a bit of trouble! Read more at https://bit.ly/31nesZN and https://bit.ly/2FKanGI Image: Galileo's studies of the Moon, 1609 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze