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Meet Australia’s next generation of female roboticists. 👋 Brittany Gorry, Angelina Fantasia, and Jessica Gumowski have begun their postgraduate research studies at QUT Centre for Robotics and CSIRO, supported by our Alberto Elfes Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarship seeks to support high-performing students from groups underrepresented in the robotics industry. Through this scholarship, we hope to foster the next generation of female leaders, paving the way for greater diversity and innovation. Here's how Brittany, Angelina Jessica are driving Australia’s robotics revolution: https://lnkd.in/gP8Hkh2n 📷 | QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

Leaf-ing nothing to chance. 🌱 For over 60 years, the Australian Tree Seed Centre has been collecting, researching and supplying quality, fully documented tree seed to Australia and the world. Each tiny seed has a unique and potentially complex story. They're collected from all over Australia, retuned, dried and stored. We regularly test our tree seed using different germination techniques tailored to each species and where they come from. And for many decades, we've been working on the best ways to germinate each species. For example, to propagate many Acacia species we boil the seeds to trigger their germination. This is affectionately known as making ‘Acacia tea’, as we even use tea strainers to hold the seed replicates for testing while they undergo this pre-treatment. Our tree seed is used for conservation, research, forestry, seed orchards, food, nurseries and more. 📷 | A mini Corymbia henryi forest created during seed viability testing. #InternationalDayOfForests

From the vast outback to the stars above, Emily Goddard’s work is out of this world! ✨ Emily is a Field Technician on the international SKA Observatory’s SKA-Low telescope, set to be the biggest radio telescope of its kind! She's helping uncover the mysteries of the Universe from our observatory in Western Australia – one of Australia’s most remote. Follow along on Emily's journey: https://lnkd.in/g5mqPS4s

This mite bee the opportunity you’ve been waiting for! 🐝 We’re on the hunt for new tech that can help detect and monitor honey bee mites like Varroa Mite (Varroa destructor). With Hort Innovation and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, we’re running an innovation challenge to find groundbreaking solutions to help in the fight against these mites. Find out more and submit your idea: https://lnkd.in/gPcg6nnD

A remarkable new carnivorous sponge. 🧽 To celebrate #TaxonomistAppreciationDay, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has released its list of the top-ten marine species discovered in 2024. And on this list is John Hooper's Carnivorous Sponge (Abyssocladia johnhooperi) described by Dr Nerida Wilson, who now works with us, and Dr Merrick Ekins from Queensland Museum! Found in the Ningaloo region off the coast of Western Australia on a voyage back in 2020/21, the sponge belongs to the family Cladorhizidae. Cladorhizid sponges actively catch and digest prey using specialised spicules to hold it until cells can swarm and digest the tissue. It was named for Queensland Museum marine biologist John N.A. Hooper. Check out the full list: https://lnkd.in/g2xuTHGs

An award-winning commitment to gender equity. 👏 We're proud to share that we've received the 2025 WORK180 Equitable Workplace Award in the Representative Leadership category. This data-driven award recognises our commitment to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace for women. Our policies, workplace benefits, and initiatives supporting women across ten categories have been instrumental in achieving this recognition. We're proud to share we have: ⭐ 50 per cent of women on our Board ⭐ 50 per cent women on our Executive team ⭐ 43 per cent women in senior positions. Congratulations to all the winners and to everyone at CSIRO who continues to help build our diverse and inclusive workplace. 📷 | Gemma Lloyd (she/her), CEO of Work180 with CSIRO's Melissa Hendry

Caught red-painted. 🦋 During a break-up, common advice is to throw yourself into hobbies and take up something new. In the 1940s, when his marriage was on the rocks, a British ex-champion skiier and keen naturalist took this advice too far when he stole over 3000 rare butterfly specimens from Australian museum collections. The damage he did to Australian butterfly taxonomy was immeasurable. And we're still repairing the damage nearly 80 years later. Thanks to ANU College of Science & Medicine, this #TaxonomistAppreciationDay, we're sharing the bizarre and frustrating story of the Colin Wyatt Butterfly Heist. Flutter on over: https://lnkd.in/g9rNDbP4

We’re part of the RSV Nuyina's first dedicated marine science voyage from the sea to study the Denman Glacier in East Antarctica. ⛴️ The Denman Glacier sits on a trench that's believed to be the deepest point on continental earth, at 3.5 kilometres. It has retreated five kilometres in just over two decades. We want to know what an accelerated melt rate could mean for global sea levels and regional biodiversity in the future. We’re at sea right now with 60 scientists conducting this research with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Securing Antarctica's Environmental Futureand Australian Antarctic Division. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gqT4CJHr

Catch of the epoch. 🐟 A team of scientists have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilised fish, complete with preserved stomach contents and the pattern of colouration. Ferruaspis brocksi was named after Professor Jochen J. Brocks from the The Australian National University, who discovered several of the fossilised species at the Australian Museum’s McGraths Flat fossil site near Gulgong, NSW. It's the first fossil freshwater smelt (order Osmeriformes) to be found in Australia. Read the story: https://lnkd.in/gdWiS9Wx

This image is out of this world. ✨ It might not look like much, but it's an incredible achievement. The SKA Observatory is today sharing the first glimpse of the Universe from their SKA-Low telescope. SKA-Low is still under construction at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wajarri Yamaji Country, but the first 1024 antennas are already looking up and collecting data from the sky. This image shows a patch of sky 100 times bigger than the full Moon and was processed on the supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. When the SKA-Low telescope is complete it will detect about 600,000 galaxies in this same patch. 🤯 Find out how we're helping build the world’s largest radio telescopes: https://lnkd.in/gUq-K22m 🏷️ | Wajarri Yamaji Group