IMAS fisheries students recently helped researchers measure and tag over 250 Sand flathead in the River Derwent to better understand their population dynamics, with this data to support a major research project.

✨ Put yourself in the picture: utas.edu.au/study-at-IMAS

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Did you see the #AuroraAustralis but wonder what you were looking at? 🌠

We've got you covered - learn more about why Tasmania’s night sky lights up like a 'fluorescent light tube' 👉 utas.au/eX

A 25-years-in-the-making study has revealed the importance that the environmental warming of tundra – Arctic or alpine treeless expanses – can have on carbon emissions.

Learn more about the study and why it's made international news: utas.au/eW

📸: Eddie Saffarik

.Lids4Kids Australia is back in Tassie, based at our Tech Solutions Hub at The Makers Technology and Innovation Hub in Burnie ♻️

The grass-roots project has rescued over 114 million lids from landfill, turning them into everything from furniture to filament for 3D printers 👏

Overall, coastal habitat restoration greatly increases animal numbers and diversity – but not all projects deliver the goods.

As a result, write experts from Griffith University + University of Tasmania, humanity misses out on the huge benefits of healthy coastal habitats. theconversation.com/restoring-coas…

A huge thank you to the community and donors to the #SavetheTasmanianDevilAppeal ​ University of Tasmania ! The support continues to drive the our #DFTD vaccine research at Menzies Institute for Medical Research . You can listen to a 5 minute interview with Ryk Goddard at 2:19:50.
abc.net.au/listen/program…

Hello Australian Antarctic research community!
🗓️ Save the dates for a national conference at University of Tasmania in November. More details soon.

Heading to #Agfest2024 ? Visit us in the University of Tasmania pavilion! You can make a brain and test lower body strength while learning about our Multiple Sclerosis Genetics study, Save the Tassie Devil, Get Bus Active and Stop Stroke programs and so much more. We look forward to seeing you!

In 2006, Professor Greg Woods began been working on Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) at Menzies Research. What began as a 'side of the desk' project has grown into a significant team dedicated to a common goal: creating a vaccine for DFTD.

Read more: utas.au/eS

A new research paper from the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (Tasmania Law Reform Institute) has recommended that #Tasmania should enact laws that better protect human rights. More: utas.au/eR

The inaugural cohort of participants at University of Canberra’s Pathways to Politics program all raved about their experiences. Are you next?

Applications close Wednesday 1 May!

The Young Tassie Scientists (@yts_utas) are a group of researchers who volunteer their time to share their passion for #science . They're currently looking for other young #STEM professionals to join them.

If that sounds like you, visit: utas.au/eQ

📚 Tell – Jonathan Buckley, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over – Anne de Marcken (Giramondo Publishing)

These new novels are no difficult, but their relationship to established traditions of experimental literature is clear, writes Emmett Stinson (@UTAS_). theconversation.com/more-weird-boo…

A groundbreaking study in nature reveals the impact tundra ecosystem warming is having on carbon emissions.

'Our research shows tundra and alpine areas can be major emitters of carbon when they lose their water storage abilities' Mark J Hovenden

More: utas.au/eN

CODES and our research team at University of Tasmania are pleased to present the Critical and Strategic Metals Symposium, 10-12 July 2024, Hobart. We look forward to you joining us in-person or on-line. Please contact [email protected] for registration assistance!
utas.edu.au/codes/codes-cr…

📡 We’re one step closer to delivering easy-to-use, field-based sensor technology to farmers. Project Leader Dr Marcus Hardie (University of Tasmania) provides a ‘Smart soil sensors’ project update👉 soilcrc.com.au/next-gen-soil-…

University of Southern Queensland Federation University Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) Riverine Plains Southern Farming Sys BPS

There is often criticism of weather forecasts and seasonal outlooks but the accuracy of predictions has improved greatly over recent decades theconversation.com/despite-what-y… with Kimberley Reid, Michael Barnes + Nick Earl

2022 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Gail Jones wrote her new novel One Another during her UTAS residency. Gail joins Head of Humanities Emmett Stinson tomorrow at Fullers Bookshop to discuss her book and the story behind it: utas.au/eL