The second edition of the annual global wildfire assessment highlights a stark reality: in some regions, climate change has contributed to burned areas expanding up to 30 times their previous size.
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16.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Transforming prostate cancer care, understanding how women survivors of intimate partner violence interact with the law, and putting a price on halting Australia’s extinction crisis: these are just some contributions from our 2025 Woodward, Marles and Littlejohn Medal recipients → unimelb.me/48PKrVV
16.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Vision Science Innovation Alliance (VSIA) is set to support Australians with chronic eye conditions. Launched by Danny Pearso, Victorian Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs, at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) Vision Expo.
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15.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Move over, Squid Game - K‑Pop Demon Hunters made streaming history 💥
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14.10.2025 05:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whether it's creators and designers or researchers and players, gaming communities show that the true value of games lies not just in the code - but in the collaborative worlds they build together 🎮
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10.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What’s the first thing you do when you’re awarded a Nobel Prize?
Deliver a first-year chemistry tutorial of course, and then celebrate ⚛️
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09.10.2025 06:12 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3
Today, video game stories come in all shapes and sizes 🎮
Dr Cassandra Barkman and A/Prof Eddie Paterson from the Faculty of Arts and MAGPIE (Melbourne Academic Games, Play and Interactive Entertainment) share how storytelling in games allows for diverse stories to be shared → unimelb.me/473I27w
08.10.2025 06:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Did you know that the gaming culture didn't accidentally become dominated by males? It was deliberately marketed that way 🎮
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08.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AI is changing healthcare, but are we ready for the risks?
New research finds that while chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek were accurate at identifying conditions, they suggested unnecessary tests in over 90% of cases and prescribed inappropriate treatments in 50%.
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04.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The National Climate Risk Assessment paints a grim future for Australia, but change is possible if we adapt to what's to come, according to experts from the Faculty of Science.
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01.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A new major exhibition is now open the Grainger Museum!
Silent Hand Catches Silver Bell brings audiences face-to-face with custom-built instruments, striking installations, and rare archival material that reveal the scale, audacity and ingenuity of their practice → unimelb.me/4h5sdln
29.09.2025 05:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Earlier this week, #UniMelb researchers were a part of a landmark United Nations event, a global initiative to improve indoor air quality, ensuring access to clean and healthy indoor air is increasingly recognised as essential for public health.
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25.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For Australia’s national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports, writes Melbourne Climate Futures Research Fellow Arthur Wyns.
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25.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#UniMelb at dusk 🌥️
📸 via @TirthLensCraft on Instagram
24.09.2025 05:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Backed by nearly $2 million from the Medical Research Future Fund, a simple blood test to assess placental health, preventing stillbirths, will soon be trialled by #UniMelb researchers and partner institutes across Australia.
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23.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're taking selfies from space
A tiny, University of Melbourne built Australian satellite is chasing colliding stars and changing the way we think about space telescopes
Our Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal satellite (aka SpIRIT), developed by our own Melbourne Space Lab in the School of Physics, has been orbiting the Earth for nearly 2 years now. It has now entered the final phase of the mission.
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23.09.2025 04:05 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The shift from manual, labour-intensive surveys to using drones equipped with thermal-imaging cameras has allowed us to more effectively observe and protect our most vulnerable wildlife in Australia.
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17.09.2025 05:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Data specialist, mathematician, neuroscientist, #SuperstarsOfSTEM 21-22. Loves learning, knowledge sharing, evidence-based decisions, crafting, and acrobatics.
Pandemic preparedness, community engagement, public health at the Doherty Institute. Equity in science. On unceded Wurundjeri land.
A University of Melbourne Research Centre, designed to foster responsible and cosmopolitan city leadership, and the information it needs, in an interconnected and increasingly urbanised planet.
More info: https://unimelb.edu.au/cities
Lecturer in Transport Planning at The University of Melbourne 🇦🇺
- Research in travel behaviour, rural/regional transport, transport geography, micromobility
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Linux, art history, art, books, woodworking, music, gardening, creativity, abstract thought... stuff like that. Geelong, Australia
Economist in education & policy
Harvard MPP 27’ | John Monash Scholar
Aussie living in Boston 🇦🇺🇺🇸
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An interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Melbourne. Achieving fairer societies through research that makes a difference.
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Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her
Researching higher education policy, governance, and organisation & science policy - and administrative burden in universities.
Based at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Rock Art Australia Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science | Archaeological Science Laboratory at the University of Melbourne
Senior Lecturer in Plant Pathology at the University of Melbourne. Fungal and bacterial genomics. Plant-microbe interactions. Population genomics. Biosecurity.
Hi! I lead the SoilTox Lab in the School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne. I’m a soil chemist, terrestrial ecotoxicologist and environmental risk assessor. Our research aims to reduce the impacts of soil pollution on ecosystems and human health.
Professor in Ecology and Evolution and ARC Laureate Fellow @unimelb interested in what limits life | Mechanistic Niche Models | Functional Traits | Metabolic Theory | Microclimate | Climate Change | Dynamic Energy Budget Theory | Life History | NicheMapR
Researches climate & vaccine misinformation at the University of Melbourne. Founded SkepticalScience.com. Published Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change. Developed the games Cranky Uncle (crankyuncle.com) and Cranky Uncle Vaccine (crankyunclevaccine.org)
Professor at University of Melbourne and School of Computing and Information Systems cyber lead; Director @dsi-vic.bsky.social; Oxford DPhil (@compscioxford.bsky.social; @hertfordcollege.bsky.social). Cyber, verification, etc. He/him
Promoting excellence in general practice and primary care through research, education and innovation.
Sociologist of young adulthood & generations at UniMelb; Exec Board of International Sociological Association (ISA); President of Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth) in the ISA; co-EiC Journal of Youth Studies.
