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University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au · Nov 18
With more people joining Bluesky we'd love to connect our community: go.bsky.app/Ds5rSze 👋
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🌊 We work to turn our research @utas.edu.au into real-world impact, to inform decision-making that recognises the centrality of #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to the global climate system.

A special report (best viewed on a large screen or laptop) ▶️ aapp.shorthandstories.com/research-and...
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Dr Linda Armbrecht @utas.edu.au giving a keynote at the Dorothy Hill Symposium at UQ. Linda was the recipient of the Dorothy Hill award for Early Career geoscientists for her work in developing the methods for extracting sedaDNA from marine sediments around Antarctica.
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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@sednasociety.bsky.social (and Women in #Ocean #Science) are hosting a #webinar highlighting great work that our #marine #eDNA #community is doing! Be sure to tune in for some valuable #insights on new #results in the #eDNA field.

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October 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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More than half of Tasmania’s largest wetland system in kanamaluka / the Tamar River has vanished since European settlement, new research published in @springernature.com Estuaries and Coasts shows: utas.au/hB
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Sea Change Australia has launched a national call for questions from the country’s seafood sector.
The call invites commercial and recreational fishers, aquaculture operators, processors, and supply chain workers to ask their most pressing questions about climate change and how to adapt.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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A sobering and yet inspirational presentation by Saul Griffith at @utas.edu.au last night. We can reduce emissions and save money by electrifying everything - and there's absolutely no time to waste. The biggest applause of the night came from a call for our politicians to make it happen.
October 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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🧗 "I always want to make sure that, as far as possible, we will always be able to access somebody in trouble." — Dr Will Hobbs, AAPP sea ice scientist @utas.edu.au

Congrats to Will and the Climbers Club of Tasmania Vertical Rescue Team for their national award

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October 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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A population explosion in long-spined sea urchins is posing a major threat to marine ecosystems. New research from @imas-utas.bsky.social and the University of New South Wales is revealing new information about the predatory fishes that can help keep them in check.

More: utas.au/seaurchin_
Big predatory fish a natural defence against sea urchins
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October 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Marine ecologists from @imas-utas.bsky.social travelled along Tasmania's south coast to Port Davey in the remote southwest. The goal: documenting reef biodiversity at the southernmost point of the Australian continent 🌏

More: utas.au/dive_beneath

📸: Antonia Cooper, Scott Bennett, Sarah & Sebastian
A small boat on top of the water preparing scuba divers as a person scuba dives under the surface A scuba diver examining some kelp under the water A diver with their head above the surface looking at a seal who also has their head above water Hands pressing seaweed onto a white board
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Congratulations to #Antarctic ice-sheet modeller Dr Chen Zhao on another excellent award!

🏆 aappartnership.org.au/rising-star-...

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October 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A research team led by scientists from our University has returned from a major 54-day voyage on CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator to explore the impacts of the devastating 2022 eruption of Tonga's underwater Hunga Volcano.

Read about what they've discovered: utas.au/Hunga_Voyage
Scientists return with clues to uncover what led to the ‘eruption of the century’
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October 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Don’t forget to join our Anne Mills Health Economics Lecture this Thursday!

📉 Martin Hensher of @utas.edu.au will introduce #EcologicalEconomics to explore implications for healthcare & what it could mean for health economics in a challenging future of #degrowth

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September 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Dr Angela Slatter, the 2025 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, is leading a workshop for emerging creative writers this Saturday, 27 September in Hobart.

The workshop will get your story started and finished, and expand your writer’s toolbox. Places are still available: www.utas.edu.au/events/2025/...
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September 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Why is Tasmania’s leatherwood honey so iconic? New research from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture @tia.utas.edu.au is uncovering what makes it so unique 🍯🐝

Read more: utas.au/leatherwoodh...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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New research says that human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around the world.

More: utas.au/Fireseason
Humans have stretched the world’s wildfire season by more than a month
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September 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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An international team of researchers, led by A/Prof Rebecca Carey, has crossed the Pacific Ocean on board the CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator. They're learning how the eruption of the Hunga Volcano in Tonga has impacted the marine environment.

Learn more 👉 utas.au/VolcanoResea...
Three people standing in front of the RV Investigator and smiling. It is a large, blue and white ship that is tied up at a dock. A group of people standing on the deck of the ship, wearing high vis jackets and helmets. They are looking at a large piece of technical equipment that has just been craned up from the ocean. A stalked hydroids swimming above the ocean floor
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The Multiple Sclerosis Research Flagship and Centre of Research Excellence (MS-CRE) at Menzies is recruiting PhD students across a range of disciplines. Successful applicants will join one of the largest Multiple Sclerosis research groups in the world. More: msresearchflagship.org.au/multiple-scl...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Chen Zhao, who has been named Tasmania’s 2025 Young Tall Poppy of the Year! Dr Zhao’s work is focused on reducing one of the greatest uncertainties in climate change science – how much and how quickly sea levels will rise due to Antarctic ice loss.

More: utas.au/TallPoppy_2025
Dr Chen Zhao sitting in the snow with her arms extended out wide and smiling. Behind her, a large number of emperor penguins stand in a group
August 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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From the fjords of Norway to the reefs of Bali, Andrew Sullivan’s PhD is taking him around the world as he investigates how nations are developing policy for a sustainable ocean.

Read more about how Andrew's research can help to inform ocean governance: utas.au/OceanGoverna...
Charting policy for a sustainable ocean
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August 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Citizen scientists across Tasmania can help track down the haunting call of one of the world’s most threatened migratory birds, the critically endangered far eastern curlew.

Attend a workshop during #NationalScienceWeek across the state: utas.au/CallTrackers

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Far eastern curlew
August 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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...hone the recognition software, so we can all better monitor for bitterns across Tasmania.
It's fun, there'll be great snacks, & you don't need to be an expert. Have a go for National Science Week!
Details & bookings: events.humanitix.com/bittern-ques...
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Bittern quest: boom or bust? [afternoon]
Learn about the mysterious, Endangered Australasian bittern, & help track down its booming call among data collected across Tasmania by CallTrackers volunteers!
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August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🌊 "The beauty of #Antarctica is really it's often seen as the bottom of the world, but it's really the centre of the world. It's one continent surrounded by an ocean that is connecting all the other oceans together." — Prof Delphine Lannuzel, AAPP @utas.edu.au

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The 'centre of the world' and the global race for research
Lead the research and lead the way on Antarctica but as the US cuts environmental funding questions are raised about the future of science there.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Congratulations to University researchers Dr Jane Younger, Dr Chen Zhao, Dr Ke Liu and Dr Chenchen Zhao for their recent recognition in the 2025 Tasmanian Tall Poppy Science Awards 🌏🍃❄️

Read about their fantastic work: utas.au/TallPoppyTas
Young Tall Poppy Award recipients tackle climate change with science
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August 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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National Science Week is nearly here! Check out some of the great things happening across Tassie 👉 utas.au/NSW2025
National Science Week 2025 in Tasmania kicks off
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August 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM