Academy education resources are available online, including e-Resource sheets for all Primary Connections units.

In the rapidly changing environment of COVID-19, the Academy’s education programs are focusing on collaborating with other organisations to maximise reach and impact.

Early- and mid-career researchers participating in the 2019 Re:Produce workshop, a Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) event

Citizen science, collaboration with Japan, measuring success and training future leaders are events aimed at building the skills of early- and mid-career researchers over the next 12 months.

The Academy periodically sends out a science policy and diplomacy newsletter for those interested in policy and international matters. The newsletter highlights important science policy discussion and events in Australia and around the globe. We report on the involvement of science in national and international policy and diplomacy, and the Academy’s contributions to these discussions.

Can you spot the maths? Natural egg variation. Photo: Rebecca Herbst Eggsactly!

This photo by Rebecca Herbst shows natural egg variation: this sample of 40 supermarket eggs from the same brand were weighed and arranged by mass.

Academy opportunity Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowships

The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Foreign Researchers provides fellowships for Australian postdoctoral researchers to conduct, under the guidance of their Japanese hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. Applications open on 31 August for 12- to 24-month fellowships to Japan, commencing between 1 April and 30 November 2021.

Awards to Fellows

Professor Terence Tao FAA FRS—together with Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies and Emmanuel Candès, received the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2020 for making immeasurable, ground-breaking contributions to modern theories and techniques of mathematical data and signal processing.

Obituary Emeritus Professor Richard Limon Stanton AO FAA DistFRSN

16 February 1926 to 25 August 2020

Watch the full livestream of Falling Walls Lab Australia 2020 above.

Image: Brent Kane via Pexels CC-0

Three geoscientists working in tectonics, water flow of aquifers and the evolution of the lithosphere and mantle are the recipients of the 2019 round of the 34th International Geological Congress Travel Grant Scheme announced recently.

Pregnant women may be one of the groups more vulnerable to bushfire smoke. Image: Shutterstock.

The underlying biological mechanisms for how bushfire smoke causes and exacerbates health issues are poorly understood, which limits our ability to help those affected—including pregnant women, who may be more vulnerable.

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