#unsw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unsw, aggregated by home.social.
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Dear Mathematics, Love UNSW
What I gotta lose to pursue the art of codehttps://mimiphanblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/dear-mathematics-love-unsw/
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UNSW has announced it's going to open a new campus in Parramatta.
"In a major milestone to strengthen tertiary education in Western Sydney, UNSW Sydney has announced its plan to extend its presence in Parramatta, having just signed a new lease as part of the expansion.
"Over 10 years, more than $65 million will be invested in a multi-faculty campus in Parramatta which will accommodate up to 350 students daily."
"The first offering at the expanded Parramatta location will be in 2027, a Juris Doctor postgraduate program delivered by UNSW’s Law & Justice. The faculty is the highest-ranking Law and Legal Studies program in Sydney, say the QS and Times Higher Education rankings."
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/06/unsw-to-invest-65m-for-new-campus-in-parramatta
#UNSW #Parramatta #NSW #WesternSydney #Australia #education #highered #uni #university -
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🥱🧠 Neuroscientists at #UNSW #Sydney used #MRI scans to show that yawning moves cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood out of the skull. The biological maneuver differs from deep breathing and suggests that yawning helps clear metabolic waste or cool the #brain.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/yawning-does-something-unexpected-in-your-brain-mri-scans-reveal
#sleep #biology #neuroscience #health #science #physiology #evolution #wellness
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⛈️ Need someone to help explain the wild #weather?
🔦 Chat to our #EXPERTSPOTLIGHT Prof Steven Sherwood from #UNSW
🌀 He can help with all things #climate, and you can find his details here: https://www.scimex.org/experts?name=steven-sherwood&a=36384
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#NationalPressClub talk on #ABCNews #ABCTV #Australia Wednesday 25/2 entitled "AI, boom or doom", by the Professor of #AI at #UNSW, and I imagine will be available afterwards on #ABC #iView #ABCiView
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It's a wrap on our Wellington Caves fieldwork and filming about groundwater recharge. I have some superstar colleagues, happy to be filmed. Looking forward to see how all this looks.
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🦠In the six months after COVID-19 infection, children have a higher risk of developing rare and serious heart inflammation, but the COVID vaccine does not have the same effect, according to the largest study of its kind, looking at the health records of almost all UK children (nearly 14 million). 👧🧒
Experts from #MonashUni, #BurnetInstitute #UQ #UNSW, and #KirbyInstitute respond to the report.
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Brainwave study sheds light on cause of ‘hearing voices’
A new study led by psychologists from #UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that #auditory verbal #hallucinations – or hearing voices – in #schizophrenia may stem from a disruption in the #brain’s ability to recognise its own inner voice.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/10/brainwave-eeg-study-sheds-light-hearing-voices-schizophrenia #science #psychology #neurology #health #medicine #MentalHealth #MentalIllness
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📏 Obesity and the health risks that go with it can be present even without a particularly high body weight, according to #CharlesSturtUni #westernsydneyu #UNSW #Macquarie_Uni #Sydney_Uni #Uni_Newcastle #MonashUni #Griffith_Uni
✨Follow the link for more information on this story✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/one-in-five-people-with-a-normal-bmi-could-have-obesity-and-the-risks-that-go-with-it#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #obesity #bmi
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It was 'student night' at IAH NSW in Sydney ( and online everywhere).
Thanks to Akhi Kumar, Danyang Sun, Nane Weber and Yaggesh Sharma for presenting their groundwater research.
I might have photobombed the official photo!
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It is IAH 'student night' next Tuesday in Sydney CBD, and there are #groundwater presentations from some of my #UNSW group. Open to all! Details are here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iah-nsw-committee-816481125_hi-all-we-are-under-a-week-away-from-out-activity-7381149150538600449-N0z- -
📱 The Federal Government has published the final report of the independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, and experts from #RMIT #Uni_Newcastle #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #Griffith_Uni #latrobe #UniMelb #Swinburne #ANUmedia respond
#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #learning #socialmedia #socialmediaban
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@appassionato @photography
The pollution in Sydney produces amazing sunsets.#UNSW Law library had a great view to the west through a small window.
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Toby Walsh on AI's vs intellectual property - #UNSW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puo6CmF5V58 -
Capital and Ideology: #ThomasPiketty interview 2021 #UNSW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Zb9Iu2wI0 -
🌊 Drowning deaths decreased by 24.1% over 20 years, with the biggest fall seen among children aged 0-4 years, down by 59.2%, say #jcu and #UNSW
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/drownings-in-australia-have-fallen-by-a-quarter-over-20-years
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🧠 #UNSW researchers have uncovered why some people persist in harmful behaviours – even when they’ve been shown where they’re going wrong
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👩⚖️ The Federal Court in Cairns will rule on a landmark case brought by two Torres Strait Islanders who have filed a lawsuit against the Australian Government for failing to protect the Torres Strait from climate change and #UniMelb #latrobe and #UNSW experts respond
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-australias-landmark-australian-climate-case
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🦊 A 26-year study by #UNSW and #UniofAdelaide at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic reshaping of desert small mammal communities
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/feral-free-zones-spark-small-mammal-boom-in-australian-desert
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Substance use was implicated in more than half of all adult drownings in baths or hot tubs in the last 10 years, according to #UNSW and #Sydney_Uni
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🐞 Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine collapses, say #UQ and #UNSW
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/cyborg-beetles-could-revolutionise-urban-search-and-rescue
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🌞 #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #UTAS have revealed the alarming impact of heatwaves on pet dogs
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/extreme-heat-linked-to-increased-pet-dog-deaths
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Historical holes: Beneath the surface, caves hold the key to Australia’s wildfire history
My colleague @michcampbell recently held a postdoctoral research grant from AINSE. They've just released this 2025 Research Spotlight for early career researcher awardees all about her fire research. I think this is nicely done. If you'd like to know how caves and cave stalagmites can be used to reconstruct records of past fires, here's the article
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Just published in Organic Geochemistry, "Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy", led by #ANSTO colleague Dr. Liza McDonough. We demonstrate for the first time that Synchrotron IRM is a promising non-destructive, high resolution (5 µm) technique for analysing stalagmite organic matter. The paper can be found #OpenAccess here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104842
#speleothem #stalagmite #organicMatter #pastClimate #geochemistry #UNSW
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The things that dissolve out of wildfire ash
A few weeks ago my colleague @michcampbell published a paper all about this. As the title states, combustion completeness and sample location determine wildfire ash leachate chemistry. So what is that chemistry? Lets start with the story of the paper. After the 2019/2020 Australian wildfires, there was a lot of wildfire ash on the landscape.
http://andy-baker.org/2024/06/04/the-things-that-dissolve-out-of-wildfire-ash/
#academia #fire #wildfire #caves #science #research #UNSW #ANSTO
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Paper publication day is one of my favourite days! Our paper on wildfire ash chemistry is out today and #OpenAccess in the #AGU journal 'Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.' We analysed the inorganic and organic chemistry of wildfire (and prescribed burn) ashes from 4 karst areas in Australia and found that ash chemistry varies with burn severity and sampling location. Another team effort from #ANSTO, #UNSW, #UWA, #GNSScience colleagues (👋 @Andbaker )
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011470
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If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1
We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience
#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment
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If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1
We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience
#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment
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If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1
We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience
#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment
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If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1
We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience
#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment
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If you are interested in the chemical tracers of wildfires, and how those might vary with burn severity, check out our new #preprint https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.170689252.26414470/v1
We leached wildfire ashes and soils from karst areas, so we can better understand the speleothem palaeofire proxy signal. Another team effort, with co-authors from #UNSW (👋 @Andbaker) #ANSTO, #UWA, and #GNSScience
#palaeofire #paleofire #processUnderstanding #Proxy #proxies #paleoenvironment
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Thank you to Bernadette Zanet and her team at Yarrangobilly Caves for supporting another fruitful research visit this week.
UNSW alumnus and data analyst Rebecca Chapman returned to explain all about her research on the hydrology at the Harrie Wood Cave. Her novel application of a statistical method called 'functional data analysis' has been submitted for publication, and there is a pre-print available here:
https://lnkd.in/gX6iSGz9We welcome all comments and feedback.
I had the opportunity to download the latest hydrology data from the caves, now a 12-year record of water movement from the surface to the groundwater. And also help out with some questions on cave climate monitoring. And catch some wonderful views.
The pre-print is "Spatiotemporal Variation in Cave Percolation Waters: A Functional Approach" with co-authors Shawn Laffan (UNSW), Monika Markowska (MPIC) and Liza McDonough (ANSTO) and is another collaboration between UNSW and ANSTO.
#research #water #research #science #groundwater #statistics #caves #climate #rain #hydrology #datascience #UNSW #ANSTO
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Over the last few years, we (Pauline Treble, @michcampbell, Liza McDonough, @unsw and ANSTO) have been establishing a new methodology to obtain records of fire history. It uses cave stalagmites as the archive of past fires, a novel approach for cave science and fire research communities.
Why use cave stalagmites to record fire history? They can contain exceptionally long and continuous annual laminae that allow us to count back in time very precisely. And this allows the precise determination of fire frequency in the past, which is measured using high-resolution geochemical techniques such as laser ablation mass spectrometry and synchrotron elemental mapping.
Next week, Liza, Micha and Pauline present our most recent results at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna. If you are interested, the abstracts are accessible to everyone using the links below.
EGU23-11016
Speleothems as archives for palaeofire proxies by Micheline Campbell et al.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-11016.htmlEGU23-2932
Hydrological conceptual model for reconstructing fire history from cave stalagmites by Pauline Treble et al.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-2932.htmlEGU23-10651
An annually resolved stalagmite record of fire frequency for the last 250 years in south west Australia by Liza McDonough et al.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-10651.html#research #academia #science #caves #fire #wildfire #scicomm #environment #geology #UNSW #ANSTO #egu23 @EuroGeosciences
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Are you interested in fire history, and novel methods for obtaining records of past fires.
At the EGU General Assembly in April 2023, please consider attending the session "Novel proxies for understanding past fires: outcomes for land and ecosystem management".
My colleague @michcampbell is co-convening and she'd love to see you there!
EGU23 will be fully hybrid, and she welcomes submissions from online attendants.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/45519
#academia #research #fire #climate #wildfire #EGU23 #UNSW #ANSTO #conference
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Next week we have a poster of our latest research at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (#AGU22).
What are we presenting about? Our use of stalagmites as archives of past fires
Why use stalagmites? They have a very high resolution, meaning that we can count annual growth layers and identify the frequency of fires in the past.
How do we do it? We detect the ash-derived elements that are transported from the surface to the cave in drip waters
And the poster? Is about how the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of stalagmites is also affected by fires
For anyone interested, here's the session details:
Quantifying the fire imprint in speleothem oxygen and carbon isotope records
Final Paper Number: PP25C-0894
Tuesday, December 13th; 2:45 PM - 6:15 PM (Chicago time)
Location: online iPoster and Zoom linkThere's a copy of the poster below.
#fire #stalagmites #caves #science #environment #earthscience #academia #unsw #ansto
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The #FinTech #AI Innovation Consortium, spearheaded by leading AI academics at the University of NSW’s faculties of Engineering and Business, brings together founding industry partners #Westpac, Amazon Web Services (#AWS), #Databricks, #BrewAI and #Cognitivo Consulting. https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2022/11/new-consortium-to-drive-fintech-AI/ #unsw
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The #FinTech #AI Innovation Consortium, spearheaded by leading AI academics at the University of NSW’s faculties of Engineering and Business, brings together founding industry partners #Westpac, Amazon Web Services (#AWS), #Databricks, #BrewAI and #Cognitivo Consulting. https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2022/11/new-consortium-to-drive-fintech-AI/ #unsw
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The #FinTech #AI Innovation Consortium, spearheaded by leading AI academics at the University of NSW’s faculties of Engineering and Business, brings together founding industry partners #Westpac, Amazon Web Services (#AWS), #Databricks, #BrewAI and #Cognitivo Consulting. https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2022/11/new-consortium-to-drive-fintech-AI/ #unsw
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The #FinTech #AI Innovation Consortium, spearheaded by leading AI academics at the University of NSW’s faculties of Engineering and Business, brings together founding industry partners #Westpac, Amazon Web Services (#AWS), #Databricks, #BrewAI and #Cognitivo Consulting. https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2022/11/new-consortium-to-drive-fintech-AI/ #unsw
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The #FinTech #AI Innovation Consortium, spearheaded by leading AI academics at the University of NSW’s faculties of Engineering and Business, brings together founding industry partners #Westpac, Amazon Web Services (#AWS), #Databricks, #BrewAI and #Cognitivo Consulting. https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2022/11/new-consortium-to-drive-fintech-AI/ #unsw
