Every week is National Science Week at the Rough Science Workshop. To celebrate, the Rough Science Workshop will be live-streaming the best loved activities from the past six weeks. Every weekday at 4.30pm AEST. Go here: twitch.tv/roughscienceworkshop You’ll see: Monday ⇒ The Balancing Bird Tuesday ⇒ Make Fake Wounds Wednesday ⇒ Electricity & Magnets ……
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Techno-wizardry & Mad Science Night
Techno-wizardry & Mad Science Night is a gathering of like-minded people who want to explore science and technology in their local area. Speakers can be anyone from dedicated professionals to amateurs hoping to find similar interests.
Citizen Science: Wombats, Turtles and More… with WSU
Learn how ordinary citizens can help our scientists discover more about our terrific turtles and wonderful wombats in this video featuring talks with Dr Ricky Spencer & Dr Julie Old from Western Sydney University – presented by City of Parramatta Libraries. Send in your questions by 20 August to be part of the interviews. Email…
Hawkesbury Library Service presents Dr Melinda Waterman as she discusses Bryofight Club: Mosses living in the extreme.
As part of National Science Week Hawkesbury Library Service hosts an online presentation by Dr Melinda Waterman. Bryofight Club: Mosses living in the extreme, examines the organisms living in the harsh environment of Antartica. Dr Melinda Waterman is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wollongong. As an early career biotechnologist, she examines the…
Invading The Bay by Fishcare Victoria
Our Invading the Bay program is designed to increase awareness of the invasive species living within Port Phillip Bay and the impact they are having on our native species and the environment. Aligned with the Victorian Curriculum our workbook caters to both Primary and Secondary schools and covers the following topics: Living things Adaptation and…
In Conversation with author, James Bradley
Public Libraries NSW and Blacktown City Libraries present Amy Heap chatting with James Bradley as he talks about his new book ‘Ghost Species. This free online author talk will be presented via Zoom starting at 6:30pm and ending at 7:30pm (AEST). This will include a Q &A session at the end. Copies of the book…
Women in STEMM Research Symposium: Murdoch University
This annual event enters its second year to celebrate National Science Week and showcase outstanding science and research being conducted by female STEMM staff at Murdoch University. In 2020 we shine the spotlight on the Engineering and IT discipline areas which consistently show the greatest underrepresentation of women in higher education and private sectors. Dr…
Making Scents with Artist Yasmin Smith
Parramatta Artists’ Studios presents this special National Science Week event. Parramatta Creative Fellow and PAS Rydalmere Studio Artist Yasmin Smith takes us on a visual journey through collecting and distilling the Lilly Pilly plant. Yasmin will walk us through how to distil scents ourselves, while connecting these processes with her practice as a local ceramic…
Ornithologist Julie Ryeland chats with artist Tully Arnot
For National Science Week, Parramatta Artists’ Studios will release a special podcast in their Studio Conversations series. This podcast will feature Parramatta Artists’ Studios artist Tully Arnot and Western Sydney Unversity Ecologist, Biologist and Ornithologist Julia Ryeland in a conversation about shared interest in local bird life. Photo shows artist Tully Arnot from Parramatta Artists’…
Rosetta Tomorrow
Until the discovery of the Rosetta stone, many details of Egyptian life were hidden to modern eyes. Even though we had thousands of artifacts with hieroglyphics on them, the language was so lost to history that none of it could be understood. Carved around 196 BCE, this stone gave the world a glimpse of what…