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Job opportunity: Intersect seeking casual eResearch Trainers
Intersect are looking for exceptional PhD candidates based in Adelaide to join their Training team as eResearch Trainers to deliver and/or assist in their courses. Applications close 2 July.
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Join the Adelaide Rover Team for the 2022 challenge
Applications are now open to join the Adelaide Rover Team for the 2022 Australian Rover Challenge. Apply by 28 June.
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Register for Adelaide Uni's Got Talent
Calling all students to film and submit an original performance video to go in the running to win the top prize of $500 in cash! Performances can be of any style: dance, singing, comedy, magic…the more entertaining the better. Register by 9 July.
New genetic biocontrol research to help prevent mice plagues
Scientists are partnering with the CSIRO and the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions to fine new solutions to control mice populations.
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COVID testing: Use a Labrador instead of a laboratory
Dogs are being trained to detect COVID-19. And it turns out they’re pretty good at it.
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Blind dating: Scientists sense the sex life of sea snakes
Meet the sensitive new age sea snakes that use touch receptors to help them locate and court females.
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Which environments did ancient Aboriginal peoples forage in Australia’s Western Desert?
Scientists have used more than two decades of satellite-derived environmental data to suggest the possible foraging habitats of pre-contact Aboriginal peoples living in the Western Desert.
On a mission to discover unknown Australian species
New technologies to play vital role in discovering and documenting all unknown Australian species by 2050.
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Art of the Possible
The Art of the Possible is a student-led festival in partnership with the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, launching 19 – 23 July 2021. The festival offers a suite of events aimed to celebrate creativity of University of Adelaide students and we want to help you share your work with the public. Categories include the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Research feature writing competition and digital art competition. Submissions close 21 June.
Insights into continuous waves from neutron stars
Using data from the LIGO and VIGO detectors, scientists are on the cusp of hearing what they call a continuous gravitational wave or the murmuring of a neutron star.
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