Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

The ‘Bush Legend’ is bringing us short videos of an Aboriginal person teaching us about native animals. But he isn’t real.

The University of Melbourne's finance committee didn't invite members to question the closure of the 85-year-old literary journal, instead only waving it through. Meanwhile, all external offers to sav...

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After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.

Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...

Numbers of the brightly coloured Gouldian finch appear to be dropping in Western Australia's East Kimberley.

Learn the craft of storytelling with literary maestro, Alan Moore. Discover how to build story, character, setting and plot in this online writing course.

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

Ceremony held to mark repatriation of 33 culturally significant objects to Australia

Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

We asked ChatGPT to create authentic Indigenous artworks and stories. Experts say what it produced — while "quick, easy and cheap" — represents a profound threat to First Nations cultures.

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Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.

An RBA paper suggests the rapid growth in foreign students post-pandemic did not play a big role in pushing rents higher.