QSN Newsletters
During the period of lockdown in about 2020, the QSN Coordinator issued a memo to member groups suggesting roles that would strengthen scientific discourse and could be filled by people working from home.
The memo reflects optimism that wasn’t exactly justified by the level of response, with the exception of the offer by Society member Col Lynam to edit the Newsletters. In due course the Newsletters gave way to the LinkedIn feed under Col’s leadership;and in due course Col was appointed by the Society’s Council as the QSN Coordinator.
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During 2021, the Editor of the QSN Newsletter, Mr Col Lynam, formed the view that the Newsletter was not satisfying the latent need for a popular platform for disseminating knowledge about general science. He took over responsibility for the QSN LinkedIn platform and developed it as a more spontaneous method of disseminating knowledge.
So QSN Newsletter 9 of 12 October 2021 and QSN Newsletter 10 of December 2022 became the last in this series. They remain as durable snapshots of scientific discourse at the time.
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The latest Newsletter has been issued, with items on “Eastern King Prawns have nurseries at Toondah Harbour” use of drones to survey wading birds and South East Queensland Underwater Ecological Survey Teams (SEQUEST). Contact the Foundation to join.
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Recent publications on fire and related themes, news and forthcoming events. Click here.
Read more of QFBC’s work here.
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I am pleased to present another content-packed Newsletter, Number 8-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now on the Network’s website. Download here (3.3MB).
Included in this issue:
HOT NEWS AND COMING EVENTS
MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
New section GRAPHICS (CARTOON) EXPRESSIONS USED IN SCIENCE
Special articles on use of hollows by birds and tree biodiversity decline.
Snippets of general science information from group members are of course welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au or
col.lynam@gmail.com
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I am pleased to present Newsletter Number 7-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now on the Network’s website download here. Apologies to subscribers/members who clicked on this link between 7 pm on 26 August and 12.05 pm on 27 August and who received an error message.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS AND COMING EVENTS
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
col.lynam@gmail.com
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I am pleased to present “Express” Newsletter Number 6-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now download here.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS AND COMING EVENTS
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au
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The latest newsletter from the Consortium includes items on the K’Gari bushfire review, bushfire recovery in Scenic Rim, new natural hazards research centre, lessons from Black Saturday plus lots more. The Newsletter includes citations of current literature from Australia and around the world.
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I am pleased to present Newsletter Number 5-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now on the Network’s website download here.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS QLD’S CHIEF SCIENTIST & CLIMATE EMERGENCY
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- NOTEWORTHY PUBLICATIONS AND DATABASES; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au
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Welcome to the fourth edition of the QSN Newsletter. Table of Contents follows:
Editorial
HOT NEWS – Pandemic impacts
Qld funds world first biosecurity ‘virtual lab’
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: ‘Death by a thousand cuts’
Members Awards, Newsletters and Media
Table of Recent Newsletters received from Networking Societies
Happenings at Wildlife Preservation Society
LIZ DOWNES: QUEENSLAND VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR 2020
CSIRO science champions in 2020
Physicist Cathy Foley appointed Australia’s next Chief Scientist
Happenings at RGSQ
Happenings at Australian Citizen Science Association
Happenings at Brisbane Shell Club Inc
Happenings at Butterfly & other Invertebrates Club inc.
and Cubberla-Witton Catchment and Brisbane Catchment Networks
Happenings at Entomological Society of Queensland
Healthy Land and Water partners – QLD Farmers’ Federation preparing for floods
Queensland Fire and Biodiversity E-News (Publications- See Appendix)
Happenings at National Parks Association of Queensland Continue reading