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    For some kids, texting ability brings worries into socialising

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/351-for-some-kids-texting-ability-brings-worries-into-socialising
    13 Jul 2017: Texting could be creating a literacy issue for children, but it is not the problem most people would expect. In a presentation to Education Transforms 2017 in Hobart, written language expert Dr Nenagh Kemp said her research with colleagues in the UK
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    Why scientists are keeping tabs on life at Earth’s final frontier

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/469-why-scientists-are-keeping-tabs-on-life-at-earths-final-frontier
    28 Nov 2017: “One of the things I love telling my students is no matter what David Attenborough says, Antarctica is not pristine. It’s been majorly messed with,” said Mark Hindell, Professor of marine science at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
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    The decline in male teacher numbers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/441-the-decline-in-male-teacher-numbers
    20 Oct 2017: The percentage of male primary school teachers in Australia has decreased in recent decades, from 30. 24% in 1983 to 18. 26% in 2016. Education authorities have responded to this with recruitment-focused initiatives, such as scholarships and quota
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    Research finds exergamers need real exercise too

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/416-research-finds-exergamers-need-real-exercise-too
    22 Sep 2017: More and more young Australians are playing video games during their leisure time. Fortunately, video game manufacturers have introduced “exergames” in an effort to make this typically sedentary activity more physically engaging. These
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    World-class AUV launched

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/377-world-class-auv-launched
    18 Aug 2017: An innovative new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) capable of diving up to 5,000 metres, operating underneath the ice and gathering data on Antarctic research missions was unveiled today at the University of Tasmania’s Australian Maritime
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    How can we get faster growing lobsters?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/234-how-can-we-get-faster-growing-lobsters
    6 Feb 2017: Audrey Daning Turzan wasn’t interested in studying aquaculture…until the day she went scuba diving. “I used to watch X Files and I wanted to work in forensics. But I wasn’t able to study that, instead I got a Diploma in Fisheries. At first I
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    Explainer: What are marine macrofauna?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/467-explainer-what-are-marine-macrofauna
    28 Nov 2017: The ocean is full of weird and wonderful creatures, from the enigmatic handfish to the large and ancient Maugean skate. But what about all the organisms we can’t see? As we zoom in on the oceans’ smallest life forms, just before we hit the realm
  9. Thumbnail for From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee....

    From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee....

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/253-from-fish-to-forests-conflicts-to-coffee
    31 Mar 2017: A new international study led by scientists from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the University’s Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) has highlighted how humans are being affected by climate-driven changes in the
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    Cows in Antarctica?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/373-cows-in-antarctica
    16 Aug 2017: Elizabeth Leane, Associate Professor of English and ARC Future Fellow, and Hanne E. F. Nielsen, PhD Candidate in Antarctic Representations, investigate the unusual history of cows in Antarctica for The Conversation. Domestic animals are rarely
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    Explainer: Why do whales strand themselves?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/481-explainer-why-do-whales-strand-themselves
    4 Dec 2017: In June 2015, 337 dead whales were found in a fjord in Chilean Patagonia. It was quickly declared one of the largest whale stranding events known to science. Researchers suggested a recent explosion of toxic red algae could be behind the mysterious

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