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May 2013
- Connecting with Communities
- This Week in Fish: Mako magic
- Cultural Collections at the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival
- World Migratory Bird Day 2013
- This week in fish: A week of beards
- Balinese Expressions: Paintings in the Temple
- 7 May: Busting the bank (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- This week in fish: Martin, Mike and a bright goatfish
- 3 May: Answers for class (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 2 May: Breaking up is hard to do (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 28 April: Better living through Chemistry (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 27 April: Green flashes (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 26 April: Sea chickens (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- A Close Encounter of the Climate Kind: Mick Aschroft shares his experiences at the frontier
- 25 April: Deeper & deeper (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 23 April: Feeding habits of the Antarctic Scientist (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Ouch! An isopod grabbed my tongue
- Mating Coffin Rays
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Apr 2013
- 24 April: Hump day happiness (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 22 April: Abandon hope! (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 21 April: A glassy pinnacle (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 20 April: Memorable Experiences (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 19 April: Treasure hunting (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 18 April: What are you saying? (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 16 April: Epic battles at sea (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Help us understand Sydney's Cockatoos
- This week in fish: Inside a drummer
- Koala genome breakthrough
- 15 April: South Georgia on my mind (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- DigiVol: Who are the coolest kids on the block?
- Denise Wallace’s Visit
- Making connections in Antarctica
- Housing required: chiton shells seek preservation
- Ghost Net art - Erub Erwer Meta visit
- 12 April: Great Expectations (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 11 April: Time to transit (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 10 April: The Straits of Magellan (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 9 April: Fishing at last! (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- This Week in Fish: Drowning in Sharks
- Boat People: Wouraddy and maritime Tasmanians
- Our Global Neighbours: Opium Anyone?
- Marine vandal has a gutful!
- This week in Fish: Bold Movies
- Pinning interest in museums
- Tanks for the Memories: A New Home for our Fish Collection
- The Opera House Barkcloth
- 8 April: Meet the team (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Natural science conservator, Silvia Da Rocha, awarded ICON internship
- Our Global Neighbours: Nobu Shirase
- Alexander’s nearest and dearest
- Ghost Net art - Sea Blanket
- A Survey of our Surveyors (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 24 September: And That's A Wrap (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 23 September: It Started With A Catch (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 22 September: Return Of The Pooter (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 21 September: Collector Cam (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 20 September: A Tour To Atauro (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 19 September: The Rote Boat (Timor-Leste-Expedition)
- 18 September: The Art Of Improvisation (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 17 September: Two Out Of Three Aint Bad (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 16 September: A Day in Darwin (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 15 September: Why Is An Arts Grad Going On A Scientific Survey? (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- More on Facebook
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Mar 2013
- This week in Fish: Monster Fish Move
- Elizabeth Carrington Pope
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: A New Reference Group
- Sydney Harbour - 3000 species and counting!
- Spiders Seek Spiders for Dinners, Lunches and Breakfasts
- Collections on the Move
- Citizen Science programs
- This week in Fish: Red Rag to a Fish
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: 'Bring da family to Uni'
- Hot bodies protect frogs from disease
- Social Musings: Stories from February
- Contesting identity – paintings from Lake Sentani
- DigiVol: A Game of Kai-Awase Anyone?
- Telling stories
- Disturbing the peace
- This week in Fish: Weird fish award
- Crowdfunding - what's possible?
- International Pi Day
- HSC students explore Alexander in Great depth
- This week in Fish: Rare seahorse retrieved
- Our Global Neighbours: The Crocodile Mask E17339
- Clean Up Australia Day 2013
- This week in Fish: Citing the Site
- Frog fungus where you least expect it
- The not-so-gentle art of stuffing
- ALIVE Youth Conference
- Meet the Streamwatch Team
- 'Water squirting' Common Lionfish
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Feb 2013
- A shopping list from 1897
- BVP: Volunteer from home
- This week in Fish: Sarah studies Sharks
- A Remarkable Contributor
- Ornithological Moments
- This week in Fish: Death defying Cleanerfish
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: Waitangi Festival Celebrations
- Cultural Collections celebrate Waitangi Day
- Are You Squidding?
- Boat People: From Sri Lanka to Australia
- The Spirit of Things: Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Our Global Neighbours: ‘Waste Not’ - exhibition by Song Dong
- This week in Fish: Flying Stonefish!
- The Spirit of Things: Day 3
- Waitangi Day 2013
- Our Global Neighbours: Mali
- The Spirit of Things: Day 2
- The Spirit of Things: Day 1
- A Fishy Tale from 1926
- This week in Fish: Barnyard of Fishes
- On unicorns...
- Foundation Supports Torres Strait Art Project
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project
- Huge, Green Flying Frog discovered in the lowland forests of Vietnam
- Culture change
- On the horizon
- Making land work?
- Happy Birthday Edward Lear
- Towards a national cultural policy
- Kava – ‘pacific’ gift to the world?
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Jan 2013
- Alexander the Great teacher surveys
- Sydney Fiji Day 2012
- Museum Research Associate wins John Mulvaney Book Award
- What are museums for?
- Museum2you - 2012 review
- Lantern slide collections in the AM Archives
- Portents and prophecies: Conrad Lycosthenes, 1557
- Reflections on 2012 by Australian Museum Members
- Let's Call It Museum Station
- The Macquarie Street Lion
- The strangest tadpole?
- Balinese Expressions # 3: Leo Haks Visit
- This week in Fish: Farewell fish fans
- Balinese Expressions #2: “Balinese Art” Book Launch
- Thomas Whitelegge, a workingman naturalist
- Interview with an Endangered Species (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- The Centenary of the 'Adelie Land' Meteorite
- Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics has launched
- Museum Scientist wins 2012 Whitley Book Award
- Video Conferencing - Clickfest 2012
- Our Global Neighbours # 3: Frontiers of Archaeology
- From the Collection: Bigeye Sixgill shark
- New Live Exhibits in Search & Discover: Year of the Water Dragon
- What's in the Box - Bermagui Bioblitz day 2
- Everything is ready for Museum2you
- What's in the Box - Bermagui Bioblitz
- What's in the Box - Bermagui Public School
- What's in the Box - Tathra Public school
- What's in the Box - Narooma Highschool
- What's in the Box - Are you ready for 2012?
- Video Conferencing - What's new for 2012?
- The Editorials and Opinions blog
- Biodiversity Exhibition Evaluations
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Nov 2012
- This week in Fish: Superstar Sunfish
- Superstar sunfish seeks solace
- Creating video content from interviews
- Communicators - get on, not under, the digital bus
- This week in Fish: Fish out of water
- Making a Great exhibition
- This week in Fish: Gotta luv a BRUV!
- Alexander the Great goes mobile
- Guide Alice and the Lyre-Birds of Mount Buffalo
- Social Musings: Stories from October
- This week in Fish: Marlin and Mouth Mackerel
- Frank Hurley underwater
- ‘Regardfully offered’ by Ferdinand von Mueller
- The Internet of Things
- Adventure novels in a natural history library?
- This week in Fish: Far-flung fishes
- Crocodile Capers
- Collecting in the Blue Mountains
- Farewell to Henry the turtle
- Museum visitors and learning identities
- Barramundi mystery solved
- Dec 2012
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Oct 2012
- What’s happening with tablets now?
- Natural phenomena in words and pictures
- This week in Fish: Welcome to the 'fish doctor'
- A vision realised
- Streamwatch comes to the Australian Museum
- Science Unleashed - The Museum goes to Narrabri
- This week in Fish: Bone from Brewarrina
- A mobile app or a mobile website?
- Kermadec memories
- From San Antonio to Sydney
- Rolling out mobile products
- User-testing mobile apps
- Where are we at with mobile?
- A Deep Sea Proposal...
- Kiwis track Great White Sharks
- This week in Fish: Banded (not sliced) Cucumberfish
- Gamification, Audiences and Social Good
- This week in Fish: 'Habitat road trip'
- Alexander the Great: free exhibition preview for teachers
- Mapping the North Sea Fisheries: O.T. Olsen’s Piscatorial Atlas (1883)
- If the thylacine is extinct does it matter if Harry Burrell's was real?
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Sep 2012
- This week in Fish: We're back!
- Museum2you wins award!
- Balinese Expressions # 1: Reunion with the Forge Collection
- The Survey: What young adults want in museums
- Jurassic Lounge: A Case Study
- Attempts of museums around the world to capture the young adult audience
- The Barriers of Museum Visiting For Young Adults
- Engaging Young Adults in Museums: Reason for Research
- This week in Fish: Monty the non-python
- Social Musings: Stories from August
- This fortnight in Fish
- DigiVol: Digitising molluscs
- The Act Of Butterfly Collecting (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Death's-Head Hawkmoth (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Collecting In The Clouds (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- On And Off The Roads (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Exploring The Almost Unknown: Land Snail Fauna (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- The People We Met (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Our First Morning (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- A Grasshopper Leaps Out From the Pages of History
- Timor-Leste Expedition 2012
- DigiVol: Why volunteer?
- DigiVol: Thoughts from Vanessa Finney
- DigiVol: Volunteers have their say
- DigiVol: What......you work with dead insects!
- DigiVol: The Wonder of Insects
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Aug 2012
- Museum2you on the road
- This week in Fish: Ornate Eagle Ray
- Desirable Specimens
- This week in Fish: Hard-Drinking Atomgoby
- Boat People # 2
- Social Musings: Stories from July
- Dissecting Microscope donated to Marine Invertebrates
- This week in Fish: Packing and interview
- Fashion Less Waste 2012 awards announced
- This week in Fish: Keita Koeda visiting
- What do our Members think about the Museum?
- Reflections on Madagascar
- Our Dino in China: Hitting the Wall
- Our Dino in China: A Busy Day in Beijing
- Our Dino in China: The Justin Beiber of Dinosaurs
- Cataloguing the Egyptian Collection before digitisation
- Our Dino in China: Two More Museums
- Our Dino in China: The Pied Piper of Puppets
- Our Dino in China: Flying Cretaceous Class
- Climate Change: The multifaceted phenomenon
- Our Dino in China: Winny is off to Beijing
- BBC Life - Common Seadragon footage
- This week in Fish: Whiskered Prowfish and Common Seadragon mortality
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Jul 2012
- NOVA Employment visit Deep Oceans
- This week in fish: Dawkinsia and new Lates
- Barramundi finds two new siblings
- Fashion Less Waste Parade this Thursday
- Niue's Only Endemic Butterfly Discovered by Museum Researcher
- New genus of fish named after Richard Dawkins
- This week in Fish: Bruce Robison and spawning Luderick
- Thoughts on Deep Oceans
- Museums Orchestrating Diversities for Harmonious Change
- This week in fish: Lots of movies
- The full FLW 2012 finalist list released
- Dion in the Solomons: Rennell and Bellona and the Atoll of Fakaofo, Tokelau
- Dion in the Solomons: An opening to remember
- Dion in the Solomons: The nine provinces and a special evening
- Dion in the Solomons: Celebrity status and a moment of reflection at Turtle beach
- Dion in the Solomons: Diesel, dust, skipjack and betel nuts
- Corals of Kosrae - The Lelu Ruins
- Jurassic Lounge is a Big Winner
- Saddled Snake Eel, Leiuranus semicinctus
- Visitor Perceptions of the Museum and Jurassic Lounge
- A trip to Ash Island
- App ideas
- “What’s your favourite app?”
- Oh my God, I saw a dinosaur...
- Where is the Lounge?
- Frill Shark in Japan
- How has identity been described in a museum context?
- What is identity?
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Jun 2012
- Tentative Chronology of Indigenous Canoes of Eastern Australia
- Sharks feeding on a whale carcase
- This week in Fish: YouTube movie links
- The Fashion Less Waste 2012 finalists selected
- In deep with the Director
- Alexander the Great education kits available now
- Our Global Neighbours # 2
- Our Global Neighbours # 1
- This week in Fish: Variable Snake Blenny
- This week in Fish: New website online
- Transit of Venus: Day 4 - Transit Day
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 3
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 2
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 1
- Transit of Venus
- E-merging technology&museums: an additional perspective on online producing
- Boat People # 1
- Remembering The Art of Eric Carle exhibition
- Dream weaver: a new collection of Maori Kete
- Working with NOVA Employment
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May 2012
- Celebrating Museum2you's official launch
- Fowl Play: Raising chickens a human right or health risk?
- Finding frogs: it's all about timing
- South Australian Oyster Farmers Visit the Museum
- Our First Volunteer
- Alexander the Great education group bookings open
- Introduced Species: Friend or foe?
- New acquisition in Archives -- Fishing Notes, c1900-1931
- Grey Carpetshark senses
- Developing rich media for museums: a way forward?
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Apr 2012
- The Ball that wasn't
- Why are we running a fashion design competition?
- This week in Fish: Stephanie and Spadenose Clingfish
- Large Muraenid Leptocephali
- Frogs in nests?
- Deep Oceans - Painting ocean formations
- Historic taxidermy storage project
- Deep Oceans - A word from prep…
- Fashion Less Waste in the classroom
- Virtual Museum of the Pacific
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Mar 2012
- This week in Fish: Incredible eel movie
- This week in Fish: Bridled Clingfish
- Deep Oceans - Another arrival comes to town
- This week in Fish: Fish eyes through the lens
- Point and Shoot #6 - Photoshop and other image editing software
- Point and Shoot #5 - What lens or focal length should I use
- Deep Oceans - Dive in June 2012
- This week in Fish: Sawfish saw in action
- Sawfish saw in action
- Larval basslet movies
- This week in Fish: Fan-finned mullet
- Corals of Kosrae - The Island of the Sleeping Lady
- Larval whalefish at Apo Island
- Deep Oceans – Viewed from the 'Globe'
- Introducing our Frogs Field Guide
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Decline in Natural Resources
- DigiVol: Our first blog post
- Inside out
- Crocodile case is on the move
- 'Splendidly stuffed'
- More crocodile case restoration
- Snake models from the crocodile case
- The crocodiles -- an open and shut case
- Yet more on the crocodile case restoration
- Stripping the crocodile case
- Our oldest display case
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Feb 2012
- This week in fish: Warty Anglerfish
- Deep Oceans - Meet Mr Anglerfish
- This week in Fish: Incredible Barreleye and a huge shark tooth
- Alight at night: Why office buildings keep their lights on at night
- From local to ubiquitous: online producers and museum outreach
- Frogs Field Guide – deciding on a platform
- Frogs Field Guide – Explore frogs!
- Incredible Barreleye video
- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Handicrafts
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
- The Power of X-rays
- Southern Garfish, Hyporhamphus melanochir
- This week in Fish: First specimen of Denise's Pygmy Seahorse
- Liquid gold: save urine, save the planet?
- Caring for Alfred North's original pictorial material
- Point and shoot #3 - Understanding People
- Point and shoot #2 - Telling Stories
- Point and shoot #1 - Seeing is Believing
- Lizard Fish - Shark Beaching
- Lizard Fish - The best part of every day
- Lizard Fish - Baitfish and a large shark
- Lizard Fish - In the beginning
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: A special visit
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Jan 2012
- This week in Fish: More from the field
- This week in Fish: Pipefish close up
- This week in Fish: Shorthead Seahorse and Saddled Snake Eel
- This week in Fish: Octopus mimic
- Eagle rays in the shallows
- Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
- 2012 update
- Wave Energy Technology: Greek sea goddess CETO to the rescue
- Behind DangerOz: Working with Android
- Balinese Women Artists: Collecting their Stories and Paintings
- Geological relief map of NSW
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Dec 2011
- What's in the Box - 2011 wrap up
- This week in Fish: 2011 - it was a big year!
- This week in Fish: First live photos of a Monte Bello Seahorse
- Should museums be more like magazines?
- Michael Sharland
- Promos, exhibitions and happy holidays
- The Octopus and the 'Living Fossil': Closer Than We Thought
- This week in Fish: Hagfish movie and Red Bass
- Specialised conservation tools
- Geosequestration: Sweeping CO2 under the rug?
- A Pride of Lions
- Responsive Web Design and Museums
- Indigenous Communities and the Digital Realm
- Student learning in museums
- Jurassic Lounge FTW! (Please vote for us)
- Ask a curator: What's Yiwarra Kuju?
- The Project Space – Collections to You
- The Australian Museum Student Forum 2011
- What, no sibling rivalry?
- Oceans: the litmus test
- Treasures of the Kimberley
- Rare books come up for air
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Nov 2011
- Unique role played at the Australian Museum
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #11
- Behind DangerOz: Version 1.1
- Millennials and museums
- Interview with a teenage Photographer of the Year
- Toad Busting: The battle against cane toad invasion
- This week in Fish: Murray Cod Movie
- Solar Power...but not as you know it
- iPads for evaluation and audience research
- iPads as tools for museum interpretation
- 'A dear friend by the strange shore'
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #10
- Two new species of moss frog discovered
- Social Musings: 5 lessons we've learned
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #9
- This week in Fish: Hagfishes - masters of defence
- Crocodile exposed
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #8
- Amazing new hagfish behaviour
- Threadfin Seasnail swimming at 2400 m!
- Dr Smithers' collecting box
- National Recycling Week 2011: November 7 to 13
- Linkasaurus #11
- Art at the Outpost
- Saving money could be costing you heaps
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #7
- Amazing depths from the oceans of the web!
- Clickfest Launch
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #6
- Heritage is one of the victims of conflict
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #5
- It's a wrap! How to bag a canoe
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #4
- Students use iPads in new 'My Cultural Object' learning program
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #4
- Unmasking Materials Conservation
- 'Living fossil' eel in an undersea cave
- Video: Framing the Scott Sisters
- Linkasaurus #10
- Mistaken identity?
- Social Musings: The first month of a new plan
- Linkasaurus #9
- Linkasaurus #8
- Linkasaurus #7
- Pacific land alienation
- Nudibranchs in Antarctica
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Oct 2011
- Up Close and Spineless
- Notes from the Deep
- Parents and kids use of social media
- Water, Water, Everywhere....
- Museum Studies and the Nature of Museums Today
- Let’s Get Real Research Report
- Mining in the backyard
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #3
- ASTC 2011 Presentation
- The Open and Learning Museum Conference
- A mobile app in development
- More Power to the EPA
- Sample Sizes in Visitor Surveys
- Museum Mascots
- Pop-up Squid
- Pygmy Squid in a dish!
- Museum Scientist Wins Prestigious Publishing Prize
- The Carbon Tax Controversy
- Natural Solutions
- Behind DangerOz: what did we learn?
- Deep Oceans – Sneak Peek with Dr Nerida Wilson
- Coral trout spawning
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #3
- Our website redesign – user testing results
- The debate continues - Coal Seam Gas
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #2
- DAW, Day 1: The Red-bellied Black Snake
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #1
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #1
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #2
- Eureka! Triumph for Carbon Neutral Events
- The Scott Sisters' Notebooks Revealed #2
- A Quick “Hello” from Isabelle
- The world of museums
- Lizard Island and Cyclone Yasi
- Fish in hot water
- The exciting life of Anglerfishes
- The Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools
- This week in Fish: Mr Blobby on the Gruen Transfer
- e-Kids' College November 2007
- Twitter in the classroom boosts student engagement
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Sep 2011
- Behind DangerOz: Developing the app
- This week in Fish: Dani, Fanny and Emperors
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 12
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 11
- What's in the Box - What's new
- Jurassic Lounge Season 2 wrap-up
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 10
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 9
- What's in the Box - You tell me!
- Multitouch Platforms
- Kudos from a visitor
- This week in Fish: Bastard Trumpeter and Childish Pearleye
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 8
- DAW: Day 6 Sydney Funnel-Web Spider
- DAW: Day 4 White Shark
- DAW: Day 5 Bull Ant
- DAW: Day 3 Honey Bee
- DAW Day 2: The Australian Magpie
- An Ode to the Scott Sisters
- Tech changes museums?
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 7
- DAW: Day 7 The most dangerous animal?
- Venomous vs. Poisonous
- How do you rate danger?
- Extended Producer Responsibility: Choice or Duty?
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 6
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 5
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 4
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 3
- This week in Fish: First Kidako Moray image
- Coal Seam Gas, Yes or No?
- Carbon Footprints
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 2
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 1
- Field notes with ukelele
- The Scott Sisters' Notebooks Revealed #1
- Scott sisters exhibition is now open
- QR Codes in 2011
- Recommended apps
- This week in Fish: Vale - Dr Robert McDowall
- Here's What You Said
- Enforcement necessary on greenwashing?
- Food for thought: Love your seafood AND our oceans!
- By strategy
- What You Would Like To See
- Reflections on the Pop-Up Museum
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Aug 2011
- Visual art workshops with special exhibition
- This week in Fish: Martin and Carl visiting
- Notes From the Future: A Reflection on My Internship
- A Jurassic Lounge bouquet
- Renewable Energy — Is FiT (Feed-In Tariff) a good fit for Australians?
- Using Biomimicry to cut the carbon!
- Popping up at a museum near you
- National Science Week with Professor Fiona Wood
- This week in Fish: Incredible! A new fish family.
- Is there an eco-balance?
- Significance and the Crocodile
- Crocodile specimen on the move
- This week in Fish: Floating snailfish and lethal headband
- The optimum time to post
- Smartphones and apps research findings
- Three weeks to opening night
- Science in the City: Sparking Interest
- Museum buzzing with Science in the City 2011
- Do you go to bed with your mobile?
- Science in the City 2011
- Redeveloping the Museum’s front page
- How do visitors use our website front page?
- What do users thinks about our current front page?
- Digital Literacies ... and app development
- Evaluation Twitter feeds to follow
- Wheels
- More on conserving the crocodile
- This week in Fish: Spiderfish swimming
- Deep Oceans is in motion
- Climate Change
- Moving the crocodile
- My Critical Appraisal of Surviving Australia
- Welcome to Jon
- It's getting warmer
- What's in the Box - Refurbishment
- What Is Sustainability?
- What is Museum 2 You
- Fashion Less Waste parade 2011
- Save our owls
- Theatrette or Photo Studio?
- Meeting our young friends
- Batfish in Sydney Harbour
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- Weapons! To battle ... or not to battle?
- Obsidian artefacts from Papua New Guinea: major new publication
- Know your product
- The oldest diorama in Australia?
- The Winny Show January 2011
- In the news - December
- New Live Exhibits in Search & Discover: Crucifix Frog
- What is the Search & Discover blog?
- Banana-kids
- Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology Part 2
- Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology
- 2010 Horizon Report Museum Edition: Commentary on the key drivers
- Natural history specimens as social media stars: Mr Blobby
- Pea flowers at the Field of Mars
- Birds of Paradise Exhibition: Title Testing Results
- Do museum shops need to know about Web 2.0 and social media?
- Kids Teaching Kids - Solutions in the Works
- Ask a curator...1 September 2010
- Value Packaging for Families
- First Web to classroom video conference for teachers
- The Keeping Place Exhibition Launch
- NAIDOC Week 2010 Celebrations!
- Smithsonian Commons Prototype
- Kids and credibility in the online world
- Fashion Less Waste winning entries on display
- What's in the Box - Journey home
- Twitter as an audience research tool?
- USA Trip 2010: Impressions from a land far far away
- The dinner table
- How do Australian Museum visitors use social media?
- Football, Biodiversity and Secrecy
- Smartphones and open content – emerging trends
- Are we addicted to social media?
- Visitors to the Australian Museum use social media
- Trawling Antarctica for answers
- Thumbs up for climate change exhibition
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Jul 2011
- This week in fish: Steen and the Spookfish
- You Want Me To...Be Subjective?
- Introduction to Michelle DelCarlo, Audience Research Intern
- Wallabies... of the rucking, mauling kind
- Brothers in the realm of science
- Welcome to Museum 2 You
- Ethabuka Camel Trek
- Australasian Invertebrate Conference 2011
- This week in Fish: Deepsea fish with four eyes?
- What you said about Birds of Paradise
- Pacific Leaping Blenny doing its thing
- New Live Exhibits in Kidspace: Green Tree Frogs
- Find out what past entrants of our Up Close and Spineless Photography Competition think of it?
- Micro Monsters
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Jun 2011
- Why you came to Jurassic Lounge
- Diprotodon resources
- Bugwise resources
- This week in Fish: Pacific Leaping Blenny
- Spikefin Goby, Discordipinna griessingeri
- Huge Oarfish in the shallows
- Dusky Whaler juveniles in Sydney 2011
- Bugwise - virtual experiences
- This week in Fish: Moorish Idols and sponge eaters
- Which fishes eat sponges?
- Revealing some of our conservators
- Who is the woman painting the background?
- This week in Fish: Back to reality
- Understanding Museums
- Birds with a Beat dancers perform at the Museum 2011
- Birds with a Beat dancers perform at the Museum
- innovations@austmus: July Speaker announced
- innovations@austmus
- Museum 2 You - have your say
- Kermadec wrap-up
- Artefact Conservators at work
- Follow up with Dr Sandy Ingleby
- Winny goes on a Road Trip
- This week in Fish: Baby Batfish
- Announcing the Fashion Less Waste 2011 awards
- Dr Sandy talks whales
- Where do spiders go during flooding?
- Live displays in My Photo Studio
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May 2011
- Kermadec Update
- An App for Museum Conservators?
- Making research accessible
- What's in the Box - National Parks
- What's in the box - Alaska
- What is the Colly-gator up to?
- A modern day detective story
- The Kermadec Blog and a rare Monkfish
- Our “misty” showcases
- Yes, we show off too!
- How to use Facebook as an educator
- Water and Climate Change quiz
- Announcing the Fashion Less Waste 2011 finalists
- 21 Free Web Tools for Educators
- Tablets and mobile shopping: what’s the connection?
- Shark blood production
- Selecting the Fashion Less Waste 2011 finalists
- Teaching the Facebook Generation
- How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 2 - the day
- How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1
- What’s in a Name? Evaluation of exhibition titles
- Welcome to BugWise Backchat
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Apr 2011
- This week in Fish: Pineapplefish and Surf Sardine
- Diving in deep oceans, with the whole family!
- Mobile is transforming everyday shopping
- Dolphins at Manly
- This week in Fish: Whale Shark sighting
- My impressions from TCC11
- Agile development for museums
- Jurassic Lounge tweets
- Whale Shark in Botany Bay - April 2011
- Short notes from Transformations Conference
- This week in Fish: Lots of sharks and Fin Forensics
- Old Spirit House
- Linkasaurus #6
- Asparagus fern on Lord Howe Island
- (Un)Still Life
- Fin forensics and the fish collection
- Mysterious? Adventurous? Muddy?
- Plunging the depths of the deep ocean
- What you had to say about the deep ocean
- This week in Fish: undescribed anglerfish and bellowsfish
- Linkasaurus! #5
- Grounding Digital Information Trends Part 2
- Grounding Digital Information Trends Part 1
- What's in the Box - Catchments: Water for Living
- (#)WhyILoveMuseums Day
- New Aboriginal Dance and Culture Program
- Meeting Delayed Due to Dancers
- This week in Fish: Find a fish launched
- Linkasaurus! #4
- Lord Howe Island connections
- My little interview with Tim Flannery
- Linkasaurus! #3
- Linkasaurus! #2
- Linkasaurus: Your Weekly Link Fix
- Birds with a Beat dance video competition
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Mar 2011
- This week in Fish: Ellie the eel
- An eel called Ellie
- Tim Flannery is in the house on Thursday night!
- Celebration to launch the Wrapped in a Possum Skin Cloak by the Lake exhibition
- Wrapped in a Possum Skin Cloak by the Lake exhibition is launched
- One small step
- Southerly Sargassum Anglerfish
- This week in Web: 18 March 2011
- Hot Science Global Citizens 2011 Symposium
- This week in web: 14 March 2011
- Museum Mystery of the Week - Number Two
- Specimens lost to the Australian Museum
- This week in Fish: Shark in trouble
- Do you really need that shopping bag?
- This week in Fish: Southern Smiler
- Solar power switched on
- Dr Jodi discusses the Vampire Frog
- You're toasted!
- March 2nd people, it all happened!
- New scans of Percy Money PNG photos
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Feb 2011
- 10,000 teenagers wanted!
- How to Choose iPhone Apps for Kids
- This week in Fish: Electric rays and tsunami hoax
- Now serving RSS
- Crested Katydid collected from Queensland
- This week in Fish: A lost Mozambique Seabream
- Up Close and Spineless – The photographers.
- Museum Mystery Number one solved!
- This week in Fish: Small fishes and shark ageing
- Uhi ta moko: Art and practice of Maori tattooing
- Dangerous, deadly and just plain mean!
- A blog about ... blogs!
- Weapons - Friendship and Journeys
- Weapons and Weaponry
- Cyclone Yasi viewed from Lizard Island
- A new history trail for students
- 'Small' fish make the big time
- This week in Fish: Red Handfish and lumpfish
- Generations and their gadgets
- This week in web: 4 February 2011
- We're all multitaskers!
- Transformations in Cultural Communication Conference 2011
- More on Crowdsourcing
- Planarian Worms
- Bring your Game
- Koori Art Expressions exhibition launch
- Common and Standard Names
- Eastern Blue Groper and Striped Catfish
- What is Foursquare?
- Australian Museum Visitors
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Jan 2011
- This week in Fish: Hiro and White Shark Jaws
- Australia Day Debate - Live Broadcast
- This week in web: 21 January 2011
- Our top 50 animals!
- This week in web: 14 January 2011
- The Australian Museum website
- Mobile apps: to charge or not to charge?
- Question Everything?
- Breeding of Fraser's Rainforest Snail
- Wollemi pine on display
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Dec 2010
- The Museum Experience: Twenty years on
- 41 ways museums are using social and tech to engage audiences
- Social Media and Museum Learning
- This week in Fish: Purple Flying Gurnard
- From Drop Bears to Vampire Frogs
- Urban Biodiversity and the City of Sydney
- Should we celebrate Australia Day?
- What is From the Floor?
- Australia Day Debate in January 2011
- Green Turtle demolishes BBQ area
- Two bark paintings on loan at MCA exhibition
- Museum Mystery of the Week!
- Live Exhibit updates in Exhibit A
- This week in Fish: Little Dragonfish
- A Sticky Situation
- Fabulous Fijian singers visit the Pacific collections
- Alfred Russel Wallace letters
- This week in Fish: New fish list
- Welcome to Peoples' Place
- Willy Kwong has finished the Harry Burrell project
- Mobile Learning at the Smithsonian
- Does the Australian Museum feed live rats to pythons?
- The Harry Burrell collection digitisation project
- Sticky Situation
- Researching 19th-century collection and trade in Thylacines
- Welcome to the Australian Museum Archives blog
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Nov 2010
- Early coral spawning this year
- Fish Collection tour
- Design for Humanity
- This week in Fish: First Black Marlin
- Sustainable seafood
- Plastic state of mind
- This week in Fish: Cod and Galaxias
- Another post from our intern
- Mount Merapi: it’s Australia’s ‘fault’
- This week in Fish: Triggerfish movies
- Tasmania bans plastic bags
- More on that amazing discovery
- Meet our intern
- The truth about electricity prices
- Where have all the Turtles Gone?
- National Recycling Week, 8th to the 14th November and a new book
- This week in Fish: Flatworm mimic and shark teeth
- GBROOS comes to Lizard Island
- Winifred West drawings
- Dangerous times for Stripey Snappers
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Oct 2010
- This week in Fish: Scalloped Hammerhead
- My reflections from the Co-curation and the Public History of Science Workshop
- Co-curation and the Public History of Science Workshop Part 2
- Co-curation and the Public History of Science Workshop Part 1
- This week in Fish: Flyingfishes in flight
- QR Codes at the Museum
- Welcome to the Lizard Island Research Station blog
- First terrestrial mammal recorded from Lizard Island
- This week in Fish: Grow a backbone!
- Grow a backbone!
- Flying foxes on powerlines
- Crocodile vet check
- Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera
- This week in Fish: Suckling fish
- Developing Educational Strategies - some background stuff
- A fish that suckles its young
- This week in Fish: Baby shark cannibals
- What's in a name?
- This week in Fish: White Shark and sleeping fishes
- Deepsea trench research trip
- This week in Fish: Toxin glands and a meal to die for
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Sep 2010
- 2010 Horizon Report Museum Edition: Commentary on technologies to watch
- 2010 Horizon Report Museum Edition: Commentary on significant challenges
- This week in Fish: Eel with a 'fishing rod tongue'
- Crocodile transfers
- This week in Fish: Candiru and Slingjaw Wrasse
- An introduction to Twitter
- Slingjaw Wrasse feeding
- Humphead Maori Wrasse - up close and personal
- Fish frontiers
- Candiru - careful where you go...
- This week in Fish: Deepsea anglerfishes and the Lilac-tip Basslet
- Dinosnore Feedback
- Psychedelic frogfish makes a splash
- Students speak for biodiversity
- Video Conference - Web to Classroom
- What's in the Box - Bookings open for 2011
- Digital Heritage Students Lecture
- Knowing the Collections audit report
- This week in Fish: Shrek Fish, Frill and Megamouth Sharks
- Asian Sheepshead Wrasse
- The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers
- Science in the City - The Final Lap!
- Science in the City - the Marathon Begins!
- Science in the City - A Marathon of Heroes
- How to be clever on Facebook
- Kids and text in museums
- Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop
- Renovation!
- Museums and the Web Conference 2010
- Museums and Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums
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Aug 2010
- Introducing Jennifer Miller
- Life Beyond the Tomb Exhibition Evaluation 2005
- Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 Evaluation
- Megamouth Shark movie
- This week in Fish: Fantastic fish feeding footage
- Fantastic fish feeding footage
- This week in Fish: BBC Life and Banggai Cardinalfish
- BBC Life - Convict Fish footage
- BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
- BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
- Oil Spills and Plastic
- Environmental Education
- Swimming with a Whale Shark
- White Sharks aren't mindless killers
- Pacific Cultures Consultation June 2009: Emerging themes
- Fangtooth feeding
- Food waste
- Sandtiger Shark Ultrasound
- This week in Fish: Spitting archerfish and 14 movies
- Front-end evaluation: Pacific Consultations
- Archerfishes - sharpshooters of the mangroves
- More news from Pelagos
- Sixgill Shark attacks bait
- Australian Museum assists prosecution of illegal shark trafficking
- A lecture by Dr Barry Smit one of Canada’s leading experts on climate change
- “Billabong Boy” – Arron Wood
- This week in Fish: Old content becomes new
- New Exhibition - Tiwi Footy
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Jul 2010
- This week in Fish: Dangerous times for divers and small fishes
- Come welcome Plastiki
- Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
- This week in Fish: Hagfish slime and parasitic males
- Strange eel from the collection
- Science Week is coming up
- Gidday Plastiki and Welcome to Australia!
- Who's the slimiest fish of all?
- The Australian Museum Hosts CONASTA
- Research grants recently awarded
- A radiation of river snails in Madagascar
- Challenging what it is to be a 'warrior'
- Au Revoir - Plastiki departs New Caledonia
- Biological collections are ecological research tools
- Our first female Prime Minister
- Turning the Tide
- Bonjour Plastiki – New Caledonia, the final stop
- Follow Education Services on Twitter
- Bugwise for Schools - a new perspective
- Sand paintings from Enga
- Citizen Science
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Jun 2010
- Rebecca leaves us
- This week in Fish: Yellowfin Tuna and heaps of movies
- What's in the Box - Finley High School
- The Plastiki Expedition sets off on their final leg to Sydney
- The BP oil spill in the US
- Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
- World Environment message from David de Rothschild.
- This week in Fish: Massive eel and Fish Dissection
- What's in the Box - Deniliquin South Public School
- What's in the Box - Conargo Public School
- What's in the Box - Bunnaloo Public School
- Museums and Wikipedia
- What's in the Box - Buronga Public School
- The role of narrative in museum exhibitions
- What's in the Box - Clare Public School
- Colder, wetter weather and BugWise
- 2010 Fashion Less Waste awards announced
- This week in Fish: Mystery skeleton and great images
- What's in the Box - Outside the Museum
- What's in the Box - Minibeast Magnified
- Web2spider at Ermington Public School
- The Museum's website and educational audiences
- 2010 Fashion Less Waste finalists announced
- Bugwise for Schools is coming
- What's in the Box - Freshwater
- Statement on Climate Change
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year - winner disqualified
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May 2010
- Inspiring the Technological Imagination: the Future of Museums and Libraries in a Digital Age
- Update of The Plastiki Expedition
- This week in Fish: Parental care damselfishes and Leatherjacket Louse
- BugWise and new technologies
- Who is the public? A talk by John Falk
- This week in Fish: Nemo look-alike and many new pages
- Websites for teaching science
- How do Sydneysiders use social media?
- Learning Trends in an Online World
- This week in Fish: Rebecca Field and a deepsea fish
- The monkey returns video clip
- Myoo Create
- New Teachers' e-newsletter published
- How do I incorporate the web into my daily work practices?
- Visitors talk biodiversity
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Apr 2010
- Goodbye Mr Greg Bourne
- Ian Kiernan blogs on Plastiki
- Plastiki’s first stop
- Interesting plastic facts
- This week in Fish: Tongue Biters and an incredible spiderfish larva
- Tips for looking after our oceans
- BugWise for Schools launch
- This week in Fish: Robust Ghostpipefish and Banded Humbugs
- 5 gyres
- Plastiki Update 2
- Short film about a plastic bag
- This week in Fish: Tasselled Anglerfish and rockclimbing fish
- How do you use Bugwise?
- Video Conferencing
- One Day Without Shoes
- Plastiki expedition update
- The breakdown of the world’s water content
- Exciting new ways of exploring biodiversity
- We are now in 'IYB'
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Mar 2010
- The Story of Bottled Water
- Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests
- This week in Fish: Visiting researchers and Weeping Toadfish predators
- What did visitors' say about the Body Art exhibition?
- Plastiki heads to Oz
- This week in Fish: Lost Barramundi and a new Research Associate
- Earth Hour 2010
- Integrating taxonomy
- Welcome to Fish Bits
- Youth Accord on Biodiversity
- School Veggie Garden
- What's in the Box - 45 years on
- What's in the Box - a busy beginning
- Choosing our exhibtions
- What are visitors saying about the Menagerie exhibition?
- Two new exhibitions
- Engaging audiences: what do visitors want?
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Feb 2010
- ANZ Public Sector Summit 2010
- Plastiki – A solution to waste
- Wave Energy Conversion
- Royal visitor examines Australian Museum collections
- Sustainable living isn’t a sacrifice
- Who will be the most affected by Climate Change?
- Follow a museum!
- Fiddling while the Reef dissolves….
- Museums on Flickr
- Gaming and museum visitors
- Jan 2010
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Dec 2009
- Wildlife Photographer under the media spotlight
- Copenhagen Result
- The People’s Orb in Copenhagen
- Wildlife Photography coming soon
- An exhibition on torture?
- Visitors Interest in Gold
- Copenhagen
- Copenhagen
- The Participatory Museum
- Has the cucumber changed its spots?
- Myriad of amphipods on the GBR
- Trilobite translations
- Copenhagen
- How to detect newly introduced species
- Micropredators lurk among the seaweed
- Museum education blogs
- Web to classroom workshops
- Big themes for 2010
- The Museum's Social Media Strategy
- Visitors comment on search & discover
- Use of computer interactives in museums
- Dust storms
- Sydney dust storm analysed by Museum mineralogist
- Visitors respond to an exhibition on death
- Intergenerational communication is the way forward
- Science in the City Feedback
- The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
- Visitors talk bones
- Winning an Australian Museum Eureka Prize
- Introducing Parrys Raines
- Amphibian Conservation in South-East Asia
- Deep-sea mystery solved as three become one
- Kindy students learn at the Museum
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Nov 2009
- Australian Museum Members Survey Results
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Audience Development Master Class 2009
- Australia’s Threatened Species
- Beauties at the Museum!
- Museum Authority
- Websites for learners
- Measuring “success” in the on-line environment
- Peer reviewing exhibitions
- Learning in museums
- Visitors to the Indigenous Australians exhibition
- Science in the City at the Australian Museum
- Kids talk about the Internet
- If the Museum were a person
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Oct 2009
- Innovation in the Art Museum Symposium Taipei Day 2
- International Day of Climate Change
- MDBA International River Health Conference
- Innovation in the Art Museum Symposium Taipei Day 1
- What is the Visitor Voices Blog?
- What is the Audience Research Blog?
- Orang-utans and climate change
- Taipei Travels October 2009
- Handheld technology in museums
- Visitors to Art of the Pharaohs
- Polar Regions
- Museums on Twitter
- Papers on museums and Web 2.0
- Knowledge Workers
- Crowdsourcing and exhibition development
- Applying and sharing research findings
- Summative Evaluation: Dinosaur Unearthed Exhibition
- Interest in Ancient Cultures
- What will visitors do about climate change?
- Climate Change and Museums
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Sep 2009
- Egyptian Treasures Vodcasts
- Snails in 3D
- National Reserve Biodiversity Survey
- Visitors' Interest in Science
- First census of Australian coral reef polychaetes
- Listening to teachers
- 'Categorising visitors'?
- Skeletons Exhibition Evaluation
- Sustainable Exhibition Design
- Swimming with the big fish, studying the small
- X-ray specs: viewing artefacts in a new light
- Public Response to Taxidermy Mounts
- What do visitors want to know about objects?
- Aug 2009
- Jul 2009
- Jun 2009
- May 2009
- Apr 2009
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May 2013