Science
A good plan to help Darling River fish recover exists, so let’s get on with it
Wednesday, 23 Jan 2019
After recent major fish kills in the Darling River, two experienced freshwater ecologists at CSU have called for less blame and more action on enacting an existing, agreed plan to protect native fish in the Murray Darling Basin in The Conversation.
For the first time we’ve looked at every threatened bird in Australia side-by-side
Wednesday, 28 Nov 2018
CSU ecologist Professor David Watson has joined colleagues around Australia in describing how to measure the efforts to conserve native bird life across Australia in The Conversation.
Why I joined #500queerscientists
Friday, 22 Jun 2018
Writing in The Conversation, CSU plant scientist Dr Adam Frew explains why he joined the online initiative 500 Queer Scientists.
It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Two senior CSU water ecologists join a concerned group to highlight that findings that, more than five years after the adoption of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, the environmental benefits are slowly but surely being seen.
I’ve always wondered: why don’t chickens look down when they scratch?
Friday, 1 Dec 2017

I've always wondered why a hen never looks down when it scratches. Surely if it did so it could lead to greater success, but is there something anatomical that dictates that the head must be up when it scratches?