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The Group of Eight congratulates ALL the 2026 @ausacademyofscience New Fellows, and especially the 21 science leaders from Go8 universities elected this year. The New Fellows from Go8 member universities are:
▪️Professor Nicole Bell FAA, @unimelb
▪️Professor Celine Boehm FAA, @sydney_uni
▪️Professor Cyrille Boyer FAA, @unsw
▪️Professor Jochen Brocks FAA, @ouranu
▪️Professor Graeme Cumming FAA, @universitywa
▪️Professor Kishan Dholakia FAA, @adelaideuni
▪️Professor Andrew Dzurak FAA, UNSW
▪️Professor Aleksandra Filipovska FAA FAHMS, University of Western Australia
▪️Professor Jennifer Flegg FAA, University of Melbourne
▪️Professor Bob Furbank FAA, Australian National University
▪️Professor Katherine Kedzierska FAA FAHMS, University of Melbourne
▪️Distinguished Professor Yun-Liu FAA FTSE, Australian National University
▪️Professor Sherene Loi FAA FAHMS, @petermaccancercentre and UniMelb
▪️Professor Laura Mackay FAA FAHMS, @wehi_research and UniMelb
▪️Professor Stefan A Maier FAA, @monash_uni
▪️Professor Paul Martin FAA, University of Sydney
▪️Professor David Raubenheimer FAA, University of Sydney
▪️Professor Timothy Schmidt FAA, UNSW
▪️Professor Enrico Valdinoci FAA, University of Western Australia
▪️Professor Huanting Wang FAA FTSE, Monash University
▪️Professor Alpha Yap FAA, @uniofqld

@thegroupofeight #HigherEducation #Science #ScienceLeaders

Huge congratulations to ALL the new Residents of the @abcaustralia ABC TOP 5 – and especially for the seven @thegroupofeight scholars who have been selected. The ABC TOP 5 program provides development and a national platform for early-career PhD scholars with a passion for communicating their work to non-academic audiences – focusing on three categories: Arts, Humanities, Science.

The Group of Eight scholars are (L-R from top row):
Arts
▪️Shakiba Barghi, PhD Candidate: School of Culture and Communication, @unimelb
▪️Dr Nicholas Duddy, Forrest Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Literary Studies, @universitywa
▪️Bethany Kiss, Designer/PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne

Humanities
▪️Dr Olga Boichak, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, @sydney_uni
▪️Dr Julia Brown, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Monash Bioethics Centre, @monash_uni
▪️Dr Dr. Lorenn Ruster, Researcher, School of Cybernetics, @ouranu

Science
▪️Dr Ana Gracanin, Research fellow — Australian National University

Read more by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio.

#ResearchCommunication #ScienceCommunication #PhD

@thegroupofeight congratulates the 99 Go8 research partnerships which have been awarded almost $56 million in funding from Round 2 of the 2025 @arc_govau (ARC) Linkages Program. The Round awarded nearly $99.8 million to a total of 178 projects which link universities with industry, government, scientific and community organisations.

#ResearchandDevelopment #ARC #ResearchFunding

With the war in the Gulf leading to a reported 30% drop in the world’s supply of helium, there are calls for the gas – critical in the manufacture of computer chips and semi-conductors as well as the running of things like MRI machines – to be RE-listed as a critical mineral in Australia. So, what is it that makes a mineral “critical”? In this clip from our latest Debate@Go8 podcast episode, @universitywa Professor Marco Fiorentini, Director of ARC Centre in Critical Resources for the Future, explains just that.

Catch the full fascinating chat with Professor Fiorentini – where he also discusses the work of the Centre in training the geoscientists of the future, explains possible new and sustainable ways to find and mine our critical minerals (whatever they might be at the time), and challenges the familiar “doom and gloom” narrative around climate and resources -now by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio.

@vickifthomson @thegroupofeight @arc_govau @geoscienceaustralia #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Geoscience #Geology

In the countdown to the Federal Budget being handed down in Canberra next week, @thegroupofeight says that the 2026–27 Federal Budget is a critical test of the Government’s commitment to productivity, innovation, and long‑term economic growth. The Budget must take the following decisive actions to stabilise and strengthen Australia’s research system:

1. Start the transition to funding the full economic cost of research (FEC).

2. Remove the $650m Medical Research Future Fund cap and unlock up to $1 billion for medical research each year.

3. Include the first steps to a multi-year plan to implement the SERD Final Report: Ambitious Australia.

#Budget26 #ResearchandDevelopment #Productivity

In the countdown to the Federal Budget being handed down in Canberra next week, @thegroupofeight says that the 2026–27 Federal Budget is a critical test of the Government’s commitment to productivity, innovation, and long‑term economic growth. The Budget must take the following decisive actions to stabilise and strengthen Australia’s research system:

1. Start the transition to funding the full economic cost of research (FEC).

2. Remove the $650m Medical Research Future Fund cap and unlock up to $1 billion for medical research each year.

3. Include the first steps to a multi-year plan to implement the SERD Final Report: Ambitious Australia.

#Budget26 #ResearchandDevelopment #Productivity

In the countdown to the Federal Budget being handed down in Canberra next week, @thegroupofeight says that the 2026–27 Federal Budget is a critical test of the Government’s commitment to productivity, innovation, and long‑term economic growth. The Budget must take the following decisive actions to stabilise and strengthen Australia’s research system:

1. Start the transition to funding the full economic cost of research (FEC).

2. Remove the $650m Medical Research Future Fund cap and unlock up to $1 billion for medical research each year.

3. Include the first steps to a multi-year plan to implement the SERD Final Report: Ambitious Australia.

#Budget26 #ResearchandDevelopment #Productivity

In the countdown to the Federal Budget being handed down in Canberra next week, @thegroupofeight says that the 2026–27 Federal Budget is a critical test of the Government’s commitment to productivity, innovation, and long‑term economic growth. The Budget must take the following decisive actions to stabilise and strengthen Australia’s research system:

1. Start the transition to funding the full economic cost of research (FEC).

2. Remove the $650m Medical Research Future Fund cap and unlock up to $1 billion for medical research each year.

3. Include the first steps to a multi-year plan to implement the SERD Final Report: Ambitious Australia.

#Budget26 #ResearchandDevelopment #Productivity

In the countdown to the Federal Budget being handed down in Canberra next week, @thegroupofeight says that the 2026–27 Federal Budget is a critical test of the Government’s commitment to productivity, innovation, and long‑term economic growth. The Budget must take the following decisive actions to stabilise and strengthen Australia’s research system:

1. Start the transition to funding the full economic cost of research (FEC).

2. Remove the $650m Medical Research Future Fund cap and unlock up to $1 billion for medical research each year.

3. Include the first steps to a multi-year plan to implement the SERD Final Report: Ambitious Australia.

#Budget26 #ResearchandDevelopment #Productivity

Great news for four Group of Eight projects awarded funding from the Global Science & Technology Diplomacy Fund Strategic (GSTDF) Element Round 2. The projects from @sydney_uni, @unimelb and @adelaideuni cover sustainable agriculture, precision cancer radiotherapy, advanced manufacturing and AI and space exploration with one project partnered with Vietnam and three with Japan.

The GSTDF Strategic Element program is designed to support strategically important international science, research, and technology collaborations with partners in the Asia-Pacific region, and the announcement coincides with the visit to Australia of Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

@thegroupofeight is committed to deepening cooperation in priority technology areas with our Asia-Pacific partners, supporting economic resilience, technological capability and regional stability – increasingly important during this time of heightened global instability. In March we undertook our third High-Level Delegation to Japan in two years, which included a Roundtable at Keio University that examined how Australia and Japan can scale and diversify bilateral research collaboration and strengthen innovation ecosystems.

#ResearchCollaboration #ResearchandDevelopment #AsiaPacific

Across Go8 universities, compliance now runs to hundreds of overlapping legislative and regulatory requirements.This level of duplication isn’t a safeguard - it’s a handbrake on R&D, tying up researchers in compliance instead of discovery. The result is delay: in new medicines, cleaner energy, productivity gains and the innovations Australians rely on.

@thegroupofeightt has joined an alliance of nearly 30 groups representing small, medium and large businesses, and universities, that employ millions of Australians, calling on all governments to cut regulatory costs by 25 per cent to help consumers and businesses amid surging costs caused by the Middle East war.

Reducing red tape isn’t about lowering standards. It’s about getting out of our own way so research can deliver faster, real world results for the economy and the community.

Read more by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio.

#RedTape #regulation #OverRegulation #highereducation #researchanddevelopment #productivity

Across Go8 universities, compliance now runs to hundreds of overlapping legislative and regulatory requirements.This level of duplication isn’t a safeguard - it’s a handbrake on R&D, tying up researchers in compliance instead of discovery. The result is delay: in new medicines, cleaner energy, productivity gains and the innovations Australians rely on.

@thegroupofeightt has joined an alliance of nearly 30 groups representing small, medium and large businesses, and universities, that employ millions of Australians, calling on all governments to cut regulatory costs by 25 per cent to help consumers and businesses amid surging costs caused by the Middle East war.

Reducing red tape isn’t about lowering standards. It’s about getting out of our own way so research can deliver faster, real world results for the economy and the community.

Read more by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio.

#RedTape #regulation #OverRegulation #highereducation #researchanddevelopment #productivity

Huge congratulations to our @thegroupofeight science leaders who have been elected to the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences for 2026. They are:
▪️Professor Barry Dickson from @uniofqld
▪️Laureate Professor Ary Hoffmann from @unimelb
▪️Emeritus Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish, AC from @ouranu
▪️Distinguished Professor David Lindenmayer from the ANU
▪️Professor Craig Moritz from the ANU
▪️Emeritus Professor Rana Munns from @universitywa

The US @thenasciences was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. This year it inducted 120 US and 25 international researchers.

The United States is by far the Go8's largest international research collaborator country. In 2024 we co-published 12,800 papers with the USA.

Western Australia has been “floating around like a bit of a raft” since the beginning of our planet, Professor Marco Fiorentini tells us in the latest Debate@Go8 podcast episode – OUT NOW. The @universityWA professor and Director of the ARC Centre in Critical Resources for the Future explains that this is why WA is not only a paradise for geologists wanting to study the world’s geological record (it’s kept him here for 25 years), but also the home to such vast deposits of minerals and resources.

Catch this latest Debate@Go8 episode where Professor Fiorentini discusses the work of the ARC Training Centre in Critical Resources for the Future in training the geoscientists of the future to find new, sustainable ways to find and mine our critical minerals (whatever they might be at the time) NOW by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio - or wherever you get your podcasts.

@vickifthomson @thegroupofeight @adelaideuni @ouranu @uniofqld @arc_govau @geoscienceaustralia #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Geoscience #Geology

Lest we forget.

OUT NOW: the latest Debate@Go8 podcast episode. This time we’re talking critical minerals, new methods of mining and training the geoscientists whose job it will be to find new ways to locate, extract and process the resources of the future, with Professor Marco Fiorentini from @universitywa. He’s the Director of the ARC Centre in Critical Resources for the Future, which is a powerful collaboration involving four The Group of Eight universities - UWA, @adelaideuni, @ouranu and @uniofqld – industry and federal and state governments, to address the challenges of securing our future resources.

Catch this fascinating episode – which also challenges the familiar “doom and gloom” narrative around climate and resources, showing young people that science, innovation and research can offer real solutions, and meaningful careers, for the future - NOW by clicking on the SproutLink in the bio.

@vickifthomson @arc_govau @geoscienceaustralia #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Geoscientists #geoscience

@thegroupofeight congratulates Professor Carolyn Evans on being announced as the 22nd Vice-Chancellor of @unimelb - and we welcome her back to the Go8 after seven years as Vice-Chancellor of @griffithuniversity! Professor Evans will commence in the role on Monday 5 October, succeeding Interim Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis AC.

Read more by tapping the SproutLink in the Bio.

@vickifthomson @adelaideuni @ouranu @monash_uni @unsw @uniofqld @sydney_uni @universitywa #unimelb