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Download photos from Google Album.

A brief tutorial on downloading images from google galleries. Continue reading

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Prevent Windows changing drive letter for a USB drive

A common problem with Windows is that when you plug in a USB drive it may acquire a new drive letter. Usually this is no problem, but if you use the drive with a program that wants the data to be on the same drive each time it is inserted, you need to force Windows to use the same drive letter. Doing so is not hard. Here I will illustrate using Windows 7. Continue reading

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Kangaroos are upside down, down under!

Interviewed by Mx newspaper… Apparently a celebrity comedian made some “rood” comments about kangaroo genitals … they called me to check the facts! click image for readable format

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Article on our Koala work

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More press coverage for our Ultrasonography paper

Some of the German press have made quite long articles on our ultrasonography study. Here are links to PDFs : Kängurus[_KölnerStadtanzeiger Kängurus_StuttgarterZeitung. Here is a web link to a shortened online version of one. http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.biologie-klettern-in-der-gebaermutter.0ec501e8-9ae9-4282-84d7-278165daaa32.html.  

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Wallabies do ‘Australian crawl’ in the womb

ABC News picked up our ultrasound paper: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/03/18/3718274.htm and http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-19/wallabies-do-27australian-crawl27-in-the-womb/4580586

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The climb to the pouch begins in utero

We have visualised the short pregnancy of a small species of the kangaroo and wallaby family of marsupials, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), for the first time by high-resolution ultrasound. The study has shed light on a number of developmental … Continue reading

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Research grant success: funding for 2012-2015

We have been fortunate to get funding for our application to the Australian Research council for 2013-2015: DP130102103 Renfree, Prof Marilyn B; Shaw, Prof Geoff; Pask, Dr Andrew J; Suzuki, Dr Shunsuke; Ishino, Prof Fumitoshi. Reprogramming maternal and paternal genomes … Continue reading

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Trophy

Yesterday I went to a cocktail party where the academic award recipients received their prizes. It was a very pleasant function on the 10th floor of the Law building, with views over the docklands area to the west. I even … Continue reading

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