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🌚𝐀 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧…🐜🐛🐞

𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? Well here is a simple way to find out, and sample some of the biodiversity at your patch! Pitfall traps are commonly used by researchers to sample invertebrates and can range from a simple container buried in the ground, to more elaborate baited traps. For our garden survey, you can use a simple jam jar, or plastic container that is around 10cm in diameter.
Find a spot in the garden and bury your container up to its rim. Leave your trap overnight. Crawling insects and invertebrates will fall into the jar and stay trapped until the morning. Empty your catch into a bucket or tray (white buckets/trays are best so you can see things clearly). Be careful of any stinging insects or spiders that may have been caught – let them go straight away. How many different types of creepy crawlies did you catch? What jobs do you think they could be doing in your garden? Did you catch a lot or only a few? Could the numbers be related to the overnight weather?
You can also set your pitfall traps throughout the day, but be mindful not to leave animals in the traps for too long because they may get too hot in the sun.

🟢🟢 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗪𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗔 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗬𝗢𝗨? 🟢🟢

Did you know you can access our our interactive online games via our website? We'd love you to explore what we have on offer and let us know how you go! 🪐🔎🐷

Here's a sneak peek at what you'll find at: https://www.unediscoveryvoyager.org.au/games/

𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿

𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀?

We've got you covered! Head to our YouTube channel and you'll find all of our Science Play videos in one place!

🍓Strawberry DNA Extraction; 🌈Cabbage pH Indicator; 💠Create your own Crystals; 🐔Create your own Clucking Chicken Cup; ⚡Bending Light; 🍫Chocolate Wavelengths....and much more!

You'll find all of these activities in our Curiosity Series Playlist at: http://ow.ly/JY1450GcDPy

📹🤠🔨𝗥𝗲-𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 - 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲!

Do you have an interest in rocks? Our resident rock expert, Gᴇᴏʀɢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ Gᴇᴏʟᴏɢɪsᴛ, LOVES rocks. If you have an interest in how different rocks were formed, head to our YouTube channel, where you'll find 19 videos of George (a.k.a. Dr Kieran Meaney) sharing his expertise, on location.

UNE Discovery YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOW4EtFFGpqUU445m7fcNYw

🐤𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘆𝘄𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴?

And did you know there are 10 species of fairywren? Here in the New England we have at least 4 species: Superb Fairywren, Splendid Fairywren, Variegated Fairywren and White-winged Fairywren. Check out all ten species here: http://ow.ly/RIMD50G9nco

Looking for a fun, interesting and worthwhile project for the school holidays? The ongoing 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵, launched in August 2018, encourages citizen scientist partners across Australia to help collect observations of fairywrens and their plumages. Whether you’re a serious twitcher (birdwatcher) or enjoy seeing fairywrens in your garden, your observations help. Head here for all the information you need to be involved in the project: https://fairywrenproject.org/

If you manage to take a photo of one of these quick-moving little creatures, we'd love you to share them with us!

📷 Dᴇᴀɴ Iɴɢᴡᴇʀsᴇɴ: Mᴀʟᴇ Sᴜᴘᴇʀʙ Fᴀɪʀʏ-ᴡʀᴇɴ

🐢🦉🐅 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘?

Why do scientists give each species a name that is made up of two parts and uses strange words? There is a very good reason for it! Scientific names allow us to specify exactly what organism we are talking about, and to see where it fits into the classification of living things. The words used to name a species are usually derived from Latin, and sometimes Greek or other languages, and can describe something about the way the organism looks or lives (e.g. where it lives, what it eats).

Follow along here (http://ow.ly/ISeq50G8yty) as Jean explains how we classify living things, and how and why we name organisms using some fun examples.
You and your students can also brush up on your scientific naming skills by creating some animals of your own in our Living Latin online games:
http://ow.ly/Bbu350G8ytv
http://ow.ly/ow8P50G8ytt

🦜🐦 BIG CITY BIRDS Cɪᴛɪᴢᴇɴ Sᴄɪᴇ

🦜🐦 BIG CITY BIRDS Cɪᴛɪᴢᴇɴ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ Pʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛ

You could help scientists to understand how birds have adapted to urban environments by getting involved in the Big City Birds citizen science project. The project focuses on five bird species that have been observed adapting to human modified areas (e.g. cities and farms).... the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Australian Brush-turkey, Australian White Ibis, Little Corella, and Long-billed Corella.

You don’t have to live in a big city to get involved – observations can be submitted from all over Australia! Citizen scientists can report their sightings using the Big City Birds app or website. Your collected information will help researchers to understand the behavioural traits that have allowed some species to adapt to city living.

To find out more, visit:
http://ow.ly/BUoK50G4BtE
http://ow.ly/tikS50G4BtG

📷 Willem van Aken, CSIRO Science Image Database

🚚 🤩💉And there she is in Glen Innes yester

🚚 🤩💉And there she is in Glen Innes yesterday, our Suzi, the UNE Discovery Voyager truck.

Such brilliant work being carried out by the UNE Medical Centre, nurses, UNE life staff and the regional communities to help get our communities vaccinated against Covid-19 ... thank you!

📷 Simon Scott Photo
#UNE Life #Adam Marshall MP

Dear friends, This lockdown business can be a bit

Dear friends,
This lockdown business can be a bit tricky and tedious. We hope you're doing OK. We miss visiting you at school but hope you are finding our posts helpful and you are discovering some fun ways to play science at home. That's a wrap for this week. Keep an eye out for us next week. We think you'll find Monday's experiment pretty cool - here's some clues....🐍🔥☕🖤

💚 The UNE Discovery Voyager Team

P.S. We'd love to hear how things are going for you.

💛 Happy National Wattle day! How many differen

💛 Happy National Wattle day!
How many different species can you spot in your neighbourhood?
This species we've identified as 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴 (knife-leaf wattle, dogtooth wattle, half-moon wattle or golden-glow wattle). 🌿 🧐

👣📷🌳𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿

👣📷🌳𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸

Q: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘺?

A: (hypothesis) A monster truck came down the driveway and a huge tree fell on the monster truck at the same time that there was a massive earthquake. (𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬?)

We've cooked up a recipe to make your lockdown (or any time!) neighbourhood walks👣a little more curious and creative. Are you up for the photographic 📷 curious-questioning challenge?

To find out if our hypothesis was proved plausible, head to the link below. You'll find our recipe, including the ingredients and procedure, for your own Curious Lockdown Walk. http://ow.ly/XkHN50G0v6o

👣📷🌳 We'd love you to share your Curious Lockdown Walk adventures with us!

For more playful learning experiences, check out our Curiosity Series at http://ow.ly/XUhz50G0v6n

⚗️🔍 🌿 Science Play at Home 🧐 Get rea

⚗️🔍 🌿 Science Play at Home 🧐

Get ready friends and followers, kids, parents and teachers of all ages. From Monday, the UNE Discovery Voyager team are going to deliver to you here some of our favourite experiments, activities, videos, links and other cool stuff. Keep your eye out each week day for something to stimulate your scientific senses in September!

So happy to spot the UNE Discovery Voyager truck h

So happy to spot the UNE Discovery Voyager truck helping out with the important business of getting our communities vaccinated. The team might be in lockdown but 'Suzi' continues to deliver! 🚚 🤩💉

📷 #simonscottphoto

#UNELife #adammarshallmp

Iᴛ's ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴜʀʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴜ

Iᴛ's ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴜʀʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴜɴᴅɪᴇs! 🥳

Armidale is in lockdown but we’re soiling our undies anyway!
As we prepare for National Science Week (14-22 August), we’re cleaning off our shovels and getting ready to dig because the time has come to Soil Your Undies!

Head to the link below to follow along with Kieran and Oliver as they take us through how to correctly bury your undies and some of the details of this year's challenge.

https://www.unediscoveryvoyager.org.au/soilyourundies-burial-time/

🐸 Did you hear recently about the discovery of

🐸 Did you hear recently about the discovery of a new species of frog from the montane forests of Ecuador, Led Zeppelin's Rain Frog? Yup, this little amphibian has been named after the band Led Zeppelin and its scientific name is 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘻𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯! How cool is that?

To read more about this little fella and how newly discovered species get their names, head to the link below, and Discovery Voyager's Dr Jean Holley will fill you in.
http://ow.ly/e9Sd50FJTzK

𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦: 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 - 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘳, 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯, 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦

💚💛 Masked up and ready to go! 💚💛 Towa

💚💛 Masked up and ready to go! 💚💛

Towards the end of last year’s lockdown, we had the idea to have some fabric made up, highlighting all of our cute Voyager characters, created by Trish Donald.

We went to work on the design and there was much excitement when the fabric landed in our lab. Mmmm, how could we put our fun fabric to practical use? Face masks of course! Here our resident astronomer, Phil, is sporting his mask featuring his favourite character - Sol, earth's sun of course!

The masks are going to come in handy when we are able to go into schools again! 😷 😀

To read more go to the link below:
http://ow.ly/LB3350FJ3Da

#aimeemakessydney #trish.donald

🐌 Have you ever eaten snails? Wondered what Jer

🐌 Have you ever eaten snails? Wondered what Jerusalem artichokes are? 🤔 Or braved raw seafood? 🐟 These are just three of the delicious items on the 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 menu at Tattersall’s Hotel for the 8 course degustation menu created and prepared by Chef Jean-Luc Morcellet. Join us to understand more about food in our future, and enjoy flavours and concepts in dining and digestion.

The link to tickets is at: https://une.onestopsecure.com/onestopweb/National_Science_Week_A_Gastronomical_Journey

🦉🐜🦋🕷️ "Hi Dr Jean! Loving all your c

🦉🐜🦋🕷️ "Hi Dr Jean! Loving all your curious creatures!
What's happening in this pic?"
"Just Zoomin' in to chat and play all things 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 with the students at St John's Catholic Primary School in Baradine."
We might not be able to travel at the moment, but we can sure connect!

🍛🍝 Fᴏᴏᴅ 🥗🍨. The great connector,

🍛🍝 Fᴏᴏᴅ 🥗🍨. The great connector, common interest and vital part of our days. What better way to celebrate 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 and the theme Foͦoͦdͩ: Diͥffeͤrͬeͤntͭ By Deͤsiͥgn, than with an 8 course degustation menu at beautiful Tattersall’s Hotel. Join UNE scientists and an artificial digestive system to explore tastes and ideas around food in our future on Saturday the 14th of August.

Get your tickets at: https://une.onestopsecure.com/onestopweb/National_Science_Week_A_Gastronomical_Journey

Take that Covid19! 🤪 ⚗️You may have stopped

Take that Covid19! 🤪
⚗️You may have stopped us from travelling to schools out west this week but today we got to play online via Zoom with our friends at St John's Catholic Primary School in Baradine. Kieran and the kids connected over Chemistry through a combination of demonstrations, hands-on experimenting, questions and chats. A huge thank you to the teachers for preparing things at the Baradine end.