Congratulations to Professor @kouroshkalantar.bsky.social and Professor Michael Kassiou on being named as 2025 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 👏 Read more: go.sydney.edu.au/EFCffD #USYD #ATSEFellows

A brilliant comic strip by Tom Gauld for New Scientist

Coogee Beach Sydney, Australia

This white cockatoo looked exceptionally happy 😊

A lorikeet enjoying spring flowers in Sydney

Apple has dropped a wave of new releases at once: iPhone 17, ... and now 'AirPod 3 Pro' ➡️ live language translation enabled by Apple Intelligence ➡️ includes heart rate sensing during workouts ➡️ extended battery life ➡️ better noise cancelation ➡️ better design for ears www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Piccolo Sydney Saturday, 6th of September 2025

That’s wonderful! 🌱✨ A fully opened Nepenthes pitcher is always such a rewarding sight

“Telemetric Assessment and Comparison of Regional Colonic Metabolic Activity in Ambulant Healthy Individuals Using pH and Gas-Sensing Wireless Motility Capsules” First author Dr Phoebe Thwaites Corresponding author: Prof Peter Gibson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Review of Nanomaterial-Enabled Flexible Energy Storage First author Ms Yiming Zhao Yiming impressively searched and analyzed the topic and implemented her thoughts into this paper Published in ACS Applied Nano Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Rainbow of colours “Electroluminescent Liquid Metal Marbles for Reconfigurable Multi-Color Display” just published online First author: Ms Ruohan Yu - this is Ruohan’s last first author paper as a PhD student - we should call her Dr Yu very soon advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Variety of olives on display!

Flying above the clouds !

The Nepenthes pitcher is growing larger and more magnificent each day!

Sydney edges towards a 166-year rainfall record this August. The rain outside is unceasing as I write

Two weeks in (time between the 2 photos), and this Nepenthes pitcher is taking its sweet time to grow!

Hosting the Seagull World Cup! Sydney soccer field after more rain

How can someone possibly drive this!? Sydney, Australia 9 Aug 2025

Piccolo on Sunday morning Sydney, 27 July, 2025

Some drill into a wrong place and leave it for others to fix !

Bandgap Tuning of β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3 Nanosheets via Liquid Metal Interface Engineering Led by Cuong Ton-That First author Somayeh Rafiezadeh In Advanced Optical Materials Well done Somayeh ! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Double Bay Marina, July 2025 Sydney, Australia

Senate spending panel would rescue the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA science funding www.science.org/content/arti...

A brilliant work by our PhD student Shih-Hao ➡️A novel demonstration of the effect of embedding liquid metal droplets in conductive polymers, enhancing their electrochromic properties ✴️Flexible, durable, and high electrochromic performance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

As simple as: “A small increase in Earth's average temperature can lead to higher heat extremes” Ref: BBC

Australia!

Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/t...

Ceiling decoration A Japanese restaurant in Singapore

Emerging Catalytic Materials Symposium! APCAT-10's Emerging Catalytic Materials Symposium is chaired by Prof. Dongshuang Wu (NTU), Prof. Haobo Li (NTU), Prof. Yonggang Yao (Huazhong), and Prof. Tong Li (Ruhr) www.apcat10.com

The new work of Adania Azman, the fantastic and hard working member of our team, that just appeared in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces "Voltage-Assisted Sonication for the Generation of Liquid Metal Particles" pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Fascinating and puzzling “Ancient DNA reveals mysterious Indigenous group from Colombia that disappeared 2,000 years ago” www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Limburg Cathedral, Limburg, Germany “In about 1180 an extensive remodelling was started that gave the church its present-day shape.” Wiki

From the 3rd level Limburg, Germany

Wind turbines for generating power near Frankfurt, Germany

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg The world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874

From the 5th floor Strasbourg, France 28 May 2025

When ‘NCIS: Sydney’ is being filmed on our street May 2025, Sydney

CRISPR/Cas on Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices for Point-of-Care Screening of Cervical Cancer In ACS Sensors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Drosera aliciae My son’s collection

My son’s terrarium project for his carnivorous plants Nearly completed

Finally, the paper went online after 4 years since Prof Qingdong Ou started his research on the topic "Natural van der Waals canalization lens for non-destructive nanoelectronic circuit imaging and inspection" in Advanced Materials advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A cockroach on a Nepenthes’ pitcher, ready to be captured and digested

Coogee Bay before dusk Sydney 4th of May 2025

Moon shot taken in Sydney 6 pm - 4th of May 2025

Baby nepenthes glabrata in a bed of spagnum moss My son’s collection

The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia (FMT) Preliminary trials and mouse studies indicate an association between FMT and alterations in the gut microbiome www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

California's economy has overtaken that of the country of Japan, making the US state the fourth largest global economic force. The data shows California's GDP hit $4.10 trillion (£3.08 trillion) in 2024, surpassing Japan, which was marked at $4.01 trillion. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The first time that one of my Bluesky posts is used in an article ! “The ocean can look deceptively calm – until it isn’t. Here’s what ‘hazardous surf’ really means” theconversation.com/the-ocean-ca...

Feeling the ownership !

Nepenthes Ventricosa My son’s carnivorous plants collection Sydney, 19 April 2025