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A $30,000 QCoal Foundation Scholarship will help ease financial pressures and allow first year James Cook University Medicine student Priya Taylor-Sidhu to focus fully on her studies. 📚📖🏫 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4uE6uHc

Indigenous women suffer higher rates of homicide than non-indigenous women. @jcu 's Prof Marlene Longbottom & Prof Kyllie Cripps from Monash write in The Conversation on community-led domestic violence solutions. Read full story here 👉 tinyurl.com/2s3hk7b8

New research led by JCU emphasises that the success of marine protected areas depends largely on understanding and influencing people’s behaviours within their borders. 🛡🎣🦈 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4rBW5ck

#Queensland is expected to face growing pressure on its health system as rising temperatures drive an increase in serious #Salmonella infections, according to a decade-long analysis of climate and disease data. Full story: shorturl.at/Peg5G

JCU PhD student Scott Macor was part of a team that discovered three new species of rock monitor lizards in northern Queensland. Full story: shorturl.at/Vubbx

James Cook University has again been recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for its work tackling diseases across the Tropics. 🦟😷🌏 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/40uuLSz

A landmark JCU study has laid bare the systemic disadvantage and racism experienced by Australian South Sea Islanders in Queensland – and called for dedicated “navigators” to help communities access essential services. Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/3P9jLHG

New JCU-led research warns that the future of Pacific small-fishing communities may be compromised by ambitious marine conservation targets set by the Convention on Biological Diversity. 🐟🐠🎣 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4syQLHI

Researchers from JCU have found that coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is influenced not only by extreme summer heat, but also by winter conditions months earlier. 🌡🪸⬆ Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/40XDj4o

A new PhD project at JCU is set to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping organisational change and what skills managers will need to be successful in this new environment. Full story: shorturl.at/lcWw0

Children and teenagers who spend more time on digital media are more likely to experience mental health, behavioural and academic difficulties later on, according to a major international review published in JAMA Pediatrics. Full story: shorturl.at/NcjIH

A JCU graduate has become Australia’s first male to take the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait IslanderHealth Practitioner (A&TSIHP) pathway to become a Credentialled Diabetes Educator (CDE). 📣💉🎓 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4uhInhC

JCU has launched its new Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation (CADSI), a cross-disciplinary hub designed to harness artificial intelligence for real-world impact across the Tropics. 🤖💻🌴 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4aThFUY

JCU scientists have unveiled a world-first, instrument‑free method to study protein–DNA interactions that could transform drug discovery, cancer research and biotechnology worldwide – for less than $5 a test. 🥼🧬🔎 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/4r0bKlv

The combination of eDNA and biophysical modelling proves a potent combination to detect deadly stinging jellyfish and to determine their localized distributions. See Morrissey et al tinyurl.com/vn7yjpuj @jcu

JCU's Dr Lyanne Brouwer has led a team researching red-winged fairy wrens near Manjimup since 2008. In this article, she talks about how scientists go about their work with the birds and how the wren may be adapting to climate change. Full story: shorturl.at/Pore4

New research suggests that whether speeding is reduced by deterrence or self-control depends not only on drivers’ own views about speeding, but on how those views interact with the environments they drive in. Full story: shorturl.at/5VGYL

An international research team, including scientists from JCU and the Queensland Museum, have scoured historical records to develop a new framework to help identify hard coral species and modernise coral science. 🪸🐚🌊 Read more here 👉📰 bit.ly/473HnU3

JCU researchers have partnered with an international team of scientists and infrastructure experts, seeking to understand the drivers of unsealed road damage and riverbank erosion. 🛣🌧🔎 Read the full story here 👉📰 bit.ly/46nWGa2

🎧👶🫄Listening to music may significantly improve the wellbeing of mothers during pregnancy and birth, according to new research from @jcu. Read full story 👉 tinyurl.com/55hwbm3s