• Education and Training

    How’s your kid doing?


    Shane Rogers |  June 10, 2026


    Research suggests brief, repeated check-ins can provide a more accurate basis for decision-making around students’ mental health and potentially reduce the number of students flagged for further support.


  • Artificial Intelligence

    Handle with care


    Open Forum |  June 10, 2026


    Flinders University experts are warning that artificial intelligence must be carefully evaluated and governed before it is adopted widely in healthcare, saying rapid advances do not automatically translate into safe use for patients. In an expert commentary piece accompanying an international study on large language models used for clinical reasoning tasks, Flinders researchers caution that while new AI systems show impressive capabilities, strong results in controlled studies do not mean they are ready for routine use in hospitals or clinics.


  • History

    Fish and computer chips


    Open Forum |  June 10, 2026


    Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron imaging, they scanned the skull and braincase of the only known specimen of Koharalepis jarviki, a large fossil fish found in freshwater rivers in the vast Lashly Mountains region of Antarctica which lived during the Devonian Period or ‘Age of Fishes’.


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