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The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales is a non-profit, scientific organisation dedicated to the study and conservation of native Australian fauna

15/06/2026

Registration for “Chris Dickman - a celebratory forum and festschrift” closes today! This is your final chance to book your place to attend a one-day forum honouring the extraordinary scientific career of Professor Chris Dickman.

If you do miss out on attending the event, you can still participate in the celebration by contributing to the festschrift.

Registration and full event details (including information about contributing to the festschrift): https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6685390

14/06/2026

Registration for “Chris Dickman - a celebratory forum and festschrift” closes tomorrow! We warmly welcome you to join us and hope to see you there.

Registration and full event details (including information about contributing to the festschrift): https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6685390

13/06/2026

⏰ Tomorrow night! Wildlife at the Watering Hole 🍻🪼

Join us 6pm tomorrow (Mon 15 June) at the Rose of Australia Pub, Erskineville (1 Swanson St) for:

Testing Behavioural Plasticity of Physalia utriculus to Key Environmental Drivers
Bluebottles don’t just drift — they live at the air–sea interface, and their behaviours may change with wind, UV-A, and temperature, influencing where they end up (and when beaches get hit). Come along for a fascinating look at how we can improve understanding of drift patterns and stranding risk as oceans warm. 🌊🌡️

🎤 .tales
🕕 6:00pm
📍 Rose of Australia Pub, Erskineville
https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6721083

Bring a mate, grab a drink, and get stoked on zoology. 🧠🪼

08/06/2026

One week to go until we celebrate the extraordinary scientific career of Professor Chris Dickman, Emeritus Professor in Terrestrial Ecology at the University of Sydney and one of Australia's most beloved and influential ecologists.

You can attend this event in person, or via the live stream. In person attendance has limited spots, so register early.

Cost:
$100 General admission
$70 Concession
$0 Live stream

Registration and full event details (including information about contributing to the day or to the festschrift): https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6685390

07/06/2026

Meet this month’s Wildlife at the Watering Hole speaker: Jessica Guerchon 🪼🔬

Jessica is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Marine Science and Innovation (UNSW), researching bluebottles and the ecological processes shaping their distribution, drift, and coastal strandings. Her work explores how behaviour, reproduction, morphology, and population dynamics influence when and where bluebottles appear — bridging fundamental zoology with practical outcomes for monitoring, risk forecasting, and beach management in a changing ocean.

🎤 .tales
🕕 6:00pm, Monday 15 June
📍 Rose of Australia Pub, Erskineville (1 Swanson St, Erskineville NSW)
https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6721083
(And if you’d like to follow along: LinkedIn + Instagram in Jessica’s bio!)

05/06/2026

Bluebottles are a familiar sight on our coast — but when they strand en masse, they can mean painful stings and major beach disruptions. What if behaviour (not just wind and currents) plays a bigger role than we think? 🪼🌬️

Join Jessica Guerchon (UNSW) as she shares experimental research testing how wind forcing, UV-A irradiance, and seawater temperature shape ecologically relevant behaviours in Physalia utriculus — including posture, “sail” exposure, and te****le deployment. The goal: develop simple behavioural rules that can be folded into drift interpretations and models to better understand stranding risk, including potential shifts under changing wind fields and ocean warming.

📍 Rose of Australia Pub, Erskineville (1 Swanson St, Erskineville NSW)
🕕 6:00pm, Monday 15 June
https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6721083

Bring a mate, grab a drink, and dive into life at the air–sea interface. 🍻🌊

25/05/2026

We invite you to join us for a one-day forum honouring the extraordinary scientific career of Professor Chris Dickman, Emeritus Professor in Terrestrial Ecology at the University of Sydney and one of Australia's most beloved and influential ecologists.

Whether you are a long-time collaborator, a former student, or simply someone whose thinking has been shaped by Chris' work, we warmly welcome you to join us in for what promises to be an inspiring and celebratory day.

The forum is held in conjunction with a festschrift to be published in Australian Zoologist, the journal of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, and it forms part of a wider celebration of Chris' contribution to Australian ecology. The forum and festschrift are being organised through a collaboration of the University of Sydney, the RZS NSW and Australian Zoologist.

You can attend this event in person, or via the live stream. In person attendance has limited spots, so register early.

Cost:
$100 General admission
$70 Concession
$0 Live stream

Registration and full event details (including information about contributing to the day or to the festschrift): https://rzsnsw.org.au/event-6685390

17/05/2026

⏰ Tomorrow night! Wildlife at the Watering Hole 🍻🦎

Join us 6pm tomorrow (Mon 18 May) at the Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville for Hidden Treasure: exploring the tremendous biodiversity value of an urban bush remnant.

Think Sydney’s wild places are only on the coast or far from the city? Dr Thomas Mesaglio will take us into a tiny patch of bushland along Duck River that’s absolutely teeming with life — from overlooked invertebrates to familiar local fauna — and why these urban remnants matter more than ever.

🎤
📍 Rose of Australia, Erskineville
🕕 6:00pm
https://rzsnsw.wildapricot.org/event-6692916

Bring a mate, grab a drink, and come be surprised by what’s living in plain sight. 🌿🐜🦋

13/05/2026

Meet this month’s Wildlife at the Watering Hole speaker: Dr Thomas Mesaglio 🌿🔎

Thomas is a botanist and naturalist at UNSW whose work spans biodiversity informatics and the Australian flora, with published research also covering bushfire recovery, marine forensics, and invertebrate taxonomy & natural history.

He’s a passionate champion of citizen science — an iNaturalist curator and site administrator for iNaturalist Australia, and a familiar face behind BioBlitzes across the country. Thomas has also authored four scientific books, and in 2022 received the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science.

Catch Thomas in action at our next talk as he reveals the surprising wildlife richness of an urban bush remnant — proof that conservation stories are unfolding right here in Sydney. 🐜🦎🦋

🎤
🕕 6pm Monday 18 May
📍 Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville
https://rzsnsw.wildapricot.org/event-6692916

12/05/2026

Think Sydney biodiversity is all reefs and rainforests? Think again. Small urban bushland patches can be lifeboats for wildlife — from cryptic invertebrates to familiar vertebrates — in landscapes otherwise cleared and built over.

Join Dr Thomas Mesaglio (UNSW botanist & naturalist) as he shares what turned up after hundreds of hours surveying Wategora Reserve along Duck River — a tiny remnant of a critically endangered vegetation community in southwestern Sydney. Expect a rapid-fire tour across animal taxa, what these microrefugia mean for conservation, the threats they face, and where surveys should head next.

🎤 With
📍 Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville
🕕 6:00pm, Monday 18 May
https://rzsnsw.wildapricot.org/event-6692916

Bring a mate, grab a drink, and discover the wild lives hiding in plain sight. 🌿🐜🦉

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