Emma Johnston, a marine ecologist with institutional reach, has died at 52
via news.mongabay.com
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Universities like to present themselves as durable institutions. They outlast governments, ride out recessions, and take pride in the slow accumulation of knowledge. In Australia, that confidence has been tested by familiar pressures: tight public funding, culture-war skirmishes over expertise, and the awkward fact that a continent built on extractive wealth is also among the […]