Pint of Science @ The Orchard Hotel, Chatswood | 19 May

Eyewitness memory is a very common and persuasive form of evidence in criminal and civil legal proceedings. Yet, what we know about eyewitness memory is largely derived from laboratory experiments, that are problematic in many ways when it comes to replicating real-world witnessing conditions. I will talk about something the research has mostly neglected to consider - the inattentive witness - and the implications of the inattentive witness in legal cases.

Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) is a Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. Her research is in legal psychology; specifically, she investigates the role of cognitive processes such as attention, memory and decision-making in criminal legal contexts.

Did you know that there are well over 1000 volcanoes dotted along Australia's east coast? From the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns to Mount Gambier is SA, Australia has a rich and explosive volcanic past. However with multiple regions still considered active today, how well prepared are we for the next eruption? Tom's research investigates chunks of the Earth's mantle to help understand how fast these eruptions can occur and give us some insight into how much warning we may (or may not) get!

Bin chicken. Tip turkey. Picnic pirate. Rubbish raptor. These are all terms for a wetlands bird who came to Australian cities, liked what they saw and made themselves at home. While some see this as an alien invasion, I prefer to understand it as a pure form of rewilding. Unlike conventional rewilding that is driven by human action, ibises have chosen urban life for themselves. Come along to hear about how, since the 1970s, ibises have made Australian cities just a little more wild.