The RST will offer three medals in 2025: The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal, the Clive Lord Medal and the MR Banks Medal. The Call for Medal Nominations opens on 30 June. Nominations for these three medals close on 31 August. Note: Nominations may be made by anyone, although self-nominations are not accepted. Open this post for more details.

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the work of Mary Koolhof OAM and to congratulate her on her inclusion in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honour list. Open this post to learn more.

The Royal Society of Tasmania supports the annual Tasmania Reads initiative of Libraries Tasmania as part of our commitment to Hobart’s City of Literature status. On 26 March 2025 a full house in the Society Lecture Room enjoyed a talk by Tasmanian author David Owen. He took us on a fascinating journey sharing his experiences as a crime fiction writer. Open this post to read his talk.

The RST Council recently approved the two winners of the 2024 Doctoral (PhD) Award. This award recognises recent PhD graduates who have made significant advances during their doctoral research. Open this post to find out who they are.

Distinguished Professor James Barrie Kirkpatrick AM, one of the Royal Society’s most prestigious members and prolific contributor, died on 21 October 2024 in Hobart. Professor Kirkpatrick was awarded the RST Clive Lord Medal in 2019 for his outstanding research on Tasmania’s natural environment and maintained a publication record in the Society’s Journal which spanned half a century. Open this post to read the obituary.