School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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Evolution and resilience of academics and marine animals in the Anthropocene
Pauline Ross (USyd)

Dates: Monday, 11/9/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Madsen Building (F09), Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required

Abstract: This seminar will explore an ecological approach to understand the 
evolution and resilience of the academic role and academics in the higher 
education ecosystem in Australia which for decades has been facing change and 
successive challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and the transgenerational 
responses to stress of marine animals in the Anthropocene. Expectations are 
that increasing academic workforce diversity in the socio-ecological ecosystem 
of higher education will increase resilience and adaptive capacity, but this is 
not necessarily a given that new academic roles will deliver on expectations of 
educational quality and persist. Similarly, if marine organisms are to persist 
through the Anthropocene, they will need to be resilient, but can resilience of 
marine organisms build within a single lifetime or over generations? Research 
on resilience of marine organisms has concentrated on responses of specific 
species and single climate change stressors. It is unknown whether phenotypic 
plasticity and adaptation of marine organisms including molluscs, echinoderms, 
polychaetes, crustaceans, corals, and fish will be rapid enough for the pace of 
climate change and the multiple stressor ecosystem which is now here.

This paper shows how the active inference account can integrate 
representational and regulatory accounts of pain and suffering. The core idea 
is that processing across the mind is anchored by a multidimensional self-model 
that co-ordinates active inference. The dimensional structure of pain and 
suffering  reflects the dimensional structure of that model. I show how the 
phenomenon of pain asymbolia and other atypical conditions can be explained by 
this idea.


Bio: Ross is a Professor of Marine Biology and Higher Education, Deputy Head of 
School and Teaching Principal for Life, Earth and Environmental Science (LEES) 
in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney 
and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK. Pauline is 
known for excellence in education being one of Australia’s most awarded 
educators with multiple Australian awards for excellence in education and 
leadership, including the Australian Award for University Teaching in Biology 
and Health related fields, five Vice Chancellors Excellence Awards and two 
“Oscars” from Quacquarelli Symonds. Pauline has an interdisciplinary track 
record in science and education research on the response to stress and 
resilience of academics in the higher education ecosystem and marine animals in 
the Anthropocene. Her science research is funded by the Australian Research 
Council is developing oysters to sustain an industry that generates more than 
$1 billion a year in sales and employs thousands of Australians. Her education 
research is done in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Higher 
Education (CHSE) at the University of Melbourne, in a higher education 
Australian economy worth 37 billion.


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