From time to time, the Society and its Fellows and Members are mentioned, or are published, in the media, or in other sources or outlets. This page summarises such mentions, providing links either to the original sources, or to news items that include links to original sources. For readership transparency, the following annotations are used:
- Society Position: indicating that the contribution builds on a formally adopted position of the Society, which is referenced
- Opinion: indicating that the article is solely the opinion of the author, irrespective of the existence of, or alignment with, any formally adopted position of the Society
- Unclassified: indicating that the reference is informational in its nature.
2020
- Sir Michael Hintze,named as a major donor to the Australian Museum, in Dinosaurs to the rescue as new life awakens for an old museum, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 November 2020
- Eddie Holmes, named as one of the SMH Good Weekend's 40 Australians Who Mattered: Health and Science, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 November 2020
- Ben Eggleton and Robert Park, named as winners of 2020 Eureka Prizes in Cosmos and on the Australian Museum website, 25 November 2020
- Judith Wheeldon (Opinion), Literature has the power to heal, in Letters to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2020
- Thomas Maschmeyer (Opinion), Break the home-made hurdles that stop technology development, Australian Financial Review, 23 November 2020
- Ross Gittins, for winning a 2020 Walkley award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, Walkley website (20 November 2020), and also in Herald journalists win Walkley award for Dyson Heydon investigation, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November 2020
- Ian Jacobs, Matthew England, The world's leading universities join the climate fight, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2020
- Susan Pond (as CoChair of the ATSE Expert Working Group), Towards a Waste-Free Future, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), 18 November 2020
- Bruce Milthorpe (and Geoff Hanmer) (Opinion), Many of our buildings are poorly ventilated, and that adds to COVID risks, The Conversation, 18 November 2020
- Adrian Lee (Opinion), Degree of misinformation, in Letters to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 November 2020
- Brian Schmidt, Global rankings are distorting universities' decisions, says ANU chief, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 November 2020
- Cathy Foley, Physicist Cathy Foley to become Australia's new Chief Scientist, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2020
- Arthur Sinodinos, Australian Ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos, interviewed by David Speers on ABC TV Insiders (concerning the outcome of the US Election and the implications for Australia), 8 November 2020.
- Merlin Crossley, Merlin Crossley wins NSW Premier’s Award for work on sickle cell anaemia, ABC Science Show, 7 November 2020
- Thomas Maschmeyer, More Prime Minister’s Science Prizes winners, ABC Science Show, 7 November 2020
- Barry Jones, Barry Jones on what is to be done next?, speaking on ABC Radio National Late Night Live on the updating of his famous book, What is to be done?, 5 November 2020.
- Mohammad Choucair, Australia's Archer and its plan for quantum world domination, ZDNet, 2 November 2020
- Thomas Maschmeyer, https://www.innovationaus.com/pm-recognises-australian-science-heroes/, Innovation Aus, 29 October 2020
- Edward Holmes, Virus rebel Professor Edward Holmes named NSW Scientist of the Year, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 2020
- Ian Constable, elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Academy elects 28 Fellows, AAHMS, 14 October 2020
- Karu Esselle, nominated for the 2020 University of Technology Sydney Eureka Prize For Outstanding mentor of Young Researchers, 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists, Australian Museum, 13 October 2020
- Maria Kavallaris AM and Robert Park, nominated for the 2020 CSIRO Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science, 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists, Australian Museum, 13 October 2020
- Ben Eggleton, nominated for the 2020 Defence Science and Technology Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia, 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists, Australian Museum, 13 October 2020
- Ben Quilty, referred to as a judge of the 2020 Archibald Prize, in 'It only took 99 years': Vincent Namatjira wins 2020 Archibald Prize, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2020
- Malte Ebach, TARDIS sets scientists on course to discover 450-million-year-old fossil, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 September 2020
- Michelle Simmons, Michelle Simmons joins CSIRO Board, InnovationAus, 20 September 2020
- Hugh Mackay (Opinion), The Age of Loneliness, appeared as a panellist on ABC TV Q&A, 14 September 2020
- Thomas Keneally (Opinion), Politics turned nasty after Sydney Olympics but social cohesion is once more our virtue, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2020
- Jillian Broadbent (Opinion), Panel of Wisdom, appeared as a panellist in ABC TV Q&A, 31 August 2020
- Justin Gooding, awarded the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Prize for Molecular Electrochemistry by the International Society of Electrochemistry, 1 September 2020
- Eddie Woo, When we went to remote learning, I could feel every teacher's eyes on me: lunch with Eddie Woo in SMH Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2020.
- David Gonski (Opinion), ANZ's Gonski says reputation must remain a top goal for banks, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 2020
- Emma Johnson (Opinion), Govt to introduce legislation changing the way it funds degrees in STEM subjects, interviewed on ABC Radio National Breakfast, 27 August 2020
- David Gonski (Opnion), Gonski backs lockdown strategy, Australian Financial Review, 26 August 2020
- Bruce Milthorpe (and Geoff Hanmer) (Opinion), Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks, The Conversation, 20 August 2020
- Mary O'Kane referred to in Landowners in fire-prone areas to be required to do hazard-reduction burns, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 August 2020 reporting on the release of the Final Report of the NSW Bushfire Inquiry, 31 July 2020, of which Professor O'Kane was a co-author
- Matthew England, Trevor McDougall, and Steven Sherwood (Opinion) as co-athors of a letter addressed to Australia's Chief Scientist reported in Australia's Chief Scientist is wrong on gas, say leading experts, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 August 2020
- Nalini Joshi, Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani, ABC Radio National Sunday Extra, 23 August 2020—a replay of the Ockham’s Razor broadcast first aired on 21 January 2018 in which Nalini Joshi pays a personal tribute to the life and legacy of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female winner of the Fields Medal, who died in 2017
- Andrea Morello, UNSW launches new degree in quantum engineering, ABC Radio Science Show, 15 August 2020
- Emma Johnston, State of the Environment Report co-chiefs appointed, Australian Government Minister for the Environment (The Hon. Sussan Ley), 13 August 2020
- Thomas Keneally, Sacred Space Tom Keneally, broadcast on the Compass program on ABC TV (Religion and Ethics), 10 August 2020
- Hugh Mackay, Hiding in plain sight, an extract from The Inner Self – the Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are by Hugh Mackay (Macmillan Australia), published in the Weekend Australian magazine, 8-9 August 2020
- Jake Olivier (Opinion), quoted in Heartbroken mother calls on drivers to drop ‘she'll be right’ attitude, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2020
- Len Fisher (Opinion), Scientists struggle with their message, ABC Science Show, 24 July 2020
- Peter Shergold, quoted in Call for ‘learner profile’ of students to end dominance of ATAR, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 July 2020
- Herbert Huppert, Society Fellow awarded the 2020 London Royal Society Royal Medal, and Royal Society (News), 4 August 2020
- Barney Glover (Opinion), Powerhouse Parramatta will be bigger and better than before, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 2020
- Ian Sloan (Society Position), Premier's zeal for museum's move must be explained, Sydney Morning Herald (President's Letter to the Editor), 29 June 2020
- Thomas Keneally (Opinion), Cultural cringe + market economics = lower education, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 2020
- Lord Robert May, Vale the professor of everything, ABC Science Show, 13 June 2020
- Belinda Hutchinson, Stephen Garton, Roy MacLeod, Queen's Birthday Honours 2020, 8 June 2020
- Gary Froyland, Katrina Joliffe, Ian Paulsen, Professors Froyland, Joliffe and Paulsen, RSN Fellows, elected as Australian Academy of Science Fellows, 30 May 2020
- John Shine, Society Fellow awarded a prestigious international fellowship, 15 May 2020
- Mohammed Choucair, Quantum computing startup led by Royal Society Fellow joins the IBM Q Network, 5 May 2020
- Lord Robert May, Death of Lord Robert May of Oxford-Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW, 30 April 2020
- Maria Kavallaris, RSNSW Fellow named NSW Woman of the Year 2020, 7 March 2020
- Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley, Australia Day Honours 2020, 26 January 2020
2019
- Rebecca Johnson, RSNSW Fellow appointed Chief Scientist of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 18 December 2019
- Rose Amal, Nalini Joshi, Society Fellows awarded NSW Premier's Science Prizes, 31 October 2019
- Thomas Maschmeyer, Recycling is not a waste problem, it's a resource opportunity, Sudney Morning Herald, 19 October 2019
- Elizabeth New, Society Fellow wins 2019 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, 19 October 2019
- Leo Radom, Katherine Belov, Michelle Simmons, Keith Suter, Queen’s Birthday honours for RSNSW Fellows, 10 June 2019
- Brynn Hibbert, The Life of Brynn, Royal Australian Chemical Institute Magazine, January/February 2019
- Jillian Broadbent, Leonard Fisheer, Barney Glover, Adrian Hibberd, Robert Thomas, FRSNs in 2019 Australia Day honours, 29 January 2019
- Mark Compton, FRSN to be Lord Prior of St John International, 10 January 2019
