Yes, this is it: the last HCSNet Newsletter ever. So here we are at the end of five and a half years of learning about things we didn’t know about. It’s been a trip. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed meeting so many people from so many academic disciplines, some of which we didn’t even know existed before HCSNet started. Anecdotal evidence suggests many of you have had the same experience. We’ve had just so many fantastic research interactions, so many memorable social experiences, and so many bruised toes from SummerFest Ceilidhs; all will be remembered fondly. But now it’s time for a rest, until the ARC realises that this really is an experiment worth repeating. Thank you to all our members for making all of this possible – it obviously couldn’t have taken place without you. Thank you to our Priority Area leaders, Lawrence Cavedon, David Copland, Chris Davis, Diego Molla and Rick van der Zwan, and to all those who organised HCSNet workshops over the years, for making events happen. Thanks to Darlene Williams and the administrative staff at UWS, and Melina Chan and the administrative staff at Macquarie, for their help in navigating sometimes tricky university administrative minefields. And, most of all, an especially big thanks to all the HCSNet administrative staff over the years – Kym Buckley, Chris Cassidy, Michelle Jablonski, Rosemary Eliott, and Mel Gallagher— without whom it would just all be a disorganised mess; and to our webmasters over the years – Ben Phelan, James Ballantine and Brett Powley – without whom it would be invisible. We hope to see you all somewhere along the road.

Robert Dale, Denis Burnham and Kate Stevens