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Will Labor’s environment laws actually address Australia’s biodiversity crisis? No. They’ll make it worse. The biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity. We can’t afford this 💩 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The froggies are spawning and looking for lurve! Two in this little pond. You can hear the quiet popping of a call in the background

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Camera traps at new heights. 📸 In Arunachal Pradesh, at 4,200m above sea level, WWF India have documented some incredible species living at this altitude, including 6 wild cat species! Part of our ongoing work to support snow leopards and their prey, with thanks to #DarwinInitiative.

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TWO PhD positions at Uni Western Australia with Caitlin Moore studying #agrivoltaics & #microclimate. Funding available for int'l & domestic students. Closing soon–apply by Fri 31 Oct (Aus time). #PlantScience researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships... researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...

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Africa’s marine protected areas host numerous invasive species, and tapping into global databases and citizen science tools like iNaturalist offers a powerful, low-cost way to track and manage these underwater invasions for the first time. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...

Eight of the 13 koalas moved in March died – one more than the government originally claimed Some were left in the forest for six weeks after the first deaths. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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My job, and the jobs of 20 of my Faculty of Science colleagues at Queensland University of Technology, are under threat with a proposal to slash staff. Our work to protect #biodiversity is at stake. In Australia and beyond, please sign this petition to support us 🧪 www.change.org/Save-Our-Sci...

Another individual tragedy. #Koalas are a high profile species but it’s reflective of what little regard we have for our biodiversity in general 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪 theconversation.com/and-then-the...

My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊 academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

I’ve been deeply saddened by her passing and spent a little time trying to understand why. In a world that is often so transactional and superficial, she was just so…good. Someone we could aspire to be. Who made the world better. Vale. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

📢JOB alert📢 Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

The Wilderness Society has been successful in federal court proceedings it launched in March that sought to compel the minister to make recovery plans for species including the greater glider and the ghost bat #biodiversity 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great initiative! Note that these appear to be mostly US positions but there are some international jobs in there as well 🧪

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Our Editorial concludes a Research Topic with 26 insightful articles on how #ecosystems respond to human pressures & #ClimateChange: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... Explore the full collection: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... #MarineScience #Conservation #Biodiversity #MarineEcology 🧪🌍🌐🌊

Morning all. Nice sunrise at Peregian Beach

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Keeping cats contained is safer for them and safer for the environment. This is a massive issue in Australia 🧪 The #biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The Albanese government has approved the destruction of 4,000 hectares of koala habitat in 2025, making it the worst year on record a further 2.3 million hectares of koala habitat have been cleared without approval 🧪 #biodiversity www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Bushwalking at Springbrook. Queensland. Waterfalls, Gondwana rainforest, crystal skies, pademelons. Amazing #biodiversity. Awful place. Don’t go there, you’d hate it

Good on the NSW EPA! “The alleged offences include failing to properly search for and identify glider den trees before logging, failing to replace hollow-bearing … trees that were damaged or felled, and damaging the habitat of a threatened species.” 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

I’ll be chatting with @dontattempt.bsky.social this evening (~7:45) about that award-winningly underrated beastie, the Rakali. The animal, the name, the legend! Let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to include…

Morning at the Brisbane botanical gardens

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🧪looks really interesting. @callanalexander.bsky.social is doing some cool work

A bit here, a lot there…more and more habitat destroyed for fossil fuels we don’t want or need. “Land clearing is one of the key threats facing the #koala” Protect #biodiversity! 🧪 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Conservation postdoc in Brisbane, Australia 🧪

There’s a new kid delivering the mail…likes a laugh… #birds

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That’s fantastic! I was thinking about this a few years back for various mammals calls. I didn’t get the chance to pursue my ideas but excellent to see such nice work on it. 🧪

More reasons for hope “The Australian Wildlife Conservancy last month released 147 of the brush-tailed bettongs on to its sanctuary at Mount Gibson” 🧪 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We won’t even mind if you fake data, our institutions don’t much care. www.theage.com.au/national/the...

If you publish species descriptions in non-specialist (non-taxonomy & systematics or museum journals) you might be encouraged or tempted to put the data, photos, and measurements in electronic SI. Don't do it! (We at the Australian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium suggest) www.authorea.com/users/418937...