The ILESLA Programme at the University of Oxford is offering a PhD on the oceanography of Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles. Applications close Thursday 8 January 2026. More information, including how to apply, is here: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/ocean-dynami...

JAMSTEC/Tohoku University, Japan, is offering 10 postdoc opportunities. You should hold a PhD in a related field by the effective date of employment, and in addition be no more than 5 years post-PhD. Applications close 21 December 2025: www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/de...

Thank you to Dr Nikki Sims-Chilton for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe University and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology are offering a funded PhD opportunity on “Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species”. Applications close Monday 12 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Cute little spikey echidnas have massive poos! The size of a go card! The 💩 can also be detected by dogs. Let's turn 💩 into conservation solutions. Great talk by Kate Dutton-Regester at @uq-cbcs.bsky.social @brisbanetimes.bsky.social @qld.greens.org.au @hugepossum.bsky.social

Thank you to Kate Dutton-Regester for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Are you ready to embark on your journey into the world of R and statistical analysis? Transform your research questions into robust statistical insights with our 2026 Summer R Workshops in an immersive exploration of R programming and statistical modelling: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/su...

Thank you to Nathalie Rosenberg Bach for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Thank you to Liz Foote for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

The IUCN is seeking a full-time, fixed-term (up to 24 months with possibility of renewal) Ocean Programme Officer to be based at their headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. Applications close at midnight Swiss time on Tuesday 25 November: hrms.iucn.org/vacancy/7439

CBCS's Samuel Ho has published a paper from his undergraduate project, which is the first to collate a database of the introduced vertebrates in Hong Kong and study the factors shaping them and temporal patterns. Read the paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

CBCS alum Divya Narain has led a paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC colleagues titled “A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site-level screening for biodiversity risks”. Read the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Postdoc and lecturing opportunities at The University of Melbourne in Professor Emily Nicholson’s research group: two postdocs on biodiversity indicators and monitoring (two+ years each) and a four-year lecturing role in ecosystem conservation science. conservationscience.org.au/2025/10/20/t...

Congratulations to CBCSers Lily Bentley and Alice Twomey and CBCS alums Michelle Ward and Caitie Kuempel, who have all been named as finalists in the 2025 Queensland Women in STEM Prize! Winners will be announced on Thursday 13 November.

The WWF Protecting Whales and Dolphins Initiative team is looking for a creative writer and copy-editor on a six-month contract to start in early 2026. Closes 17 November: wwfwhales.org/expression-o...

Registrations now open for Summer R Workshops, 9–13 February 2026. Transform your research questions into robust statistical insights with our 2026 Summer R Workshops! For more information, see our website mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/su... For any questions, email [email protected]

CBCS Prof. Richard Fuller received the prestigious Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Service Award. Here, we sat down with Rich to talk about what the award means to him, reflect on his career and hear his thoughts on the future of conservation: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/prof...

The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, is offering a PhD supervised by CBCS alum Hannah Wauchope and Tom Butterworth. Applications close Sunday 14 December: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Thank you to Drew Terasaki Hart for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

The University of California Santa Barbara is advertising for a two-year postdoc to be based at UCSB and working on a recently funded project investigating the contributions of termites to methane cycling in the Afrotropics (fieldwork in the Republic of Congo). recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03019

The Mindaroo Foundation’s Exmouth Research Lab are providing lab and field support for high-impact science projects to be conducted at their facility in Exmouth, Western Australia - EOIs are open until 3 November 2025. More information, including how to submit your EOI, is here: merl.minderoo.org

Thank you to Christina Skinner for presenting at our CBCS seminar yesterday. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Sign up for the International Nature Positive Student Ambassador Programme, run by the UN Environmental Programme and the University of Oxford. Learn more: www.naturepositiveuniversities.net/student-amba...

From biological oceanography to data science and spatial planning, Dr Jason Everett’s career has been shaped by a passion for understanding the oceans through data. Here, CBCS spoke with the Senior Research Fellow to learn more about his journey: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/carv...

🌟 Job opportunity! 🌟 Bush Heritage Australia is looking for a full-time, ongoing Field Officer to join their team at Yourka Reserve on Jirrbal and Warrungu Country in northern Queensland, where your work will help protect threatened species and their habitats. applynow.net.au/jobs/FOY2025

Thank you to Kellie Ashley and Heather Monro-Allison for presenting at our CBCS seminar yesterday. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

CBCS spoke with Hugh Possingham about being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In this interview, he reflects on the privilege, people and purpose that have shaped his career – and what he believes matters most for the next generation of scientists. cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/prof...

Join a compelling free public lecture exploring how scientific expertise informs legal decisions impacted by climate change. T Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-data-...

In a recently published Conservation Letters perspective paper, Carissa Klein and colleagues from UQ explore Australia’s long-standing claims of global leadership in marine conservation. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/conl...

CBCS spoke with Samuel Ho, Research Assistant at TERN and UQ graduate, about his journey from aspiring photographer in Hong Kong to freshwater conservation researcher. Read his story here: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/amph...

Thank you to Amanda Niehaus and Jessica White for presenting at our CBCS seminar yesterday. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Volunteer opportunity at the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital! You will help care for birds of prey by cleaning aviaries to keep them safe and comfortable, weeding and maintaining the surrounding environment and assisting with feeding. No experience necessary! Email [email protected]

All are welcome to a catered poster session on October 16th celebrating LGBTQIA+ researchers on the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test! Please RSVP by contacting Matt Holden at [email protected]

The University of New South Wales’s Centre for Ecosystem Science is offering a platypus PhD – “Platypus Conservation in Urban Environments” – in Sydney and Brisbane. This opportunity will remain open until filled; if you are interested, please apply asap: nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...

The Sorbonne University, France, is offering a joint 36-month Brazilian–French PhD project, Mangrove Blue Carbon: Soil and Microbial Characteristics in Brazil. Applications close Sunday 2 November. Expected start date is Jan 2026. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you to Dr Cathy Robinson of CSIRO for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Join CoralWatch on Thursday 9 October for free pizza, a screening of OCEAN narrated by Sir David Attenborough and a Q&A panel discussion with leading marine experts, Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, A/Prof Carissa Klein, and Ms Diana Kleine. Must register! ➡️ ems.gs/3iGO0chdnay

The Society for Conservation Biology, SEQ Chapter, is inviting you to join their Conservation Optimism event. This event aims to provide a space for people to share their emotions around environmental grief, and examples of conservation success to bring hope www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conservati...

CBCS alum Divya Narain has released a new report, Climate Course Correction: Preventing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Lock-in from Development Finance–Driven Industrialization of Animal Agriculture in Low-Income Countries. The report can be downloaded here: tinybeamfund.org/Fellowship-A...

Thank you to Coen Hird for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week! If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Conrad Pratt has published a new paper in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, with the help of numerous collaborators, reporting the introduction of the non-native seagrass-fouling bryozoan Juxtacribrilina mutabilis to eastern Canada. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

James Cook University is hiring a permanent Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science to work out of JCU Earth and Environmental Science in the College of Science and Engineering at the Bebegu Yumba campus, Townsville. Applications close 8 October 2025: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

The University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has a PhD position available in Hobart focused on restoring seagrass meadows to improve habitat for the Critically Endangered red handfish. Applications close 1 October 2025: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

CBCS alum Pablo Negret has contributed to a paper in Science titled “Fragmentation increased in over half of global forests from 2000 to 2020”. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bora Aska has led a paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity with co-authors including Laura Sonter, Sophus zu Ermgassen and Tom Lloyd titled “Mining, biodiversity and social conflict in the renewable energy transition”: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thank you to Claire Mason for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

@uq-cbcs.bsky.social Senior Research Leader (Spatial Monitoring and Evaluation) Kew Gardens. Cutting-edge spatial and modelling approaches grounded in strong statistical thinking and supported by remote sensing to monitor ecosystems and assess impact of management actions. Deadline 28th Sep 2025

The joint Australian Marine Sciences Association South-East Queensland Branch (SEQ-AMSA) and CBCS workshop on quality scientific data analysis with large language models last week, September 11, was a resounding success!

Thank you to Frankie Cho for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week! If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars