💡 We are inviting you to nominate a woman in microbiology whose work or impact deserves to be seen. Selected nominations will be featured on the FEMS website and across our social media channels on International Women’s Day, 8 March. 👉 Who inspires you? Nominate them by 4 March . buff.ly/AKyMbQD

#Stems and #leaves of angiosperms follow a convex trade-off to optimise hydraulic safety and efficiency A #Letter by Kreinert et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Seems I’m not the only one that likes figs at our place.

🎨Stella Ross-Craig (1906-2006) is known for her skilled line drawings such as this Rosa tomentosa from her work 'Drawings of British Plants' - a series to which she dedicated 25 years! Keen to see other examples of her drawings in Kew's Library display? Details on the display below 👇 #KewLA

Extreme climatic events (floods, droughts, heatwaves) are reshaping riverine biodiversity by eroding genetic diversity, altering communities, and disrupting ecosystems. Recovery is slow, and compounding events pose a major emerging threat… www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Job alert: Researcher/Senior Researcher in Geochemistry & Optical Petrography for Subsurface Energy Applications, Institue for Energy Technology (NO). Apply by 11 March. More info: buff.ly/pG71lDE

Olympic highlight in this house.

Guilty of illegal clearing and rewarded with future license for more decimation of Jarrah forest for gallium to export to the US. It will be uranium next. Still the world’s quarry. #auspol

Days after Public Source published an investigation of Alcoa’s impact in Western Australia, the company ran an ad in an Australian newspaper, headlined, “Is Jarrah Forest rehabilitation possible? We’re here with the facts.” An independent watch dog flagged it as misleading. buff.ly/YLurLiS

yay, it's formally out! Thanks to the amazing Laura Williams, @bmedlyn.bsky.social and team for driving this study.

Peter Weir’s film ‘Gallipoli’ depicted young blokes naively drawn to the excitement and the adventure of war. Nobody said they ‘made their bed.’

US science funding shutdown:

Wildfire research focuses on beech forests Here's what PhD student Georgia Stevenson has been up to... @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social www.bioeconomyscience.co.nz/news-and-eve...

The word "interesting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 🔥 😂 in respect of Senator Canavan saying he had "never heard of the #AtlasNetwork". His brother an exec at 🇺🇸 coal giant Peabody, which is a major funder of Atlas climate denial propganda and thinktanks in Australia & in the USA.👀👇 #Auspol

Property developers in Perth plan to bulldoze an endangered banksia ecosystem used by threatened black cockatoo species, and conservationists have warned the damage cannot be mitigated by proposed offsets. The developers want to replant the ecosystem within a different type of protected woodland.

Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/no-till-gardening/

The Pennsylvania-based company has cleared around 28,000 hectares of the world's only #jarrah forests in WA as part of its bauxite mining operation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

tassie is just so clean and green. come down to breath the lead dust 🥰 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Just awful. People (like Ryan mentioned in the article, who is living out of his van) have been staying awake all night for weeks keeping watch over the memorial for this exact reason.

Fire nerd mates: the VIC parliament is holding an inquiry into this summer's fires. Really good/ broad terms of reference. We are inviting folks to contribute their ideas/experiences to include in our submission. Get in touch! [email protected] www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Biodiversity offsets are considered the first option when it should be the last. This plan continues the erosion of tree and vegetation cover on the Swan Coastal Plain. ACF are correct that "The damage cannot be mitigated by proposed offsets."

Alcoa reported an $18.1 billion profit last year, making this fine roughly equivalent to what the multinational mining company earns in a day. #auspol #nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ACF has written to environment minister Murray Watt, requesting he reconsider the scope of his assessment of Woodside’s proposed Browse gas project after a scientific report revealed substantial new information about environmental damage the project will cause. #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/gamecha...

But fines, research and offsets don't restore what they destroyed: US mining company Alcoa hit with ‘unprecedented’ $55m penalty for illegal clearing of WA jarrah forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WA Labor Party policy is to ban fracking across all of WA Fracking's already banned the Southwest, Peel & Perth Metropolitan regions & the Dampier Peninsula BUT WA might allow Black Mountain Energy to frack in the #Kimberley⁉️ Keep up the pressure on WA EPA & Cook's WA Labor govt

“they should be careful not to deprioritize the kind of curiosity-driven, investigator-led research that has a strong track record in advancing humanity’s knowledge, producing the types of innovation that prosperity and well-being depend on.” 🧪 #Research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ECR/Postdoc position - 2 years. ARC Discovery Project - Transgenerational implications of microplastic toxicity. Field and mammal handling experience preferred. Microplastic analysis experience ideal. Scope to support a PhD student. Please email Renée ([email protected]) for more details!

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The nexus between PHON's disgusting & burgeoning Islamophobia & the "Advance" organisation, with its well-known list of major funders, needs to be called out loud and clear. They're no longer even pretending to hide the hypocrisy. #Auspol

We are but star dust, And to dust we shall return, Make it worth the ride. #Photography #Haiku

Yesterday (17th Feb) we began the 2026 UWA School of Biological Sciences (#SBS) Conference 🔬🕷️🌿🐳🧬🦘🧪! We had the amazing opportunity to see the breadth of research being conducted across our school. Below is the thread of outstanding presentations from fellow CEBers on Day 1 (17th Feb):

Was this national interest exemption for Alcoa already in the works when Labor negotiated with the Greens in Dec 2025 to explicitly exclude Oil & Gas projects from the 3 EPBC fast-track pathways Does this signal many more "national interests exemptions" to come in non-Oil & Gas mining projects❓

Despite Alcoa's appalling breach of law, Environment Minister Watt has "granted Alcoa a national‑interest exemption to allow the company to continue land clearing for its mining operations for 18 months", while a strategic assessment mining at its Huntly & Willowdale mining operations is completed🤯

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

Searching for a PhD? 🧬🌾 A fully funded 3.5-year PhD is available at @latrobeuni.bsky.social (Melbourne) to work on engineering transcription factors for better nitrogen use in plants! Reqd: ✅ Honours/Masters in Mol Bio, Biotech, or Plant Science ✅ Passion for sustainable ag Contact me for details

#auspol ???!!! my thoughts exactly - maybe with a WTF and FFS thrown in. But I swear a lot

In Indonesia, two islands have already disappeared & thousands more face the threat of rising seas. Families are being relocated & tourism projects that once sustained local economies are fading away. Our photo story captures how climate-driven events are reshaping life for coastal communities.

Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑‍💻🌿🐸❄️ I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7 @ipcc.bsky.social

there is simply no evidence that this small group of women and children - or any small group of women and children - are a threat to “public safety”. None. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... for the first time we have the numbers of foriegn nationals that murdered famines in Gaza and destroyed thier towns cities ecology,they have even poisoned the soil so no vegetation grows. Over 500 australians

“We weren’t allowed to use the override button. There was no ability for anyone to say: ‘The algorithm has it wrong, we need a human to adjust this’.” Coming to the #NDIS soon. @australianlabor.bsky.social the gov for punitive cruel policies, and abuse of vulnerable ppl. We need change #Auspol

Spread the word!! This is a fantastic program for college graduates interested in finding research opportunities in #ecology, #evolution, #biology, #genomics, #naturalhistory museum collections, #conservation, and many other topics. See the page for actively recruiting labs! 🦑🧪🧬🖥️⚛️

The private foundation of Jillian Segal funds Advance Australia to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation” and racist hate. Get her off our payroll, @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social. All decent Australians want Jillian Segal out of public life. #auspol

An assessment tool that doesn't allow any human revision is nothing more than a deliberate cost cutting tool, knowingly introduced by the Albanese government. It is no different to Robo-debt. It must be fixed! 👇 #Auspol #Agedcare #ElderAbuse www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Rather than selling to private developers, the government has better options. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/austral...

It's always a celebration when a PhD student publishes their first paper! Congratulations John Bright Ayabilah, who came from Ghana to @imas-utas.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social to work on how modes of climate variability affect the mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet 1/2 ❄️🧪

I’m doing my part. Why can’t the gas industry

Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

And remember, good people, apparently we need a ridiculous & inefficient "Nature Repair Market" to properly fund conservation, because government simply can't afford to do it. It's shameful this nonsense persists, & far too many, including some that should know better, are willing to perpetuate it.