New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

It’s always worth celebrating a student’s first paper! And an excellent one at that! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🧪🌎🌍🦎🌡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper evaluating the utility of eDNA metabarcoding for detecting the cryptic and Critically Endangered Arnhem rock skink in Kakadu National Park. Despite sampling high activity crevices, we were unable to detect them using eDNA. www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24072

It may be hot and wet, but at least it’s consistent #darwinweather

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social. Achievements unlocked!

🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@biodiversityguy.bsky.social delivering his @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Australian Ecology Research Award. Congratulations, Dale! Thoroughly deserved recognition for your wonderful and important work. #ESAus2024

Next up... fauna and gigafires! Grant Linley @glinley.bsky.social #ESAUS2024

How to train your apex reptilian predators! Great research on how to protect varanids from cane toads #ESAus2024

A great article highlighting the incredibly important work @chapplelab.bsky.social, @julesfarquhar.bsky.social and team are doing to improve our understanding of Australia’s data deficient skinks! 🦎 www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildl...?

It’s a big year for snakes in Australia. In fact, it’s always going to be a big year, so homework helps www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Saving ‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’ survival, say scientists www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our review about the value of older animals appeared this weekend in the Age of Extinction series www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t even think about it mate! Exciting to see an endangered northern quoll in Kakadu last night clearly avoiding its primary threat—toxic, invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina).

Just because they’re great, here’s a reptile! Hidden dragon (Cryptagama aurita). These little pebble mimicking dragons go decades between being seen. Before we found this guy in 2018, they hadn’t been seen since the 90s! www.publish.csiro.au/book/7930/

Celebrating @altmetric.com with this repost! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Islands harbor 1/3 of the world’s #plant species, including 63,280 endemics—making them #biodiversity hotspots. Yet, only 6% meet global #conservation goals. @natureportfolio.bsky.social #nature #science #research

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

What’s crazy is a cicada at 73 decibels is on the lower end of the scale 😟 This article claims the average Double drummer cicada is around 90 decibels (as loud as a lawnmower) & the Australian Museum has recorded sounds of ~120 decibels (as loud as a chainsaw or a jet plane taking off)! 😳🛫 🧪🌏🪲👂💥📣📢

Why does #Australia have so many #reptiles, and why are so many of them among the world's most venomous? 🐍🇦🇺 In our latest EcolClip, Dr. Chris Jolly tells us why! #Venomous #Wildlife #EcolClips #Ecology #Biodiversity #Snakes #Biology #nature #naturephotography #venomoussnake #herpetology

I want to make a list of global collaborations in ecology, including coordinated distributed experiments (e.g., NutNet) and data-based collaborations (e.g., UrBioNet). Hit me with your knowledge.

A region’s climate is defined over periods of 30 years. In a world affected by global warming, we need new tools to improve these definitions.

What I currently spend half my time studying! Fighting cane toads with cane toads. www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/11...?

OK, here’s a doozy🤯 What if I told you that, until very recently, some researchers could infer their grant outcome in ARC’s Research Management System (RMS) at least a month before official release? Unbelievable, right? (OK, this is the ARC, so not unbelievable😑) Thread👇

Ever wonder why shiny beetles aren’t immediately a predator’s lunch? 🪲🕷️ This study suggests shininess jumbles predators’ visual tracking! On moving shiny targets, predator jumping spiders’ attacks were twice as variable and struck a zone two target-widths wider, compared to non-shiny targets 😎 🧪🌏

First post here. I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest paper out in @ecography.bsky.social Differential predation patterns of free-ranging #cats among continents doi.org/10.1111/ecog... (hint: it's worse in Australia than in Europe & North America) @franckcourchamp.bsky.social

The Aprasia genus is a group of small, slender, worm-like lizards in the Pygopodidae (flap-footed lizard) family, which shares a common evolutionary ancestor with geckos. They are only found in Australia, where there are 14 species. Here is every species occurring in the state of Victoria.

This video will break your heart if you care about nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We copped our first proper wet season storm in Darwin last night! And the green tree frogs (Litoria caerulea) got straight down to business. Gotta love the male’s little bum wiggle 💚🐸💚 📸 Alana de Laive

click.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=04d05df9e... It’s out!

Loss of Earth’s old, wise and large animals I really enjoyed working on this paper, which was expertly led by Keller Kopf, where we reviewed the significant contributions made by large, old and wise animals, and why we would be wise to conserve them doi.org/10.1126/scie...

My university has 16 executives paid more than our state premier :/ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏 The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic... The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q

Update on conservation status of Australia's freshwater fish. It looks grim and more effort needed to limit invasive trout and habitat loss. www.abc.net.au/news/science...