Brad Murray
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Ecology, conservation, evolution. Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.
One of my favourites, Pimelea linifolia from the lower Blue Mountains (NSW Australia)
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Aaron Greenville
29 days ago
PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmentalĀ change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing andā¦
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PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmentalĀ change
Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and nutrient addition, and in-turn, quantify the loss of ecosystem function resulting from species turnover. Further, this project will identify species that contribute the most to function.
http://aarongreenville.com/2026/03/04/phd-opportunity-maximising-the-resilience-of-grasslands-in-an-age-of-rapid-environmental-change/
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Tim Curran
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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...
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Wildfire research focuses on beech forests | Bioeconomy Science Institute
New wildfire research is putting the litter bed flammability of New Zealandās beech forests under the microscope.
https://www.bioeconomyscience.co.nz/news-and-events/news/2026-news/wildfire-research-focuses-on-beech-forests
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Association for Fire Ecology
about 2 months ago
New #FireEcology article šØ "Moisture content ranges in live Eucalyptus leaves vary among species and strongly affect ignitability" by William McNeice, Anne Griebel, Daniel W. Krix, Brad R. Murray, Matthias M. Boer, Brendan Choat, and Rachael H. Nolan #SNFECO š„Read it here:
https://ow.ly/e5CB50YbQBM
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Liv De La Mare
about 2 months ago
My article for the 2025 AWS Wildlife Ecology Research Scholarship is now available to read in the summer ā26 magazine! Iām extremely grateful for the support the Australia Wildlife Society has provided for my project. Grab a copy here:
www.aws.org.au/magazine/
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Tim Curran
2 months ago
Are green firebreaks a useful fire management tool under climate change in southeastern Australia? TLDR: yes, in many scenarios, especially when used in conjunction with other fire mitigation measures by
@ericamarshall.bsky.social
@trentpenman.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Are green firebreaks a useful fire management tool under climate change in southeastern Australia?
Fire management under changing climatic conditions presents several challenges, including the need to manage fire regimes for multiple objectives, sucā¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969726001191
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Professor Euan Ritchie
2 months ago
More than 100,000 reads so far. Thank you everyone for engaging with our article and this vitally important conservation issue.
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Alex Slavenko
2 months ago
An excellent and thorough rebuttal of the extremely flawed paper by Wallach & Lundgren (2025). š§Ŗš
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Cats and foxes did it. Leading Scientists refute "Invasive Species Denialism", reaffirming introduced predators as a major cause of mammal extinctions.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/leading...
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Cats and foxes did it. Leading Scientists refute āInvasive Species Denialism,ā reaffirming introduced predators as a major cause of mammal extinctions | Biodiversity Council Australia
25 leading conservation scientists, ecologists, and mammal experts refute the controversial claim that there is "little evidence" that introduced cats and foxes have caused extinctions in Australia.
https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/leading-scientists-refute-invasive-species-denialism
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BEAM | Ngura Nandamari
2 months ago
Thrilled to see our latest research featured in
@theguardian.com
@australianmuseum.bsky.social
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
@kjpeters.bsky.social
@coorongdan.bsky.social
@fredsaltre.bsky.social
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Liv De La Mare
4 months ago
This week I had my first opportunity to present my research at the Ecological Society of Australiaās conference poster session! A great opportunity and already looking forward to next year.
#esa2025
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Deborah Marsh
4 months ago
Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premierās Prize for Science & Engineering ā Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si...
#NSWPremiersPrizes
#CoralReefs
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Category 5: Dr Jennifer Matthews
YouTube video by NSW Premier's Department
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9SimilLtcc
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BEAM | Ngura Nandamari
4 months ago
'Forever chemicalsā contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought ā new research
theconversation.com/forever-chem...
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@kjpeters.bsky.social
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āForever chemicalsā contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought ā new research
The sex and age of an animal turn out to be stronger predictors than habitat for higher PFAS levels, suggesting they accumulate over a lifetime.
https://theconversation.com/forever-chemicals-contaminate-more-dolphins-and-whales-than-we-thought-new-research-269928?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Urban biodiversity: Adult butcherbird feeding young in a street tree nest
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So excited to hear that Olivia De La Mare, an MSc student in my research group, has won the 2026 Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence award. Science meets art, well done Liv!
www.bundanon.com.au
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Bundanon - An art museum embedded in the landscape
Bundanon is a place for research, creativity and connection to living cultures.
https://www.bundanon.com.au/
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James Hitchcock
5 months ago
Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia
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The final version is now available
#AmJBot
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Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of liveāleaf flammability in plant species of fireāprone forests
Premise The flammability of live leaves in canopies varies considerably among plant species. Identifying macroevolutionary processes that shape variation in leaf flammability contributes to an under.....
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajb2.70073
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Botanical Society of America
5 months ago
š„š± The new
#AJB
Special Issue, āUnderstanding novel
#ļ¬re
regimes using plant traitābased approaches," is now online! š±š„ This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
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Nice to see this research about naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats published, I'm one of the many co-authors who contributed
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1511...
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A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats
Global databases have contributed to our understanding of alien, naturalised and invasive plant species distributions. Still, the role of species invasions in habitats, specifically in aquatic habitat...
https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/151156/
6 months ago
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Inna Osmolovsky
7 months ago
It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to
@zoexiro.bsky.social
and
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk šæ
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Yvonne Davila
7 months ago
ššø With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect. Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky
@innaosmol.bsky.social
on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"
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Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!
7 months ago
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Zoe Xirocostas
8 months ago
Spent the past month in Greece š¬š· on holiday and visiting family. But surprised to see so many reminders of Aus (Eucalypts) planted on so many islands! (could they be contributing to the wildfires Greece is being ravaged by? So many questions!)
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Yvonne Davila
8 months ago
I'm still buzzing after an amazing day at the Sydney Science Trail, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan!
#NationalScienceWeek
I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators šøšš¼šŖ°šŖ»š¦
#STEMEducation
#Pollination
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Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch
8 months ago
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Botanical Society of America
8 months ago
š„š± From the
#AJB
Special Issue: āUnderstanding novel
#ļ¬re
regimes using plant traitābased approaches" š±š„ Fight fire with food
#forests
: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart
#agroforestry
systems By Ashley Pacheco, Hannah Goodman et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and
@zoexiro.bsky.social
on our latest flammability project Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
9 months ago
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Botanical Society of America
9 months ago
š„š± From the
#AJB
Special Issue: āUnderstanding novel
#ļ¬re
regimes using plant traitābased approaches" š±š„ Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone
#forests
By
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
,
@zoexiro.bsky.social
, et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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FrƩdƩrik SaltrƩ
9 months ago
š Weāre live! The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab @UTS finally has a website! š š Check it out:
www.biogeographyuts.org
#Ecology
#Biogeography
#ClimateChange
#Conservation
#ScienceWithImpact
#Science
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
@ciehf.bsky.social
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https://www.biogeographyuts.org/
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Corey Bradshaw
10 months ago
Geochemical proof that Aboriginal Australians have been changing landscape-scale fire regimes (cooler, less-intense fires) for at least 11,000 years, and probably much longer
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australiaās tropical savannahs - Nature Geoscience
A shift towards more-frequent, less-intense fires in Australia began about 11,000āyears ago due to management by Indigenous societies, according to charcoal and stable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3
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Dylan Schwilk
10 months ago
Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.
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Yvonne Davila
11 months ago
Happy World Bee Day! š This year's theme, "Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all", highlights the critical roles bees and other pollinators play in agrifood systems and ecosystem health. Here's a Lipotriches bee buzz-pollinating a Dianella flower (Wangal land).
#worldbeeday
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Botanical Society of America
11 months ago
š„š± From the upcoming
#AJB
Special Issue: āUnderstanding novel
#ļ¬re
regimes using plant traitābased approaches" š±š„ From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany
#plantscience
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Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer
@juergenknauer.bsky.social
, UTS Chancellorās Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Very excited to see this paper out! Led by
@schwilk.org
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@azhar06.bsky.social
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
@rachaelnolan.bsky.social
@alefidelis.bsky.social
@ioliverasmenor.bsky.social
@dendromecon27.bsky.social
@profalistairsmith.bsky.social
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From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies
Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fireāvegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representat...
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.70040
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Yvonne Davila
11 months ago
Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! š±š³šøš
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11 months ago
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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Green firebreaks ready for wildfire at Christchurchās Mt Vernon Park
Green fire breaks will ānot always stop a wildfire, but they can slow or decrease the intensity of a fireā, an expert says.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360529336/green-firebreaks-ready-wildfire-christchurchs-mt-vernon-park?cx_testId=8&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&utm_source=the_press_stuff_home&utm_medium=referral#cxrecs_s
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Fascinating article in The Conversation by UTS marine ecologists Shauna Murray and Greta Gaiani: Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
theconversation.com/mystery-solv...
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Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.
https://theconversation.com/mystery-solved-our-tests-reveal-the-tiny-algae-killing-fish-and-harming-surfers-on-sa-beaches-252810
about 1 year ago
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Zoe Xirocostas
about 1 year ago
Excited to be attending Science Meets Parliament 2025 in Canberra. Kicked off this morning with insights from Bill Shorten around R&D investment and amplifying science within government policy
#SMP2025
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At the National Maritime Museum.
about 1 year ago
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Such inspiring ecological research on plant flammability now being used to help reduce wildfire impacts. Great work Tim!
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over 1 year ago
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UTSās pollination ecologist extraordinaire at ESA 2024, fantastic research Yvonne!
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over 1 year ago
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Great to see UTSās Jonathan Webb presenting his incredible long-term reptile conservation research at
#ESAus2024
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over 1 year ago
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Tim Curran
over 1 year ago
Masterful talk today on phytoremediation by Megan Murray! I have many other photos of her slides, but you could just watch her being interviewed on Gardening Australia, by the one and only Costa!
#ESAus2024
www.abc.net.au/gardening/ho...
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Thysanotus tuberosus (Asparagaceae), common fringe-lily, spotted on my walk today.
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