This week I had my first opportunity to present my research at the Ecological Society of Australia’s conference poster session! A great opportunity and already looking forward to next year. #esa2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – 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 🧪

'Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem... @australianmuseum.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social

Urban biodiversity: Adult butcherbird feeding young in a street tree nest

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

Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia

The final version is now available #AmJBot bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥 This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...

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...

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 🌿

🐝🌸 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?"

Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!

Spent the past month in Greece 🇬🇷 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!)

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 🌸🐝🌼🪰🪻🦋 #STEMEducation #Pollination

Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 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...

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...

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 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...

🚀 We’re live! The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab @UTS finally has a website! 🎉 🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org #Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science @ecologybrad.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social

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...

Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 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 #ozpollinators

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 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

Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social, UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution

Very excited to see this paper out! Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝

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...

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

At the National Maritime Museum.

Such inspiring ecological research on plant flammability now being used to help reduce wildfire impacts. Great work Tim!

UTS’s pollination ecologist extraordinaire at ESA 2024, fantastic research Yvonne!

Great to see UTS’s Jonathan Webb presenting his incredible long-term reptile conservation research at #ESAus2024

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...

Thysanotus tuberosus (Asparagaceae), common fringe-lily, spotted on my walk today.