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This week, I finally visited the recently renovated Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool and I have to say - I like what you've done with the place, Glen Eira City Council 😍 #UrbanGreening #IndigenousPlants #UrbanHabitat

"We don't have to go obliterating habitat every time we want to… establish a new residential estate for people". With 600-700 critically endangered Swift Parrots turning up on the outskirts of Bendigo, it's time to rethink urban development. 🦜 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Ever wondered what #UrbanEcology #Fieldwork looks like? Here's a perfect example! This photo from Google Street View was taken during Lydia Daniel’s Honours fieldwork – we were surveying large street trees for birds, which involved a lot of time standing on nature strips and staring up at trees.

A massive congratulations to ICON Science Lab Head, Prof. @sbekessy.bsky.social, who has been successful in securing an ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship for 2025!! Congratulations Sarah!! 👏🏼🎉🥂 Read more about Sarah's project here: www.arc.gov.au/2025-industr...

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Meanjin/Brisbane. It was great event, but the thing that really struck me was Brisbane's urban greening! 🌿 #ICCB2025 #UrbanGreening #Brisbane

Science communication has taken me to some very cool places. Recently, I had the amazing opportunity to share some of my research at Nerd Nite Melbourne! I never would have thought I’d be gracing this stage, but what a FANTASTIC experience!

If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ! #NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025 confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...

Great to see Dr Patt Finnerty presenting his research on 'urban rewilding' at #ICCB2025. Patt emphasised that we are losing biodiversity from urban areas but often species reintroductions occur outside of cities. We need more fauna translocations in the suburbs! 🏡

First ever poster #presentation at #ICCB2025! Fat-tailed #dunnarts of the Victorian #grasslands are #threatened with #extinction Sheep farming landscapes ✅️ Cropped landscapes ❌️ #climatechange is forcing Victorian farmers toward cropping = less #habitat for #native #fauna

The ICON Science Research Group, including both current and recent alumni, was well represented at the #ICCB2025 poster session last night! You can catch our lab head, Prof. Sarah Bekessy (@sbekessy.bsky.social), speaking in 'The future of designing with urban wildlife' session at 3.15pm in M4.

#ICCB2025 has officially started in Meanjin/Brisbane! This morning we are fortunate to hear from Ricky Archer, Director of National Parks at Parks Australia, and A/Prof Binbin Li from Duke Kunshan University. ICON Science will be here all week so stay tuned for updates!

Are you a fan of urban birds? Keen to know how we can better support native birds in our cities? Come along to my speed talk tomorrow to find out! * Mon 16 June at 10.30am * "Sustainable Land and Water Use" in Room M2 #ICCB2025 #Conference #Research #SciComm #Conservation #UrbanEcology #Birds

Calling all Melbourne folks: Tickets are still available for Nerd Nite Melbourne on Wed 11th June at Howler in Brunswick! Come along to hear me rant about noisy miners - the bully bird taking over our backyards. Grab your tickets here: moshtix.com.au/v2/event/ner...

Nerd Nites next show is on the 11th June!! Come to hear fabulous talks from @kiraetsa.bsky.social, @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social and Sex with Lex!! Tickets only $17 and are available here 🤓: moshtix.com.au/v2/event/ner...

Remembering when I took part in Pint of Science Festival 2024! 😍 @pintsworld.bsky.social Great evening of science + 🍺 + laughs! I learnt about Bec Brown's @redheadscientists.bsky.social cool research. Thanks to our fabulous MC Sean @seanmelliot.bsky.social and Jacinta @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social

🌿 How do we achieve nature positive development? 🌿 Our new study in npj Urban Sustainability lays out a bold roadmap for transforming the UK’s residential and commercial development sector to achieve a nature positive future. doi.org/10.1038/s429... #NaturePositive 1/4

These trees likely date back to European colonisation, and now they've been destroyed to make way for a car park. Yes, you read that right. A car park. We can do better than this. We have to do better than this.

And this one demonstrates expert elicitation to unpack taxon-specific parameters to use when planning for urban ecological connectivity. 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... From Aussie authors @wildurban.bsky.social @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social among others! #urbanEcology

Today marks a significant milestone in the Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands project: the end of the fauna monitoring for the trial period! 1/4 #FloatingWetlands #UrbanHabitat #UrbanWildlife #UrbanGreening

🍃Thanks for joining us at #VicBioCon25 to celebrate all things Victorian biodiversity!🌱Click the link to complete our feedback survey- it only takes a few minutes and helps us to improve future conferences!🍃🪲 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📷 Adam Purcell | Melbourne Ceili Camera

Between each #VicBioCon25 session you'll see a slideshow of all our photocomp entries! Vote for your favourites with the QR code, or follow this link: forms.gle/vzxiEycxEtwS... 📷 Background by Adam Purcell | Melbourne Ceili Camera

This week, the annual LIV Golf tournament returns to the Grange Golf Club in South Australia. Grange is known for its commitment to natural habitats and wildlife. But can a golf course really be good for biodiversity? ⛳ @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/golf-courses...

Check out this new article from @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social @icon-science.bsky.social theconversation.com/golf-courses... reflecting on the important role that golf courses can play for #urbanNature! 🌏

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2025 is full of quality time with great people in beautiful places 🏕️ #NewYear #Hiking #HighCountry #MtKosciuszko

WOW, what a week!! The annual @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference finished up yesterday at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. It was the largest ESA conference in the society's 65 year history, with over 900 talks and almost 1400 attendees. My highlights included... #ESAus2024 1/5

That's a wrap on ESA2024! We're so beyond grateful for everyone who attended and presented at our biggest conference ~ever~ 🎉 We'll see you in Adelaide next year (Nov 23-28) for ESA2025! *The echidna is not a paid actor #ESAus2024 #ecology #WildOz

🌱TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FOR #VicBioCon25!🌱 Head over to vicbiocon.com/tickets to secure your spot at the conference for the 12th & 13th of Feb, and grab your ticket for the networking event while you're there!🐾 11th of Feb workshop tickets coming soon! 📷 Adam Purcell | Melbourne Ceili Camera

That's a wrap on the first two days of ESA2024 🎉 This might be our biggest conference in history, with over 1,300+ attendees and over 900+ presentations- but it's not over yet! Bring on more connection, sharing and celebration 💪 #ESAus2024 #ecology #conference

It's not as good as getting the guided tour by @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, but it was great to see the floating wetlands near the #ESAus2024 venue tonight!

Calling all Victorian-based people at #ESAus2024: If you're having a great time and are looking for another brilliant conference to go to, check out #VicBioCon25! Give them a follow and visit www.vicbiocon.com for more details 🌱🌱🌱

Come say hello if you're at #ESAus2024 today and check out what we've been working on this year 👋 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

The floating wetlands along a wetland offer cool habitats, but they're also a great way to get people noticing nature that was already there #ESAus2024 @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social

Giving this morning's #ESAus2024 keynote is the amazing @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social! Kylie is presenting on the novel and creative ways that we can use #conservation🌏 science to make cities a better place for people AND biodiversity. Kylie works closely with #urban practitioners!

Morning #ESAus2024! Finally got to see these in the flesh @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social @hollykirk.bsky.social - wonderfully creative, hopeful urban restoration - for people and nature. And swans! Lovely way to start the day.

Ten points to the person who finds a tiny photo of me on a poster at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference! Hint: It's not my poster. #ESAus2024

The queen of urban birds herself @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social #ESAus2024

Now @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social asks how do we get forest & woodland birds back in cities when we actively lack forests & woodlands in cities? #ESAus2024 Her presentation focuses on how small birds are affected by bigger, noisier and more aggressive birds in #urban spaces. 🌏🧪🪶

Great talk by @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social at #ESAus2024 looking at what habitat characteristics promote forest & woodland birds and finding that noisy miners are kinda pesky!

Heya BlueSky, been a little while. I'm back for live-skeeting #ESAus2024. Check out the #StarterPack to find other attendees. Reply here if you're attending and would like to be added. 🧪🌏🌾 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Are you coming to the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Conference in Melbourne this week? Well, I have the perfect podcast for you - have a listen to Don Driscoll, Susanna Venn and I on The Conversation Hour on ABC Radio! Looking forward to seeing you all at #ESAus2024 😊 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Science is full of rejection. We get rejected from job applications, scientific journals, funding schemes, and professional development programs. It hurts, and sometimes it's hard not to take it personally. But it's important to remember that rejection is the norm.

The blue banded bee was named Australia’s Insect of the Year! 🐝 Resharing this #dataviz from a few months ago to celebrate 🥳 Blue banded bees are buzz pollinators, vibrating loudly to loosen pollen. They’re a loud but welcome friend in any garden 🧪🌏🪲🇦🇺 #rstats

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

Thanks, Dax! That helped bring us over the minimum. The #ESAus2024 starter pack is live here: go.bsky.app/5YmZLNm

I’ve created a starter pack for Australian ornithology. Follow the scientific minds researching and helping conserve Australia’s birds. Comment below to be added. go.bsky.app/Gc8C6uJ

New paper from my colleagues Thami Croeser, Sarah Bekessy (not on here yet) and Wolfgang Weisser @terrecolgroup.bsky.social testing how different cities perform against the 3-30-300 #urbangreening rule. 🌏🧪 theconversation.com/we-rated-the...

✨The Call for Abstracts for #ICCB2025 is now open!✨ We’re excited to invite conservationists, scientists, and practitioners from around the world to share their research and insights in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia in June. Learn more: conbio.org/mini-sites/i... #conservation #MarineLife 🌍

For you #urbanecology folks: “Rewilding urban spaces boosts immune health” (with bonus refs!) www.the-scientist.com/rewilding-ur... @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @hollykirk.bsky.social #WildOz

Melbourne-based folks! The #SuperbCityWrens team are partnering with 14 LGAs and community groups across Greater Melbourne to conduct the first-ever city-wide 'Wren-Watch'!🐦 superbcitywrens.com/2024/11/07/m... The #urbanBird bioblitz is from 24th – 30th November, check link for info! 🧪🌏🪶 #wildOz