🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos, @ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions. Katus shortfall- the unknown loss of biodiversity past, present and future is broader than ‘dark extinction’- species becoming extinct before being formally described nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

National climate change risk assessment for #Australia’s natural ecosystems tech reports are online: We report Australia’s natural ecosystems are highly exposed & vulnerable to climate change across the land and sea. 1/🧵

What happens when an 'extinct' plant species is rediscovered? We a casestudy Atriplex, and found...not much Despite being 'rediscovered' three times in the last decade Atriplex acutiloba remains listed as extinct. And it isn't alone. Nor is the phenomenon new. doi.org/10.1111/aec.70101

🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱 Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes" 📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025. 🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C... #Fire #Botany #Plantscience

Congratulations to Dr Chantelle Doyle @saltandbrine.bsky.social - joining ABC's Top5 Science program for 2025 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Hugely excited for our work on the Nullarbor Caves to be featured on the ever excellent First Dog on the Moon. Oh yeah... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've been banging on about this issue - immature alpine ash, fire and seed - for years so it was great to get a chance to contribute to this ABC Landline story about it. "A 'time bomb' in the state's ash forests" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Finite resources, lots of species requiring conservation. @saltandbrine.bsky.social asks the question - how far do we go for each plant species? A simple question generating deep thought! #ICCB2025

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

There's "a false perception that Labor values the environment movement & its endorsement. In reality, Labor only wants to neutralise it. [..] They want to be able to name-drop supportive organisations in press conferences, but they’re far less willing to adopt those same groups’ policy proposals"

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Varroa mite arriving in Australia has been a big worry for agriculture and bee keeping but it will also result in a massive decline in feral honeybee populations. This will affect many native plant species visited by honeybees, our new paper aimed to understand what those effects might be 1/5

There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed. This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

10 = The officially recognised number of #extinct Australian #invertebrates. We show the actual number is likely much higher, 9,000+ species. AND 1-3 invertebrate species are being lost each week. This level of loss is not sustainable. This is a wake up call 🌍🧪 theconversation.com/around-9-000...

Thanks to everyone who came, if you still have questions or just want to chat and see me around #ESAus2024 come say hi.

Overcoming Major Barriers in Seed Ecology Research in Developing Countries | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core doi:10.1017/S0960258523000181

New paper out in Conservation Biology. We propose a simple conceptual model for examining threat management programs and identifying areas for improvement. We show how it can be used in the context of managing fire around threatened flora. 1/4 dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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