Our new study out today is all good news. Climate change is powerful, but forests have defended sensitive species from fire since Gondwana. If we join their resistance, we can end the fire apocalypse in some places. theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...

Our new paper in PNAS summarises why the push to 'salvage' log dead trees won't reduce the risk of fast wildfires as has been claimed. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A top 10 cited article in the journal Functional Ecology! Our work on ecological control theory shows how forests can suppress fire if left undisturbed.

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If you're on the NSW north coast and care about forests, come join us in Bellingen this Sunday.

Trump telling Zelenski "you're gambling with WWIII" is about the clearest threat we could have asked for. Look what you're going to do if you don't give me what I want.

Will Australia distance itself from the convicted felon proposing ethnic cleansing to turn their land into a "Riviera"? edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

Trump's proposal for ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

"Elon Musk could throw a nazi salute in the white house and media outlets would still try to rationalise it as an accident" feels like something I would tweet in 2019 and 30 guys named Andrew would tell me off for being hyperbolic

If you own shares in a company but work for the Government, is it ok to get the Government to buy up shares of that company so that the value of your shares goes through the roof? 🤔

If you can, this family needs help getting a car. gofund.me/967592c6

Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free...

I met one of the guardians of the last unburnt snow gums.

Happy to be giving a keynote at ESA this year. 'Forests of refuge' explores the ways that Forests have built safe places since Gondwana, how we can side with them to rebuild, and how First Nations knew this long before us. esa2024.org.au/keynote-spea...

Collective punishment directed at Jewish-Australian places of worship, leading to the destruction of a building, is fundamentally wrong. Israel collectively punishing the people of Palestine, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, including thousands of children, is also wrong.

This is Takayna, one of the last remnants of Gondwana, hidden in the northwest of Lutruwita (Tasmania). Sustainable Forests Tasmania are clearing parts of it to replace the thousand year old Nothofagus with these eucalypts.

Every single one should be charged with assisting a terrorist organisation. I’d strip citizenship as well. You chose who to fight for.

This is a bit of a must watch. What even is journalism? www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Just horrendous. Between them, Trump and Netanyahu seem determined to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the Earth. It was terrible under Biden. It'll be even worse now. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Oh damn. Brilliant by @michaelspicer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3i...

Today's new publication led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social lays out the hard facts. Losses were 87–93% larger where fire has been frequent, regardless of the severity. Poor science led to frequent fire and caused massive mortality. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Government records in SW Western Australia show that the safest forests from wildfire are the ones they haven't burned for hazard reduction for decades. Government said our work was flawed, we addressed their criticisms, it made our case stronger. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

A low intensity prescribed burn nearly annihilated a population of a critically endangered species. I analysed what happened to find out why, and how bad science can lead to exactly the worst decisions in fire management. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our work shows how forests have naturally reduced fire risk over millions of years, and how we can work with them to counter the impacts of climate change. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our review early this year shows that forests very often naturally limit fire unless they are disturbed, such as by logging or fire. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Eighteen members of same family killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

Many Australian forests had open understoreys when British invaders first saw them, but our study shows that some like the tall Mountain Ash were dense and felt impenetrable to many. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada. “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou. Read more:

Sometimes you have to stop and cry for a little while before you get back to work.

I'll be talking about ways we can shift our thinking on fire in forests from colonisation to cooperation with country. This Thursday, Royal Society of Victoria. rsv.org.au/events/the-f...

My talk on decolonising fire science at the Royal Society of Victoria was featured recently on ABC's Big Ideas. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

We're running out of time to get our act together on fire in Australia; join me here tomorrow night Perth time for some straight talking. www.wildflowersocietywa.org.au/event/webina...

Climate change is driving disastrous impacts of fire, but the risk is that it becomes cover for destructive management. Now more than ever we need to wise up. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lake Elysium and Mt Geryon. I'm feeling that ache to be back.