Job alert! We are advertising for a new Lecturer in Marine Science with a focus on fisheries and/or biological oceanography. Come and join the large and vibrant marine crew at UNSW. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

And finally a Species Spotlight on the iconic but critically endangered conifer, Wollemi pine, and efforts to safeguard it from extreme fire rdcu.be/fiFeW (7/7)

Greater Sydney is experiencing faster increases in short-duration extreme rainfall (5–10 min) than hourly events. Climate projections suggest up to a 125% rise in extremes by late century under SSP370, increasing flash flood risks for urban areas.

PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events • Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our…

Warming seas can threaten the hidden relationship that supports seagrass meadows theconversation.com/warming-seas...

Nature’s careers team interviewed research-support professionals to hear how their work helps to shape the course of modern science, and how recognition — or the lack of it — has influenced their careers. #Academicsky 🧪

1/2 🗞️ 2026 will be a pivotal year for #SustainableOceanDevelopment - learn more in GOAP's latest newsletter! Highlights: #OceanAccounting in action around the world + opportunities to join GOAP Secretariat team & Social Accounts Working Group! 🔗 www.oceanaccounts.org/insights/new...

The wonderful Frank Hemmings, our Technical Laboratory Manager and Herbarium curator, featured in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Help us explore and record biodiversity across campus! Join us in taking photos of all of the wonderful living things on campus and upload them to our iNaturalist project during the 24hr BioBlitz challenge. Whether you’re into birding or love the smallest critters, every observation counts!

We have an open postdoc position at @ccrc.bsky.social. This postdoc will work with @jasonpevans.bsky.social, Fiona Johnson, and me, together with partner organisations NSW DCEEW and @nswses.bsky.social, on rainfall extremes and flooding. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Our tribute to colleague Emma Johnston - published in Nature Ecology and Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I got to explain the stratosphere in the Totally Cooked podcast together with @juliearblaster.bsky.social and the @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social. So much fun to discuss real (and not so real) science! 🧪 21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

Well done to Terry Ord who just received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the 2025 Australian Awards for University Teaching www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Our work with @sims-australia.bsky.social to restore Sydney Harbour www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Light pollution is an underappreciated and growing threat to marine #biodiversity. It already affects ~22% of global coastlines and can reach the seafloor. This video, made with #UNSW, #ADSA, and #DCCEEW, highlights why marine #lightpollution matters 🌊🌐🧪 #ALAN 💡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtd7...

Teaching animal behaviour? Curious about the animal world? BEES' own Terry Ord has a new graphic text to explain the weird and wonderful behaviour of animals all around us. Get your copy at www.amazon.com.au/Understandin...

"Engaging landholders with science and the natural world and getting them more passionate about diversity makes them far more likely to be invested in protecting that diversity," said @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, lead author of paper. Via @unswbees.bsky.social: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Exciting news 🎉 Our CCRC scientist Andréa Taschetto and team have just released “Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere” book, an updated edition of David Karoly’s 1998 monograph, published by Cambridge University Press. + Available at lnkd.in/g4SFsM9k www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

We’ve partnered with DP World to create port infrastructure that benefits both people and nature. Living Ports @JebelAli has 1,000+ panels, the largest Living Seawall in the world!

If you're interested in drought and AI, our PhD student Matt Grant and researcher Dr Sanaa Hobeichi have been featured in this UNSW Newsroom! It shows Australian droughts are lasting longer (especially SE & SW), with AI ++ www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new... #Drought #ClimateChange #AI #UNSWResearch

🌱Angela also sat down with our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett to talk about how she went from seed science to applied ecology, and falling into a career in academia 🎧Listen to the podcast here: buff.ly/2augoKE

🏆We are pleased to announce that our Eminent Ecologist for 2025 is Angela Moles! ✨Angela has collected a few of her favourite Journal of Ecology papers together here: buff.ly/86uQ6v5

Excited to be the new home for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans, led by @profmattengland.bsky.social here at UNSW Science www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Measuring rainfall recharge thresholds allows researchers to assess how much rainfall is needed to recharge groundwater and when this recharge occurs, write @andy-baker.bsky.social + colleagues at CSIRO, UNSW, @flindersuniversity.bsky.social, & @deakinuniversity.bsky.social eos.org/science-upda...

New paper alert!! Repetition and order of exposure to salinization and nutrient enrichment drive freshwater microbial community responses, led by PhD student Rose Fuggle with supervisors Mariana Mayer Pinto, Miguel Matias and Ziggy Marzinelli. 🧪🌐🦠 Read here: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #microbes

Queensland’s had a rough run of storms with giant hail recently - I talked with ABC news about them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Just like everyone and everything else that was already in Australia when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, dingoes had to adapt to their new reality.

📖Cover Stories!📖 📙Dr. Russell Bonduriansky discusses the story behind the cover of Volume 30, Issue 10, published in 2016! 📸Russell shares his memories of capturing neriid flies in combat and how, thanks to a chance encounter on a walk with his son, he came to study them🪰 buff.ly/7PmIZKW 🧪🌍

It's a wrap on our Wellington Caves fieldwork and filming about groundwater recharge. I have some superstar UNSW colleagues, happy to film and be filmed. Looking forward to see how all this looks. Thanks to @marilumelozurita.bsky.social and the @unswbees.bsky.social team

Our work with the Gamay Rangers to restore the environmental and cultural values of seagrass in Gamay - Botany Bay www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

New research from UNSW and the University of Tasmania reveals how predator size and diversity influence urchin predation on New South Wales reefs. Large male blue gropers were responsible for three-quarters of all urchin attacks. Learn more: greatsouthernreef.com/urchin-preda...

CCRC Senior Research Fellow @drjucker.bsky.social explains in this Conversation article what is happening above Antarctica right now, and how it might impact us: theconversation.com/air-temperat... @unswbees.bsky.social

UNSW scientists outline what makes Antarctica a laboratory like no other news.unsw.edu.au/en/breaking-...

Excited to share that we’re part of ANZIC! This collaboration means our researchers (and students!) get a seat at the table for international drilling expeditions — bringing home samples and discoveries that shape our understanding of Earth. www.iodp.org.au/2025/09/18/1...