cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After conducting a PERMANOVA to formally test for differences in animal communities, what is the best/most appropriate way to identify and test what specific species are driving community differences? Desert salt lake photo for interest

Are there any good, free online toxin/poison databases that describe toxin/poison classifications, modes of action, etc?

We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team! nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...

Funded PhD project with scholarship at UTas with Menna Jones [email protected] (March 2025) www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

Raising the dead ain’t so easy. Saving threatened species, that’s a thing we know how to do! theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...

@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been taken to court over her potential failure to protect threatened species. It is good to see public scrutiny if whether the Minister is fulfilling her legal obligation to safeguard these species & could set a precedent for other species. shorturl.at/Se6AE

We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team! nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...

Study participants awarded 43% more money to people with whom they shared trivial or random similarities than to people who were different, suggesting that interindividual comparison, not just groupism, underlies discrimination. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

Here’s every mangrove snake occurring in the NT. Found within about 30 minutes of each other during a recent slide around in the Darwin mangroves. -Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake) -Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake) -Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Fresh publication alert! 🔥 "Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology". #glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

Does baiting feral cats, foxes and dingoes work? Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Yep! "Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..." theconversation.com/poison-baits...

Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?

Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yong Foo, Dan Noble and I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com Have a read. Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...

Ice core data reveal that ancient Roman mining caused widespread lead pollution across Europe. A study shows that airborne lead raised childhood blood levels, reducing IQ by 2-3 points, suggesting cognitive impacts on entire populations. In @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

New paper shows acute impacts of tags on diving seabirds. Birds with heavier tags do shorter & shallower dives with slower ascent rates, and increased resting time between dives. animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I have a new article in @theconversation.com today. In it, I detail some observations I made (during my honours research 9 years ago 😳) of young-adult male koalas engaging in affiliative behaviours. Check it out. There's a cute little video too theconversation.com/i-was-shocke...

Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We applied 22,500m2 of woody debris to overgrazed arid Australia, the first pic sums up the results pretty nicely!! It not only helped veg and soil recover but provided habitat for reptiles and mammals, details in Restoration Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Given the passionate support for 'cell fencing'/'cluster fencing' by some—which in my view represents a further environmental and native animal welfare abomination—the sobering results of this study should help to inject some reality into the conversation. www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/justaccep...

When it gets hot in the arid zone, or the available water is rank, kangaroos will often dig for water in sandy creek lines. Today I came across a patch of approx a dozen digs; only rank water was available close by.

New paper! A massive effort, led by Tom Bruce and Matthew Luskin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The late Eric Pianka made thousands of observations of desert lizard body temperature and activity. We used them to test biophysical models of their cost of living and projected the models to past and future climates in Africa and Australia #unimelb #ARC @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper evaluating the utility of eDNA metabarcoding for detecting the cryptic and Critically Endangered Arnhem rock skink in Kakadu National Park. Despite sampling high activity crevices, we were unable to detect them using eDNA. www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24072

New research! Authors examine camera trapping trends in Australia, finding strong taxonomic, geographic, and analytical biases, but also new ways to meet big conservation objectives. Great stuff! Glad to play a very small part. Congrats Tom and WildObs! ⚡️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The mighty marsupial mole genome is out. What an amazing beast! It would have to be one of the top dreams of most Australian ecologists to see one in the flesh - certainly an aspiration of mine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote an article for @theconversation.com with Marissa Parrott about coping with ecological grief. It's a shared experience for many of us in ecology and conservation—an inescapable part of our work. I hope you find it both relatable and uplifting. theconversation.com/in-2025-lets...

Where should I submit my next manuscript? This might help 'Conservation and ecology journal ranks 2023' conservationbytes.com/2024/12/06/j...

Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...

A fantastic talk by @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social on urban biodiversity and working with practitioners. But more importantly a masterclass in how to deliver an engaging plenary #ESAus2024 #scicom

Second day of #ESAus2024 and we have 60 people in the conference starter pack. Follow other austral ecologists, ask to join the list, and maybe even share the link with people who need a little encouragement to come over to Blue Sky. #StarterPack 🧪🌏🇦🇺 go.bsky.app/5YmZLNm

Good morning, #ESAus2024! Lots of people joined the starter pack yesterday. Take a(nother) look for other austral ecologists to follow and check out the hashtag for interesting talks coming up today. go.bsky.app/5YmZLNm

I’ve finally gotten around to analyzing the data from my long-term side project on lowland copperhead biology and human-snake conflict. If you’re attending the #ESAus2024 conference, come watch me talk about it on Monday 9th (tomorrow) at 4pm in room 103 (Methods in Ecology 2).