Some good news

Finally got the last paper from my PhD published! It looks at different perspectives of alien species and their management, and how this could affect successful prevention measures. neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Macklemore certainly shifted career paths.

For your barista at the indie coffee shop who knows your order by heart and has a roller derby name that’s an obscure wildlife name pun and wears a cute dinosaur pride pin on their name badge: A Little Queer Natural History by @joshlukedavis.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...

Gotta make some posts, so throwback to that time @samwperrin.bsky.social gave me free reign to talk about how The Lord of the Rings is a great metaphor for #climateaction actually (and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...

I know I'm late on this but the correct thing to send #Raygun to would have been #Eurovision.

Kids are rewatching the first episode of Pokemon. And here's me thinking the cage fighting animals are the nastiest things about this world.

My eldest kid is obsessed with venomous snakes. When we were driving through Tasmania recently, we stopped for a breather and I went and did a mini iNaturalist bioblitz at the side of the carpark. Saw this Tiger Snake. Remained my son's favourite animal sighting for the entire 3 month trip.

If you use iNaturalist, you could contribute to community science by surveying your local critters! Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted! Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link. www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Brian May has reached peak interdisciplinarity. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is up there with "people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Love this website. Will submit something in the near future. jgeekstudies.org/2020/07/05/t...

Back after 6 months of paternity leave. Where are all the biodiversity researchers on Bluesky app? Need to be following people again.

Hate golf? Love rewilding? Better read this then. www.salon.com/2023/10/27/w...

Been off social media for 2 weeks due to new baby. Can now formally announce that I've taken a full time position as a researcher with the Gjærvoll Centre at NTNU, trying to figure out where endangered species hotspots can be found in Norway!

Conversation we had the other night took a weird turn and now you should all read this. www.theguardian.com/science/2016...

I have never seen an animal that so perfectly encapsulates the phrase "mate come over here and say that to my face". From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.

My wife discovered yesterday that Australians call our different crocodile varieties "salties" and "freshies" which is just furthering her belief that all of our slang is just made up by 6 year olds.

The final episode of Biologists of Middle Earth is up! I talk to Dr. Adam Hasik about his work with the Ents, their role as ecosystem engineers, and what dwindling Ent populations could mean for all of Middle Earth. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1

Great example of how sometimes the "just let it grow" approach to rewilding can backfire. (but when it comes to your backyard seriously just let it grow) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html

If you’re going to have strong opinions about what makes effective climate messaging, you should know that there are decades of communications and psychology research on this exact topic. Any hot take you have is a testable hypotheses that someone has probably already tested.

OK, look at this adorable goof! Commerson's Frogfish come in many different colors, and when they get to this age they stop imitating sponges and start letting local algae grow over their skin to better blend in. Grey/blue is a great color for one, rather rare. Ambush predator ftw 📷🦑🌿🐟🧪🐡

Don't listen to such negativity you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

Norwegian nature organisation Artsdatabanken are launching the new alien species list on Friday! They're streaming it too (it'll be in Norwegian) if anyone finds this sort of thing interesting. https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/frokostseminar-om-ny-liste-over-fremmede-arter/id2987376/

Got this creep in January and in return for lots of water it's taken up a good 75% of my office window. Rude.

Remember when cabins start floating down the road that they thought people protesting and blocking traffic was inconvenient. https://www.nrk.no/norge/her-blir-hytta-tatt-av-_hans_-i-hemsedal-1.16509535

Ok I'm on Bluesky now where the hell is everyone.