The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is a national treasure. It gets the best price from US pharmaceutical corps, protecting us from exorbitant prices that US citizens pay. Congrats to PM Albanese for consistently defending the PBS from Big Pharma. Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/our-pbs...

We're hiring. 2.5 year statistical ecology postdoc in Perth, Western Australia. Closing 6 July. 🌏 #bioinvasions #biosecurity Check it out: www.seek.com.au/job/85070198...

"Watt’s decision to give the long-awaited environmental approval for the North West Shelf project to be extended to 2070 was a bad decision — a craven, cowardly capitulation to corporate power and political expediency" - @beneltham.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/29/m...

"NSW flooding: PM delivers climate crisis warning as flood-hit region braces for strong winds and fifth body found" as he approves a 50 yr extension to Woodside's gas operation in WA. Hypocrite. #voteGreen for real action on climate #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Regional NSW is being smashed by a '1-in-500-year' flood, one person has died, three are missing and 50,000 people are isolated by floodwaters. Meanwhile, Albanese is considering the country's biggest new fossil fuel project, the proposed NW Shelf extension... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Thanks to everyone who attended our Curtin University workshop last week. It was a great success and we really enjoyed showing what Biosecurity Commons can do! @benflips.bsky.social

Shots fired, Neil.

The big five banks in Australia failing their community, their environment, and their own long term interests by investing in fracking the Beetaloo basin. www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/pr...

@lisacox.bsky.social @theconversation.com @biodivcouncil.bsky.social @theguardian.com This true story theconversation.com/the-buffel-k...

30% of the primary vote and falling; already doing preference deals to exclude independents: how long before we see a Labor-Liberal-National coalition in Australia? #auspol

I've made my submission to the review of the ARC grant system. Have you? 5 more days, people.

Historical invasion ecology #bioinvasions www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

📰Published📰 Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change🌡️ buff.ly/9jFq0Mu 🧪🌍

Why is sex so common if it's so costly? Super excited to share our new preprint “Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation”, where we bring a new angle to this age-old evolutionary question. Co-led by Parris Humphrey, in Michael Desai's lab. Short thread here: (1/n)

Which milks have the lowest environmental impact? My colleague Raychel Santo provides an overview of her recent paper here: www.wri.org/insights/mil... 🧪

Climate change discourse has gone backwards in Australia. We now have an opposition leader who wants to incentivise the burning of fossil fuels — and the incumbent government isn't much better.

It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo

Oh, how the tables have turned

Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

Tim Winton makes visceral the reality of inaction on climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There has never been a better time to support an independent focussed on integrity and climate. If you agree, consider volunteering for them. #auspol

"The biggest changes to election laws in 40 years should have faced proper scrutiny by a multi-party parliamentary inquiry" @browne90.bsky.social. This Labor/LNP stitch-up is another reason why a progressive cross-bench must hold balance of power. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/stich-u...

I endorse Mr Denmore's advice. Vote wisely and #FuckMurdoch. #auspol

BREAKING: Labor and Liberal may not agree on much but when it comes to introducing a new law to stop Clive Palmer, but which actually stops newcomers from competing with them in our elections, you can be sure they'll pass it and lock in the two-party system by Xmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WT...

Fuck, this is good from @birmo.bsky.social . Gets its teeth down on the surprisingly brittle bones of the Most Alpha Males Ever. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/delusions-...

doi.org/10.1111/ele.... a great new study about importance of within and between trophic level interactions by my PhD student Lisa Buche!

“Peter Dutton, he has a plan that will double power bills for ordinary Australians. We think that that is outrageous. We’re here today to call it out,” said John Grimes CEO @SmartEnergyCouncil @reneweconomy.com.au #nuclear v #solar #auspol #AusVotes25 reneweconomy.com.au/lies-damned-...

Excited to see the cover art for my new book, which is due out in February. One for the invasion nerds! This book project is hard evidence that I am a time optimist: I thought it would take me a year; it took five. 🌏 #bioinvasions

A diverting game is to plot your own lifetime alongside the geophysical breakdown of the earth

A thoughtful piece on "de-extinction". Many acknowledging that de-extinction isn't possible and that perhaps we should be calling it something less euphonious, like "approximating an extinct species". Also likely important spin-off technologies from these moonshots. e360.yale.edu/features/de-... 🌏

the public will no doubt end up underwriting the insurance markets… but really it should be the fossil fuel companies.

there's a new "astroturf" (fake grassroots) group in town… #Australians4Prosperity. they're funded by the coal industry, deeply connected to the LNP and they're going to advertise a lot this election. read on 👇

"In Australia it's easier to get a permit to destroy nature than fix it". The problems pointed out here apply equally to the regulatory overheads around undertaking biodiversity research, IMHO. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬 My department is advertising for a new leader. We are a diverse and talented group of academics with a broad range of research and Extension interests. And we get along! 👯‍♂️

High genetic diversity and no detectable founder effects following a rapid range expansion of a long-distance migrant (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631438v1

I've always admired the abilities of bats, but had never quite thought of how they moved when migrating as surfing. But it makes perfect sense. In particular, they surf the edge of storm fronts. 🧪🌍🌿 #Naturalist #GreenSky

. #climatecrisis continues… four new #coalmines approved just before Christmas! #justsayin @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very excited, tickets for New Years' Eve arrived in the mail today!!😀

This was a hard one to read. As a CFA vol, we are often tasked with protecting human assets over natural environments. Personally I find that one hard. 'We found that people valued one human life more than the extinction of an entire non-human species'. theconversation.com/fascinating-...

A bloke named after an Australian city set sail from a port named after a low-end Chrysler on a boat named after a small breed of scent hound on this day in 1831. And the rest, as they say, is h̶i̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ evolution.

One of the coal mines approved yesterday by @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is approved until 2088. 64 years!!!

honoured to have been nominated as a shit-stirrer in @crikey.com.au's annual awards list. an incredible cohort — so much competition… maybe next year? www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/20/r...

"Confronting risks of mirror life - Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward" Science, 12 Dec 2024, Vol 386, Issue 6728, pp. 1351-1353 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #bioinvasions

Hi Bluesky, I’m Nicole, Manager of the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library @bhl-au.bsky.social, the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature. I work with museums, herbaria & libraries to make their collections openly accessible, discoverable & connected. 1/3

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...

Statcheck demonstrating its value once again. I detect a p-value inconsistent with reported statistical results in about every third paper I review michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/

Looking for a good #stats #quote for a paper or just want some inspiration for today? The #rstats {statquotes} pkg is here to help. 🔗https://friendly.github.io/statquotes/

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

This is an absolutely incredible example of how, if you ever decide to engage with a right-wing media outlet, *how* you do it almost perfectly. Bravo @risingtideaus.bsky.social!