New preprint alert! We DNA barcoded 95 thousand Ghanaian arthropods, more than doubling the number of BINs (a species proxy) available online from West Africa. In doing so we’ve released a huge amount of new data to scientists studying the region 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our team handles 100s of dead #seabirds each season. We try to cope with what we’re witnessing by documenting it in a shared field diary where we write, sketch & keep mementos from heartwarming and harrowing moments with the #birds

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ... What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Vale Jane Goodall (1934-2025).

If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️ datamgmtinedresearch.com 1. Organizing data (Ch. 3) 2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9) 3. Documenting data (Ch. 8) 4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

Secondly, @icon-science.bsky.social PhD student Beth Kiss has an exhibit in the NGV Ian Potter Gallery "When the wildlife moves in", showing the different ways wildlife interacts with our homes 🌏🌆 You can see interactive materials from the exhibit here: whenwildlifemovesin.com #urbanNature #wildAus

Some lovely things on the Aussie #urbanNature scene this week! First up - the work and creativity of friend-colleague @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social has been beautifully profiled by the ABC. If you use TikTok or Insta I highly encourage you to add Kylie to your feeds!🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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21/ More random #Aussie starter packs Aus Women in ecology & conservation : go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX Entomology Australia: go.bsky.app/8d9RtMC BuildinPublic (programmers) Aus: go.bsky.app/2VCyyqZ Australian and New Zealand urbanists: go.bsky.app/NrzWxjT #Australia

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

🌸 30 Days to Go! One month until the Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 kicks off! It’s the perfect time to invite your friends, family, or community group to join you. 📅 24–27 October 2025 — save the date and charge those camera batteries! #GSB2025 #NatureLovers #CitizenScience buff.ly/AqpdMst

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

2025. Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity. "caution regarding the intentional introduction of large mammalian herbivores for conservation purposes(rewilding, assisted colonization) without rigorous assessment of their impacts" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity As logging, fire and shrinking habitat push the glossy black cockatoo closer to the brink, we don’t just risk losing a species, but a world of wonder www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A sold out screening of Wilding this week shared the benefits of helping nature recover with almost 500 people. These events energise me and give me hope that while we have an enormous challenge ahead of us, we have plenty of people wanting to make a difference to biodiversity conservation outcomes.

Yes Giant Cuttlefish sex is not the most important thing happening right now (unless you are a Giant Cuttlefish) but we are all in this together... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That's the spot...! A trio of allopreening cockies engaging in some social bonding at our field-site, captured by @elliearose.bsky.social. If you'd like to learn more about when and why cockies allopreen, check out a recent paper by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good morning! If you missed our @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Hot Topics online forum a couple of weeks ago, the good news is that you watch all the talks here for free! 🌏🧪#wildoz kaigi.eventsair.com/esa-hot-topi...

A massive slowdown in renewable energy growth in Australia as investors and energy utilities simply decide to not build clean energy. It's being blamed on environmental regulations, but all of those were in place in the boom time of the 2010s... cleanenergycouncil.org.au/news-resourc...

Making sure all my fellow bird nerds see this! 🪶🌏 I love using online HANZAB, for when I'm doing serious science, but also when I just need some extra detail on species behaviour & ecology. I'm endlessly thankful to the @birdlifeoz.bsky.social team, I know it was a huge effort to get this online!

It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦 Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike 🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au #BirdLifeAustralia #Birds

Last week we learned the Great Barrier Reef has suffered some of the worst bleaching in history This week, Ningaloo, another 🇦🇺 icon is experiencing catastrophic coral loss These are national treasures. We must take strong action on climate to save them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away! Speakers and full program have been announced 👇 Details: 🐛 Free (Registration necessary) ⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025 🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social #ecology #conservation #forum

Cool science here! 🌏🧪

Social cohesion, @tonyburkemp.bsky.social? "The refusals came amid reports in the AFR that the immigration minister, Tony Burke, had denied dozens of visas on the basis of social cohesion." Pathetic, and still the Special Envoy for Advance can spout her bile! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This new paper documents a tenfold increase in research papers using community-collected iNaturalist data over just five years: tr.ee/89Ot3I According to the study, here are four key ways that iNaturalist data directly powers science 🧵⤵️

I'm guessing this is probably very well worth the read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Cool Red-footed-booby's-eye view footage! 👀

New article out: The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology

Join me next week at the FREE @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Hot Topics online forum! Two short sessions featuring speakers who recently published ESA Hot Topics, followed by live online discussion. 🌏🧪 More info and registration here: kaigi.eventsair.com/esa-hot-topi... #wildOz

I often wonder why the Powerful Owlet's fronts are so white as they pop out like Marlene Dietrich under a 1000W arc lamp. It means they can sometimes be bothered by other birds that are not so fond of Owls. Fortunately, the local birds didn't seem to have noticed this one. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

1. It's cool that there are so many new things still to discover about our world (especially insects!) 2. DNA sequencers are all very well, but sometimes you have to break out the real high tech: "The insect was so high up that they had to use a long stick to get it down."

NEW! in our journal #australianmammalogy - Rat Trap! Rakali ambush introduced Black Rats and come out on top during agressive interactions! Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009

Okay. You all ready for a feel-good thread? Because one literally fell out of the sky for us last week and it's only fair we share this heartwarming tale with you. 1/?

Interesting research, suggesting poorly designed or excessive private lighting is contributing as much to ALAN pollution as street lights. 🌏🧪 This seems to be one of the few areas where our own actions can make a significant positive contribution! Turn it off! 💡 theconversation.com/street-lamps...

USA defunding UNICEF

When you reach for the rat poisons, stop for one second and think about where it goes. Often not rats and mice. Here we demonstrate it ends up in possums, many are then eaten by predators like powerful owls. Please avoid second generation anticoagulants 🙏♥️🦉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come and do a PhD with me! 🎓 🌏 🧑‍💻 🏙️ 🗺️ 🌿 🪶🧪 I have TWO projects eligible the 2025 Curtin University RTP scholarship round: Benchmarking biodiversity outcomes for nature positive urban development: research.curtin.edu.au/hdr-r-projec... #wildOz #urbanNature

Another weekend has come and gone! We are having our usual winter storms here in Walyalup (Fremantle, WA): wild, wet and windy weather blowing off the Indian Ocean. My highlight for the week was getting out between rain fronts for a run along the beach this afternoon.

I love to see my friends killin' it. Alie Ward's @ologies.bsky.social was listed by Time Magazine in the 100 best podcasts of all time! This rocks. Ologies rocks. Funny compassionate science communication rocks. time.com/collections/...

Statisticians always be like: "There are some equations coming up but don't worry, it's very simple math!" and then have 5 or more slides that look like this 😆

A Case Study: Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring Devices In A Growing Urban Landscape To Monitor Avian Diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665881v1

The New South Wales court of appeal has overturned the approval of the largest coalmine expansion in the state after a community environment group successfully argued the planning commission failed to consider the impact of all of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Well. This is depressing. 🌏 theconversation.com/farewell-to-...

Hey #rstats friends, do people have code review tools they use for R code that isn't a pkg? There's a great tools for R pkgs (like goodpractice) but I'd like feedback on just plain R code. Related, a good read by @milesmcbain.bsky.social on Packages as Projects: milesmcbain.xyz/posts/an-oka...

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data. ➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6 #ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject! @julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... & @barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The actual bird nerds have long since spoken on this! The Audubon Society supports wind power as a clear net positive for bird populations and biodiversity - w/ targeted protections for a few highly threatened species in a few sensitive geographies (e.g. CA Condors).

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...