First turtle checking out our new Wodonga floating island last sunday

We launched another turtle island in Wodonga this week! media.streem.com.au/preview/TSq6...

My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…

New paper out! Christina Hunter used artificial nests to compare floating islands, fenced beaches, and individual nest protection to protect turtle nests from invasive foxes. The outcome was that all three methods worked, but islands are probably the best. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Good luck to everyone tonight, you're all amazing! #EurekaPrizes

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Have you voted for Australia's most underrated animal yet? www.abc.net.au/news/science... Want to learn more about the species in the running? Take a look at www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... There's a new one each day! #NationalScienceWeek

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.

Trump shuts down fish restoration pact that took decades to build

Posting because I have a lot of friends who might want to reach out but afaik literally none of them use Mastodon.

Memo to legislators in Hawaii, Florida and Palau: Australia’s consumer regulator is taking the owners of popular sunscreen brands to court, alleging they have misled consumers by claiming their products are “reef-friendly” and a cure for coral bleaching. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s razor

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

2-year contract in museum conservation, masters required, $54-61k: us251.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

@doctormcdougall.bsky.social hi Lindsay Doing a Nature Talk for kids and families tomorrow night at Shellharbour Library Kids will make their own turtles to take home and learn about how turtles can breathe through their butts Details and register here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nature-tal...

🧬 Ever wondered how something as bizarre and vital as the placenta evolved—not just in humans, but across the animal kingdom? I had a great time chatting about the wild diversity of placentation (think: lizards, sharks, and more) on the latest episode of Tiny Matters. 🎧 Listen here:

Government officials make a long list of possible causes of penguin deaths, including “unusually high sea temperatures”. The aversion to even mentioning climate change and global heating is astonishing and fundamentally dishonest. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

In this world of ever-complicated stats, does anyone else ever forget that Chi Square tests still exist and are sometimes still the best thing for a surprisingly simple analysis? Signed- my tired brain after a week of going round in circles

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

Rogen is 100% right Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/a...

Entering true Lysenkoist 1984 territory here

This is why overhyping is bad in science www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Yes, but not any of my dogs of course - they were all very good boys and girls www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-r...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago. In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?

Very pleased to share this systematic review led by Angela Simms. This began out of a combination of COVID impacts on fieldwork as well as a suspicion that endocrine-disrupting contaminants tend to be predominantly sampled from abiotic media... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

we are on the verge of curing maybe the worst cancer of all the cancers but the whole right wing media makes too much money scaring people about "mRNA vaccines" so time to toss that in the trash

[If Chuck Schumer replaced Mark Hamill in the Empire Strikes Back] Vader: Join me and we can rule the galaxy as father and son! Luke: OK! Can I go down and grab my hand first?

The point of repeating antisemitic tropes while claiming to fight antisemitism is to evacuate any meaning from the term "antisemitism" My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

Job alert @ The University of Western Australia Lecturer/Snr Lecturer in Soil-Plant Interactions. More details and how to apply: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/51967... Applications close 30 Mar 2025. Please re-post!

I have a new citation! Hmmm, this is citing my paper on the physiology of carbonic anhydrase II in the placenta of live-bearing lizards. I've never worked on human testes or spermatiogenesis. Oh well, free citation?

193 baby turtles released from our Winton Wetlands islands as of this morning That's a bunch of eggs that didn't become fox food!

Now past 180!

We are now between 150-160 (I am getting the details 2ndhand), and after 13 days of at least one hatchling, we had zero today. Either things are slowing down and most eggs have hatched, or the break in nesting we saw across November is here.

This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.

127 as of this morning!

And now we are past 100!

Silence still from the Australian government. In the meantime, independent scientists are beginning to publish their peer-reviewed data. For example, One Tree Reef had catastrophic mortality (95%) of branching and tabular staghorn corals in 2024. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A few months ago, I posted photos and footage of turtles nesting on our floating islands at Winton Wetlands. Despite concerns about heat, and some predator issues we still have to figure out, the hatching has begun in earnest, and we have had 56 babies from Monday to today. Here's a sample.

Australia committed to spend ~$350B on submarines it is unlikely to actually get, so I think it can afford to support education in all forms much better than it currently does.

Curing the epoxy on our first tagged hatchling for the year. Not quite ready yet.

A sad video from Florida. After decades of decline, remnant corals killed by anthropogenic heating in 2023 are being replaced by algal turfs, gorgonians (sea fans), Palythoa (a zooanthid, the yellowish rubbery mounds), & a few sponges. It’s no longer a coral reef. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn_L...

"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...