Hi lovely #AusEcol peeps! Early bird registration is now open for @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025, to be held at the end of November on Kaurna Yerta, Adelaide! Very much looking forward to having you all in Rads for a week of ecology and nature conservation cleverness! esa2025.org.au

Well that was epic, #ICCB2025 folks! Always energised by the intellect and passion and ideas of the conversation community. Thanks so much to all my beautiful friends, and to the organisers for making the week such an inspiring conference. See you in Mexico! @iccb2025.bsky.social

Our #ICCB2025 #conservation congress statement from today’s @scboceania.org members meeting: static1.squarespace.com/static/66c56...

Here is the link to our SCB Oceania Region Statement from #ICCB2025

South Australia’s new Biodiversity Act will achieve things no federal or state law has done before. It shows states and territories can achieve ambitious reform.

Appreciate the shout out @martinemaron.bsky.social but I really was only there for the pitta (and yes it was outrageous) 🤣 #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

Oceanians at #ICCB2025 Everyone from (or working in) Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, & Polynesia is invited to the SCB Oceania meeting, Thursday lunchtime in M9. Grab a lunch plate and make new friends, meet old friends, and find about what SCBO are up to.

Enter Enelyne Moli’s talk on wedge-tailed sheatwaters breeding in Vanuatu! They used the traditional harvest done for wedgies on the island to randomly sample 70 birds for plastics in their guts. And guess how many pieces of plastic total they found?!? ONE SINGLE PIECE #ICCB2025 🧪

Good mate Ayesha Tulloch supporting her colleague Lin Dai at #ICCB2025, synthesising adaptation actions for threatened species on farms. Important, practical work, delivered with generosity @iccb2025.bsky.social

Another brilliant talk at #ICCB2025 by Margaret Fox in Marshall Islands fishery management. Interesting navigating interactions between global conservation aspirations (eg CBD) and local indigenous rights and obligations. @iccb2025.bsky.social

We are looking for a couple more experts to join our horizon scanning exercise online resulting in a paper in TREE. We are keen to have more participants especially outside Europe/North America. Please come and talk to me if at #ICCB2025

Day 2 #ICCB2025 opens with Melissa Hampton-Smith @jcuofficial.bsky.social talking to the inclusion of equity in global conservation policies/frameworks. Sone work to do, with Melissa presenting useful recommendations. Great talk, Melissa! @iccb2025.bsky.social

Would like to just add how impressed I am at the quality of the speed talks here. Complex ideas being presented with clarity and meaning, all in 3 minutes. Well done all! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social.

Michelle Ward talking to cost estimate models for the conservation and recovery of Australia’s threatened species. Really clever stuff for better understanding the impacts of investment in recovery. #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

I'm really excited to be in Brissy for #ICCB2025! Come see me Tuesday during the poster session (Poster 61), where I'll detail some questions that can be asked with the recently published Seabird Restoration Database! Could be a great PhD chapter for a PhD student. 🧪 www.seabirddatabase.org

@martinemaron.bsky.social squeezing How To Fix Offsets (paraphrasing) into 3 minutes. Exceptionally I might add. Key message for me was applying absolute, rather than net gain, the latter inevitably leading to more loss. Standing room only I might add! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

Volunteers are crucial for conservation work but there is a risk of burnout amongst them. @angelasocsci.bsky.social & Tracy Schultz identified the factors associated with greater risk of volunteers leaving & give great recommendations to keep these wonderful people engaged! #ICCB2025 #ConSocSci

Really interesting talk by Jesse McLaughlin @cuny.edu on shorebird flyway governance in the Americas. Focus on informal, non-binding and adaptive arrangements. Lessons to be learnt for other international agreements perhaps #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

Meg Farmer @deakinuniversity.bsky.social at #ICCB2025 talking to the impact of cat management on long-nosed potoroos on French Is, Victoria. Reducing cat density benefits pots, even prior to eradication. @iccb2025.bsky.social

Great talk by Jonathon Rutter @ox.ac.uk using acoustics to detect “hidden” seabird-fishery interactions. >60% of interactions not detected using existing GPS, suggestive of a greater impact from small-scale and illegal fishery activity. Great use of novel tech. #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

The awesomeness of Emily Massingham @uq-cbcs.bsky.social on full display at #ICCB2025, talking to the centrally important topic of equity in conservation, and developing practical approaches to enabling outcomes of humans and nature. @iccb2025.bsky.social

Bin Bin Li - incredibly rich plenary, drenched with ideas. Exploring local economics and protected areas, resource exploitation spillover, and community-led risk management. And pandas! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

Ricky Archer gifts us all the opening plenary at #ICCB2025, talking to indigenous-led parks management, and threading together western and indigenous lenses on caring for Country. Great start @iccb2025.bsky.social.

Kicking off #ICCB2025

It’s been some time since I’ve anticipated a book’s release as much as this one - finally got my mits on this gem. Can’t wait to dive in. Thanks once again @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for your words and slow, meandering stories of care and hope.

See my report from February on this:

For those interested in rivers, more-than-human relationships, and some practically optimistic examples of environmental advocacy, please enjoy this chat between @emergencemagazine.bsky.social and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, two of my own inspirations for deeper, slower thinking.

Are you a member of @scboceania.org who has published research during the past year? If so, you may be eligible for the SCBO Best Student Paper award! Submissions close 16 May - details here: www.scboceania.org/awards

So I open Bluesky this morning with that innate “oh god what horrors are happening today” response, only to discover reams of beautiful joyful warbler action from @skwinnicki.bsky.social. Thankyou SK!

Well worth a listen/read: @emergencemagazine.bsky.social yarning with Tyson Yunkaporta, on deep time, collective knowledge, and shepherding through uncertain futures. Among the gems is the pearl “prophecy is bullshit”. emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

📣 Calling all change-makers 📣 We are now welcoming proposals for symposia at our ESA2025 conference later this year! Theme- Biodiversity on the brink: Bold actions for a resilient future 🌳🦇 Take this chance to shape discussions and drive real change Apply via esa2025.org.au #ecology #ESAus2025

Calling all ornithologists. Abstract submissions are now open for the Australasian Ornithological Congress in sunny Perth, November 18-20. Come for the birds, stay for the beaches. aoc.org.au/call-for-abs...

Morning lovely #ecology people! For interest, the Call for Symposia has now opened for the Ecology Society of Australia Annual Conference #ESAus25, to be held in sunny Adelaide! www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

Right on time! Just when I was really starting to feel overwhelmed by, well, everything... Here's some handy new research from colleagues @sbekessy.bsky.social @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social on best ways to make positive changes for nature! #conservation🌏 theconversation.com/make-a-noise...

Congratulations to these clever, lovely people for this neat paper, on estimating rare bird population size, and the value of abundance surveys, in the Murray Mallee region of SE Australia. Aside from being generally useful work, it was done I’m very special Country. doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Pretty interested in others views on the model here. In my mind this still raises issues of relying on private money for public good (potentially de-democratising decisions), but practically I like the diversity and innovation in the mechanisms applied. Thoughts?

Early Bird Registration for #ICCB2025 is now open! 🌏 Join us for #ICCB2025 in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia, to shape the future of #conservation science & action. Secure your spot now for discounted rates: conbio.org/mini-sites/i... @iccb2025.bsky.social @scboceania.bsky.social

Calling all artists & creatives - Help shape the face of Conservation Letters! We're seeking iconic, stylized art that captures the beauty & diversity of #conservation science for the new cover of @consletters.bsky.social. 🌍🦑 Submit by 31 January, 2025 #SciArt conbio.org/publications...

This spiky floof says good morning to all you lovely mob

Junior floof on the morning walk #Adelaide #Swamphen #birding

A useful thread on #OzMammal demographic parameter datasets, and also a lovely example of ecologists being nice and generous to one another

For those interested, the wonderful Richard Hobbs, in addition to being a remarkable ecologist, has a keen interest in guitars, and writes a lovely blog on the threads between #nature, timber, people and #music. www.the-nature-of-music.com/2024/12/12/s...

Early bird registration for @iccb2025.bsky.social #ICCB2025 have just opened! Come along to Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, in June for all the nature conservation awesomeness. @scboceania.bsky.social conbio.org/mini-sites/i...

Excited to announce that #AusMammSoc2025 will be held in beautiful Toowoomba in June 2025! australianmammals.org.au/conferences/co…

Nice thread, challenging the notion that the goal of ecological restoration is to achieve or return to a “natural” state. Ecosystems occur in multiple states, and ‘desirable’ state/s are defined by current/future aspirations for that place - an ecological and social exercise.

My Department at La Trobe University is advertising for a continuing Level B (Lecturer) Ecologist position. Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed the ‘wistful optimism’ of scientists hoping for a La Niña-driven recovery www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#Bioacoustics researchers: what's your go-to software for viewing/validating/labelling large datasets? Anything that can handle info from multiple audio files (i.e. 100s of files) in one place, display them all nicely for easy viewing?

Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free...