Our October issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧪 💧Wetland carbon sequestration 🌊Starfish diversity in the deep sea 🧬Genetic architecture of reproductive success Cover shows a colony of king penguins, from Carter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to send this @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... to the authors of this paper today www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm heading to #ICCB2025 tomorrow. Happy to chat about @natecoevo.nature.com so please seek me out!

Proud of my brother Lincoln who has sought for years to shine spotlight on Monash and Woodside, and is quoted in this (and championing academic freedom of speech)

An exclusive academic conference held in Prato, Italy, last year -- organised in partnership between Monash University and Woodside -- has become the latest flashpoint for staff concerned about its relationship to Australia's biggest fossil fuel producer. This from me in The Guardian.

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧬Airborne eDNA 💰Costs of biological invasions 🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A series of recent investigative reports in the New York Times have criticized global panda breeding programmes. Here, Yang et al. clarify three misconceptions and argue that the reporting misrepresents the breeding programme and its conservation effects 🐼 rdcu.be/ei9aM

Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect species richness and community composition www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With this column today, I learn that Robin McKie is stepping down as science correspondent for The Observer. It's impossible to overstate how legendary Robin is, and this column, with its solid defence of science and celebration of its wonder, is typically astute. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority. A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of. My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program. The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s hard to celebrate public schools gaining full funding. Its hard because kids now in kindergarten must wait till Year 10 before their education is fully supported. Its also hard when most private schools remain overfunded. Its hard to celebrate inequality. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Dean Karlan, USAID's chief economist, has resigned and gives his story to NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

We are often told that we need to keep exporting gas to places like Japan, or risk a geopolitical disaster. Dr Yuki Tanabe explains to the #ClimateIntegrity Summit why Japan doesn't need Australia's gas.

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

What could you do with $13,000? Is every Australian, adult and child, feel comfortable that they are sending, on average, over $13,000 of their money to the USA for some submarines. We had two in the First World War, AE1 and AE2, they did nothing, and brave Australian submariners died.

If you want to know what the hell is happening in Germany atm, this is an excellent summary. 👇

Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂. Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...

Join our news team as a science reporter based in Berlin or Sydney! Applications close January 20th👇🏻 Please help spread the word @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Also from Emily Nicholson and colleagues on the role of the Red List of Ecosystems in the KM-GBF #ESAus2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For a primer on the KM-GBF monitoring framework that Emily Nicholson just discussed at #ESAus2024, see www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm really looking forward to attending #ESAus2024 next week. I'll be cycling in through Royal Park every morning. Happy to chat about @natureecoevo.bsky.social so please say hi.