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Darren Crayn
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Director Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Editor in Chief Australian Systematic Botany, #systematics #genomics #collections #conservation #ecology #taxonomy #botany #tropics #ozwild #ozflora terrible guitarist...opinions owned
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Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲

Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏

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December 11, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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I was lucky enough to talk with Mhairi King about #CSIRO's Living #STEM program. A great example of the learning benefits for #science and #STEMEducation from better connecting #IndigenousKnowledge to the classroom. Read about their latest work in the Pilbara here:
thewest.com.au/news/pilbara...
CSIRO STEM showcase highlights science classes on country
Pilbara educators were invited to share lessons about blending the science curriculum with Indigenous knowledge systems at a recent CSIRO Living STEM showcase.
thewest.com.au
November 21, 2024 at 3:57 AM

A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :)

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November 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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It's UN #WorldToiletDay. As usual, plants got there first -several Nepenthes (tropical pitcher plants) adapted to benefit from poo. N. lowii, N. rajah & N. macrophylla absorb rodent fecal matter while N. hemsleyi eats bat poo.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
Mutualism between tree shrews and pitcher plants
Three species of Nepenthes pitcher plants from Borneo engage in a mutualistic interaction with mountain tree shrews, the basis of which is the exchange of nutritional resources. The plants produce ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Extremely proud to be one of the chief investigators in the just launched ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. CIEHF aims to do science better - authentic codesign with First Nations people baked in from the start. ciehf.au
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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We're hiring a curator of Botany!
The University of Nebraska State Museum is looking for a botanist (broadly concieved) to head the Bessey Herbarium. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share:

The UNL application site link is: employment.unl.edu/postings/93856
November 14, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA.
#sediments #aDNA #eDNA

For further details, please see:
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
November 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Good morning from this cheeky kid outside my window
- Notamacropus agilis (agile wallaby), Cairns, NE Australia (Yirrganydji country)
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I’m feeling a lot of goodness here having just made the switch, but some sad news – possible closure of one of the tropical world’s most important field ecology sites, the Daintree Rainforest Observatory and canopy crane in NE Australia. www.jcu.edu.au/daintree
#ecology #tropics #botany #zoology
Daintree Rainforest Observatory
Experience the field trip of a lifetime in the heart of a Wet Tropics World Heritage listed rainforest at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory research station. DRO is the only rainforest canopy crane ...
www.jcu.edu.au
November 17, 2024 at 8:09 AM