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! 🙏

go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW

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...

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 :)

go.bsky.app/GCP9Um

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/...

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

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

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...

Good morning from this cheeky kid outside my window
- Notamacropus agilis (agile wallaby), Cairns, NE Australia (Yirrganydji country)

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

Our paper on global endemism in island plants is highlighted by @mongabay.bsky.social - many thanks for featuring this story!

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island