Dr Kylie Cairns
@drcairns.bsky.social
Molecular biologist. Genetics and canid nerd. Passion for dingoes, canids, eDNA metabarcoding, citizen science & conservation. Research Fellow at UNSW. threads and insta @dr_cairns
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Dingoes are on their own evolutionary path, and are not domestic dogs - 🐾🐾
Read more theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in our journal #australianmammalogy led by
@drcairns.bsky.social
Read more theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in our journal #australianmammalogy led by
@drcairns.bsky.social
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Dingoes are on their own evolutionary path, and are not domestic dogs - 🐾🐾
Read more theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in our journal #australianmammalogy led by
@drcairns.bsky.social
Read more theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in our journal #australianmammalogy led by
@drcairns.bsky.social
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Interesting new paper on the complexities of assigning Canis species by @drcairns.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social and others. Very reminiscent of the ongoing debacle in North America with the Eastern/red wolf complex.
August 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Interesting new paper on the complexities of assigning Canis species by @drcairns.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social and others. Very reminiscent of the ongoing debacle in North America with the Eastern/red wolf complex.
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Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv
Non-exhaustive list!
Non-exhaustive list!
November 12, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv
Non-exhaustive list!
Non-exhaustive list!
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Please welcome @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social, the scientist who broke Twitter (when it was still Twitter) with the hashtag #FieldworkFail by telling the story of how she glued herself to a crocodile.
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
November 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Please welcome @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social, the scientist who broke Twitter (when it was still Twitter) with the hashtag #FieldworkFail by telling the story of how she glued herself to a crocodile.
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
🐊 🌍
🧪 #academicsky
fieldworkfail.com/en/
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Never gets old
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Never gets old
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🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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Research Management System - Scheme Round Statistics for Approved Applications - Discovery Projects 2025 round 1
RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...
rms.arc.gov.au
November 26, 2024 at 12:13 AM
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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Interesting - particularly in the context of the cultural value and importance of #dingoes to Indigenous Australians and the massive scale of government dingo culling programs in National Parks.
@euanritchie.bsky.social @howlingdingo.bsky.social
@euanritchie.bsky.social @howlingdingo.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Interesting - particularly in the context of the cultural value and importance of #dingoes to Indigenous Australians and the massive scale of government dingo culling programs in National Parks.
@euanritchie.bsky.social @howlingdingo.bsky.social
@euanritchie.bsky.social @howlingdingo.bsky.social
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Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022.
The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022.
The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Let’s start a thread of orgs you support, are important, but are not yet on Bluesky!
Reply with the org & their contact info. I’ll gladly contact them & ask them to make the switch!
Want to reach out to my fav?
Voyagers Wolf Project!
www.voyageurswolfproject.org/contact
Reply with the org & their contact info. I’ll gladly contact them & ask them to make the switch!
Want to reach out to my fav?
Voyagers Wolf Project!
www.voyageurswolfproject.org/contact
November 16, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Let’s start a thread of orgs you support, are important, but are not yet on Bluesky!
Reply with the org & their contact info. I’ll gladly contact them & ask them to make the switch!
Want to reach out to my fav?
Voyagers Wolf Project!
www.voyageurswolfproject.org/contact
Reply with the org & their contact info. I’ll gladly contact them & ask them to make the switch!
Want to reach out to my fav?
Voyagers Wolf Project!
www.voyageurswolfproject.org/contact
www.startribune.com/a-clever-wol...
Researchers and farmers working together to find a solution to livestock predation that doesn’t involve killing wolves (as much).
Turns out barrier fences can and do work to deter wolves, and livestock guardians compliment this strategy.
Researchers and farmers working together to find a solution to livestock predation that doesn’t involve killing wolves (as much).
Turns out barrier fences can and do work to deter wolves, and livestock guardians compliment this strategy.
A clever wolf repeatedly snuck into a Minnesota ranch. Biologists figured out its MO.
The successful fencing of a northern Minnesota ranch could help reduce conflicts between ranchers and wolves.
www.startribune.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
www.startribune.com/a-clever-wol...
Researchers and farmers working together to find a solution to livestock predation that doesn’t involve killing wolves (as much).
Turns out barrier fences can and do work to deter wolves, and livestock guardians compliment this strategy.
Researchers and farmers working together to find a solution to livestock predation that doesn’t involve killing wolves (as much).
Turns out barrier fences can and do work to deter wolves, and livestock guardians compliment this strategy.
November 25, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Using #eDNA to learn about the diet of predators and thus predation risk using metabarcoding. Our #eDNA source was 💩 and our team includes Traditional Owners, local community members and Gov ecologists/officers. We managed to collect scat from #dingoes, #foxes, #feralcats, #goannas, #owls and more!
I’m so chuffed to be a part of this project - doing the eDNA lab work and bioinformatics - connecting western science and TEK to understand the risk of predators to native wildlife on Country.
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
Predators on Country: What scat and eDNA tells us about predator risk to wildlife
YouTube video by NSW Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water
youtu.be
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
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DNA metabarcoding reveals unexpected diet breadth of the specialist large-headed resin bee (Heriades truncorum) in urbanised areas across Germany @royentsoc.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DNA metabarcoding reveals unexpected diet breadth of the specialist large‐headed resin bee (Heriades truncorum) in urbanised areas across Germany
Increasing urbanisation resulted in fewer brood cells and higher plant genus diversity in pollen provisions but was not related to the amount of non-native plant pollen or nutritional composition. I...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:38 AM
DNA metabarcoding reveals unexpected diet breadth of the specialist large-headed resin bee (Heriades truncorum) in urbanised areas across Germany @royentsoc.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science.
Indeed almost all people who used to be active on climate change on Twitter/X are now here.
To get more content: @katharinehayhoe.com has the complete overview and best starter packs, as usual 😀
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Indeed almost all people who used to be active on climate change on Twitter/X are now here.
To get more content: @katharinehayhoe.com has the complete overview and best starter packs, as usual 😀
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science.
Indeed almost all people who used to be active on climate change on Twitter/X are now here.
To get more content: @katharinehayhoe.com has the complete overview and best starter packs, as usual 😀
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Indeed almost all people who used to be active on climate change on Twitter/X are now here.
To get more content: @katharinehayhoe.com has the complete overview and best starter packs, as usual 😀
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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We had our first decent dump of rain in a while at Mt Gibson last night, which means the frogs are back out and about in abundance.
At this time of year, the chorus seems to be dominated by the Shoemaker's Frog (Neobatrachus sutor; left) and the Wheatbelt Frog (N. kunapalari; right).
#WildOz
At this time of year, the chorus seems to be dominated by the Shoemaker's Frog (Neobatrachus sutor; left) and the Wheatbelt Frog (N. kunapalari; right).
#WildOz
November 20, 2024 at 12:04 AM
We had our first decent dump of rain in a while at Mt Gibson last night, which means the frogs are back out and about in abundance.
At this time of year, the chorus seems to be dominated by the Shoemaker's Frog (Neobatrachus sutor; left) and the Wheatbelt Frog (N. kunapalari; right).
#WildOz
At this time of year, the chorus seems to be dominated by the Shoemaker's Frog (Neobatrachus sutor; left) and the Wheatbelt Frog (N. kunapalari; right).
#WildOz
Unfortunately demonstrated in the way Australian Governments are failing to shift policy about #dingo conservation follow updated knowledge about their identity and limited evidence of contemporary dingo-dog hybridisation.
It feels wrong to many scientists, intuitively, that teaching people facts won’t necessarily change their attitudes or behavior. So we can’t even make scientists believe the “knowledge gap” approach doesn’t work, because they reject scientific fact (it doesn’t work) in favor of belief (it does).
November 20, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Unfortunately demonstrated in the way Australian Governments are failing to shift policy about #dingo conservation follow updated knowledge about their identity and limited evidence of contemporary dingo-dog hybridisation.
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Multiple gov'ts and agencies call dingos wild dogs, apparently to increase the social acceptability of dingo control.
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Multiple gov'ts and agencies call dingos wild dogs, apparently to increase the social acceptability of dingo control.
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A bit late to the game, but I participated in this collaboration of over 100 Australian ecologists, led by the amazing @dadriscoll.bsky.social on Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires that was recently published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature
Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:47 AM
A bit late to the game, but I participated in this collaboration of over 100 Australian ecologists, led by the amazing @dadriscoll.bsky.social on Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires that was recently published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago
Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.
www.science.org
November 17, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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So, hypothetically, if a threatened species’ population had declined by up to 70% in 15 years, with loss of genetic diversity too, but there was uncertainty about the data, would you halve decline estimate, landing on ‘vulnerable’ or would you assume estimate is reasonable and land on ‘endangered’?
November 17, 2024 at 2:44 AM
So, hypothetically, if a threatened species’ population had declined by up to 70% in 15 years, with loss of genetic diversity too, but there was uncertainty about the data, would you halve decline estimate, landing on ‘vulnerable’ or would you assume estimate is reasonable and land on ‘endangered’?
I’m so chuffed to be a part of this project - doing the eDNA lab work and bioinformatics - connecting western science and TEK to understand the risk of predators to native wildlife on Country.
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
Predators on Country: What scat and eDNA tells us about predator risk to wildlife
YouTube video by NSW Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water
youtu.be
November 17, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I’m so chuffed to be a part of this project - doing the eDNA lab work and bioinformatics - connecting western science and TEK to understand the risk of predators to native wildlife on Country.
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
youtu.be/Zp6fkFJaJ5Y?...
November 24, 2023 at 11:43 PM
The science is in - the animals killed as “wild dogs” are native dingoes. These bosses of Country need to be protected in National Parks not baited and killed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 19, 2023 at 12:04 AM
The science is in - the animals killed as “wild dogs” are native dingoes. These bosses of Country need to be protected in National Parks not baited and killed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
