Marcel Cardillo
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Marcel Cardillo
@marcelcardillo.bsky.social

Australian National University. Macroevolution, macroecology, biogeography, biodiversity, conservation.
www.macroevoeco.com

Environmental science 55%
Geography 16%
Pinned

A bit late to the Bluesky party, but I'll start with a plug for our non-technical, non-mathematical, introductory text on macroevolution & macroecology.

It probably won't give you many answers to big questions about biodiversity. But hopefully it will give you the tools to ask good questions.

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Over five years after cameras were set up within a sprawling Western Australian landscape, an elusive “chuditch” has been filmed for the first time.
au.news.yahoo.com/camera-captu...
Camera captures rare Aussie predator believed extinct across 70km landscape
A $5 million project has helped change the region, allowing for the animal's return.
au.news.yahoo.com

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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

New paper led by Emmeline Norris based on her Honours project: Land tenure contributions to protected area growth under alternative conservation targets in the Australian monsoon tropics
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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New Not Drowning, Waving album with Sir George Telek entitled “Malira” out Sept 19th ahead of Melb Recital Centre show on Sat 20th. Front cover features Wargi Apelis from the acclaimed Moab Stringband of Raluana, Rabaul.

I was ok with it until the last two words of the title
Other countries will take American scientists, they say.
Hundreds more CSIRO jobs on the chopping block as experts raise fears over impact on science
Exclusive: Concerns Australia is gutting its research capability coincide with Trump’s deep cuts into US science agencies
www.theguardian.com

What about this classic Oz Crawl song that I'm pretty sure was written with the 2020's in mind:
youtu.be/pv9nyNb4NTk
Australian Crawl - Things Don't Seem (1981)
YouTube video by Australian Crawl
youtu.be

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And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Why is there such variation in species diversity among regions? Work led by @alexskeels.bsky.social shows that the history of climate change driving expansion & contraction of biomes is at least as important as current environments. ‬https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502129122
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

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New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

Thoroughly approve of #3, #5 & #8

You could have picked the original Warumpi Band version of My Island Home, but otherwise all good choices 👍
Grok 4 release event has started

MUSK: "Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously."

"Grok 4 is post-grad level in everything. ... Grok 4 is Ph.D level in everything."
IPBES @ipbes.net · Jul 4
‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉

The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.

Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪

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🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨

Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae.

Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm

What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers?
There's a whole bunch more names to use!

Let me explain ...

To be fair I think there’s a just a general all-round drop in support at the moment.
For millions of years, whales walked on land.

Early whale evolution was an evolutionary burst in wetlands, estuaries, and ocean shallows, otter-like mammals with crocodile smiles moving between land and water. This form, Maiacetus, lived in what’s now Pakistan about 47.5 million years ago. 🧪

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Congratulations to 17 new Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows, announced today. Regrettably, this appears to be the final year of this scheme. www.arc.gov.au/selection-re...
www.arc.gov.au

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Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations

Bromham et al., PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations | PNAS
Evolution of complexity in human languages has been vigorously debated, including the proposal that complexity can build in small, isolated populat...
www.pnas.org

#ICCB25 I need to do a prioritisation analysis to decide which sessions to attend…

You poor things, how did you survive?

It’s so nice to be in Brisbane this week…
#ICCB2025

How to tie a truckies knot
What’s something valuable your dad taught you ?

Mine showed me how to thrive as an entrepreneur

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Prescribed fire, it's a very 🔥 topic! What do we know though?

Find out today! Plaza Level Meeting Room P3, 11:06 am. #ICCB2025

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Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in Brisbane this week! If you're interested in plant traits, fire or rapid evolution, come along to my talk on 'trait-fire mismatch' Monday at 2:55 PM in Room P5. Hope to see you there! 🌿🔥

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What’s something valuable your dad taught you ?

Mine showed me how to thrive as an entrepreneur

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The US military parade starting with Fogerty's masterpiece about how millionaires send working class kids to war, 'Fortunate Son' is tippety-top subversive resistance. Trump may have missed that but not the lack of crowds or desultory trundling. youtu.be/ZWijx_AgPiA?...
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by CCRVEVO
youtu.be

Sorry 11:53am not 10:30
This year, at #ICCB2025, I will share our research on butterfly migration. If you are around, come and say hi! Also, feel free to reach out if you are looking for a PhD position. You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.