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Naomi Forrest
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Research Assistant and Master’s Student @ Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart Tasmania. Spatial ecology, fisheries management and Southern Ocean enthusiast.
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jackdashby.bsky.social
A wet wombatlet in a wet land.
#WombatWednesday
#Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombat #WildOz #wombats
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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nordacious.bsky.social
"My detractors cannot wrap their head around it: I am not paid by anyone for my work on Palestine, not even the UN. Special Rapporteurs serve pro bono. And I have so much fun at doing what I do, you know why? Because I despise bullies, mafias + apartheid. I will fight...happily till my last breath."
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
We just published some new #science on forest habitat loss in Tasmania! here's a quick thread!

Swift parrots are Critically Endangered because of habitat loss.

Until now, nobody has quantified the amount and trends of forest loss and degradation!

1/8 🧵 🦜🧪
two swift parrots sitting in the palm of my hands
April 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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bas.ac.uk
Do you love Professor Hannah Fry?
Do you use fridges?
Do you hate having a hole in Earth's ozone layer?

📣 Well, huge news:
Tonight's episode of The Secret Genius of Modern Life (about fridges) on BBC Two features BAS scientist Jonathan Shanklin, who discovered the Ozone Hole above Antarctica.
April 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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scottishseabird.bsky.social
What a great few days at #BOU2025. Loads of interesting & inclusive science, & a really supportive & friendly bunch of people. A great place to give the first talk of my PhD on #FalklandsShags & delighted to have been highly commended for my Bluesky thread 👇🏼

📸: @vulturecat.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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kirstenseesternc.bsky.social
Bravo, @sannemdt.bsky.social for a new study on microbial biofilm in Greenland streams across 3 regions. Highlights:
🟢 Cyanobacteria thrive even in the High Arctic
🌡️ P & water temperature are key drivers of biofilm growth
⛰️ Catchment slope & NO3 conc shape total biomass
doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Drivers of Epilithic Biofilms in Greenland Streams: The Role of Nutrients, Temperature and Catchment Slope Across a Climate Gradient
Microbial biofilms are crucial components in Arctic streams, and understanding how climate warming affects them is critical. Across three regions in Greenland, we found large differences in biofilm s...
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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ecolsocaus.bsky.social
🌸 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECOLOGISTS | MARCH 🌸⁠
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Check out this roundup of exciting jobs, scholarships and volunteer opportunities —your next adventure starts here!⁠
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See the full range of opportunities (many more!) online now tinyurl.com/4s2vc5t9
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#EcologyCareers #EnvironmentalJobs #Hiring #ecology
Job ad: Senior Ecologist with Sydney Water This is a great opportunity for a Senior Ecologist to join the high-performing and collaborative Environment and Heritage Services team. You will be responsible for providing ecological advice and conducting biodiversity assessment to support the approval of infrastructure projects along the asset value chain. Your subject matter expertise will also support strategic and operational business needs. Job ad: Ecologist South Australia with Bush Heritage Fantastic opportunity to work within a leading conservation organisation. The Ecologist will be responsible for development and implementation of the science and ecology programs. It is expected that this position will be available to support Bush Heritage partnerships in conservation, pastoral and Indigenous Protected Area sectors. Student opportunity: PHD - multiple opportunities We offer up to four PhD projects with scholarships in the project ‘Community completeness in monitoring of post-mining restoration success’. The project is a collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Camerino, Italy, as well as two mining industry partners – Iluka Resources Ltd and Alcoa of Australia Ltd. This collaborative research between ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists and restoration practitioners will investigate why particular plant species and plant functions are absent from post-mining vegetation, using the ecological concepts of species pools, dark diversity, and community completeness. Student opportunity: PHD: Measuring ecosystem recovery and conservation impact The project will involve conducting assessments for several threatened ecosystems to measure how close they are to ‘full recovery’, their past conservation legacy, and their recovery potential. The student will contribute to a broader project that is working to develop a global standard for measuring ecosystem recovery, similar to the Green Status of Species.
March 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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drdevildave.bsky.social
Quoll feet are the best feet! 👣

These are the hind feet of a spotted-tailed quoll - those striated pads provide extra grip when they’re climbing
March 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
naomiforrest.bsky.social
Celebrating all people who identify as women today! I am blessed to know so many strong, resilient and inspiring women who make my world more wholesome. Here is one of them 🥰
anthrofish.bsky.social Dr. Valeriya Komyakova @anthrofish.bsky.social · Mar 8
Happy International Women's Day.
Here’s to women holding their own.
Here is to a world where one day we have finally reached equity for all, to a world where we focus on what matters, to a world we forget hate and embrace our differences, embrace diversity. Here is to being a human.
March 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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kirstenseesternc.bsky.social
Winter conditions in Arctic lakes will be in focus for the next five weeks at the University in Svalbard #UNIS-Svalbard during the annual MsC and PhD course. I look forward to meet a fully booked course with super-motivated students in few days. www.unis.no/courses/ab-8...
March 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
naomiforrest.bsky.social
Great first day in my new role and an Assessment Officer with DCCEEW.. looking forward to serving the environment and Australia community 🐸#EPBC 🐍🦅🌿🌱
February 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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charlotterubyp.bsky.social
Excited to present our latest paper where we take a close look at what we know (and are yet to know) about biodiversity in Antarctica!

🔗 Check out a summary of the work: arcsaef.com/story/new-an...

🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
January 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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anthrofish.bsky.social
Say hello to Lady - the warrior puppy. She may be called Lady but she will attack your evil socks and destroy them so they can never cause trouble again.

Also, you are welcome 😁
January 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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jackdashby.bsky.social
An all-black baby #TasmanianDevil pops back out into the world.
#fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevils
January 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
naomiforrest.bsky.social
Pretty cool to find @charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social here. My favourite photographer. Got lucky and saw an Alpine dingo at the top of Mt Hotham. He looked straight at us and then trotted off. Made my day!
charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social @charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social · Jan 9
Most mornings the closest I can get to an alpine dingo is a kilometre, other times it’s almost too close. One of this year’s pups cussing out if I was camouflaged edible or camouflaged scary.

📸 Nikon z9
👁️ Nikon z 800mm PF f6.3

@nikonaustralia @charlesdavisgallery
January 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Our research team is hiring a Stream Ecology Research Officer

Just 6 more days to close of applications (12 Jan 2025)

If this sounds like you, please apply!

Full details: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/918927/
Screenshot of advertisement for a Research Officer (Stream Ecology) Position Number: 0064427 Location: Burnley Role type: Full-time; Fixed-term for 24 months Start Date: Mid-February 2025 Faculty: Science Department/School: School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences Salary: UOM Level 5 - $83,159 - $95,518 p.a. plus 17% super • Conduct field monitoring and laboratory analyses to support stream protection, monitoring, management and restoration research for the benefit of Melbourne's waterways • Be part of a leading waterway ecological research group, contributing to research practices, new knowledge and innovative solutions for improved stream management • Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!
January 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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jackdashby.bsky.social
Wow wow wow! My upcoming book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums is in the Guardian's list of the biggest #books of the year! 🤩🤩 It comes out in April. They're offering 10% discount on pre-orders.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
A screen grab of the article, reading: Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby (Allen Lane) Zoologist Ashby investigates the wonders displayed – and those locked away – in cabinets around the country, tracing the biases and ideologies inherent in museum collections and considering how they can be unpicked.
December 30, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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adriftlab.bsky.social
Quantifying the impact of #seabird mortality in the (ongoing) Australian #MarineHeatwave will be harder because virtually all the birds were nocturnal, burrow-nesting #shearwaters (losses at colonies are much less visible) www.fws.gov/project/moni...
Monitoring the Common Murre Mass Mortality in Coastal Alaska | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Sentinels of ocean health: counting a climate catastrophe Common murres help us understand the health of Alaska's marine ecosystems – and sound a warning when there is trouble below the waves.
www.fws.gov
December 14, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
altmetric.com Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
Superb parrot! Breeding season is wrapping up and the chicks are at maximum cuteness 🌿🦜
December 3, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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jeffwwhite.bsky.social
In other skua news, the skua nest beside our main study colony has a very cute chick currently
December 2, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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seafloorscience.bsky.social
Final day of #NoVERMber and Christmas is looming.
In festive cheer, meet the Christmas Tree Worms Spirobranchus spp.!

This worm started it all for me. I studied their ecology for my undergrad. And the rest is history...

📷 Jean-Paul Cassez
A Christmas Tree Worm. The bit of worm you can see are the two spiralled branchioles. They are orange and feathery with white inner colouring and black tips. The worm lives in a tube secreted on coral. The coral polyps are beige, small, and tightly packed.
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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oceanographer.bsky.social
🌊 Ocean currents around Antarctica from our high-resolution (3 km) ocean model. 🧪

#FESOM #SciArt
November 29, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Those telling me it was not Albanese’s fault and he really is trying his best.

Please.

Go be deluded elsewhere

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog
The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2024 at 12:49 AM