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• Tenure-Track Professorship in Conservation and Development

  

  The Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Geography Department, has an open position for a tenure-track... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Interrupted Flows in the Murray River Endanger Frogs

  

  Flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of temporary flood... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2022

  

  Following my annual tradition, I present the retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2022 as assessed by experts in Faculty Opinions (formerly... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Children Born Today Will See Literally Thousands of Animals Disappear in Their...

  

  Frida Lannerstrom/Unsplash, CC BYCorey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Giovanni Strona, University of HelsinkiClimate change is one of the main drivers... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Promoting Diversity in the Lab

  

  My definition of a ‘lab’ is simply a group of people who do the science in question — and people are a varied bunch, indeed. But I wager that most scientists... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXIV

  

  Welcome to the fourth set of 7 cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• What Does ‘collapse’ Mean, and Should We Continue Using the Term?

  

  The conservation, environment, and sustainability literature is rife with the term ‘collapse’, applied to concepts as diverse as species extinction to the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Should We Bring Back the Thylacine? We Asked 5 Experts

  

  Tasmanian Museum and Art GallerySigne Dean, The ConversationIn a newly announced partnership with Texas biotech company Colossal Biosciences, Australian... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Terror Management

  

  As is my tendency, I like to wade carefully into other disciplines from time to time to examine what components they can bring to the conservation table. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Never Underestimate the Importance of a Good Figure

  

  I seem to end up frequently explaining to students and colleagues that it’s a good idea to spend a good deal of time to make your scientific figures the most... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXIII

  

  Welcome to the fourth set of 6 cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2021

  

  Now that Clarivate, Google, and Scopus have recently published their respective journal citation scores for 2021, I can now present — for the 14th year running... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Why a Shrinking Human Population is a Good Thing

  

  The other day I was asked to do an interview for a South Korean radio station about the declining-population “crisis”.Therein lies the rub — there is no crisis. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Which Countries Are the ‘wealthiest’?

  

  Last week I wrote a post about various indices of country-level environmental performance, which I prefaced with a caveat that the data are a few years old. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Best and Worst Countries by Different Environmental Indicators

  

  I’ll preface this post with a caveat — the data herein are a few years old (certainly pre-COVID), so things have likely changed a bit. Still, I think the main... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXII

  

  Welcome to the third set of 6 cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Fallacy of Zero-extinction Targets

  

  Nearly a decade ago (my how time flies*), I wrote a post about the guaranteed failure of government policies purporting no-extinction targets within their... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• A Few Insights into the Inner Workings of the Australian Research Council

  

  I’ve been on the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts now for a little over two and a half years. It has been a time-consuming, yet insightful... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• What is the Role of Today’s Academic Society?

  

  This is not a rhetorical question. I really do want to solicit responses to the aspects I will raise in this post, because I have to admit that I’m a little... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Bane of the Bees

  

  Bees are essential for pollination, but their critical function can be perturbed by pesticides. The detrimental effects of those chemicals accumulate through a... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2022 ENVIRONMENT