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• 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

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXI

  

  Now that the Australian election has been called for next month, here are a few cartoon reminders of the state of environmental politics in this country (hint:... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• A Cascade of Otters

  

  Carnivores are essential components of trophic webs, and ecosystem functions crumble with their loss. Novel data show the connection between calcareous reefs an... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Correcting Times for Light Exposure Across Spatial Extents

  

  The other day I was tasked with revising a figure for a paper (that should be out soon) where I had to figure out how to compare incident times in a biologicall... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Be Wise About What You Put Online

  

  While you have little choice these days about posting your data and code online when you publish, here are some things to consider when contemplating putting... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Can We Resurrect the Thylacine? Maybe, but It Won’t Help the Global Extinction...

  

  NFSA(published first on The Conversation)Last week, researchers at the University of Melbourne announced that thylacines or Tasmanian tigers, the Australian... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• The Integrity Battlefield: Where Science Meets Policy

  

  Professor Ross Thompson, University of CanberraOn the whole, I am inclined to conclude that my experience of academia and publishing my work has been largely... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• The Sixth Mass Extinction is Happening Now, and It Doesn’t Look Good for Us

  

  Mounting evidence is pointing to the world having entered a sixth mass extinction. If the current rate of extinction continues we could lose most species by... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2022 ENVIRONMENT