Bradshaw

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• And This Little Piggy Went Extinct

  

  Back in June of this year I wrote (whinged) about the disappointment of writing a lot of ecological models that were rarely used to assist real-world wildlife... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Free Resources for Learning (and Getting Better With) R

  

  While I’m currently in Github mode (see previous post), I thought I’d share a list of resources I started putting together for learning and upskilling in the R... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Want a Permanent DOI Assigned to Your Data and Code? Follow This Simple Recipe

  

  These days with data and code often required to be designated as open-source, licenced, and fully trackable for most manuscript submissions to a peer-reviewed... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXVIII

  

  Here is the fifth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Citizens Meet Coral Gardening

  

  It is possible to cultivate corals in the sea like growing a nursery of trees to restore a burned forest. Cultivated corals grow faster than wild corals and... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Smoothing Over Content Issues with Co-author Agreements

  

  I’ve written before about guidelines for co-authorship that I’ve formulated after years of accrued hit-and-miss experiences. Here, ‘hits’ refer to positive... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Avoiding a Ghastly Future — The Science Show

  

  Just thought I’d share the audio of an interview I did with the famous Robyn Williams of ABC Radio National‘s The Science Show. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• PhD Opportunity in Control Strategies of Feral Deer

  

  In collaboration with Biosecurity South Australia, the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University is happy to announce a wonderful new PhD opportunity in feral... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Plea of the Predatory Publisher (A Lament)

  

  Illustration by David Parkins (nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y)“Salutations! I hope you are safe and doing well,[change font] Dear Doctor [insert name,... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Video Explainer — Nasty Alien Species in Australia

  

  You know you’ve made it to the big time in Australia when Behind The News does a story on your research. Practically every kid in Australia watches the show at... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• The Very Worn Slur of “neo-Malthusian”

  

  After the rather astounding response to our Ghastly Future paper published in January this year (> 443,000 views and counting; 61 citations and counting),... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Will Also Make Us More Stupid

  

  Most people are at least vaguely aware that climate change isn’t good for us.Let’s consider the obvious direct health effects, like heat exhaustion and stroke,... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• It’s a Tough Time for Young Conservation Scientists

  

  Sure, it’s a tough time for everyone, isn’t it? But it’s a lot worse for the already disadvantaged, and it’s only going to go downhill from here. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXVII

  

  Here is the fourth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Pest Plants and Animals Cost Australia Around $25 Billion a Year — and It Will...

  

  AAPCorey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIROThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Smart Genetic Analysis Made Fast and Easy

  

  If you use genetics to differentiate populations, the new package smartsnp might be your new friend. Written in R language and available from GitHub and CRAN,... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2020

  

  This is the 13th year in a row that I’ve generated journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Interval Between Extremely Wet Years Increasing?

  

  The other day I was playing around with some Bureau of Meteorology data for my little patch of the Adelaide Hills (free data — how can I resist?), when I... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• ‘Living’ Figures

  

  Have you ever constructed a database and then published the findings, only to realise that after the time elapsed your database is already obsolete?This is the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Losing Half of Tropical Fish Species as Corals Disappear

  

  When snorkelling in a reef, it’s natural to think of coral colonies as a colourful scenography where fish act in a play. But what would happen to the fish if th... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT