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• Worried About Earth’s Future? Well, the Outlook is Worse Than Even Scientists Ca...

  

  Daniel Mariuz/AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Time for a ‘cold Shower’ About Our Ability to Avoid a Ghastly Future

  

  “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,’ said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXIV

  

  As the pandemic rages globally, and the fragility of the American political system goes on full display, I give you the first set of biodiversity cartoons for... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Rank Your Own Sample of Journals

  

  If you follow my blog regularly, you’ll know that around the middle of each year I publish a list of journals in conservation and ecology ranked according to a... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2020

  

  Following my late-December tradition, I present — in no particular order — a retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2020 as assessed by expert... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Plan B: COVID-19 Challenges for Field-based PhD Students

  

  Originally published on the GEL.blogBlistering heat, pouring rain, finding volunteers, submitting field-trip forms, forgetting equipment, data sheets blowing... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Need to Predict Population Trends, but Can’t Code? No Problem

  

  Yes, yes. I know. Another R Shiny app.However, this time I’ve strayed from my recent bibliometric musings and developed something that’s more compatible with th... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Citizens Ask the Expert in Climate Physics

  

  In the first of two consecutive interviews with climate-change experts, authors, editors and readers of the Spanish magazine Quercus have a chat with Ken... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Collect and Analyse Your Altmetric Data

  

  Last week I reported that I had finally delved into the world of R Shiny to create an app that calculates relative citation-based ranks for researchers. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• The Ε-index App: a Fairer Way to Rank Researchers with Citation Data

  

  Back in April I blogged about an idea I had to provide a more discipline-, gender-, and career stage-balanced way of ranking researchers using citation data. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Giving the Perfect Seminar at a Job Interview

  

  Have a job interview coming up and have been invited to give a seminar to the committee/school/department/institute?Here are some handy tips for giving the... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXIII

  

  The sixth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Spread of Harmful Species Despite Early Warnings

  

  The goal of developing an alien-species warning system is to remove the species locally and to allow others enough time to take actions that prevent further... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Grand Challenges in Global Biodiversity Threats

  

  Last week I mentioned that the new journal Frontiers in Conservation Science is now open for business. As promised, I wrote a short article outlining our... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• New Journal: Frontiers in Conservation Science

  

  Several months ago, Daniel Blumstein of UCLA approached me with an offer — fancy leading a Special Section in a new Frontiers journal dedicated to conservation... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Explained: Humans Have Dealt with Plenty of Climate Variability

  

  © Professor John Long, Flinders University, Author provided (originally published on The Conversation) How much climate variability have humans dealt with... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Australia: the World’s Unsustainable ‘mine’

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic has finally woken a few people up in this country. The closure of our automotive industry, the volatility of the mining sector, the... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXII

  

  The fifth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• How Much is That Iguana in the Window?

  

  In our latest study, we examine the downstream effects of publicising an elevated species description for a reptile that is highly prized in the international... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Error-free Genetic Repositories: Case of Amphibians

  

  In our new study, we curated > 39,000 amphibian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from GenBank, identified > 2,000 sequencing and taxonomic errors, and... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT