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• 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

• Many Animals Won’t Cope with Climate Change Without Access to Ample Drinking...

  

  Climate change implies change in temperature and water, and both factors shape species’ tolerances to thermal stress. In our latest article, we show that lack o... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Double Standards: Climate Change Vs. COVID-19

  

  Both anthropogenic climate change and the coronavirus pandemic entail serious health risks. Why then do climatologists lack the public credibility and... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• The Only Constant is Change

  

  I just wrote a piece for the Flinders University alumnus magazine — Encounter — and I thought I’d share it here.As an ecologist concerned with how life... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• History of Species Distribution Models

  

  This little historical overview by recently completed undergraduate student, Sofie Costin (soon to join our lab!), nicely summarises the history, strengths,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• I’m Nearing the End of My PhD/postdoc … What the Hell Am I Supposed to Do Now?

  

  Originally published on the GE.blog. What do you want to be when you grow up? Unicorns, like job security, used to exist (actually, it’s an Elasmotherium)The... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2019

  

  For the last 12 years and running now, I’ve been generating journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Brief History of Environmentalism in Australia Since European Invasion

  

  A (heavily) modified and updated excerpt from our 2015 book Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie—The Australian awakening to its environmental dilemmas... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT