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• Queer Science

  

  (Originally posted by Kathryn Venning on the GEL.blog)Happy Pride Month to the beautiful Queers of the scientific community, and beyond! Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Successful Movers Responding to Climate Change

  

  Ecologists often rely on measuring certain elements of a species’ characteristics, behaviour, or morphology to determine if these — what we call ‘traits’ —... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Extinction Cascades

  

  A recent online interview I did on the role of extinction cascades in mass extinctions: Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXI

  

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

  Posted on 31 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Extinction Anxiety

  

  Earlier this week, the SBS show The Feed did a short segment called ‘Extinction Anxiety’ where I talked with host Alice Matthews about biodiversity extinctions. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

  

  First published in the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere Blog on 5 May 2020.by Professor Dan Blumstein (University of California at Los... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Shifting from Prevention to Damage Control

  

  Back in March this year before much of the world morphed into the weirdness that now dictates all facets of life, I wrote an update for the Is This How You... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Fairer Way to Rank a Researcher’s Relative Citation Performance?

  

  I do a lot of grant assessments for various funding agencies, including two years on the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund Panel (Ecology, Evolution,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• South Australia is Still Killing Dingoes

  

  As we did for Victoria, here’s our submission to South Australia’s proposed changes to its ‘wild dog’ and dingo policy (organised again by the relentless and... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LX

  

  The third set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020 (plus a video treat). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Amphibian Conservation in a Managed World

  

  Crinia parinsignifera (top) and Limnodynastes tasmaniensis (bottom). Photo: Kate MasonThe amphibian class is diverse, and ranges from worm-like caecilians to... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Plant’s Adaptive Traits Don’t Follow Climate Conditions as You Might Expect

  

  Just a quick post today, my last one for March. Like probably most of you, I’ve been trying to pretend to be as normal as possible despite the COVID-19... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Projecting Global Deaths from Covid19

  

  I know that it’s not the best way to project expected deaths from a pandemic disease, but being something of a demographer, I just couldn’t help myself. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• How I Feel Now About Climate Change

  

  ‘Bleak No. 2’ by David VoglerFive years ago I was asked by a researcher at the Australia National University, Joe Duggan, how I ‘felt’ about climate change. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• In Pursuit of an Ecological Resilience in the Anthropocene

  

  An excerpt from Alejandro Frid‘s new book, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene (published first in Sierra, with photos... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LVIX

  

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

  Posted on 24 February 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Before You Throw in the Academic Towel

  

  A modified excerpt from The Effective Scientist:—Many academic scientists end up asking themselves at some point why they should even bother. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Unlikely the Biodiversity Crisis Will Improve Any Time Soon

  

  Around a fortnight ago I wrote a hastily penned post about the precarious state of biodiversity — it turned out to be one of the most-read posts in... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• The State of Global Biodiversity — It’s Worse Than You Probably Think

  

  I often find myself in a position explaining to non-professionals just how bad the state of global biodiversity really really is. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Heat Tolerance Highly Variable Among Populations and Species

  

  Many ecological studies have examined the tolerance of terrestrial wildlife to high and low air temperatures over global scales (e.g., 1, 2, 3). Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 ENVIRONMENT