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• The Great Dying

  

  Here’s a presentation I gave earlier in the year for the Flinders University BRAVE Research and Innovation series:There is No Plan(et) B — What you can do... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• University Rankings Are Questionable at Best

  

  Measuring educational performance is difficult at any stage, especially since most school-level performance indicators are based on ‘standardised’ tests of a fe... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Academic? You’re Just a Cash-hamster Spinning a Publisher’s Profit Wheel

  

  I contend that publishing articles in nearly all peer-reviewed journals amounts to a form of intellectual slavery.I defend my use of the word ‘slavery’ here, fo... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LVI

  

  The fifth set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• No, You Won’t Sacrifice Scientific Objectivity If You Advocate

  

  Despite a lot of rather uninformed people out there who might view scientists as just flesh-covered automatons lacking the customary set of feelings, we are in... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Doing an Honours Degree

  

  ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON THE GE.BLOGIn 2018 I started my Honours degree in biodiversity and conservation at Flinders University. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Nothing Like a Good Forest

  

  Our history and culture are intimately tied to the planet’s forests and the services they provide to all living beings. In modern times, forests also help comba... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2018

  

  As has become my custom (11 years and running), and based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago, here are the new 2018 ranks for (i) 90... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• “Overabundant” Wildlife Usually Isn’t

  

  Late last year (10 December) I was invited to front up to the ‘Overabundant and Pest Species Inquiry’ at the South Australian Parliament to give evidence... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LV

  

  The fourth set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Increasing Human Population Density Drives Environmental Degradation in Africa

  

  Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of environmental performance among the... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• First Australians Arrived in Large Groups Using Complex Technologies

  

  One of the most ancient peopling events of the great diaspora of anatomically modern humans out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago — human arrival in the grea... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Koala Extinctions Past, Present, and Future

  

  Photo by John LlewelynKoalas are one of the most recognised symbols of Australian wildlife. But the tree-living marsupial koala is not doing well throughout muc... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Being Empathetic for Better Interdisciplinarity

  

  (originally published on the GE.blog)Scientists appear to have mixed feelings when it comes to interdisciplinarity in science — the reaction spans from genuine... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LIV

  

  The third set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• 11 Things Academic Research and Surfing Have in Common

  

  Our very own surfing scientist, Dr Katharina Peters(originally published on the GE.blog)The last time I went surfing the waves were very slow and between sets... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Academics and Indigenous Groups Unite to Stand up for the Natural World

  

  Rain forest gives way to pastures in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso. Photo by Thiago Foresti. More than 600 scientists from every country in the EU and... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Skydive Your PhD

  

  Originally published on the Global Ecology Blog. Many students start a PhD by just continuing in the same subject and same institution from their Masters or... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• How to Improve (South Australia’s) Biodiversity Prospects

  

  Figure 2 (from the article). Overlaying the South Australia’s Protected Areas boundary data with the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia layer... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2019 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecological Network Analysis Workshop

  

  We are most fortunate that Dr Giovanni Strona of the EU Joint Research Centrein Ispra, Italy, will be visiting Flinders University for most of April. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2019 ENVIRONMENT