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bonebraking.bsky.social
Professor at HKU - Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) at HKU Science - Ecologist. Conservation Biologist. Environmental Scientist.
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As a native Angeleno, these fires are so tragic (though I’m fortunate not to have been impacted directly yet). Been reflecting on Los Angeles Against the Mountains by John McPhee (written 35 years ago) www.newyorker.com/magazine/198...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social - Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Some excitement at the end of the year here in our Hong Kong butterfly work. We (Fung!) managed to capture a tagged Parantica sita that had flown over 3000 km (in more than 120 days) from Japan. A new record for the impressive species hku.hk/press/news_d...

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good songs to mop to when the lab floods - Flood (Jars of Clay), You Part the Waters (Cake), Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan), When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin), Black Water (Doobie Brothers)

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now out in Biological Reviews - Wildlife trade investigations benefit from multivariate stable isotope analyses - a comprehensive guide led by Tracey… happy to see this out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s my annual lab in review for 2024 featuring papers in BMC Biology, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Remote Sensing in Eco & Cons tropicalconslab.com/team/2024

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

strange creature from the New Territories…

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

good week for wildlife on the HKU campus

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new paper - Serological evidence of sarbecovirus exposure along Sunda pangolin trafficking pathways link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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woke up searching my phone for photos of the cobra I saw and photographed during my dream… couldn’t find them

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

winter has arrived in HK! (finally) here’s HKU main bldg (plus a yellow crested cockatoo flying in front of it) on this fine cool day

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Spent the day chasing butterflies (on Lantau, in Hong Kong). It was brilliant.

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