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Another example of "we don't even know what we don't know." Two newly recorded frog species in Australia are being pushed to higher elevations due to continental warming and drying. They are basically trapped in small high-elevation refuges as warming "moves" uphill. 🐸 🧪 🌏 phys.org/news/2025-02...

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What search engines do you use apart from Google? Always looking for alternatives.

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Our giant check-list of Australasian mammals is out! All your favourite amazing mammals in one spot!

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By far the biggest wasp nest I have seen.

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"Global plant crisis as botanic gardens exhaust ability to save plants from extinction." cosmosmagazine.com/people/socie...

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Up until the death of the last one in 1936, the Thylacine was the largest marsupial on Earth since Australia's Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. "Thylacine" from @csiropublishing.bsky.social presents a comprehensive examination of the these remarkable, mysterious marsupials. #Booksky

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Did a radio interview for ABC's afternoon Drive program in regional Queensland, covering extinction, de-extinction, the thylacine, citizen science, etc. Starts at 1:30:27. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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“Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.” www.nber.org/papers/w33289

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The beast is out! @iucnshark.bsky.social has released a major new report: "The global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras". 2100+ pages of information from over 350 authors from around the world. Available for free download: portals.iucn.org/library/node... #sharkscience

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We are dedicated to stopping the off-siting of the Kew Herbarium, preserving the cultural and scientific heritage and ongoing taxonomic and botanic research. www.change.org/p/keep-the-k...

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My colleagues discovered ways to destroy forever chemicals. Amazing stuff.

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🌱 New discovery! @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social scientists reveal how Selaginella plants import nucleus-encoded tRNAs into chloroplasts to support photosynthesis—an evolutionary twist for sustaining life. Read in PNAS ! 🌍🔬 #PlantScience #Chloroplasts ▶️ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Tragically, my normal posts on social media have to take a back seat. A work colleague needs to take his critically-ill wife to India for life saving surgery. If anybody feels compelled to donate to an extremely worth cause, I would be eternally grateful. Context and further information at the link.

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This is extraordinary behaviour of this smooth ray. Expelling its intestines violently to help get rid of anything it cannot pass. I shot this in Tasmania this year and we think it’s the first known documentation of this species doing this behaviour. Manta rays are known to do this. #marinelife

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"Extinct organisms that are represented with sequence data at GenBank" Didn't know there was such a handy list. A couple of dinosaurs included! Any guesses as to which taxa are next? Homotherium latidens seems a near certainty.

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"We found that although the median value of publications of threatened species was significantly higher than that of non-threatened species, 47.4% of threatened species had less than 3 publications, and 73.8% had less than 10 publications, indicating low research effort of most threatened species."

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Last week at Costco I bought a bag of chocolates and a box of lettuce I haven't opened the lettuce The chocolates are gone

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Our book 'Thylacine' is only $48 from the publisher until 15 January 2024, with all author royalties strictly going to the Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal. Plenty of other great titles are also generously discounted from Australia's top science publisher.

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well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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Australian rainforest shrub's flowers found to mimic the rotting leaf litter that accumulates on branches, to fool detritus-loving beetles into pollination 😳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Name a paper that you KNOW is decades ahead of its time but nobody else seems to realise.

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Interested to hear any benefits people find to reading the "older" literature apart from the obvious.

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Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions. static1.squarespace.com/static/64914... #researchintegrity #academicsky

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As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

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Absolutely extraordinary!

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theconversation.com/people-do-ca...

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#writers #writeaway #writinglife #writingtips #writingcommunity

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www.londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/...

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All the Plants We Cannot See -- Our culture has moved away from a fascination with the greenery around us. Experts warn that “plant blindness” could come with a cost. therevelator.org/all-the-plan...

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A new movie on the environmental film circuit provides a rare glimpse into Kyrgyzstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, where destructive gold #mining threatens centuries-old ways of life. therevelator.org/mountain-wag...

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Stories from The Revelator were republished or mentioned by other publications at least 30 times in August -- our best month of the year so far. We publish under Creative Commons, so our articles are free to newspapers, magazines, newsletters -- anyone. Check out our latest here: therevelator.org

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A media interview I did yesterday. #thylacine #tasmaniantiger

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