Ecologist PhD, Wildlife Ecologist with Australian Wildlife Conservancy | & freelance nature videography / photographer, shop at https://xitter.cf/t.co/QfJCy4gwkV
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When you see axonemes in your own cells for the first time! 🤩
Image thanks to the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy 🔬
@mims_umea @UmeaUniversity
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Happy World Lizard Day! 🦎
AWC sanctuaries and partnership areas protect 55% of Australia’s native reptile species - like this Mertens’ Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi), which was found on our Charnley River-Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary (the Kimberley).
🎥 T Sayers/AWC
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@MJSteinbauer FRES, a long-time member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to entomology both in Australia and worldwide, is among those made redundant. The AES stands in solidarity with staff at La Trobe in this fight. We urge you to sign the petition below 👇
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A year in the life of Ethan, the sub-adult Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle, squished into a 30-second animation.
We started studying Ethan December 2017. Since then he has traveled over 15,000 km!
@CellTrackTech @UTAS_
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Feb 2021 is a notable landmark for those following #wetlands and the @RamsarConv. I wrote an article on it that has been published today in #Tasmania Mercury newspaper. Wetlands still have a PR problem and there is a long way to go for conserving them. @Sciences_UTAS
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Have you ever seen a spider brain? Now you have!
@LizyLowe from @MQBiology is studying how brain size of spiders differs between urban and rural populations. Listen to Lizzy talk about this work at #ESAus20 – register at esa2020.org.au
#esa2020 #ecologyaus #ecolsocaus
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Orange bellied parrot: best year in a decade for critically endangered bird. Excellent news but can everyone stop calling them “budgie-sized” - it’s not true. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Don Reserve championed in online film ift.tt/3eJ677I
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Now the real work begins.
To beat this pandemic.
To rebuild our economy.
To root out systemic racism in our justice system and society.
To combat the climate crisis.
To heal the soul of our nation.
The road ahead won't be easy. But America is ready. And so are @JoeBiden and I.
Thomas D.J. Sayers retweeted
The rise of angiosperms pushed conifers to decline – a remarkable case of competition between major branches of the tree of life. Check out our new open-access paper in PNAS: pnas.org/content/early/2020/… @KewScience @GGBC_GU @OxfordPlants @strategiskaSSF @PNASNews
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Launch day for this beautiful piece of fundraising genius from @PenguinBooksAus, edited by the wonderful @leahkam and @KeneallyMeg. It would make a great xmas present for anyone who likes animals and/or the world.
Stoked to have contributed a piece about thresher sharks (the coolest and handsomest fish) to this wonderful book from @PenguinBooksAus, edited by @leahkam and @KeneallyMeg. All proceeds going straight to @AustMarConsSoc and @awconservancy. Out Nov 3.
Thomas D.J. Sayers retweeted
#Pollination ecotypes in #Encephalartos ghellinckii (#Zamiaceae). #Cycads #Africa.
Suinyuy & Johnson.
doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/b…
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Congratulations, Emmanuelle Charpentier! @UmeaUniversity @mims_umea alumna and Nobel Laureate 🎉
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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Australian scientist ranks alongside Charles Darwin, with hundreds of species named after him abc.net.au/news/2020-10-04/s…
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Raptor specialist Nick Mooney has solutions to the terrible loss of Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagles at wind farms. Thanks @themercurycomau for airing his opinion piece, a taste of which is below. themercury.com.au/news/opini…
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A pair of endangered Swift Parrots bathing, Don Reserve, Tasmania. Not used to seeing them on the ground where the light above really shows off their colours. Handheld at 600mm @BirdlifeOz @BirdLifeTas @ausgeo #auswildlife @ParrotOfTheDay @CornellBirds @TassieWild
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It looks like the Devonport area will be a hot spot for breeding this year.
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Dung mimicry: the function of volatile emissions and corolla patterning in fly‐pollinated Wurmbea flowers ow.ly/JngY50Baqy2
ALT Flowers of Wurmbea species and their insect visitors.