Congratulations and very well deserved Sarah McColl-Gausden 🎉 Excited to see the international collaborations you'll develop University of Melbourne Science at Melbourne @WomenSciAUST

Had a beautiful day celebrating both of our achievements 🎉 shout out to QAECO Reid Tingley and Andrew Weeks for an amazing PhD journey and Sarah McColl-Gausden @Erica_Marshall1 Kate Senior for your friendship and support! Science at Melbourne BioSciences UniMelb

Very excited to finally be attending the 1st Aus/NZ eDNA conference in Hobart #eDNA2023 ! Started off with a great #ECR event event yesterday and ready to learn about all the amazing science that’s happening in the community today 🧬

Josephine @forthecake telling us about some of the challenges and super cool solutions for eDNA sampling in WA for a government agency #eDNA2023 Taxonomists are still needed!

We currently have an exciting #PhD project available focused on dealing with missing data and uncertainty in mechanistic niche models of species distributions. The student would be based in QAECO (qaeco.com), a dynamic, friendly, and diverse group at University of Melbourne

In counting down our six most listened-to episodes, this week we've made it number 1🏆🏆 And we're thrilled our most popular episode ever is full of advice from some of our brilliant UniMelb SciComm alumni! Tune in tomorrow for superb advice on how to get your thesis written.

Calling all early career ecologists 📢@ #ESAus23. Come along to our Early Career Pathways Forum Tues 3.30 Meeting Rm2! If you could ask an established ecologist about their career, what aspect would be of most interest?

#ESAus23 @Erica_Marshall1 shows us how the spatial patterns of future fire risk differ with climate change and management, the results are very region dependant!

#ESAus23 Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) urban biodiversity, we should definitely care about it! Ecological connectivity could be one way to help with urban planning

👋 #ESAus23 - What's the one piece of advice you wish you were given early in your career? Go to slido.com & enter #1484952

#ESAus23 Alys Young combining different forms of knowledge and data to describe ecosystems on the Tiwi Islands and starting to look at changes to the ecosystems over time using random forest models!

#ESAus23 Ella Plumanns Pouton is looking at fire regimes and their impact on the canopy seedbank of serotinous plants. Lots of different germination strategies!

It's the nicest part of #ESAus23 now, giving prizes to students & ECRs. I was judging posters and talks this year and my goodness I did not see one that was not excellent! The caliber of spoken & visual communication is so high and I love it so much! Well done everyone!!!

Very proud to have this project published. Thanks to everyone who helped me take platypus eDNA samples before and after the black summer megafires. Please check it and the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article out! doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc… Reid Tingley Andrew Weeks Luke Collins EnviroDNA

New study released using #eDNA to discover the effect of mega-fires on the presence of platypuses. Huge congratulations to Emily McColl-Gausden and the team behind the project including Andrew Weeks Reid Tingley. Find out more in this article from The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand: theconversation.com/even-platypuse…

So excited to release this work into the wild. Thank you so much to the 300 odd researchers who contributed to the project. And especially to my joint-first-authors Tim Parker, Elliot Gould for putting in a terrifying number of hours on this

nature news just published a story about the implications our preprint showing how vulnerable results are to analytic choices. Check it out here! nature.com/articles/d4158…

I’m excited to share my major PhD study, published in Environmental Research. We looked at genus-level seasonal patterns in allergenic airborne #pollen in Hobart using #eDNA #metabarcoding. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…… or read below for a summary #aerobiology #allergy 🍃🤧🧬

Exciting news! 👏 Jessie Moyses has been awarded the 2024 Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship for her PhD research at QUT, investigating the impact of biodiversity on pollinators and pest control. Read more: tinyurl.com/37jxr6z2 #conservation #biodiversity #ecology