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Here be dragons! 🐉 One of the (probably Aus endemic) Acanthanura sp. springtails that W. P. Amy Liu and I brought back from our last trip to the Vic Alps 🏔. Nice and chunky, must be all that slime mould it’s be chowing down on in the lab during lockdown #collembola #shotoniphone

First up, a nifty study in Functional Ecology that arose from discussions w/tay's Arda Kuyucu when he visited School of Biological Sciences, Monash. Using a sim/subsampling +testing approach we tried to find the ideal sample size for thermal trait assays - *spoilers* it's way larger than most studies use!

People living/working in informal settlements in tropical cities are exposed to extreme heat now and often lack means to adapt - met data underestimate urban heat; warming will have further impacts on health and wellbeing #COP26 - Monash Science's @_Emma_Ramsay in iScience journal

The first paper from my PhD School of Biological Sciences, Monash with @StevenChown1 and Matt McGee is finally out! I explored the relationship between range size and speciation in honeyeaters, to see what we found (and for some pretty pictures) check out the paper here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Matchstick grasshoppers have arrived at the Australian National Insect Expo in Woodend! Come visit us today or tomorrow! ⁦@ecophys⁩ ⁦University of Melbourne⁩ ⁦BioSciences UniMelb⁩

Insects galore at the Australian National Insect Expo in Woodend! PEARG University of Melbourne ⁦BioSciences UniMelb⁩

We’ve welcomed hundreds of new residents to Royal Park - matchstick grasshoppers! We’re committed to green open spaces in the City of Melbourne and these little critters will help us restore biodiversity.

Just in time for🎄our new research came out in PLOS Biology! We assess how ALL terrestrial #Antarctic species will respond to current and future threats and prioritise #conservation strategies to secure their future 🇦🇶🐧🪱! Let me show you how 🧵 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

The most complete and up-to-date #dataset of alien species in the #Antarctic region has been published in Scientific Data. It offers evidence to help halt the rapidly growing risk of #biologicalinvasion in the region. 🔗nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵1/5

2 x exciting PhD opportunities available! If you're keen to understand #Antarctic terrestrial #biodiversity and its change to help protect it - look no further! Positions based at Monash University and come with chance to do field research. 🥾 🔗arcsaef.com/story/antarcti…

The beauty of field work on #subAntarctic #MacquarieIsland. We’ve been out hiking & working for 8 days for our Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future science. It’s great to be back. Thanks for supporting our science antarctica.gov.au !! W. P. Amy Liu Kita marie Williams QUT

Our all-woman field team are back from 8 days of hiking and sampling across #MacquarieIsland. They've been collecting invertebrate, plant and soil samples in cold and wild weather. 🐜🌿🕷️🍃 Thanks to antarctica.gov.au. Justine Shaw Kita marie Williams W. P. Amy Liu #SAEFGoesSouth

🎧Listen in to Einstein A Go Go this Sunday. Kita marie Williams will be speaking with Dr Shane Huntington OAM about her recent field trip to #MacquarieIsland and her PhD research which seeks to better understand invertebrate and plant interactions on the island.

'The Collembola color wheel' The #diversity of colors in #Collembola is endless. Some are displayed here, many more nuances exist. #watercolor #soilanimals

"Sea Level Through a Porthole" - new animation by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5114 Learn more from NASA Climate at climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/se… #ClimateChange

Obituary: Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023) Evolutionary geneticist whose powerful statistical methods facilitated the molecular revolution of evolutionary biology. nature.com/articles/s4155…

This is a fantastic summary thread 🧵 of new research to identify features of value in the Antarctic Peninsula region related to #biodiversity, #science, and #tourism.👇 The SAEF researchers behind the paper inc. Jasmine Lee, Justine Shaw, Prof. Steven Chown & Dr Aleks Terauds

You should submit an abstract to our symposium if you are working🧪 on the ecology and biodiversity🕷️🐟🦭🐋🪲🐛🐧 of Antarctica and/or the Southern Ocean🌊🌬️🌦️❄️ 🎤From Antarctica and Southern ocean to Australia🎤

Historical photos from the 1960s have extended the record of what glaciers looked like decades before the Larsen-B ice shelf collapsed. @ryan__north Prof Tim Barrows 🧵⬇️ youtu.be/O_adRUQJjJc?fe…

⚡️The Larsen-B ice shelf collapsed over a week in 2002 The ice shelf was 3250 square km = Greater Sydney and Wollongong. 🌊After it collapsed, it released colossal amounts of ice from land into the ocean, contributing to rising sea levels. 📷 NASA