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Hot off the press 🔥 find out how Acinetobacter baumanii responds to biocides and the consequence for antibiotic tolerance in this new study by @paulsenlab @arc_coesb A/Prof Amy Cain Liping Li Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences @macquarie_uni nature.com/articles/s4156…

🎓Congratulations to our new Master of Dinosaurs graduate Sally Hurst

We're hiring an Analytical Chemist (seek.com.au/job/70755605) and 2x Bioprocess Engineers (seek.com.au/job/71051401) Number8bio! Come and join our incredible team in Sydney to help decarbonise Agriculture and build a sustainable bio-economy. number8.bio

Can sleepy lizards (aka shingleback skinks) count? Check out our new paper on quantity discrimination in Behavioral Ecology: academic.oup.com/beheco/advance… Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️🌈, PhD Madeleine H Ben Ashton Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Behavioral Ecology Behav Ecol Papers Mike Gardner



I am over the moon that the Australian Research Council funded our DP24 application (with Ana Novoa Perez Dave Richardson and Angel Valverde) to investigate invasive plant × microbial networks! Keep an eye out for PhD and postdoc positions opening up soon! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Check out an unbelievable video of a Gould's monitor gobbling down 5 zebra finch chicks at Fowler's Gap in arid western New South Wales, Australia. Video by @MarcNaguib & Hugo Loning is on @simongriffith4 YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=HkyPFZ… Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences #lizard #predation


Living Seawalls has won the 2023 NSW Coastal Management Award for Innovation! We are so proud to receive this award for our work to restore habitat and biodiversity to urbanised areas along our coastline. Thank you to nswcoastalconf for hosting the awards dinner!




Excited to be interviewed by Julian Schrader on Living Seawalls for this EcolClip. Together with Cornelia Sattler, Julian is producing short videos suitable for inclusion in Ecology courses. Go check them out! protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-4vCCq71jxfB…

Researcher @SynBioRoy from our @macquarie_uni node and Daniel Schindler have built the tRNA Neochromosome – a chromosome new to nature. 👏 This breakthrough brings us one step closer to creating the world's first synthetic brewers yeast and much more.🧬 🔬coesb.com.au/yeastgenome/


Excited that Living Seawalls is featured as a case study in ths new report on climate resilient infrastructure that benefits nature, recently released at cop28.

Our Living Pilings have been installed at Sawmillers Reserve! These modules provide habitat for a range of marine species living around wharf pilings. Thank you to Alex Goad / Reef Design Lab at Reef Design Lab & North Sydney Council for supporting this research!



Here we go again. Fifth field trip for me so far this year. Back up to Lizard Island and beyond. Thanks for the funding GBRF! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Virginia Gilliland Science and Engineering @ MQU Marine Ecology Group Dr. Vincent Raoult Kristen McSpadden Joan Li Annabell Klinke


🌊 It’s out there! Curious about Sydney’s underwater gardens? Take a look at some of the striking effects the urban estuarine environment can have on its kelp forests ! 🏙️🌱 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr Katherine Dafforn Melanie Bishop @CariocaMayer Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW CMSI SEACS @seacs.bsky.social

