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Yesterday I got my feet wet for an excellent reason. After years of careful design, planning and collaboration, our floating wetlands finally exist! Can't wait to see the wildlife that take advantage. Partners: City of Melbourne + Wetland Ecological Treatment Systems + Science at Melbourne

🧵1/5 Our team welcomes the Australian Government's response to Graeme Samuel's scathing 2020 review of our Federal environmental laws. But the key to the success of the reforms announced will be in the detail. We’re keen to get the conversation going. theconversation.com/our-laws-fail-…

Congratulations to Brendan Wintle on his induction as a 2022 Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria @RoyalSocietyVic Link: rsv.org.au/new-rsv-fellow…

One week in and we have received some amazing support and feedback from all of you. Here are some memories from our launch. Thanks for following us on social media - please sign up to our other channels and join our newsletter via our website. #biodoversitycouncil 📷 Ross Bird

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

Yes I graduated after many years balancing research and parenting babies/young children. Could not have done it without the support of family and these legends, my supervisors yungenchee.bsky.social and Brendan Wintle QAECO. I was extremely lucky

Our first newsletter is now out! Your resource for connecting with the latest analysis, expertise and ideas to make a difference for Australia's biodiversity: bit.ly/newsletter-dec… #biodiversity #newsletter

Meet #UniMelbAlumni identical twins Emily and Sarah. They just graduated! 🎓 Emily McColl-Gausden's PhD was on environmental DNA sampling use and Sarah McColl-Gausden's PhD focused on fire simulation modelling and future fire regime. Congratulations both! #UniMelb #PhDLife #PhDJourney #PhDChat

Our article on the database of occurrences of Australian grasshoppers is now out online… this is among the most comprehensive continent-wide surveys of Australian invertebrates… doi.org/10.1111/aen.12… @ecophys QAECO Jose Lahoz-Monfort CAMEL Orthoptera Research BioSciences UniMelb

One-third of local councils have rules to stop pet cats roaming because of their major impacts on wildlife. More councils want to get on board but many are hampered by state laws. #Auspol @OurANU @unimelb Charles Darwin University @UQ_news bit.ly/3SdEIi6

Experienced in species distribution modelling, occupancy models, R, handling spatial data, ecological statistics? Interested in a 2Y postdoc opportunity in Jaca (Spain) developing methods and models for species range dynamics? DM me for details! #Postdoc #Statistical #SDM

Out now in Journal of Applied Ecology - Mesopredator release among invasive predators: Controlling red foxes can increase feral cat density and alter their behaviour doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

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

Today I started a new job, Prof in Conservation Biology at the University of Melbourne Science at Melbourne . Exciting times! Thank you Deakin SEBE esp @DeakinCIE, and many wonderful colleagues there for for 8 great years

I’m very honored to be the recipient of the Australian Research Data Commons Award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology at #ESAus23 for the R package blockCV, developed at QAECO. A heartfelt thanks to Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and Ecological Society of Australia for this recognition and support

Come join us for biodiversity conservation teaching and research 3+year position at Melbourne Uni! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/913370/…

Uping your sci-comms and media skills could help you have a bigger conservation impact. Check out the great 'How to communicate your science' resources by Ecological Society of Australia

hi! I'm joining University of Melbourne School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences on the QAECO team as a tenure-track lecturer Sept 1! I am so so so grateful for everyone who helped me and believed in me along the way. Please someone take my wrong-voltage small appliances!!!!

Please share! I'm recruiting Masters, Hons, and PhD students to model spread and mgmt for spreading species (invasive & range-shifting spp). See ejhudgins.com/opportunities for project ideas & scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/graduat… for scholarships (incl. international!) Science at Melbourne QAECO 🦘

A different kind of #hack event #DataScience & #wildfire Urgency of wildfire study in Aus is increasing. Vols of data available to us. We need new approaches, new connections, new tools. We need you! Join us – MCDS & Flare Wildfire Research – Nov 8 -10 bit.ly/3MjoUsD