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Tanking one of Australia's strongest export industries for a $5 saving in rent is not exactly a slam dunk... Not to mention those students also bring a LOT of money into the economy.

Insane that the Australian Research Council is funding less than HALF the high-end research than it did 20 years ago.

For my followers here, Bluesky is just a better place than Twitter, and much closer to what Twitter used to be. I highly recommend people make the switch, especially given the huge influx in recent weeks that includes (for example) large organisations and journals.

Officially putting my Bluesky handle here. It's just a better place now people...

Bluesky is down and it's still a better social platform than this place

Back up...

Exciting PhD project on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas & techniques. shorturl.at/9ueah

Excited to share our newly published study in Springer Coral Reefs following fish and coral richness and composition across a year using #eDNA on a model coral reef at Lizard Island, only possible with generous funding from LIRRF. In short, summer is where it's at on the reef!

It's hard to overstate how much impact the use of platforms like the Planet satellites are going to change the scale of conservation and management, especially in oceans.

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in Science Magazine reveals that #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉🏽Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTre…

The decline and loss of sharks & rays is a key example of how overfishing is eroding marine biodiversity. Stronger fisheries management is needed to ensure ocean biodiversity & socioeconomic sustainability. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #OceanOptimism 🧵18/20

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‼️ New Paper ‼️ This collaborative paper presents length-weight data for 6 species of sea cucumber harvested in the QLD Sea Cucumber Fishery. These data were collected on the GBR, from 2,421 individuals, across 9 degrees of latitude, from 89 reefs 🥒🪸 mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/1…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100… Dr. Michael Doane and #EwanBurns lead this comparison of fish assemblages between BRUVS and eDNA. Only 17 of 102 species recorded by both methods. 40% increase in species-level detections by combining datasets. Collab with SA Department for Environment & Water and Australian Marine Parks

Sea cucumbers in the Torres Strait! Great start to our survey at a Warrior Reef Marine Ecology Group Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Dr Karen Joyce Dr. Vincent Raoult Joan Li

New paper: blue whales make super loud calls but are acoustic ghosts to killer whales, also true of many other baleen whale species. The ghost species flee when attacked, while the audible species fight back when attacked (the fight club) doi.org/10.1111/mms.13…

Ever thought about using shark jaws for stable isotopes from teeth? This is a must read: doi.org/10.1016/j.mare… #StableIsotopes

SOPOPP at Griffith University is looking to fill 3 exciting #PhD Programs under the topic of: “Biogeochemical Cycling of POPs in Antarctica” “Prevalence of Chemicals of Emerging Antarctic Concern in Southern Ocean Food-webs” “Antarctic Sea-ice Characterisation via ICESat2”