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The impact of #bushfires on #insects and other #invertebrates and what needs to be done to conserve them: a response from the Australian Entomological Society Conservation Committee. #AustraliaBushfires Australian Entomological Society @ManuSaunders Dr Kate Umbers

How do we protect our unique biodiversity from megafires? pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-d…

I just signed the open letter calling on UniSuper to divest from fossil fuels unisuperdivest.org

Thank you Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. theredhandfiles.com/what-do-we-do-… "In time we will be given the opportunity to either contract around the old version of ourselves and our world — insular, self-interested and tribalistic — or understand the connectedness and commonality of all humans, everywhere" 1/2

Check out this promo for a new breadth course we are running at UniMelb next semester...youtube.com/watch?v=Z2G339…

Thrilled to announce that Jack 🍄🪰 Scanlan now has a first author paper! It identifies the genes that encode ‘detoxification-by-phosphorylation’. doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb…. He is also giving his PhD swansong by zoom 2pm Friday.

Australia Has a Flesh-Eating-Bacteria Problem theatlantic.com/health/archive…

And some of these putative sweep haplotypes look funky - but I didn't find anything really suggesting bonobo introgression, and could just be a reflection of complex and myriad selection pressures on these important cell surface receptors

I got a great opportunity to work with a grad student to turn her research into stained glass! A pair of mating fruit flies and a female fruit fly reproductive tract.

A big congrats to Felipe Martelli, Phil Batterham BioSciences UniMelb and team on PNAS paper just out. pnas.org/content/early/…. Low doses of insecticides matter!

netflix.com/au/title/80216…

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Good stuff!

Golden tortoise beetles (Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis) become a brilliant shade of gold once they hit adulthood. But it's not the only remarkable thing about them. Their main defence mechanism is a faecal shield. 💩 📹: Sony Thokchom

Check out this mighty moth! theguardian.com/environment/20…

Courses cut in everything from languages to engineering. Campuses closing. International education in chaos. Tens of thousands of job losses (ANU has been literally decimated). There has never been a more anti-university government than this one andrewleigh.com/the_morrison_g… #auspol

I am very pleased that beautiful work by Jack 🍄🪰 Scanlan has been published doi.org/10.1016/j.cris…. Experiments featuring nested CRISPR knockouts make a compelling case that Ecdysone kinase-like enzymes are detoxifiers.

Helicoverpa armigera genomic resources get better and better thanks to Yidong Wu and team. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0….