🦚 Early-bird and abstract registration has been extended to May 1st, this Wednesday! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your research with the Australasian genetics community! gsa2024.com/registration

Does conservation work? Our paper by Re:wild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by RSPB Science) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases BirdLife Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This thread provides a great summary of the latest devil facial tumour disease intel.

Q: What could GO WRONG with a major cancer genomics study in which tumours are sequenced to only 15x depth?

A: An awful LOT! 😟

Our detailed reanalysis now out in Royal Society Publishing:
tinyurl.com/RSOSrebuttal

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Talking today at AWS Summit - biodiversity, genomics & our need to reduce impacts of AI tech revolution on nature & climate. Thanks Amazon Web Services for the chance to contribute to the conversation! Wow ICC Sydney is a very big space! Sydney Science Kathy Belov Threatened Species Initiative Earth BioGenome Project

We back federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's proposed rejection of a luxury apartment and marina development at an internationally important wetland near Brisbane.

Martine Maron -“This is absolutely the right decision. Many community members have tirelessly

Amazing job by Simon Ho & colleagues!!

Exciting findings from Simon Ho & Aabid Chowdhury with Australian Museum & global universities!

They combined data from 360+ species & 200 fossils to reconstruct the most well-supported Tree of Life for modern birds.

Published in nature , read more: tinyurl.com/bdzjbsfy

Protect biodiversity to prevent future pandemics. Lessons from an important new study for the World Health Organization (WHO) #PandemicAccord

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Did you know...up to 90% of frog genera have no genomic or transcriptomic data. Here, we assemble the first genomic and transcriptomic resources for the recently described southern stuttering frog (Mixophyes australis).

Read more here
doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

The Albanese government is drifting from its environmental commitments – it’s time for transparency and good faith, Great op ed by Jack Pascoe via The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Human pandemic prevention should start with conserving natural habitat for bats and other wild animals according to new research in Nature Communications .

Dr Alison Peel Griffith University : “We showed that Hendra virus is most likely to pass from bats to horses in places where habitat destruction

Exciting news and updates from ICCB!
Read on to learn about:
Our language accessibility survey
Important #ICCB2025 dates
Our sponsorship & exhibitor prospectus
Becoming a volunteer
& our beautiful host city: Brisbane/Meanjin!
#conservation
conbio.informz.net/InformzDataSer…

Global heating, land clearing and the ‘extinction vortex’: the fight to save Australia’s koalas theguardian.com/australia-news…

Hear hear ThankGod Ebenezer!!

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Closes 29 March

The offshore oil and gas industry should not be exempt from complying with national environmental law, that's why we are calling for the scrapping of an amendment which would carve out the offshore oil and gas industry from needing to comply with the EPBC Act.

It's an incredible honour to be selected as a 2024 Snow Fellow! A huge thank you to Snow Medical for supporting our research vision and to my amazing team of students, postdocs, collaborators and mentors - it wouldn't be possible without you! ANU Research School of Chemistry Science at ANU CIPPS

A wonderful evening in the great hall tonight for the Iain McCalman lecture by Sophie Chao on multispecies mourning. Sydney Environment Institute @DanyCelermajer University of Sydney

Another sad day for the planet.

A 7th mass bleaching event is unfolding across the Great Barrier Reef.
#climatecrisis #climatechange #bleaching #GreatBarrierReef