Some good news - tiny new frog species found only on Wollumbin in northern NSW 🐸 - smh.com.au/national/new-f…

Really interesting data suggesting multiple spillovers of SARS2 from humans to white tailed deer. Highlights how little we understand interfaces between wildlife and humans and how we really need to prioritize funding these types of studies 🦠

"The decisions you make here will help determine whether the fruit trees we plant will live or perish" Women and girls across the world play a vital role in driving climate policy. Watch @LizWathuti’s powerful speech urging leaders to deliver #ClimateAction #COP26

This is my life's work. It causes my heart to ache & mind to worry, constantly. Please take a moment to read it, discuss it with others & vote for environmentally responsible political parties. Thanks :) 'Australia’s biodiversity crisis and opportunity' science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Being called ‘woke’ isn’t an insult, it’s a badge of honour. I don’t think some realise what woke actually means.

Today’s cartoon was published too early to get a bong joke in it, but if it did it probably would have been something about a large bong the size of a small bong. Still managed a grace tame joke anyway. Cheer’s theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢🗣️ Attention researchers & all who value research❗️ Please consider signing this petition to the House of Representatives to #StopARCvetoes: 👉👉aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…👈👈 Led by Marcus Foth 🌈, it asks House to remove veto powers from ARC Act. ‼️ Sign & share far & wide ‼️

Extinction crisis: native mammals are disappearing in Northern Australia, but few people are watching theconversation.com/extinction-cri… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Thrilled to announce the details of 'Wildlife Research in Australia'. A book covering pretty much all you will need to study Australian wildlife! A massive undertaking by over 200 subject experts. To be released July 2022. Thanks to my legendary co-editors publish.csiro.au/book/7964/

Flood impacts on Australia's wildlife: theconversation.com/the-sad-realit… The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶

🔥Hot off the preprint server! Which Aussie mozzies are the most competent vectors? We analysed 80 vector competence studies to find out! This study highlights important vector-virus pairings along with broader viral family groupings. More in the🧵 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

INCOMING! Grey-headed flying-fox belly dipping behaviour, quite a lot of skill involved in this manoeuvre now renamed sky-pup-touch-and-go. But seriously flying foxes are truly amazing, and extremely important, critters. #wildoz #bats #bat #megabat AustralasianBatSoc. @[email protected]

In a *joint statement*, federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, and resources minister, Keith Pitt, emphasised speeding up approval for mining developments. More wonderful (albeit infuriating/depressing) work from Lisa Cox and Adam Morton theguardian.com/australia-news…

Veterinarians can access important information about emergency animal diseases via the Emergency animal diseases - A field guide for Australian veterinarians: outbreak.gov.au/for-vets-and-s… @DeptAgNews

"These are real-world limits. Pushing past them has real-world consequences." #TeamHB2's Dr Romy Zyngier Dr Romy Zyngier applied a planetary boundaries framework to Australia and found the country has already overshot three limits. theconversation.com/australia-has-…

The best antidote for a long day of media and depressing subject matter (2021 State of the Environment report)? Zoomies with Molly! A/Prof Jen Martin (she/her)

Here's a piece I wrote for Cosmos explaning why grey-headed flying-foxes are one of the many, truly excellent, bat species we are lucky to have in Aus as part of #AusMammalOfTheYear cosmosmagazine.com/nature/amoty/g…. Link to vote for them (or another 🦇!) at the bottom of the page

Woohoo! The Southern Bent-wing Bat is #AusMammalOfTheYear! Now to channel that enthusiasm into actions to help save them from extinction! environment.vic.gov.au/conserving-thr…

Some of them genuinely seem intelligent, good intentioned people…and yet, they knowingly choose to steer us, including their own children, into climate change oblivion, I’ll never understand it.

Outreach is a great part of being a scientist - this weekend it’s all about the bats WOMADelaide with collaborators from Uni of Adelaide. Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Women in STEM Macquarie University