Umm, was listening to ⁦Spotify⁩ playlist “undertones” whilst making graphs on my frog research. This started playing. What. open.spotify.com/track/37jN6Qin…

Assist scientists in monitoring Bogong Moth migration to support the critically endangered Mountain Pygmy-possum. Share moth photos and location on Moth Tracker: zoo.org.au/possums/ Zoos Victoria

New open access paper out in Global Change Biology: "Multi-taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires" doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… Pic of Pink Flannel Flowers by John Porter

I'm currently recruiting 1 or 2 graduate students to join a growing research group at the University of Florida. Funded positions at potentially a Masters or PhD level — within the realm of global change ecology. More about what we do: coreytcallaghan.com

#FrogIDWeek starts this Friday 3 Nov and runs through to Nov 12. FrogID submissions & predicted rainfall for the first few days. Download FrogID & help fill in the gaps in frog records gathered so far! Looks promsing for SE #Australia and the Kimberley in northern WA.

#FrogIDWeek begins today! Australia’s biggest frog count 🐸 From now until Nov 12th, anyone with a smartphone can help us better understand Australia's diverse frogs. Use the #FrogID app to record frog calls as often as you can 🐸🎶📱 Download now: frogid.net.au

Feeling so lucky to have been given the opportunity to present part of my PhD research at the Amphibian Disease Meeting at Vanderbilt University. So excellent to meet and hear from some of the world’s best frog disease researchers 🐸🦠🧫 UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Ecosystem Science UNSW Science UNSW Graduate Research School

🚨 New #FrogID research reveals post-Black Summer bushfire impacts on frogs. Led by Australian Museum UNSW PhD student Britt Mitchell Britt Mitchell, the study explores frog population resilience. Read more: australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

The native Australian #frog call quiz: is it a frog or not!? Fun quiz using recordings submitted to the FrogID project. Test yourself! theguardian.com/global/2024/fe…

Congratulations to Professor Richard Kingsford, who is a recipient of the Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science! 🌎 UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Ecosystem Science

#RaiseTheStipend Finally, PhD stipends. The problem we all know is one of the “findings” of the Report (p14)⤵️

So the solution (obviously) is "substantially increasing investment in the Research Training Program & improving attractiveness of the program by raising minimum stipends & making part-time scholarships tax free" (Rec26.c) Additional comments⤵️ (eg no "increase # of HDR places")

Upcoming PhD opportunity to study platypuses Platypus Conservation Initiative unsw.edu.au/research/platy…

SUPER COOL JOB ALERT!!!!  Please spread the word- 2 year fill-time position in my team researching #frogs. #postdoc #research iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/scientific…

Higher degree by research students in Australia work full-time hours but receive $11.7k below the minimum wage. The Universities Accord recommended that the higher degree by research stipend should be increased to support junior researchers, we are campaigning for that to happen!

Hot off the press: our latest work on protecting threatened #frogs from the devastating #chytrid fungal pathogen out now in nature. Paper led by Anthony Waddle - out of his PhD no less! 🐸🐸 UC Faculty of Science and Technology IAE 📸Mike Swan nature.com/articles/s4158…

A new Ecosystem Science study has used AI to count a gathering, or rather a flamboyance, of 532,197 flamingos in Botswana 🦩 The research highlights how AI can improve the method of animal counts and the importance of the Makgadikgadi Pans as a flamingo habitat. unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…