FYI, if travelling Hobart to NZ, reconsider travelling #QANTAS you need bags within 48 hrs. I know of 6 people in the last month across 4 flights who have had bags containing essential clothing and PPE delayed on the way to do Sub-Antarctic guiding Qantas

Two of Australia's apex predators meet! #dingo #wedgetaileagle #australianalps #wildoz

To better protect and conserve Australia's amazing plants, animals, and ecosystems, governments must better align policy. Out of alignment: how clashing policies make for terrible environmental outcomes theconversation.com/out-of-alignme… - Sarah Bekessy Cath Lovelock, and me.

Did you know that #jellyfish (including comb jellies) are often full of parasitic worms? Our new paper highlights the importance of jellies as intermediate hosts of parasites that ultimately infect fish! #GriffithSeaJellies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bulldozers have begun clearing high-quality savanna woodland at Darwin's Lee Point, tragically erasing biodiversity and cultural values. Approval of this project highlights how broken our national environmental laws are. Contact Minister Tanya Plibersek now and demand new

Introducing the SCAR DistAnt Ecological Model Output Repository—a collaborative effort unlocking Antarctica's ecological mysteries! Dive into a wealth of model outputs in a user-friendly COG format with rich metadata. Contribute & share your own data. 🌐 scar.org/scar-news/life…

'WE ARE HEADED FOR MAJOR SOCIETAL DISRUPTION WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS'. Wow. Lead story in The Guardian. A dose of reality. SCIENTIST: 'WHAT THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO DO TO MAKE YOU REALISE HOW SERIOUS THIS IS?'theguardian.com/environment/ar…

"Feral pigeons as a new threat to seabirds." Airam Rodríguez Airam Rodríguez informs us that pigeon competition for nests was the most frequent cause of breeding failure (7.3%) in Bulwer's petrels. #CoimbraSeabirds

📢New Review Antarctic benthic ecological change Griffiths et al summarize observed and projected changes to cold-adapted seafloor communities in Antarctica. Free for 2 weeks: nature.com/articles/s4301… British Antarctic Survey 🐧 NIWA Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium Université libre de Bruxelles Hull Geography & Environment

How can scientists best collect data in regions rarely visited? Opportunistic shipboard surveys may be the answer – but there are important things to consider before you depart! Discover more in this new IMAS PhD study: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to share our publication on the Seasonal and ocean basin-scale assessment of amino acid δ15N trends in a Southern Ocean marine predator 🦭 ! Check out the details here : doi.org/10.3354/meps14… #SouthernOcean🇦🇶 #MarinePredators

Talking flight 🪽 Antarctic birds are stunning creatures and these guys have been putting on a show for expeditioners on RSV Nuyina. 🚢 Pictured are an Antarctic Petrel, Cape Petrel, Snow Petrel and a Southern Fulmar. 📷 Benjamin Viola and James Newlands

🚨New paper in GRL! 🚨We compiled 30 years of organic carbon data from 362 #Antarctic ice cores to provide a robust estimate of net community production in sea ice - key to understanding the role of ice algae in polar ecosystems. #seaice Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

I don’t know if posting in X is valuable for academia anymore? Perhaps this is my last post. In any case, the final chapter of my PhD is now published! We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat! doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…