Odour is everywhere (a thread)! Many animals exploit #odour to find food, avoid threats, and attract or judge potential mates. Our new paper in American Institute of Biological Sciences focuses on odour in terrestrial ecosystems to introduce the concept of an #olfactorylandscape. academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Spotted in the wild! Our The Urban Field Naturalist Project book is in bookstores from 2 Aug, more detail and preorder: urbanfieldnaturalist.org/book andrew burrell - @[email protected] Account no longer used Dieter Hochuli Dr John Martin Murdoch Books Tell Me What To Read #naturelovers

Yes, the state of the environment is grim, but you can make a difference, right in your own neighbourhoood - from me, in today’s The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/yes-the-state-… #urbannature #conservation #wildoz Science at Melbourne

New natural history note out in #AustralEcology! Brush-turkeys have been spreading in suburban Sydney for well over a decade. We catch them in the act using #CitizenScience, observing tagged birds moving 8-37km on foot through the urban landscape! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Found a few Yellow-footed Antechinus on a farm near Holbrook this morning. If you’re quiet they can be pretty confiding. Volume up to hear this one peeling bark to find a snack underneath. I think you can even hear it nomming! #WildOz

Dr Peter Irwin presenting on Australian ticks and the novel microbes found in ticks over the past 7 yrs via metagenomics. #tbd

OBIT 🧵 Daisy Boo Biscuit Potter today departed for the great litter tray in the sky, aged 18. Daisy was voted ‘objectively worst cat in the world’ 3 years running, and her hobbies included vomiting and ignoring us.

Creatures surround us in our urban environments. All we have to do is look carefully. Professor Dieter Hochuli shows us a living world right on our doorstep. 🪰🦋🦜 #shirtloadsofscience The Urban Field Naturalist Project 🎧Apple: apple.co/3pnIx6A 🎧Android: bit.ly/GuidetoCreatur…

The BushHeritageWA mid-west monitoring surveys have kickstarted and this morning we were treated to a mob of these adorable ash-grey mice! 😍

Brilliant to hear more about the wonderful world of ticks, the animals they bite, and how @AlexanderGofton and team are discovering more about their pathogens (lucky many of these ticks don’t often bite us) #RZSNSW22 @rzsnsw

Curious? Want me-time? A meetup? Life needs more drama? Some self-care? Or just want something to do? So many good reasons to get out and spend some time with nature near you... choose one that works for you! Our The Urban Field Naturalist Project thoughts at Sydney Environment Institute (Archive Account) sydney.edu.au/sydney-environ…

Rapid creek you special ✨ Can you believe this is literally in suburban Darwin? 🌅

What animals are interacting with brush-turkey incubation mounds? Check out my presentation at #ESASCBO2022, Monday 2pm in the Pacific Room, to find out more!

Peter Banks on an eco-evolutionary way to distinguish who’s native and who’s alien in a changing world #ESASCBO2022

Green roofs have many benefits but how placed in the landscape and at what scale matters! Great work by @JuliaSchiller10 at #ESASCBO22

How can we make the #TSBakeOff more effective at raising awareness about threatened species? Post on Instagram! Not just our Twitter echo chamber. Diversify species, not just the popular ones everyone knows about 🐨 @BambiraptorF #ESASCBO2022

Incredible talk (as always) by elsa kohane 🌻 this morning! Such a clear and concise presentation about the often overlooked nuance of bat box use. We still don’t completely understand bats’ preferred boxes, but we do know they prefer them well maintained! 🦇

One of the best parts of #ESASCBO2022 was the tote bag designed by @paperbark_ capturing the floral and faunal diversity of Dharawal land and sea where the conference was held 🌱

In our paper out today in NatureSustainability we show how mouse damage to wheat crops can be reduced without needing to kill any mice, even during plague conditions. rdcu.be/dcICV with Catherine Price, Peter Banks, Jenna Bytheway

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