Thomas Newsome
@newsometm
A/Prof @ University of Sydney. Researching predator and scavenger ecology, trophic cascades, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
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Cool #postdoc position on advancing our understanding of connectivity for land mammals in the #Anthropocene with Thomas Mueller SENCKENBERG Deadline: June 25th
“The time has come to lift our ambitions and truly protect our nation’s precious environment and biodiversity.” An essential checklist of five things we need in Australia’s new nature laws theconversation.com/5-things-we-ne… - Jack Pascoe Dr Kirsty Howey Terry Hughes yungenchee.bsky.social & me.
New paper from my PhD out in Biological Invasions. Lots of existing research on drivers of invasive predator and native prey occupancy in this neck of the woods, so here I brought some big datasets together to try a slightly different modelling approach. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Scavenging with invasive species - out now in Biological Reviews. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Sydney Science eec_sydney
🚨🚨Dustin Ranglack, Jay Lombardi, and I are looking for a graduate student to study nonlethal tools to reduce depredation. Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1eA… Please RT!
One week left to apply for five postdoctoral research & teaching positions Combatting Wildlife & Environmental Crime DCCEEW Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Gregory Andrews Tanya Plibersek David Pocock Hugh Possingham Biodiversity Council Read more here 👉 cassey-invasion-ecology.org/positions.html
In our new paper we argue that humanity must stop treating major crises in isolation, & instead establish a response based on kinship with nature that recognizes Earth as our lifeboat in the cosmic sea of space doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Chip Fletcher Sir David King Prof Michael E. Mann
New research in NatureEcoEvo charts the rise of extreme wildfires over the last two decades, fueled by the climate crisis theconversation.com/extreme-wildfi… paper here: nature.com/articles/s4155…
Come and work with us University of Melbourne. Eight continuing positions just advertised in the School Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences Science at Melbourne – including a Lectureship in Environmental Science with a focus on vegetation ecology and management jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/917453/…
A natural history note led by Mitch Cowan in #AustralEcology on movement patterns of a couple of northern quolls after a large fire. Every little bit helps when it comes to understanding how affects our native wildlife. doi.org/10.1111/aec.13…
Vertebrate scavenging in Australia is shaped by a complex interplay of bioregional, seasonal and habitat factors: doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13… Congrats Emma Spencer
Islands in the sky – could complex topography help us rewild beyond the fence? publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24022 and for a summary read here: theconversation.com/islands-in-the… Sydney Uni Media Sydney Science eec_sydney
New paper: Carrion use by a reptile is influenced by season, habitat and competition with an apex mammalian scavenger: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… congrats Rhys. eec_sydney
Congrats to the leads for pulling this together "The Arid Zone Monitoring Project: combining Indigenous ecological expertise with scientific data analysis to assess the potential of using sign-based surveys to monitor vertebrates in the Australian deserts" publish.csiro.au/WR/pdf/WR24070
‘Vegetarian’ possums eat meat when the weather’s cold, writes Patt Finnerty + @newsomeTM University of Sydney theconversation.com/vegetarian-pos…