Had a wonderful PACE Christmas lunch to celebrate the end of the year last week 🎄

Christmas can be a challenging time for many. A Christmas message from me ⬇️ Merry Christmas / Nadolig Llawen everyone 🙂

Had a wonderful trip up the coast to Brisbane and the Gold Coast, even saw some kangaroos 🦘 #Australia #travel

Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. #STEMeducation #Science #sciart

To start off our 30th birthday series Fred Slater, who was key in establishing the project, has written a piece explaining the origins of the project. #cardiffotterproject #otters #lutralutra #ecology #conservation #cardiffuniversity #eurasianotter #30years

Interesting and important read: 👇 I wonder what the toll is of global change (not just climate change), but no idea how to estimate that....

“What We Learned From Eating Dougie the Cow” Ah wow Olivia Oldham (she/her) Katie Revell - wonderful piece! It was an absolute pleasure to share our beef with you, and what a respectful way you have grappled with this tough subject, thank you 🙏🏼 atmos.earth/what-we-learne…

Learn to display multiple, overlapping species distributions on one map using hexagons & points in a wonderful new ALA Labs post by Callum Waite & Shandiya Balasubramaniam 😍 labs.ala.org.au/posts/2024-01-… #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub

I met students at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, researching how pastures react to climate stress - measuring plant productivity, GHG fluxes from soils/plants & methane emissions. The end goal is climate mitigation - identifying climate beneficial grazing for 🐂.

Could plants identify and select fungi that can help them fight off pests and diseases?! Sounds incredible right? We recently theorised this possibility in The ISME Journal. We discuss this & possible implications in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/if-plants-can-…

Thank you for your lovely visit, great to meet you! ☺️

Last year, we lost one of the shining lights of global #conservation, Professor Mike Bruford. A fervent supporter of DGFC, a great friend and colleague we miss immensely! This is the memorial we have set up for him, if you wish to contribute. donorbox.org/mike-bruford-m…?

Why do you collect fungi records, where do you send them and what are your motivations? Help us understand fungal data flows so we can do fungus conservation better Emma Williams UK Fungus Day FungusProf Fungalpunk OMD IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee British Mycological Society Simon Harding

Great sunset on campus last night ☀️

New paper out in Functional Ecology from my research Western Sydney - HIE funded by Meat & Livestock Australia. Thanks to my excellent coauthors Haiyangzhang elise Ben Moore 🐨 🍃 Prof Ian Anderson Jeff Powell A/Prof Jonathan Plett and others!

Enjoyed hearing more about winter feed options and pasture management strategies from Greater Sydney Local Land Services yesterday at the Greater Sydney Demo farm and talking more about our research at the PACE facility at Western Sydney - HIE ☘️

Behavioural ecology isn't just for animals! Come and research how #fungi behave in this fully-funded #PhD Cardiff University School of Biosciences. Supervisory dream team of Veronica Grieneisen Fredric Windsor FungusProf and me! Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

🚨NEW PAPER!🚨 Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks We provide a synthesis on the interface between nutritional and network ecology and demonstrate its potential for ecological research. Read more below!🧵 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

(1/5) Help needed 🙏 I’m heading to Australia shortly to speak at LambEx a major sheep & wool event being held in Adelaide. I will be challenging farmers & wider industry reps to think about how they are communicating messages about farming & engaging with those outside of Ag.

Interested in global change ecology? Want to ‘dig’ deeper into mechanisms that drive ecosystem response to climate change? Follow the link to find out more about our available PhD scholarship. Closing date 30th September. westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/sc…