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Thrilled and incredibly grateful to have received a 2024 #ChurchillFellowship! I'll visit Wildlife BioBanks in Europe & US using cryopreservation in conservation. We must conserve native habitat, but we need solid back-up plans too. Museums Victoria churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/joanna-…

Fantastic presentation on #thylacine #skullmorphology by Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) 💀🐺 Dr Douglass Rovinsky Dr Axel Newton Andrew Pask #skull #morphology #marsupial #carnivore The Australian Mammal Society #ams2023

Like #roadkill, #vesselstrike is very much a global problem for large creatures like #whales. #Science provides an opportunity to understand #whale movements so that we can better protect them in Australian waters. Ongoing research is critical. abc.net.au/news/2023-09-1…

New paper on morphological disparity and enamel ultrastructure in odontocetes, from MaryViglino work in NZ a few years back #womeninSTEM #LatinasinSTEM #oralbiology #dentistry nature.com/articles/s4159…

Killer whales that once cooperatively hunted #whales with whalers may be extinct! Our latest research used aDNA methods and Indigenous knowledge to provide new insights into the origin and fate of the legendary #killerwhales of Eden 🇦🇺. See here shorturl.at/asFS1 (1/6)

Our paper on the fossil record and geology of the Triassic Fremouw Formation of Antarctica came out today. w/J McIntosh, B Hammer, N. Smith, P. Makovicky, N Tabor Megan Whitney Hank Woolley Roger Malcolm Harris Bryan Gee Free reprints here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvwJ2weQt7gB

Remarkable engineering to deploy suction tags onto blue and fin whales from hexacopters, 21 of 29 whales successfully tagged, with average flight time of just 2 min 45 sec, and much less disruption and threat of danger to the whale and the people. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

A pleasure to collaborate with Isabella Reeves and the whole team on this special mahi - a great example of how powerful #IndigenousKnowledge and #aDNA can be - Natural Sciences at Massey, Massey University - graphic but the amazing @emmaluck22

2023 Spring school holiday #MammalTally: - Aussie fur seals - Bottlenose dolphins - Platypus - Echidna - Forester Roo - Bennett’s wallaby - Pademelon - Long-nosed potoroo

A new continental bathymetry dataset for Australia, replacing the existing 250 m layer from way back in 2009! 🎉🤯 Lots of amazing improvements - including improved coastal bathymetry from our #DigitalEarthAU's Intertidal Elevation models! Download here: ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv…

“The (Bird Is.Antarctic fur seal) pop’n has recovered very impressively throughout the 20th century when seal hunting was banned. But 21st century changes to the abundance of krill in the Southern Ocean are now threatening these iconic animals all over again.”   @JaumeForcada

Devastating news

Just heard that Ewan Fordyce passed, what a huge loss for our field…. Ewan kept high expectations, kept us all on our toes, and was a gentleman about it all. I only wish I’d had more time with him. (Wish I had a better picture of him..)

The latest Australian Threatened Bird Index (TBX) was released today at the Australasian Ornithological Conference and reveals that threatened birds in Australia declined by an average of 60% between 1985 and 2020. Read more here: brnw.ch/21wET6s #AOC2023

What an interesting study, revealing yet another environmental cost of the colonial project: DNA research shows that a rare UK bat declined 330-550 yrs ago, coinciding with when old-growth trees it nested in were being felled for empire-builiding ships: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Devastating to consider the possibility of avian influenza spreading throughout sub-Antarctic elephant & Antarctic fur seal populations in addition to seabirds. Thanks to all the expert teams characterising the disease & trying to mitigate the spread.

🚨 Some quoll-ity research for your Friday! 🚨 Devil declines caused by facial tumours are having a knock-on effect on spotted-tailed quolls, with quolls moving around & dispersing much less from areas with lower devil densities Nice summary here - nature.com/articles/d4158…