Our Institute’s Director is retiring, and the role is currently advertised. Please share widely, applications close Monday 14 June.

New job advertised at the Arthur Rylah Institute - Strategic Fuel Breaks MER Coordinator. Come and work with us at #ARIScience #ecologyjobs #sciencejobs jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-509414…

We've had early success developing a neural net deep learning model to automate species ID in acoustic datasets. Accuracy rates > 90% on single-species calls. So far trained on 14 Victorian #frog species and counting #ARIScience delwp.vic.gov.au/media-centre/h…

A sobering but important message. "Increased resourcing and management intervention are urgently needed to avert future extinctions of Australia’s frogs" publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC21019

Applications close Sunday for this 3 year position at ARI. Come and work with us! Or at least, join the ARI diaspora all working from home and having remote coffee catchups

3 yr ornithologist job just advertised at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research. The Applied Aquatic Ecology group are seeking a birdo to play a leading role in waterbird (and floodplain forest bird) research #ecologyjobs #sciencejobs tinyurl.com/yrfk3vdj

An Australian first & a rare win well-worth celebrating! A species previously #extinct in the wild on mainland Australia, now downgraded to #endangered in Victoria. Amazing longterm effort by many people working on Eastern Barred Bandicoot #conservation tinyurl.com/m3txpuut

We have had a couple of reports of dead #frogs from #NewZealand too. Both reports are of Australian native frogs that were introduced to NZ. Please spread the word, #NZ, & report any sick or dead frogs to [email protected]

Brand new issue of ARI eNews out now! Read about how fires impacted gliders, owls & bees; how to join the 'Gone Growling' team monitoring frogs in Melb; getting woody habitat back into rivers & more! Big thanks Gabriel Cornell @DELWP_Vic Pic: @drjcripps t.e2ma.net/share/inbound/…

We're hiring! Technical officer position in the Wildlife Ecology section at ARI now advertised. Come and help us deliver on multiple field-based projects and contribute to biodiversity management in Victoria #ecologyjobs #conservationjobs #ARIscience jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-509427…

Surveys last weekend for the recently described Litoria watsoni in east Gippsland, Victoria. Slowly building a picture of genetic diversity across the population #frog #fieldwork

Impact of 2019-20 mega fires on NSW frogs esp L. watsoni by @stocklet_ - Preliminary data looks grim - Tadpole study in progress on genetic implications of population crash - General surveys show shift in frog community - Paracrinia haswelli no longer common #ESAus21 #FireEcology

Annual frog monitoring at Barmah-Millewa forest, for The Living Murray program - building a picture of how water returned to the environment can support healthier #frog populations @NSWDPIE_Water Goulburn Broken CMA Parks Victoria @DELWP_Vic #ARIscience youtu.be/amt_-tjnVnI

I'm giving a talk tonight about Litoria watsoni, a rare enigma of a forest frog. I'll be summarising the story of work on this species in Vic since its rediscovery in 2015, with results of recent genetics work & acoustic monitoring. Come along! #frogconservation #ARIscience

Panel discussion: “The data are in, we know enough facts to know we need to change things. So maybe we need to be thinking and talking about human behaviour and the HOW to create change, when it’s not dollars that are lacking, but values.” Brendan Wintle #BXB22

Sobering article on the threats facing this species but also what we can do help mitigate these. Congrats to DELWP ARI scientist Lindy Lumsden on her long term study of this species and other bats across Australasia. ⁦@DELWP_Vic⁩ ⁦Fern Hames⁩ theconversation.com/one-of-austral…

Yes, I can take one more project #AcademicTwitter #DataScience #Bioinformatics x.com/buitengebieden…

New paper out today led by @KDNewman87, developing an analytical solution for optimising detection surveys, to maximise the number of sites with at least one detection of a single species. Glad our team could contribute #Leadbeaterspossum survey data for this work. #ARIScience

A shocking result! Out now in #AustralEcology! 🐢⚡️🦊 Electric fences effectively protect endangered western saw-shelled #turtle nests and nesting turtles from fox predation bit.ly/3Dp0J6R deborah bower 🐢 🌈 🐸 Donald McKnight Marty Dillon lazer_une ERS_UNE

Very excited to be attending the World Congress of Herpetology in Kuching, Malaysian Borneo! Speaking today at 6:15pm (room 2): Acoustic monitoring of frogs, using a deep learning model to automate species recognition, and satellite-derived info on site inundation status #WCH10