Foxglove is a serious environmental weed that is commonly sold as a garden plant in Tasmania. At the moment it is entirely unregulated. Please read the article and sign the petition to have it be declared a weed and banned from sale. Almost 1000 signatures so far!

please I’m begging you stop planting agapanthus

First first author paper from our student Josh Stevenson. How to algebraically characterize "biologically sensible" rearrangement events on circular genomes. arxiv.org/abs/2202.01968

Where I live is normally very wet. At the moment it is very dry. I wrote a little thing about it for our local Wildcare group. (I live in the little red oval on the West Coast). wildcaretas.org.au/group-news/wil…

Now available on the arXiv is a preprint of a #phylogenetics paper I wrote with Barbara Holland, @mikecharleston and Jeremy Sumner. We look at subflattenings, do some simulations and find some interesting results! Paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2205.02365

Friends of the Henty and PWS today helping Active Strahan finish their Ocean Beach Trail project by putting up some informative signs. What once was a weedy 4WD track and garbage dump is now a beautiful trail and great example of West Coast Vegetation thanks to both groups.

Awesome example of the geometry of our native Gleicheniaceae family ferns!

Endangered Tassie skate made front page news yesterday. If you're in Strahan before 28th Feb check out the exhibition inspired by the Maugean Skate, endemic to Macquarie Harbour!

Plibersek's pledge for no new extinctions under threat as researchers issue dire warning on Tasmanian maugean skate abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Do you know a UTAS student that would be interested in joining the UTAS Landcare Society? We are seeking undergraduate students to join us in organising and leading volunteer conservation events all across Tasmania. We are getting old! Our AGM is Nov 10, 6pm Hobart Brewing Co