Ticks thrive in urban areas. 🏙️🐀 A study in Royal Entomological Society reveals show black rats play a role in supporting tick populations, including medically significant species ➡️ ow.ly/XP4q50PjNFb Casey Taylor Siobhon Egan Alexander Gofton Dr Charlotte Oskam 👩🏻‍💻🧬👩🏻‍🏫🦠 Dieter Hochuli Peter Banks

Ever fell for marketing tricks?🤔 We tested the effect of a 'phantom decoy' on wild herbivores' foraging preferences. Decoys increased wallabies' info-gathering during decision-making. #UnderstandingCognitiveProcesses. Peter Banks Sydney Uni Life&Env eec_sydney doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before? Peter Banks + Finn Parker from University of Sydney have the answer: theconversation.com/unique-study-s…

Looking for a #postdoc in life history #evolution / sexual selection / modelling ? Postdoctoral Research Fellow: quantitative evolutionary ecology, University of Queensland. Full-time position until 31 March 2026 Apply by 6th Sep 2023 seek.com.au/job/69194629 UQ Science UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science

Pleased to advertise a 2 year Postdoctoral Fellow to join my lab group (thomasnewsome.com) to work on an ARC funded project with a focus on rewilding and conservation. Please share! Full details: nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2023/2001…

New #PhD opportunity on #dingo #ecology & #wildlifemanagement Ecosystem Science within the Myall Lakes Dingo/Dapin Project. Incredible species, topics & study site in Worimi country on the NSW coast. Details: tinyurl.com/29y25fh9 #conservation #humanwildlifeconflict #movementecology

According to new research, kangaroo mothers become more social when caring for joeys. 🦘 While kangaroos may also form long-term relationships, Nora Campbell (UNSW) found kangaroo relationships might be far more complex than previously thought. theconversation.com/the-social-liv…

Annabel Ellis- Backyard bandicoots: the history of human-bandicoot interactions in New South Wales #ams2023

Congratulations to this year's Society Student Award winners Tiah Bampton for the Adolph Bolliger Award & Annabel Ellis for the John Seebeck Travel Award

We lived deep in a land of optative moods, under high, banked clouds of resignation. A rustle of loss in the phrase Not in our lifetime

In our paper out today in NatureEcoEvo we show how using tiny vials mimicking the smell of avoided plants, we can nudge herbivores away plant we don't want them to eat. rdcu.be/dxCUG University of Sydney Sydney Science Sydney Uni Life&Env

Our new research, led by Laura Grant, shows how swamp wallabies can ignore delicious seedlings right in front of them - offering new ideas for reducing browsing on threatened plants. #conservation #plants Sydney Uni Media eec_sydney sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The influence of bait and camera type on detection of a spectrum of medium-sized Australian mammals publish.csiro.au/AM/AM23020?jid…

Sensory Conservation Team University of Sydney Sydney Science is a finalist in the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Learn more: youtu.be/l76BDpJ7HU4 #EurekaPrizes

Who says #bird poo won’t take you places?! Excited our team made it to the Eureka Prize finals. Led by Peter Banks, Clare McArthur & Malcolm Possell. With Finn Parker, Patt Finnerty, Laura Grant, CGOrlando and Jenna Bytheway. Congrats to all finalists! eec_sydney

Wolf reintroduction on Isle Royale in Lake Superior has affected the communities of smaller carnivores. Researchers used three years of data covering the time before and after wolf reintroduction, to better understand behavior and range changes. hubs.li/Q02K0Lg50

The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffle @sydney_science @sydney_uni smh.com.au/environment/co…

🏆 Professor Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 Deakin University @DeakinResearch is awarded the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/qzIMt96cx40

AWMS are delighted to see that the Sensory Conservation team from the USYD University of Sydney took out the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. This team features AWMS members Peter Banks Peter Banks, Catherine Price, Patt Finnerty Patt Finnerty. Congratulations! 🌿🦘🐘

Publication day for our review of "The evolutionary history of wild and domestic brown rats (Rattus norvegicus)"! This was a stimulating project while packing up and moving the lab to Drexel! With Dr. Megan Phifer-Rixey , David Orton Medieval Rats and J. Garcia science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…