Christina Birnbaum, PhD 🍃

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Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Ecology @soaes-unisq.bsky.social @unisq.bsky.social | Lead Convenor of @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social Plant-soil Ecology Special Interest Network | she/her, own views https://sites.google.com/site/birnbaumchristina/home

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026 💫 From quad bikes in the Kimberley to driving boats in Louisiana marshes, science has taken me to places where I’ve met some of the most inspiring people, including many awesome women. Curiosity, adventure and discovery is what drives me.

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"In this sense, academic publishing rivals the music and film industries. Some publishers report profit margins comparable to tech giants such as Microsoft and Google." The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

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Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Equilibrium Conundrum

Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...

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