Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Corey Bradshaw
@conservbytes.bsky.social
Environmental ScientistđđŁđ„đâšïžđżđŠđŠđŠđđŠđđŠđđ đ·ïžđšđŠâđżMatthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Tarndanya/Adelaide, Sth Aus, Kaurna-Peramangk-Ngarrindjeri Country @globecoflinders.bsky.social & @ciehf.bsky.social
Well, that's a first for me. I don't think I've been quoted in a flyer about someone else's upcoming presentation before. I suppose I was a lot angrier back then. www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
The Office of Public Lectures presents: Doing Science on a Burning Planet â What Does It Feel Like? with Cristina Mejia Visperas
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Invasive species are an evolving threat: how we respond is crucial www.theguardian.com/flinders-uni... #invasivespecies #ferals
Invasive species are an evolving threat: how we respond is crucial
As climate change and other factors intensify the threats from invasive species, researchers are finding smarter, more connected ways to protect ecosystems
theguardian.com
En 1788, une fiole de variole arrivée avec les Britanniques aurait déclenché une épidémie qui a décimé jusqu'à 220 000 AborigÚnes www.science-et-vie.com/science-et-c...
En 1788, une fiole de variole arrivée avec les Britanniques aurait déclenché une épidémie qui a décimé jusqu'à 220 000 AborigÚnes
La colonisation de l'Australie porterait la responsabilité d'une épidémie que les historiens attribuaient à une tout autre origine.
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1st global synthesis of heat-related mental health impacts in children & young people High temperatures & heatwaves associated with adverse mental health risks, but data lacking for some of hottest and most socio-economically disadvantaged regions globally academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
Historical land cover composition and recent land cover change drive disproportionate range exposure across Australian species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Historical land cover composition and recent land cover change drive disproportionate range exposure across Australian species
Australia has undergone extensive changes in land use and land cover which has contributed to some of the highest rates of species extinction of any câŠ
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Wednesday morning science 4ZZZ (Queensland) 'Getting Brainy' podcast know-idea.pinecast.co/episode/61b3... Features our latest research on smallpox effects on Indigenous Australians during the British invasion listen to segment here: soundcloud.com/corey-bradsh... @ciehf.bsky.social
4ZZZ Getting Brainy podcast featuring research on smallpox effects on Indigenous Australians at the time of British invasion
The impact of smallpox (variola) on Aboriginal communities in Australia beginning in 1789 was catastrophic and continues to cause intergenerational trauma. Historically biased perspectives and contemp
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Murray Watt, Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Water, speaking at the Invasive Species Council Event in Adelaide tonight. Announced a bit more cash to removing cats from Kangaroo Island
biofetchR provides a reproducible and streamlined workflow for batch importing, cleaning, classifying, enriching and exporting biodiversity occurrence data cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
biofetchR: Download, Clean, Classify, Enrich and Export Biodiversity Occurrence Data
Downloads, imports, cleans, classifies, enriches and exports biodiversity occurrence data, with an emphasis on reproducible Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) <<a href="https://api.gbi...
cran.r-project.org
"Corporate sustainability remains hopelessly obsessed with low-hanging, object-level gimmicks" blog.pranavblog.online/the-circular...
Why Circularity Fails: The 2026 Sustainability Reality - To The Point by Pranav Sinha
The circular economy is a myth. Discover how the Jevons Paradox fuels overconsumption and why a pivot to post-growth sufficiency is our only way forward.
blog.pranavblog.online
World famous (on Kangaroo Island)! @globecoflinders.bsky.social people (Caitlin, Pete & Corey) on the front page of The Islander #feralpigs #eradication #invasivespecies @not-a-dr.bsky.social
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his âhometown is goneâ) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
đż New research explores how multi-species approaches can improve conservation efforts đ Read the full study here - www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #environment #conservation #research
La Primera Flota, el inicio de la colonizaciĂłn britĂĄnica en OceanĂa, pudo desatar una tragedia histĂłrica: la viruela habrĂa dejado millones de vĂctimas en Australia www.eldiario.es/spin/primera...
La Primera Flota, el inicio de la colonizaciĂłn britĂĄnica en OceanĂa, pudo desatar una tragedia histĂłrica: trajo la la viruela y habrĂa dejado millones de vĂctimas en Australia
La investigaciĂłn reconstruye el avance de la enfermedad desde la regiĂłn de SĂdney durante dos dĂ©cadas y calcula una cifra muy elevada de vĂctimas en comunidades indĂgenas
eldiario.es
New paper: Multi-species approaches are necessary to optimize conservation: integrating a genetic algorithm with stochastic models in the MurrayâDarling Basin (Australia) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in theâŠ
Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians
Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic, and historians have sometimes argued…
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Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 #Indigenous Australians theconversation.com/sydneys-1789... #NAIDOCWeek
Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
theconversation.com
Visited sobering & tragic #Wybalenna (Flinders Isl): site of most deaths of #Aboriginal Tasmanians in custody (> 100 in ~ 2 yrs) This is chief #Manakalina of the #truwulway of #lumaranatana, the only #Aboriginal person with a monument Everyone else just dumped & graves pilfered for 'curiosities'
British âFirst Fleetâ brought smallpox to Australiaâand may have killed millions www.science.org/content/arti...
British âFirst Fleetâ brought smallpox to Australiaâand may have killed millions
Two papers pin the deadly diseaseâs introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed
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OVERSHOOT Podcast: 'The ghastly costs of population denial' www.populationbalance.org/podcast/core...
The Ghastly Costs of Population Denial â Population Balance
Humanity is pushing life to the brink. Mathematical ecologist, Corey Bradshaw, explains how our growing population and consumption are driving the depopulation and extinction of countless species whil...
populationbalance.org
We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing. New research led by CIEHF has revealed the devastating scale of a smallpox epidemic that spread across Australia following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
Science Magazine@science.org · 4w agoTwo papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3R2lLmf
Cool visitor to Flinders Island this morning. Very far from home, young leopard seal đŠ
Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research @theconversation.com theconversation.com/sydneys-1789...
Sydneyâs 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
theconversation.com
Warning: the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure - Nature Human Behaviour
Nitschke and colleagues use historical data and epidemiological modelling to examine evidence for the 1789 smallpox epidemic in Australia. Their results indicate a likely southeastern origin, high mor...
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Everyone loves wombats, especially blond wombats (Flinders Island, Tasmania)
Les espĂšces exotiques envahissantes peuvent ĂȘtre destructrices Ă bien des Ă©gards. L'Ă©valuation de l'IPBES sur les espĂšces exotiques envahissantes a rĂ©vĂ©lĂ© que prĂšs de 80 % des impacts documentĂ©s des espĂšces exotiques envahissantes sur les services rendus par la nature aux populations sont nĂ©gatifs.
"In this episode of The Initiation, I speak with Corey Bradshaw, ecologist, modeler, and global change scientist, about the uncomfortable realities of the ecological crisis â and what it means to face them honestly" www.podbean.com/media/share/...
#22 Corey Bradshaw: Extinction, Overpopulation, and the Future We Can Still Shape
In this episode of The Initiation, I speak with Corey Bradshaw, ecologist, modeler, and global change scientist, about the uncomfortable realities of the ecological crisis â and what it means to face ...
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Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning - Nature
Analyses of the relationship between taxon richness and multi-trophic ecosystem functioning across marine, lake, stream and soil ecosystems show that food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects...
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