Hey #ESAus2024, if you're looking for more Aussie ecologists to follow here, there's some great people on the #WildOz starter pack below! 🦘🐨🌿🪲 Please suggest anyone else who's missing! 🙏 go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW

I was lucky enough to talk with Mhairi King about #CSIRO's Living #STEM program. A great example of the learning benefits for #science and #STEMEducation from better connecting #IndigenousKnowledge to the classroom. Read about their latest work in the Pilbara here: thewest.com.au/news/pilbara...

CSIRO STEM showcase highlights science classes on country

Pilbara educators were invited to share lessons about blending the science curriculum with Indigenous knowledge systems at a recent CSIRO Living STEM showcase.

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A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :) go.bsky.app/GCP9Um

It's UN #WorldToiletDay. As usual, plants got there first -several Nepenthes (tropical pitcher plants) adapted to benefit from poo. N. lowii, N. rajah & N. macrophylla absorb rodent fecal matter while N. hemsleyi eats bat poo. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

Mutualism between tree shrews and pitcher plants

Three species of Nepenthes pitcher plants from Borneo engage in a mutualistic interaction with mountain tree shrews, the basis of which is the exchange of nutritional resources. The plants produce ...

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Extremely proud to be one of the chief investigators in the just launched ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. CIEHF aims to do science better - authentic codesign with First Nations people baked in from the start. ciehf.au

Sean Ulm@seanulm.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's been a long time coming and taken years of hard work from many people to see it to fruition, but we finally made it! This week the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) was launched on the Nguma-bada campus of James Cook University.

We're hiring a curator of Botany! The University of Nebraska State Museum is looking for a botanist (broadly concieved) to head the Bessey Herbarium. Good collection (350k specimens/3k types), good people! Please apply or share: The UNL application site link is: employment.unl.edu/postings/93856

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA. #sediments #aDNA #eDNA For further details, please see: scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

Good morning from this cheeky kid outside my window - Notamacropus agilis (agile wallaby), Cairns, NE Australia (Yirrganydji country)

I’m feeling a lot of goodness here having just made the switch, but some sad news – possible closure of one of the tropical world’s most important field ecology sites, the Daintree Rainforest Observatory and canopy crane in NE Australia. www.jcu.edu.au/daintree #ecology #tropics #botany #zoology

Our paper on global endemism in island plants is highlighted by @mongabay.bsky.social - many thanks for featuring this story! news.mongabay.com/short-articl... link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ecology #PlantScience #nature #plants #biology #science #research #conservation #island

More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds

More than a fifth of the Earth’s plant species are found only on islands, making them one of the largest biodiversity hotspots, a breakthrough global study has found. This conclusion has pushed the sc...

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