How long should we be investing in technology development for ecosystem conservation? When should we divert our funding to other conservation actions? We try to answer these questions with POMDPs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @katehelmstedt.bsky.social @matthew-p-adams.bsky.social and Iadine Chades.

Developing new technologies to protect ecosystems: Planning with adaptive management | PNAS

Technology development is an essential investment for policymakers to address contemporary global crises, including climate change, biodiversity lo...

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Ooh arXiv paper from @matthholden.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social about embedding sustainability in undergraduate maths with case studies 👀 Looks very actionable! arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594

Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Mathematics with Actionable Case Studies

There is a growing need to integrate sustainability into tertiary mathematics education given the urgency of addressing global environmental challenges. This paper presents four case studies from Aust...

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Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨 Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization. Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization. Feel free to DM for informal chat. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Strength to all trans women today. The bigots are out in force, but always remember their hate says everything about them not you. Trans women are women, and a bigot is always a bigot.

The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?

Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten to cancel fieldwork and more

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been reduced, and the agency faces steeper cuts soon.

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A player who has shared the most votes with a jury member is ~37% more likely to get their vote. And more votes, more likely. At this stage, Kaelan has the highest jury favorability, and Myles is critically low. This is a strong indicator, but not deterministic. A few more things 🧵 1/ #SurvivorAU

We're hosting an early International Women in Maths Day event in Brisbane next Monday - come hang out and eat lunch. All genders welcome, but you gotta like maths and women killing it. Research talks from women, professional development discussions, free food smp.uq.edu.au/event/sessio....

International Women in Mathematics Day 2025

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The total Australian Research Council budget is $1bn.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last yr.

Always remember - budgets are about choices www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Job alert: 3 Aotearoa New Zealand Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p...

In the final stretch of my PhD thesis on nests, I keep thinking about this pigeon's masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just done. Let’s do this! 🐦🪶 #PhD #PhDsky 🧪

He’s not wrong #brisbane

We introduce a method to quantify how extreme events affect ecosystem function and services. Paper out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social - very fitting on a day that Cyclone Alfred is looming off the coast of my city!

Laura Dee@lauradee.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to @natureecoevo.bsky.social & the reviewers for the great process and highlighting this work in a News & Views: Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...

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For a long time I've joked that Antony Green is immortal and will never retire. He is sharp, fast, funny, and it has been such a privilege to have a front row seat to the master at work for so long. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Legendary ABC chief election analyst Antony Green to step down

The ABC's 2025 federal election coverage will be the last to feature Antony Green AO in an on-air role, with the chief election analyst stepping down after more than 30 years.

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This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects. Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them. The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.

Yess this conference in Nepal is going to be awesome. Maths, environment, natural resources, lots of biodiversity conservation focus. Can’t wait

Resource Modeling Association (RMA)@resourcemodeling.bsky.social · last yr.

The Emerging Scholar Keynote Award winner at the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling is @kleshnina.bsky.social, for her impressive research in game theoretic modeling of social-environmental systems. A must-see talk in Nepal. Submit your abstract 👉 resourcemodeling.org/wcnrm2025-ka....

Another one for important work on climate change and its effects (presumably on the Great Barrier Reef), Luz V. Pascal from Queensland University of Technology presents: "When does non-stationarity matter for threatened ecosystems?" #ANZIAM2025 1/6

Congratulations @kleshnina.bsky.social!! The award every academic in the room was vying for. The students were right - her talk on game theory, resilience, and inequality was impressive. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The effect of environmental information on evolution of cooperation in stochastic games - Nature Communications

In stochastic games, there is a feedback loop between a group’s social behaviors and its environment. Kleshnina et al. show that groups are often more cooperative when they know the exact state of the...

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Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈@matthholden.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to Maria Kleshnina for winning the best talk by a non-student at #ANZIAM2025 the prestigious cherry ripe prize. Voted by the students. So we'll deserved!

Next for Tuesday's #ANZIAM2025 is Grace Robinson from Queensland University of Technology: "Balancing competing priorities: optimising land usage allocation" Mmm, practical optimisation! The type of optimisation I like! 1/4

We can all go back to knowing ARC grant outcomes within 17 seconds of them being posted, thank god

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve now activated my “bot posts only” account on Bluesky: @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social That account will repost only my bot’s posts, i.e. outcomes & #ARCSenateOrder announcements. Combined with the separate phone app👇, it can be used to get a notification when the ARC makes those announcements.

Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2y ago

It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash www.industry.gov.au/publications... australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

The Palisades fire in LA overlaid on a map of central London. calmatters.org/environment/...

Sisi Wei@sisiwei.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you don't live in LA and have been struggling to understand how much land the fires have encompassed, use this @calmatters.org tool to overlay the fires atop where you live, to get a sense of scale: calmatters.org/environment/... Great work by @jeremiak.com and John Osborn D'Agostino.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

In true academic style, I'm finishing my new years resolutions just before due date. The ideas behind this paper have been my passion project since day 1 of my PhD, and I'm pleased to announce that it's finally published! doi.org/10.1007/s115... @chris-drovandi.bsky.social

Ecosystem Knowledge Should Replace Coexistence and Stability Assumptions in Ecological Network Modelling - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Quantitative population modelling is an invaluable tool for identifying the cascading effects of conservation on an ecosystem. When population data from monitoring programs is not available, determini...

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I've submitted my abstract. Hope to see you in Nepal to discuss the latest in quantitative modeling to improve the environment! @katehelmstedt.bsky.social

Resource Modeling Association (RMA)@resourcemodeling.bsky.social · 2y ago

Abstract submission is open for the 2025 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling in Nagarkot, Nepal (near Kathmandu) on June 9-12, 2025. 👉 resourcemodeling.org/rma-conferen.... Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025.

We're hosting our fourth annual 'Environmental Modelling for Better Predictions and Decisions' symposium at QUT on 20-21 January. It's in-person only, always fun, and free! We focus on ECR/student presentations, networking, and panels. I always learn heaps and meet lots of researchers. Register now

2025 AMEG Symposium: Environmental modelling for better predictions and decisions

Dates: January 20-21, 2025 (optional HDR workshop on January 22) Location: In person at QUT Gardens Point campus Cost: FREE (food included) Contact us at: AMEGsymposium@gmail.com The QUT Applied Math...

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This makes me want to re-write my entire data visualisation course (to give this an A+)

Matt Cowgill@mattcowgill.bsky.social · 2y ago