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Wondering if you should apply for a DECRA?

7 Feb 20227 Feb 2022
Do you love doing job applications, but wish they were longer and more involved? If so, applying for an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) should…
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Extinct megafauna prone to ancient hunger games

14 Dec 202114 Dec 2021
I'm very chuffed today to signal the publication of what I think is one of the most important contributions to the persistent conundrum surrounding the downfall of Australia's megafauna many…
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Animating models of ecological change

6 Dec 2021
Flinders University Global Ecology postdoc, Dr Farzin Shabani, recently created this astonishing video not only about the results of his models predicting vegetation change in northern Australia as a function…
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An eye on the past: a view to the future

29 Nov 2021
originally published in Brave Minds, Flinders University's research-news publication (text by David Sly) Clues to understanding human interactions with global ecosystems already exist. The challenge is to read them more…
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Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it will get worse

2 Aug 20212 Aug 2021
AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIRO This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. Shamefully, Australia has…
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Mapping the ‘super-highways’ the First Australians used to cross the ancient land

4 May 2021
Author provided/The Conversation, Author provided There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce. Few archaeological…
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Population of First Australians grew to millions, much more than previous estimates

30 Apr 2021
Shutterstock/Jason Benz Bennee We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul — the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and…
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The biggest and slowest don’t always bite it first

16 Apr 2021
For many years I've been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely demographically free) models about how megafauna species could…
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Job: Research Associate in Mammalian Morphology-Environment Interactions

15 Feb 202115 Feb 2021
The Research Associate will investigate how the skull of extant mammal populations varies according to their environment, with a focus on the interaction between mega-herbivores and vegetation change. The project…
opinion…

Plan B: COVID-19 challenges for field-based PhD students

8 Dec 20208 Dec 2020
Blistering heat, pouring rain, finding volunteers, submitting field-trip forms, forgetting equipment, data sheets blowing away in the wind — a field-based research project is hard at the best of times.…
concepts…

History of species distribution models

21 Jul 2020
This little historical overview by recently completed undergraduate student, Sofie Costin (soon to join our lab!), nicely summarises the history, strengths, and limitations of species distribution modelling in ecology, conservation and restoration.…
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I’m nearing the end of my PhD/postdoc … What the hell am I supposed to do now?

13 Jul 2020
What do you want to be when you grow up? The term ‘job security’ seems a fanciful idea to budding biologists — you may as well be studying unicorns (and…
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Amphibian conservation in a managed world

1 Apr 2020
The amphibian class is diverse, and ranges from worm-like caecilians to tiny frogs that live their entire lives within bromeliads high in the rainforest canopy. Regardless of form or habit,…
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Climate change and humans together pushed Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction

25 Nov 201926 Nov 2019
Over the last 60,000 years, many of the world’s largest species disappeared forever. Some of the largest that we generally call ‘megafauna’ were first lost in Sahul — the super-continent…
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Logbook of Australia’s ancient megafauna

20 Nov 201920 Nov 2019
Australia is home to some of the most unique species worldwide, including egg-laying mammals, tree-climbing, desert-bouncing and and burrow-digging marsupials, and huge flightless birds. While these animals are fascinating, the…
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A new environment for personal transformation: what Australia has meant to me

12 Sep 2019
When developing an academic career, sticking in one’s homeland has its pros and cons. -- On your home turf there will usually be at least a few family members with…
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Rising human populations drive environmental degradation in Africa

27 Jun 201925 Jun 2019
  Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of environmental performance among the world's nations. It turned out to be rather…
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First Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologies

18 Jun 2019
One of the most ancient peopling events of the great diaspora of anatomically modern humans out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago — human arrival in the great continent…

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