The Australian Mammal Society is pleased to announce a new Award - in honour of mammal and wildlife champion Barbara Triggs.
The Bruno (Barbara Triggs) Award is named after one of Barbara's much loved Wombats - read more here: australianmammals.org.au/awards/thebr...
Meet kungaka – ‘the hidden one’. This ancient lizard could be the rarest reptile in Australia
theconversation.com/meet-kungaka...
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
Every Australian should be able to identify a native Antechinus from a pest mouse.
I've made this so it's really easy for any age to learn to tell them apart.
Snap & percussion mouse traps kill them both. If you find an A. has been killed change to live catch mouse traps.
@ausmammals.bsky.social
Hey Mammal Nerds! Got something mammal-y too good to keep to yourself? Share it with our members - details on image! 🐾
Photo by Wendy Miller of a Golden Eagle followed closely by a Common Raven with a photo of Shaquille O'Neal (by Bigmoe797) superimposed above the eagle. Text on the graphic says: This Common Raven heckling a Golden Eagle set up a helpful size comparison. We added Shaquille O'Neal which seemed appropriate because "aquille" comes from the Latin "aquila" meaning eagle. With a wingspan of up to 7 feet, Aquila chrysaetos (the eagle) is roughly 1 Shaquille, while Corvus corax (the raven) is about half a Shaquille. Golden Eagles are sometimes said to resemble a flying ironing board, but those are only about 4.5 feet long, and it's more fun to imagine a soaring Shaq.
When we're stuck in front of the computer for too long our bird brains go weird places. 🪶
Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...
Adios *Anilios*! Glad our phylogeny was somewhat helpful in synonymising @simonmaddock.bsky.social! mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Bar graph comparing emissions from Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres to avoided emissions from Tesla's products for the years 2023 and 2024.
Comparison of emissions from manufacturing xAI's chatbot responses (5,127,553 tonnes CO2e) versus all Tesla products (1,056,000 tonnes CO2e) with respective analyses.
*New short blog* - finally (with help) got around to getting a total estimate of Grok's climate pollution 🫠
- Once all fossil gas online, = to between half and all of Tesla's ANNUAL GLOBAL avoided emissions
- Currently, 5x the emissions of Tesla's total manufacturing
ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...
I have heard comments from other scientists calling taxonomy 'stamp collecting' more times than I would like to count. In Australia, the budget for taxonomy of all species in Australia is $2m per year. For everything.
An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
Initially, many of the owl deaths had appeared accidental, as they had been struck by cars.
But after conducting a series of $300 tests, it became clear a common product sold in supermarkets was to blame.
au.news.yahoo.com/300-tests-sp...
In Current Biology!
*Uncovering genetic hotspots in the Southern Ocean informs conservation action
*Only 28% of genetic hotspots are protected
*Keeping current & adopting proposed MPAs boosts hotspot protection @lausally.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we used genetic data from a suite of Antarctic marine invertebrates to map locations of genetic diversity hotspots, divergence and connectivity 🐙🦐🪱🧬 @lausally.bsky.social @janstrugnell.bsky.social
arcsaef.com/story/scient...
To a first approximation, all Australian vertebrates are lizards. 🦎
But not just any lizards, Sphenomorphine skinks!
With more than 280 species they are hyper variable. Now, Janne Torkkola has pulled together the biggest phylogeny of the group to date. Read for free:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
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Curator Marine Invertebrate Zoology position advertised at the WA Museum, Perth. 🪸🪼🫙🔬
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
Supervising postgraduates is the best part of my job and when they are as talented as @shelbymiddleton.bsky.social and the team includes @kennytravouillon.bsky.social @planigale.bsky.social @annajmhopkins.bsky.social and Harriet Mills, it’s as good as it gets! Go well Shelby.
Random Delightful Fact of the Day -
Eastern quolls go grey as they get older!
A juvenile (~6 mths old) on the L, & a 4 yr old on the R
(Worth noting that 4 yrs old is oooooold for an eastern quoll)
Join the fun at this link - australianmammals.org.au/membership
JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...
Complete Rainforest Elevational Gradient Reveals Unusual Diversity Patterns of Non‐Volant Mammals in New Guinea - Vejmělka - 2025 - Diversity and Distributions - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
UPCOMING WORKSHOP🚨
dartRverse: Harnessing the Force of R for Conservation Genomics
Hands-on training in population genetics and conservation genomics using R and dartR 🧬🌿🦘🐟🐜
📆8–14 March 2026 @ ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus + online participation options
Details here:
cba.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
The Draft National Recovery Plan for the Ghost Bat is open for public consultation until the 10th March 2026. Head to to the DCCEEW website below to find out more
consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-nation...
Black text on white background underneath the Australian coat of arms at the top. Larger text near the top says "SENATOR DAVID POCOCK", "MEDIA RELEASE" and the headline in the largest print says "ARC RESTRUCTURE RISKS JOBS"?.
“This feels like yet another attack on our research community that is already under siege”
Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social has issued a media release about the ARC's proposed restructure and job cuts 👇
Was hearing a lot of these last evening
Perth Reached 39.0 Degrees At 1:32pm 🌡️ 40.0 At Gooseberry Hill, 39.8 At Pearce, 39.7 At Perth Airport, 39.5 At Millendon (Swan Valley) 39.2 At Jandakot, 38.4 At Swanbourne, 36.8 On Garden Island, 36.4 At Hillarys, 36.2 On Rottnest, 36.1 At Bickley & 35.2 At Mandurah 🥵 #PerthWeather #WesternAustralia
Very proud of our PhD student @nirjana-dewan.bsky.social for delivering an excellent talk at #AOC2025 on her white-tailed black cockatoo genomics work this morning! Looking forward to being able to share some nicely assembled genomes in the near future...stay tuned!
So exciting our lab won the Government Science project of the year for 2025!
#WASciAwards
#2025PremiersScienceAwards
www.wa.gov.au/organisation...
I work on bats AND dasyurids, which symposium will I go to 🤔
