Bummer that I'll miss this again! Hope you have a great time. You're basically a permanent fixture at this stage haha

Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Luderick (Girella tricuspidata) 🐟

👇More #fishfacts and the latest #research featuring ASFB members:
doi.org/10.1007/s122...

🌐 Info via Fishes of Australia: fishesofaustralia.net.au

#Australia #fish #biology

📑 #NewStudy by Woolley et al. studied the succession of fishes on offshore artificial reefs Did the community change in the traditional trajectory you might expect?

👀 doi.org/10.3354/meps...

This makes any statement made about the financial situation of ANU completely unreliable. We're out here busting our butts for promotions and mates get freebies?!?

doi.org/10.22541/au....

Not exactly a clean $$ figure - but related

Using biotelemetry to assess drone effects on whale sharks The use of unoccupied aerial vehicles or drones for wildlife research has proliferated in recent years and they have proven to be a valuable tool for collecting data for population surveys, morphomet....

Drone's aren't as low impact as you'd think, often causing birds to abandon nests or seals to dive into water. Luckily, they don't seem to have any impact on whale sharks! We even used biotelemetry to show it didn't change their swim patterns.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please please please don't make us wait the full 3 months!

He is clearly a tiger shark head in the original, not true to the material!

📑 #NewStudy by Mitchell et al. tested an electrical shark deterrent for reducing shark depredation (where sharks eat hooked fish before they can be retrieved).

👀 Read the full study: doi.org/10.1071/MF25...

🔗 Link to UWA media release: www.uwa.edu.au/news/article...

What did the shark say when it swam into a concrete wall?

Dam!

(Ok science nerds, let’s hear your best science jokes!)

Tropical cyclone Narelle could be ‘biggest system in living memory’ when it crosses Queensland coast this week, authorities warn Massive storm expected to intensify to category five cyclone offshore before making landfall in far north of the state on Friday

The Great Barrier Reef gets no respite. On a year where bleaching wasn't an issue, it's now going to get hit with a Category 5 cyclone, right in the area that was most impacted by bleaching 2 years ago.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Who could have possibly foreseen this outcome...🙄

Front cover of the Strategic Examination of Research & Development review report. Purple background with pink title text "Ambitious Australia". The graphics below the text are some curvy, bubble-like shapes with what seems to be a sunset viewed through some drops of liquid. That is, a distorted view of the horizon … a metaphor?

The Government released the final report of the Strategic Examination of R&D yesterday. It's called "Ambitious Australia"🙃

Haven't read much, yet, but it says we should fund the ARC more. Like every single previous review.

Can we got on with it & do that, now?

www.industry.gov.au/publications...

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not?
In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death.
This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan.
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Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

We all lose – and future generations will lose even harder – when governments cut investments in research & researchers. Or fail to increase them to the levels actually needed.

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Not to mention decarbonisation would mean a third of all heavily polluting ships just... don't need to be there

*partially funding 12%

A man standing up in a crowded room of people sitting. He is dressed in workman's clothes and has his head raised as if speaking up when not necessarily belonging there.

We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.

I don't understand how this is acceptable. Other nations have similar security checks but they still provide outcomes within 6 months of applying. This shouldn't be taking an extra 3 months in the first place! As they said themselves, this only affects a small number of applications.

We don't have the resources in place to do this. This basically requires a whole lot more face-to-face assessments (written or oral), and it's basically impossible to assess a lot of skills like this.

An analogy I use with my students that seems to land:

At the gym, you could use a forklift to move all the weights around. But you don’t actually get any benefits unless you lift them yourself.

PhD opportunity at the University of the Sunshine Coast: Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics of Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in Southeast Queensland

💰 stipend of $15,000/yr for 3.5 yrs (+ RTP scholarship)

Dr Bonnie Holmes: www.unisc.edu.au/staff/dr-bon...
Dr Matt McMillan (DPI, Queensland)

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Part of me thinks this is just a ploy so AI algorithms get access to all teaching information so they can resell it. There's no way this ever benefits students.

companion.ai/einstein

There's massive data access issues with this. You'd be breaching your agreement with most universities giving another party access to your account.

AI will save the world eh? More like make sure the next gen of doctors haven't learned any of their basic anatomy, the next gen of engineers don't understand physics...

Congrats!

This but in Australia. Get rid of one of the submarine orders we'll never get anyway and triple the ARC budget (just under $1B) for the next 15 years.

I knew there was a reason my SI talk didn't get accepted!

Light-colored peppered moths right now

Don't think I'll have that issue for sea cucumbers...