🐦🔎 Want to predict the distribution of a species in R using ALA data?

⚡ Learn how to run a species distribution model using a modern tidymodels workflow in a new ALA Labs post by Dax Kellie & Shandiya Balasubramaniam

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#rstats #dataviz #quartopub

Prof Eddie Holmes FAA FRS says that the reputation viruses have for always causing disease is perhaps misplaced. Join the @RoyalSociety livestream tmrw morning for the 2024 #CroonianLecture & embark on a journey through the vast & mysterious virosphere. royalsociety.org/science-events…

They diagnosed:
Years of warnings ignored/kept secret
Promises made but not delivered
Brutal funding cuts
Wilful neglect

They spoke of:
Ambitious reform agenda
Reversing environmental decline
Mobilising private capital
No New Extinctions
Nature Positive
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Gutted to learn today that this area has been completely cleared and is now a construction site 😔 I doubt there would have been any hesitation given it was small and urban. Sure, it’s not Lee Point, but I’m exactly as sad about both #wildoz #urbanbidodiversity

This is what deer looks like on our thermal camera. The machine vision automatically recognises them and you can get an email alert when they're identified.

After two years of work the reef I have been working on with Passport to Recovery is finally in the water! So excited to see all the citizen scientists out there recording observations as the reef develops 🐟🌊🦪🩵

Adani mine could be 'causing environmental harm' at protected springs abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Tomorrow, we'll be announcing the ARC's 2024 Industry Laureate Fellowships. All Lead Chief Investigators will receive a notification email to check RMS regarding applications.

Stay tuned for an update.

BioHeritage's final conference hardly felt like an end point, writes Jenny Leonard, in our Crazy & Ambitious 4 summary. Instead, #CA4 was a coming together to celebrate what has been achieved so far . . .

Link to story here: bioheritage.nz/crazy-ambitiou…

#DiscoveryProjects #DP25

Has anyone managed to get a straight answer from the ARC about whether the two College assessors of a full app will be

(a) definitely the same;
(b) definitely not the same; or
(c) possibly the same

as 2 of the 3 EOI assessors?

🙏

'Working with these groups, getting on country, slowing down and relearning. That's been a special moment for me in this.'

So says Jinibara man BJ Murphy, who recently spoke to ABC News about the hub's Moonaboola (Mary River) partnership in SEQld. 🐟🐢🔊

abc.net.au/listen/program…

Drone footage shows empty landscape from #illegallogging in northern #Cambodia

loom.ly/P5Nx7NA

#deforestation

'Let's talk about the consequences to agriculture, food shortages... consequences of failures of states in the Pacific Islands, in our region.'

Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls for the National Defence Strategy to include climate-induced security risks
#AusPol
abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

forbes.com/sites/melissac…

'It just makes me angry that it's within our power to stop this from happening and we are not doing anything quickly enough.' Gregory Andrews David Pocock phys.org/news/2024-04-a…

We can finally release the first version of SPECTRE: standardized global spatial data on terrestrial SPECies ThREats. 24 layers at 1km2 resolution now available for all the world.

biodiversityresearch.org/spectre/dashbo…

Work developed Luomus, CE3C, LASIGE with support Koneen Säätiö.

CANADA | Two years after border officials discovered live #turtle s , #turtle eggs & equipment to breed turtles in packages marked as 'children's building blocks,' a Calgary man fined $35,000 for illegal importation & sale of the specimens.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Monitor Exec. Dir. Chris R Shepherd was at the Caprinae Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) mid-year meeting at La Citadelle de Besançon Zoo in France recently presenting on the illegal trade in #serow . #EAZA

theconversation.com/granting-legal…