Concerns expressed by Tim Flannery that proposed cuts to research at the South Australian Museum ‘could be the death of the museum’ have scientists up in arms.

What makes a museum so special? Vice-Chancellor's Fellow Elizbeth Finkel weighs in. brnw.ch/21wIYgx

Very excited to share our newest The Conversation article! It features the teams work cave diving with the CDAA to explore submerged fossil sites in South Australia. 🦴🤿🫧 Gilbert Price Liz Reed 🦇🦴🦉🐀🐩 Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
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I'm super excited to advertise 2 fully funded PhD scholarships here Uni of Adelaide, Australia, to work on climate and environmental change through the last 2000 years, using #isotopes or #diatoms in lake sediments in southern Australia earthworks-jobs.com/climate/adelai… Environment Institute - University of Adelaide 1/n

'Deep Time #Extinction and #Environments in Underwater #Caves ' presented by Meg M Walker today!

And our article with The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand is out now too! A bit more about the #fossil -y tale of Protemnodon. There's a bit of a story in there.

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#kangaroos #australia #megafauna #palaeontology

Here is our great big monograph on #fossil #megafaunal #kangaroos of genus #Protemnodon ! Six years in the making. We recognise 7 species, 3 newly named, with diversity of locomotor mode. Thanks to everyone that got this over the line ❤️

doi.org/10.11646/megat…

Hello #EGU24 ! If you're interested in G-IG variability, hydroclimate, speleothems, and/or Southern Hemisphere:

Come check out my talk at the end of the first session tomorrow morning! 🙌

Will be chatting about our recently published paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Keep Science Alive protest at Parliament House steps, Sat 13/04/2024, 11am fb.me/e/1SfHMJD6h

Pressure continues over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Science in South Australia South Australian Museum in the news for all the wrong reasons Environment Institute - University of Adelaide SA Department for Environment & Water ABC News SA Government Chief Scientist for South Australia science.org/content/articl…

Australia leads the world in mammal extinction and biodiversity loss 💔 It's not new information, but horrific nonetheless.

We are working against the clock to restore Australia's biodiversity. Learn about our science-led conservation on our website.

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How can assumptions about environments of past #interglacial periods lead to misinterpretation of #palaeoclimate data? On EGU Climate Division blog Rieneke Weij & Kale Sniderman share their study on subtropical environments in the Southern Hemisphere.

Go deeper: egu.eu/7Z9XXO/

It was great spending time underground yesterday at #NaracoorteCaves planning some exciting new research.

South Australia’s slow-moving cultural crisis - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/notes-on-…

Final PhD paper is out! Native 🇦🇺 roaches live in permanent burrows underground. This lifestyle has caused their symbiotic bacteria 🦠 to lose core genes, implying 🪳 have found a novel nutrient source underground. Read more #OpenAccess Insect Science ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

The chair of a bat rescue organisation is alarmed that this weekend’s WOMADelaide Festival in Botanic Park (Park 11) will add to the animals’ stress from the heatwave and increase the number of deaths.
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Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging- excellent paper!

😡😡 not just heat, surely stress from festivals compounds this on hot days.