Thank you to the AAS for this honour. It was very unexpected. A healthy dose of imposter syndrome here! Ruby Payne-Scott left big shoes.

How much does a model cost? Our new paper reports the costs of different ecosystem models to support fisheries. We should consider cost-benefit tradeoffs when selecting modelling frameworks for ecological decisions doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…. free version 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2403.17446

Thrilled to have this paper picked up by PLOSCompBiol, and equally excited to have my 'serious face' on the QUT website!

I'm honestly not sure what the problem is. Fewer postdocs because they have found high-paid jobs seems like a success story to me. I mean you do a postdoc to get a good job, right? RIGHT?

New fluffy longhorn beetle discovered in Gold Coast rainforest - Australian Geographic australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science…

In Australia we get a bit angsty when discussing migration. In this column I try to show what type of visas migrants are on, discuss which types of migrants I see as extremely unlikely to decline in the foreseeable future. I started my discussion by putting the current narrative…

Michael Bode presents tomorrow's UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science Tues seminar - on strategic variations to #conservation decision theory. Morning tea 10:30am, dual mode seminar 11am AEST in Goddard 501. bit.ly/CBCSseminars for Zoom link.

Con un gran equipo, publicamos una investigación que revela el poco apoyo que las revistas científicas ofrecen hoy a autores y lectores que crecimos hablando un idioma diferente al inglés y recomendamos acciones para superar barreras idiomáticas en publicaciones científicas. 🗣️📚

If bycatch species and fishing grounds only partially overlap, are marine protected areas still useful?

In many cases yes! And especially where vulnerable marine ecosystems are concerned.

Get our latest paper here or sail on down to the thread below: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Hugh Possingham presents tomorrow's UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science Tue seminar, where he poses the question, Does #science ever impact #conservation policy, and shares stories of success and failure. Morning tea 10:30am, dual mode seminar 11am AEST in Goddard 501 - bit.ly/CBCSseminars for Zoom link

What's a good resource for learning species distribution modeling theory from the perspective of a mathematical ecologist? I want deep understanding (not a how to), that walks through first principles, assuming the reader is comfortable with calculus-based probability theory.

Please share!

I'm recruiting Masters, Hons, and PhD students to model spread and mgmt for spreading species (invasive & range-shifting spp). See ejhudgins.com/opportunities for project ideas & scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/graduat… for scholarships (incl. international!)
Science at Melbourne QAECO 🦘