It'd be great if actual researchers – not just research offices & peak bodies – made submissions to the ARC's 'Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program'.

This is a chance to have input into how the grant schemes are run!

In the latest Wildlife Health Talks, Dr Florencia Soto discusses the relationship between seals and lice, and the impact of HPAI subtype H5 on Antarctic wildlife. Listen on your favourite app or Google Wildlife Health Talks. WDA members, email [email protected]

The farm grandchildren met the Powerful Owls recently.
So another 20 boxes for the owls prey have gone up.
Its these conservation actions, working thru 3 generations, that will secure the lives of Powerful Owls in an entire area of SW Victoria for years to come.

Happy #WorldVeterinaryDay ! #Veterinary services are essential to the community – just like human health care or education.

Please enjoy our #WorldVetDay video – it’s a testament to the dedication & impact of our profession. #WVD2024

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Intrigued by ecoimmunology and have microbiome experience? We have a postdoc position open for our project working on wild house mice - join us to disentangle the contribution of diet, the gut microbiota and the immune system in shaping parasite responses! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

We are excited to announce that we have a Postdoc position open to join our wild immunology research project working on wild mice - and understanding the interaction between worms, the gut microbiota and immune response. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

NRE Tas removes small hive beetle restriction area following year-long scare themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/… via Mercury

I Got a Close Look at Tasmania’s Famous (and Endangered) Wildlife — Here’s How Travelers Can Help Preservation Efforts Saffire Freycinet travelandleisure.com/tasmanian-devi… via Travel + Leisure

Immunology is for everyone!
Excited to share 'Exploring new perspectives in immunology' with Ruslan Medzhitov in Cell.

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Can't wait to see this. Great work Bats 'N' Viral Bytes especially Megan Griffiths

Engineering immune-evasive allogeneic cellular immunotherapies dlvr.it/T5yCCs

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My study from last year showed how a prescribed burn conducted exactly to prescription killed 77% of a critically endangered species in the block. #AustralEcology tell me it's a #TopCitedArticle ; we need change now.

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An important example of how improper science changed public perception, impacting conservation of a critical species.

Congrats Max Stammnitz on setting the record straight.

DFTs remain the primary cause of Tassie devil decline - interventions like vaccines could ensure longevity.

So very, very likely the DFT1 tree of this study has NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS.

With serious consequences! Because the paper's main conclusions and media hype, 'cautious optimism for the continued survival of the Tasmanian devil' are all derived from this flawed data. 😞

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... the original study’s tree, based on noisy point mutations, and our large copy-number based model LOOK NOTHING ALIKE! It’s 🍏 vs 🍊!

Plot colours correspond to the four main DFT1 clades seen in our own data from >600 tumours – see Fig1 in tinyurl.com/plosbio2020.

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In 2020, the Storfer lab reported an analysis of the evolution of devil facial tumour disease (tinyurl.com/Tasdevils2020) – a severe conservation threat.

Working on DFT, but coming to very different conclusions, we decided to dig deep into their DNA sequencing data. 🧑‍💻

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I'm delighted to share a new Policy Forum article in Science Magazine Developing transmissible vaccines for animal infections science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation for funding the workshop and to all of the participants for being co-authors

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