Hirst, Moginie & Stuart - Red Continent youtu.be/6yexNQD8bas?si… via YouTube

I just heard that the revolutionary thermochron ibuttons are no longer being made. Does anyone know of good alternatives?

Inclined to vote No? Read this. I dare you…

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ In this new preprint @EcoEvoRxiv, we aimed to answer this question at truly global scales 🌍 doi.org/10.32942/X2T02T A thread 🧵(1/27)

We tried to collect all the matchstick grasshoppers from a remnant in Melbourne that was doomed to a housing development, but they bounced back the following year - a promising outcome for translocations PEARG Ben Phillips Conservation Letters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Out now and OA in Nature Microbiology A trait-based approach harnesses the vast amount of microbial genomic data and enables integration with biogeochemical models, predicting soil microbial ecology and physiology (without the need for cultures? 🦠🤔) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Tjakuranyatjara (About Tjakura, Great Desert Skink) youtu.be/jBNnhjUzYbo?si… via YouTube

I just released NicheMapR v3.3.1 github.com/mrke/NicheMapR…. Now including leaf temperature calculations, snakey DEB models, torpor and hair raising effects. New vignettes can be found in the help on the NicheMapR website mrke.github.io/help/

Next year I'll be recruiting postdocs & PhD/MSc/Hons students to develop The Julia Language and test (field/lab work) new approaches for predicting how Aussie pests (insects, mammals) will respond to climate change as part of a 5yr project arc.gov.au/2024-laureate-… More details soon...

Here's some new functionality Andy Leigh and I put together in NicheMapR for computing leaf temperature Methods in Ecology and Evolution besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Ecological Society of Australia symposium and workshop on functional traits, physiology and future climates (with an associated workshop on NicheMapR) - sign up soon if you're interested Ecological Society of Australia

Our lab (PEARG) is hiring a bioinformatics/genomics researcher! This is for a range of very exciting projects at the cutting edge of weird invertebrate biology. In collaboration with CAMEL lab Michael Kearney jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/917668/…