A recent study using climate models & ancient climate data from CABAH’s SahulSED & SahulArch databases shows that Australia was mostly wetter during the last Ice Age & human populations remained stable during the Ice Age & the unstable climates that followed.

This fire simulation game by Indigenous Desert Alliance & Charles Darwin University helps users understand how to manage desert fires under different conditions such as changes in weather, wind speed and amount of spinifex & buffel grass: 🔗 bit.ly/48Tb8pb

🚨 #DECRA #DE24 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2024❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Dow…

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Huge congratulations to my favourite palynologist Haidee Cadd on her successful DECRA 2024 fellowship!! 🔥

Images from overnight of the buffel grass wildfire on the edge of Mparntwe Alice Springs. Ominous times with huge fuel loads across Central Australia. A huge warning of what may await if drying and warming conditions continue across the region going into summer.
Tanya Plibersek

If you’ve made it to the last day of #INQUARoma2023 come check out my poster at 003 in MUST 1 🌾🌾

If your at the #INQUARoma2023 poster session stop by poster 9 and see our CABAH science communication poster about community engagement Kelsey Boyd Dr Emma Rehn

The subtle beauty and diversity of grasses is easy to miss but easy to appreciate when you take the time.

Watching #TheFirstInventors and wondering how sediment coring works and what scientists can learn from it? Here's a little graphic explainer by Kelsey Boyd Haidee Cadd and Dr Emma Rehn

epicaustralia.org.au/resource/sedim…

Extremely excited about these 3D printed phytoliths I generated a while ago using a confocal microscope. Thank you VUB Fablab for printing them! The red one is from the inflorescence bracts of common barley (Hordeum vulgare) and the grey one is from rye (Secale cereale).

‼️All researchers: Sign this petition‼️

🔗aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

Tell your colleagues, families & friends.

PhD students do heavy lifting in Australian research. But they're struggling to even pay the rent.

MINIMUM WAGE. Literally the least they should get!

#RaiseTheStipend

Our new review paper celebrates phytolith (plant silica opals) research in Australasia and advocates for more research to unpack our unique vegetation and plant-use histories 🏜🌾🌲🔬
protect-au.mimecast.com/s/12E6C6XQ88i3…

New paper by Centre4ArchScience PhD student Molly Turnbull reviewing the history of phytolith research in Australian Quaternary and archeology records AustArchAssoc AQUA link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thanks for your help and company Dr Emma Rehn and @FabTwiHan ! Great to finally get away from the microscope and into some sediment cores 👩‍🔬

Introducing VegeMap! We’re connecting researchers with schools to learn more about #plants & #pollen and we want you! 🫵

Find out more here ➡️ bit.ly/3TgpZn9

A collaboration between CABAH & TERN

Australia faces unprecedented grassfires next summer ‘supercharged’ by global heating — Lisa Cox theguardian.com/australia-news…

Having fun with #phytoliths and ChatGPT

#KangarooGrass is a keystone species for ecological fire management 🌾🔥

Ecological Society of Australia

ecolsoc.org.au/?hottopic-entr…

One prescribed burn nearly wipes out a population of critically endangered ngwayir, and another escapes to incinerate quokka core habitat. The common factor is bad fire science; we need to change.
theconversation.com/bad-fire-scien…

We're preparing to launch a new
#CitizenScience project — VegeMap — and create a network of pollen traps to learn more about Australia’s vegetation. How do you trap pollen? You tape a filter inside a funnel and place it on a star picket in the bush.

📸 Alex F Wall