This #SciComm September , I'm part of a team trying to create a new #SciComm project: a podcast showing that to make a pie 🥧 you first need to make the Earth MakeAPlanetPod 🌏

But it only gets made if we're fully funded by 16/9. We really need your help!

kickstarter.com/projects/makea…

Around the world, flammable invasive grasses are increasing the risks of damaging wildfires. fcld.ly/lfko40l

Grasses tend to be undervalued but have influenced the trajectory of human history through their domestication as food staples, as well as natural ecosystems worldwide.

A new special issue of Science explores the unrecognized value of grass: fcld.ly/bo80dpr

Grasslands are easy to overlook and undervalue. I've spent the last 6+ months reporting a story on why that's a terrible mistake. My latest for The Atlantic #longreads theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

What's usually on the menu at your lunch time meetings? Today the UOW CABAH crew got together to sample a special Emu egg Omelette and hear about our recent field work.

These eggshells will soon be analysed for C & O isotopes to see if they reflect local climate conditions.

Population collapse of a Gondwanan conifer follows the loss of Indigenous fire regimes in a northern Australian savanna

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Bowman, Dr Grant Williamson et al.

Great to get some PhD fieldwork underway with some arid vegetation sampling 🌿

This is a pretty amazing figure. The distribution of late (red) and early (green) dry season fires before (a) and after (b) the implementation of an active fire management plan in Northern Australia, led by Traditional Owners publish.csiro.au/wf/Fulltext/WF…

Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago rdcu.be/cHZwW