Meet Australia's most recently named and described longhorn beetle: Excastra albopilosa! I was lucky enough to discover this remarkable species while camping binnaburra in 2021. Have a read of the UQ News article for more detail and a link to the paper. #entomology #newspecies

And here's the link to the iNaturalist observation! Such an incredible rediscovery! inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Great news for anyone wanting to learn more about eucalypts - I've now uploaded all of my photographic records (>4,600 records from 885 eucalypt species) onto iNaturalist!

A huge thanks to Eucalypt Australia for supporting me in this project 🙂

inaturalist.org/observations?p…

New #CitizenScience paper out today with James Watson Corey Callaghan and colleagues:

Can we quantify how adequate citizen science data are? We develop metrics to answer this, and then explore adequacy in eBird & BirdLife Australia data across Australia.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Finally ticked past 300,000 IDs made on iNaturalist!

People worry Christmas beetles are disappearing.

Tanya Latty (@Sydney_Uni) + research colleagues (@UNSW, CSIRO) are gathering citizen data to see the full picture.

theconversation.com/people-worry-c…

Our new paper describes the 1,150 species we found in our urban backyard in Brisbane City over 1yr. Trees, shrubs, & weeds (instead of manicured lawn) provided lots of habitat for a shocking amount of wildlife on an urban lot doi.org/10.1002/ecy.42… in Ecology

Plant collection day! 🍃

Our team of scientists travelled to North Head Sanctuary in Sydney to conduct vital field research, collecting trip 231 specimens, representing at least 132 distinct plant species.

#BotanicSydney #Botany #Science

Excited to share the latest from the #eFLOWERproject : a morphospace study of angiosperm flowers led by Andrea López-Martínez and Marion Chartier!

Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Excited to announce the first publication of my PhD work in Ecology and Evolution with andrew simons !

We used iNaturalist community science data to explore latitudinal trends in mating system traits in the highly self-fertilizing Lobelia inflata

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

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New open access paper out in Global Change Biology:

'Multi-taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires'

doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16…

Pic of Pink Flannel Flowers by John Porter

This was fun! Fabulous field trip to N Head Sanctuary with 32 wonderful colleagues from Botanic Gardens of Sydney and the Sanctuary Foundation!

Introducing the iNaturalist Geomodel!
Read more about how we're using it to improve Computer Vision suggestions on our blog inaturalist.org/blog/84677-int…

Thanks to Dean Nicolle's pics of Corymbia pauciseta, there's now just one eucalypt species without photographs online!
Eucalyptus kenneallyi is only known from two tiny islands (Storr, Koolan) off the Kimberley Coast in WA. If you have pics, let me know!
tinyurl.com/av589xd7

New paper in American Institute of Biological Sciences BioScience! Identifications are keeping pace with millions of observations added to @iNaturalist, and a small subset of highly active, taxonomically specialized users provide most of the identifications on the site.

academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

We have some big news: iNaturalist is now an independent 501c3 non-profit organization!

Your iNat experience won’t change-we’re still focused on supporting and building a free platform for sharing and identifying what you find in nature.

Learn more: inaturalist.org/blog/82010-spr…

v1.3 of my Duck River Biodiversity Survey now live!
2033 species observed in 25 ha from 410 hours of survey time. Species count includes 603 plants, 62 birds and 1031 insects.

check it out here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

Coolest recent find: Spaminta minjerribae (Mantispidae)

New Paper! Using a massive database we present long term trends in abundance, biomass and size structure for six key large-bodied species in the NSW Murray-Darling Basin doi.org/10.1071/MF23046 ASFB Trends are presented at both the basin and valley scales!