@judydunlop.bsky.social
Dr Judy Dunlop, a passionate ecologist who helps threatened Australian #WildOz fauna 🦘🐍🐯🦎🦜🐀. #QuollPatrol #TCZ. Likes deserts better than desserts. Posts my own.
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Here's a selection of some of our scariest gargoyles and grotesques 👀
#Halloween
Robe River Blind Cave Eel illustration by @terngirl
Bringing the blind cave eel to light: eDNA transforms detection in subterranean ecosystem. Michael Curran. The Biodiversity Conference 2025
30.10.2025 07:19 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Long-eared Kultarr illustration by @terngirl
Cryptic Kultarr: integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species of Antechinomys. Cameron S. Dodd. The Biodiversity Conference 2025. And winner of the best student talk!
30.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
A new CRM
Which bird and bat species are likely to be affected by wind turbines and what’s missling in Collision Risk Monitoring? Trish Fleming and Graeme Hocking. The Biodiversity Conference
30.10.2025 00:49 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The toad containment zone illustration @terngirl
@judydunlop.bsky.social tells us about the TOAD CONTAINMENT ZONE to prevent cane toads from reaching the Pilbara. The Biodiversity Conference
30.10.2025 00:37 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Truth telling and acknowledging the past is a step toward healing.
Great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei, illustration by @terngirl
Dorian Moro & Wiluna Martu Rangers. A site was identified by rangers in healthy spinifex. Ground searches found scats, active burrows & tracks. Remote cameras confirmed tjakurra, the first for Matuwa Kurrawa NP / IPA. Surveys have identified 116 active burrows. Biodiversity Conference 2025.
28.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Essington's Austral-Stingless Bee Austroplebeia essingtoni illustration by @terngirl
Partnerships between Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation & DBCA have uncovered diversity of native bees in Walyarta Conservation Park. Sugarbag bee identified as high value to Nyangumarta people. 36 taxa recorded, 9 undescribed. Melaleuca spp. critical host. The Biodiversity Conference 2025.
28.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Great Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas
Great overview of the Yagarrajalajalan Nagula Buru Project which is tagging green sea turtles and dugongs to identify and map how turtles, dugongs and humans all use Yawuru Saltwater Country (around Broome in Western Australia). www.yagarrajalajalan-nagula-buru.org TheBiodiversity Conference 2025
28.10.2025 06:13 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Djer-Djer, Splendid fairywren Malurus splendens, the logo for The Biodiversity Conference 2025. Illustration by @terngirl
The Biodiversity Conference 2025 is happening now! At UWA in Boorloo / Perth for the next three days, 28-30 October 2025 www.biodiversity2025.com
28.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#nuptothecup
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon
25.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 368 🔁 137 💬 4 📌 4
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As transport emissions approach Australia's largest emitting sector, we need to find ways to encourage people to cycle 🚴♀️🚴🚴🏻♀️🚴🏻♂️
Yesssssssss!! 🥳🥳🥁🧘♀️
03.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join me!!!
03.10.2025 01:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Alrighty who is going to #esaus2025 and also to Tool in Adelaide Fri Nov 28??
#ecology & #thinkingmansmetal unite 🤘
#wildoz
Interested in making an impact in #ecology, with Traditional Owners, and be part of a super nice team at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ? staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
Check it out, or send to a friend! #wildoz #tcz 🐸🚫💧 @benflips.bsky.social
Open to Australian and international students, apply before 18 August 2025.
More info on the EOI process here: www.curtin.edu.au/study/higher...
(You can also contact me directly for more information!)
Awkward photo of the author doing bird surveys in an urban park. Wearing denim shorts, blundstone boots and a black shirt, they are facing away from the camera using their binoculars to look into some shrubbery.
and:
Nature in my neighbourhood: mapping urban biodiversity for conservation:
research.curtin.edu.au/hdr-r-projec...
If you are identified as the preferred candidate for a project, you will be considered for a Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship.
#urbanNature #UrbanEcology #spatialEcology
The riot of colour that is springtime flora in Western Australia, a sparkling patchwork of plants on display at the Kings Park botanic garded in Boorloo (Perth, WA).
Come and do a PhD with me! 🎓 🌏 🧑💻 🏙️ 🗺️ 🌿 🪶🧪
I have TWO projects eligible the 2025 Curtin University RTP scholarship round:
Benchmarking biodiversity outcomes for nature positive urban development:
research.curtin.edu.au/hdr-r-projec...
#wildOz #urbanNature
shoulda been higher!
#hottest100 #doublej
Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX
Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪
@mooseallain.bsky.social
still one of my favourite cartoons...
can you link to the Spotify list please? ☺️
20.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And now @benflips.bsky.social on a crazy (but awesome) idea to stop a billion cane toads from getting into the Pilbara #wildoz #iccb2025
18.06.2025 02:04 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0good morning friends!! #wildoz 🪶🪶👩🔬🌿🌏
11.06.2025 00:00 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
🦉Rat poisons are killing Aussie birds — 281 experts unite to say enough is enough.
These deadly second-generation poisons are harming our birds, wildlife and pets. A federal review is underway, with a decision expected very soon.
Visit: actforbirds.org/ratpoison to have your say!
Picture of Sussan Ley. Headline reads Sussan Ley says name spelling change was due to 'punk phase' - not numerology
That iss not how punk workss.
06.06.2025 07:27 — 👍 101 🔁 14 💬 24 📌 9
