Marian Turner

Long-beaked echidnas? Yes please! A cartoon for people who cannot bear any more news about anything dreadful | First Dog on the Moon Let the echidna discourse begin!

Delighted to send this @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... to the authors of this paper today www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm heading to #ICCB2025 tomorrow. Happy to chat about @natecoevo.nature.com so please seek me out!

Proud of my brother Lincoln who has sought for years to shine spotlight on Monash and Woodside, and is quoted in this (and championing academic freedom of speech)

Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership Senior lecturer says university staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement

An exclusive academic conference held in Prato, Italy, last year -- organised in partnership between Monash University and Woodside -- has become the latest flashpoint for staff concerned about its relationship to Australia's biggest fossil fuel producer.

This from me in The Guardian.

Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🧬Airborne eDNA
💰Costs of biological invasions
🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation

Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global breeding programme benefits wild panda conservation Nature Ecology & Evolution - Global breeding programme benefits wild panda conservation

A series of recent investigative reports in the New York Times have criticized global panda breeding programmes. Here, Yang et al. clarify three misconceptions and argue that the reporting misrepresents the breeding programme and its conservation effects 🐼 rdcu.be/ei9aM

Spillovers and legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect specie...

Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect species richness and community composition www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world

With this column today, I learn that Robin McKie is stepping down as science correspondent for The Observer. It's impossible to overstate how legendary Robin is, and this column, with its solid defence of science and celebration of its wonder, is typically astute.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority - Nature Ecology & Evolution A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projec...

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority.

A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of.

My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social

Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program.
The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.

Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇

Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSW public schools to be fully funded by 2034, leaving Queensland as only state outside deal Commonwealth will pay for a quarter of public school funding, up from a fifth, replicating an agreement reached with South Australia and Victoria last month

It’s hard to celebrate public schools gaining full funding. Its hard because kids now in kindergarten must wait till Year 10 before their education is fully supported. Its also hard when most private schools remain overfunded. Its hard to celebrate inequality. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Dean Karlan, USAID's chief economist, has resigned and gives his story to NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

We are often told that we need to keep exporting gas to places like Japan, or risk a geopolitical disaster.

Dr Yuki Tanabe explains to the #ClimateIntegrity Summit why Japan doesn't need Australia's gas.

A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

What could you do with $13,000? Is every Australian, adult and child, feel comfortable that they are sending, on average, over $13,000 of their money to the USA for some submarines. We had two in the First World War, AE1 and AE2, they did nothing, and brave Australian submariners died.

A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany | Jörg Lau The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible says Die Zeit writer, Jörg Lau

If you want to know what the hell is happening in Germany atm, this is an excellent summary. 👇

Two birds of different species looking at each other from different sides of a river

Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂.
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...

Join our news team as a science reporter based in Berlin or Sydney! Applications close January 20th👇🏻
Please help spread the word
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Roles of the Red List of Ecosystems in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - Nature Ecology & Evolution The Red List of Ecosystems is a headline indicator in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This Progress illustrates how the Red List of Ecosystems can be used by Parties to the Framewo...

Also from Emily Nicholson and colleagues on the role of the Red List of Ecosystems in the KM-GBF #ESAus2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework - Nature Ecology & Evolution This Perspective charts the development of the Monitoring Framework for tracking progress towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including details on the process of indicator sele...

For a primer on the KM-GBF monitoring framework that Emily Nicholson just discussed at #ESAus2024, see www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My 5 year old would be jumping with excitement to meet the line-up at Wednesday's early career ecologist session at #ESAus2024

I'm really looking forward to attending #ESAus2024 next week. I'll be cycling in through Royal Park every morning. Happy to chat about @natureecoevo.bsky.social so please say hi.

I'll be there! Thanks