Brad Murray

It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to @zoexiro.bsky.social and @ecologybrad.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk 🌿

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

Haha!

Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!

Spent the past month in Greece 🇬🇷 on holiday and visiting family. But surprised to see so many reminders of Aus (Eucalypts) planted on so many islands! (could they be contributing to the wildfires Greece is being ravaged by? So many questions!)

I'm still buzzing after an amazing day at the Sydney Science Trail, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan! #NationalScienceWeek

I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators
🌸🐝🌼🪰🪻🦋

#STEMEducation
#Pollination

Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch

Study co-authors Hannah Goodman, Lexi Hankenson, and Dr. Deborah Apgaua (left to right) demonstrate the plant flammability testing apparatus, showing how samples are burnt.

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Fight fire with food #forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart #agroforestry systems

By Ashley Pacheco, Hannah Goodman et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and @zoexiro.bsky.social on our latest flammability project

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

A fire in dry sclerophyll forest in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia).

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone #forests

By @ecologybrad.bsky.social, @zoexiro.bsky.social, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

🚀 We’re live!
The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab @UTS finally has a website! 🎉

🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org

#Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science @ecologybrad.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Sky Biblin to discuss this rare opportunity to compare early post-wildfire data between areas with and without previous application of prescribed burning #SNFECO ⚡
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs - Nature Geoscience A shift towards more-frequent, less-intense fires in Australia began about 11,000 years ago due to management by Indigenous societies, according to charcoal and stable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ...

Geochemical proof that Aboriginal Australians have been changing landscape-scale fire regimes (cooler, less-intense fires) for at least 11,000 years, and probably much longer

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝

This year's theme, "Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all", highlights the critical roles bees and other pollinators play in agrifood systems and ecosystem health.

Here's a Lipotriches bee buzz-pollinating a Dianella flower (Wangal land).

#worldbeeday #ozpollinators

Illustration of methods used to assessed fuel characteristics (moisture, architecture, chemistry and mass) across a range of scales from individual plant organs or excised parts to communities and landscapes. Remote sensing, field measurements, and laboratory work are each suited to assessment of fuel characteristics at different but overlapping portions of this range, thereby creating opportunities to synthesize the “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to understanding flammability. Art drawn by by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies

By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social, UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution

From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fire–vegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representat...

Very excited to see this paper out!

Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝

Green firebreaks ready for wildfire at Christchurch’s Mt Vernon Park Green fire breaks will “not always stop a wildfire, but they can slow or decrease the intensity of a fire”, an expert says.

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.

Fascinating article in The Conversation by UTS marine ecologists Shauna Murray and Greta Gaiani:
Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
theconversation.com/mystery-solv...

Excited to be attending Science Meets Parliament 2025 in Canberra. Kicked off this morning with insights from Bill Shorten around R&D investment and amplifying science within government policy #SMP2025

At the National Maritime Museum.

Wow, those images are fantastic.

Such inspiring ecological research on plant flammability now being used to help reduce wildfire impacts. Great work Tim!

UTS’s pollination ecologist extraordinaire at ESA 2024, fantastic research Yvonne!

Great to see UTS’s Jonathan Webb presenting his incredible long-term reptile conservation research at #ESAus2024

Masterful talk today on phytoremediation by Megan Murray!

I have many other photos of her slides, but you could just watch her being interviewed on Gardening Australia, by the one and only Costa!

#ESAus2024

www.abc.net.au/gardening/ho...

Yes, it counts, but the first aider will need to fill out the chai latte risk assessment form. There have been some terrible chai latte accidents in the past.

Zoe, this coffee stop requires that your trip is lodged in FESS. Is there a First Aid qualified person drinking coffee?