Corey Bradshaw

Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

Deep Time Australia

An epic story > 65,000 years in the making

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples have walked, worked & celebrated this land for millennia. Their cultures endure, alive in every story, every place, and every moment today

www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/

My upcoming (Tuesday next week) talk at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy

Co‐Extinctions and Co‐Compensatory Species Responses to Climate Change Moderate Ecosystem Futures Predictions of what happens to an ecosystem following the loss of species often assume species disappear one by one, but some drivers of extinction target multiple species at a time that share certai...

Co-extinctions and co-compensatory species responses to climate change moderate ecosystem futures

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Just received my fresh copy of @franckcourchamp.bsky.social's new biodiversité comic! Only in French, but other languages, including English, coming out soon.

#extinction #biodiversity #climatechange #lheritagedudodo

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present The diversity and distribution of species' traits in an ecological community determine how it functions. While modern fish communities conserve trait …

“Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present”, published now in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, comparing trait space occupation between 3 Late #Devonian communities with modern ones

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The genetic diversity of Indonesian cattle has been shaped by multiple introductions and adaptive introgression - Nature Communications Indonesian cattle are unique due to their history of admixture involving both zebu and banteng. Here, Wang et al. identify ~3.5 million novel introgressed SNP variants and provide a genomic map of banteng introgression within and across many cattle breeds, each with unique introgression histories.

The genetic diversity of Indonesian cattle has been shaped by multiple introductions and adaptive introgression doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Tonight! Dr Myall Tarran of PIRSA's Invasive Pests team will tell us why feral deer are really, really bad for Australia's ecosystems, economy, and biosecurity

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change - Nature Climate Change The authors assess the growing field of climate change health impact attribution. They show literature bias towards direct heat effects and extreme weather in high-income countries, highlighting the lack of global representation in current efforts.

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

co-authors: John Llewelyn, John Long, Richard Cloutier, @draliceclement.bsky.social, @giovannistrona.bsky.social, @fredsaltre.bsky.social, @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social, Brian Choo, Kate Trinajstic, Austin Fitzpatrick, @conservbytes.bsky.social @globecoflinders.bsky.social

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass - Nature Ecology & Evolution Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations worldwide, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. Given widespread forest fragm...

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Island haven a 'genetic trap' without intervention Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks like a conservation success story. However, new […]

Island haven a ‘genetic trap’ without intervention

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Jamie Turnbull of @thekidsau.bsky.social & Future Child Health presents

'Global systematic review of how climate change degrades the wellbeing & health of #Indigenous children'

at the 2025 Public Health Association Australia Conference in Wollongong, NSW

youtu.be/irCkvNR-h6k?...

Island haven for threatened koalas is a genetic ‘trap’ without intervention Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks like a conservation success story.   However, new research from Flinder...

Island haven for threatened koalas is a genetic ‘trap’ without intervention

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Even the #WorldBank acknowledges that humanity has over-exploited the planet, gone beyond its safe boundaries, and that our economic system is to blame

openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

Good start, but they mention nothing about the fact that we are too many doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

EXPERT REACTION: Are shark attacks on the increase and what should we EXPERT REACTION: Are shark attacks on the increase and what should we do? In the wake of the horrific shark attack at Sydney's northern beaches over the weekend, marine biology experts com

EXPERT REACTION: Are #shark attacks on the increase and what should we do?

www.scimex.org/newsfeed/exp...

#sharkbite #sharkattack

Koala. Photo credit: K Burke da Silva

Conservation arks: genomic erosion and inbreeding in an abundant island population of #koalas

doi.org/10.1111/mec....

2 #jobs in the Pest Animal Team (Invasive Species Unit, PIRSA, Adelaide):

1. Biosecurity Research Support Officer iworkfor.sa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
2. Deer Control Coordinator iworkfor.sa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

#ecologyjobs #environmentjobs

Definitely not the tastiest species of duck.

No, they are very used to people now. Can get quite close

I always like to see the new crop of wood ducks (Chenonetta jubata) out on campus

Tonight!

Duke of Brunswick Hotel, Adelaide

Human population and its effect on quality of life, equality, extinctions, and climate change

I think there might be a few spots left

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Frontiers | Conservation Imperatives: securing the last unprotected terrestrial sites harboring irreplaceable biodiversity Ambitious biodiversity goals to protect 30% or more of the Earth’s surface by 2030 (30x30) require strategic near-term targets. To define areas that must be ...

Conservation Imperatives: securing the last unprotected terrestrial sites harboring irreplaceable biodiversity

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Curve-Fitting

Too funny, because it's too close to the truth

xkcd.com/2048/

These frogs are tiny, but their very existence is a huge sign of hope For the first time, researchers have been able to successfully breed and release into the wild an endangered species of mountain frog.

For the first time, researchers have been able to successfully breed and release into the wild an endangered species of mountain frog.

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation - Nature Ecology & Evolution An assessment of existing coral restoration projects finds that accessibility drives the choice of restoration sites more than environmental and ecological factors, and most restored reefs have been o...

It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors

Eureka Prizes for Flinders research Scientists and researchers had a big night out at this year’s national Eureka Prizes, with Flinders University taking out two awards. Flinders University’s two entries were […]

Eureka Prizes for Flinders research

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#Thunder, #lightning, high winds & #hail today in crazy winter #storm

Fear of humans

Many animals avoid contact with people. In protected areas of the African savanna, mammals flee more intensely upon hearing human conversations than when they hear lions or sounds associated with hunting. This fear of humans affects how species use and move in their habitat.…

I was tired of all the pro-natalist bullshit (even from the ABC), so we wrote a paper (preprint still) about the relationship between population growth, ageing, and the #economy

No evidence ageing or declining populations compromise socio-economic performance of countries

doi.org/10.48550/arX...