Justine Shaw

How do feral cats impact native prey during a long-haired rat population boom? #AusMamSoc25

- Charlotte Woods & Andrew Baker

Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows British Antarctic Survey finds one breed of seal has declined by 54% since 1977

“Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our researchers have developed a powerful risk mapping tool to help prevent fatal collisions between endangered wedge-tailed eagles and overhead power lines. The model is already helping guide conservation strategies across Tasmania. Read more: utas.au/Tracking_

📢We're looking for a #MarineOrnithologist to join us!

This varied role will include supporting a review of the Special Protection Area (SPA) network, data analysis & review of management measures.

📆 Closing date: 30 June 2025

👉 Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/JNCCpost202529

#JobOpportunity

The use of eDNA to survey invasion risk to Antarctic waters. Frances Perry from @arcsaef.bsky.social @university adelaide explains how ocean environments & ships hull can be sampled simply & easily using eDNA approaches #ICCB2025

It's essential to build genetic diversity into the design of protected area. @lausally.bsky.social shares learnings about biodiversity hotspots in Antartcic marine waters informed by genetic data. Supported by @arcsaef.bsky.social #ICCB2025

See the Adorable Video of Wisdom, the World's Oldest Wild Bird, Tending to Her New Chick at Age 74 First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

But Wisdom surprised us all this breeding season by finding a new mate and laying an egg, which subsequently hatched. Video of them is here. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

And a timeline of Wisdom the mōlī up until 2020 is here. www.audubon.org/magazine/sev...

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John Woinarksi speaking about invasive predators and mammal extinction and decline and countering invasive species denialism #iccb2025

Today is World Albatross Day! In a nice coincidence of timing, my #ICCB2025 talk this morning will be about using DNA from albatross and petrel 🪶 and penguin 💩 to inform Antarctic seabird conservation 🧬 #consgen

Learn more about World Albatross Day from ACAP here: www.acap.aq/world-albatr...

#ICCB2025 plenary speaker Amy van Nice from the Wildlife Alliance is sharing hard truths from work to combat the illegal wildlife trade. Among the many challenges, funding systems are biased towards short-term projects, and donor priorities are often misaligned with on-ground needs. #conservation

What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025

Poster outlining which questions can be answered with the seabird restoration database and which questions would be great to ask with a little more research bandwidth.

I'm really excited to be in Brissy for #ICCB2025!

Come see me Tuesday during the poster session (Poster 61), where I'll detail some questions that can be asked with the recently published Seabird Restoration Database!

Could be a great PhD chapter for a PhD student.

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www.seabirddatabase.org

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Horrifying and eye-opening research on the impact of rodenticides on Oz wildlife. This slide is a great summary of the research from @pezoporus.bsky.social and collaborators. #iccb2025

Great #NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub session @ #ICCB2025 - translating science into convention outcomes through meaningful relationships. Two fantastic @tasland.bsky.social @utas.edu.au projects presented by Natasha Stoudmann and Laura Smith.

Amy Coetzee from Zoos Victoria shows the benefits of cat control on small marsupials; Eastern Barred Bandicoots & Long nosed Potoroos on islands. Cat control has commenced on French Island already benefiting threatened species. Here's hoping cat eradication is achieved! #ICCB2025

Low genetic diversity thought to contribute to high disease susceptibility of critically endangered Orange Bellied Parrots in captive and wild populations. Population decreases drive inbreeding - they have low immunogenetic diversity says Luke Silver #ICCB2025

@hugepossum.bsky.social reminds us it's critical to determine what the management actions are to save threatened species, and then we need to prioritize those actions, & consider the costs of the actions #ICCB2025

Border walls between Mexico & USA impact large carnivores (e.g. bears ocelot, mountain lions) and threatened mammals. Challenges of conservation at the borderlands - a fascinating talk by Kinley Regan @phoenixzoo.bsky.social #ICCB2025

So great to be here! I've already had the wonderful surprise of running into international colleagues. so great to NOT be on zoom #ICCB2025

Interested in spatial modelling, data integration, and conservation of remote regions? Come and chat to me about Antarctica at today's #ICCB2025 poster session!!

Protecting nature supports biodiversity and reduces damage to human infrastructure due to natural disasters like landslides, says #ICCB2025 plenary speaker Binbin Li, while talking about synergies between #conservation and community development.

Ricky Archer gifts us all the opening plenary at #ICCB2025, talking to indigenous-led parks management, and threading together western and indigenous lenses on caring for Country. Great start @iccb2025.bsky.social.

Please add @icy-bug-girl.bsky.social & @katehelmstedt.bsky.social

“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS “One Health” needs ecology

"It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge and understanding of the Earth, as well as the animal—human connections within it"

We'd add climate and social dynamics, too. 🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Kangaroo Island formerly had the highest feral pig density in South Australia, but new mapping from #ABARES tells a dramatically different story thanks the brilliant work of #PIRSA, #KILB, #DEW and #NPWS on the Kangaroo Island feral pig eradication progam.

www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/defaul...

They'll be so confused why today are all these badly dressed (😂) people staring at the screens?

True! 😂😂

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science This study reveals that non-native English speakers, especially early in their careers, spend more effort than native English speakers in conducting scientific activities, from reading and writing pap...

Winner of Equality & Diversity champion #BES2024 goes to @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social - yesterday I posted a link to one of his @plosbiology.org papers, but arguably this one (the costs of having English as a 2nd/3rd/4th language in science) is arguably just as important: plos.io/46Rfptc

Great to see Australian Geographic advocating for threatened species at Melbourne Airport as I journey home from #ESAus2024. Think airport were a bit suss of how long I stood there watching their advertising screens