Naomi Forrest

A wet wombatlet in a wet land.
#WombatWednesday
#Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombat #WildOz #wombats

"My detractors cannot wrap their head around it: I am not paid by anyone for my work on Palestine, not even the UN. Special Rapporteurs serve pro bono. And I have so much fun at doing what I do, you know why? Because I despise bullies, mafias + apartheid. I will fight...happily till my last breath."

two swift parrots sitting in the palm of my hands

We just published some new #science on forest habitat loss in Tasmania! here's a quick thread!

Swift parrots are Critically Endangered because of habitat loss.

Until now, nobody has quantified the amount and trends of forest loss and degradation!

1/8 🧵 🦜🧪

Do you love Professor Hannah Fry?
Do you use fridges?
Do you hate having a hole in Earth's ozone layer?

📣 Well, huge news:
Tonight's episode of The Secret Genius of Modern Life (about fridges) on BBC Two features BAS scientist Jonathan Shanklin, who discovered the Ozone Hole above Antarctica.

What a great few days at #BOU2025. Loads of interesting & inclusive science, & a really supportive & friendly bunch of people. A great place to give the first talk of my PhD on #FalklandsShags & delighted to have been highly commended for my Bluesky thread 👇🏼

📸: @vulturecat.bsky.social

Drivers of Epilithic Biofilms in Greenland Streams: The Role of Nutrients, Temperature and Catchment Slope Across a Climate Gradient Microbial biofilms are crucial components in Arctic streams, and understanding how climate warming affects them is critical. Across three regions in Greenland, we found large differences in biofilm s...

Bravo, @sannemdt.bsky.social for a new study on microbial biofilm in Greenland streams across 3 regions. Highlights:
🟢 Cyanobacteria thrive even in the High Arctic
🌡️ P & water temperature are key drivers of biofilm growth
⛰️ Catchment slope & NO3 conc shape total biomass
doi.org/10.1111/1758...

Job ad: Senior Ecologist with Sydney Water This is a great opportunity for a Senior Ecologist to join the high-performing and collaborative Environment and Heritage Services team. You will be responsible for providing ecological advice and conducting biodiversity assessment to support the approval of infrastructure projects along the asset value chain. Your subject matter expertise will also support strategic and operational business needs.

Job ad: Ecologist South Australia with Bush Heritage Fantastic opportunity to work within a leading conservation organisation. The Ecologist will be responsible for development and implementation of the science and ecology programs. It is expected that this position will be available to support Bush Heritage partnerships in conservation, pastoral and Indigenous Protected Area sectors.

Student opportunity: PHD - multiple opportunities We offer up to four PhD projects with scholarships in the project ‘Community completeness in monitoring of post-mining restoration success’. The project is a collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Camerino, Italy, as well as two mining industry partners – Iluka Resources Ltd and Alcoa of Australia Ltd. This collaborative research between ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists and restoration practitioners will investigate why particular plant species and plant functions are absent from post-mining vegetation, using the ecological concepts of species pools, dark diversity, and community completeness.

Student opportunity: PHD: Measuring ecosystem recovery and conservation impact The project will involve conducting assessments for several threatened ecosystems to measure how close they are to ‘full recovery’, their past conservation legacy, and their recovery potential. The student will contribute to a broader project that is working to develop a global standard for measuring ecosystem recovery, similar to the Green Status of Species.

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#EcologyCareers #EnvironmentalJobs #Hiring #ecology

Quoll feet are the best feet! 👣

These are the hind feet of a spotted-tailed quoll - those striated pads provide extra grip when they’re climbing

Celebrating all people who identify as women today! I am blessed to know so many strong, resilient and inspiring women who make my world more wholesome. Here is one of them 🥰

Winter conditions in Arctic lakes will be in focus for the next five weeks at the University in Svalbard #UNIS-Svalbard during the annual MsC and PhD course. I look forward to meet a fully booked course with super-motivated students in few days. www.unis.no/courses/ab-8...

Great first day in my new role and an Assessment Officer with DCCEEW.. looking forward to serving the environment and Australia community 🐸#EPBC 🐍🦅🌿🌱

Excited to present our latest paper where we take a close look at what we know (and are yet to know) about biodiversity in Antarctica!

🔗 Check out a summary of the work: arcsaef.com/story/new-an...

🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Say hello to Lady - the warrior puppy. She may be called Lady but she will attack your evil socks and destroy them so they can never cause trouble again.

Also, you are welcome 😁

An all-black baby #TasmanianDevil pops back out into the world.
#fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #TasmanianDevils

Pretty cool to find @charlesdavisphoto.bsky.social here. My favourite photographer. Got lucky and saw an Alpine dingo at the top of Mt Hotham. He looked straight at us and then trotted off. Made my day!

Our research team is hiring a Stream Ecology Research Officer

Just 6 more days to close of applications (12 Jan 2025)

If this sounds like you, please apply!

Full details: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/918927/

A screen grab of the article, reading: Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby (Allen Lane) Zoologist Ashby investigates the wonders displayed – and those locked away – in cabinets around the country, tracing the biases and ideologies inherent in museum collections and considering how they can be unpicked.

Wow wow wow! My upcoming book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums is in the Guardian's list of the biggest #books of the year! 🤩🤩 It comes out in April. They're offering 10% discount on pre-orders.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Monitoring the Common Murre Mass Mortality in Coastal Alaska | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Sentinels of ocean health: counting a climate catastrophe Common murres help us understand the health of Alaska's marine ecosystems – and sound a warning when there is trouble below the waves.

Quantifying the impact of #seabird mortality in the (ongoing) Australian #MarineHeatwave will be harder because virtually all the birds were nocturnal, burrow-nesting #shearwaters (losses at colonies are much less visible) www.fws.gov/project/moni...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Superb parrot! Breeding season is wrapping up and the chicks are at maximum cuteness 🌿🦜

In other skua news, the skua nest beside our main study colony has a very cute chick currently

A Christmas Tree Worm. The bit of worm you can see are the two spiralled branchioles. They are orange and feathery with white inner colouring and black tips. The worm lives in a tube secreted on coral. The coral polyps are beige, small, and tightly packed.

Final day of #NoVERMber and Christmas is looming.
In festive cheer, meet the Christmas Tree Worms Spirobranchus spp.!

This worm started it all for me. I studied their ecology for my undergrad. And the rest is history...

📷 Jean-Paul Cassez

It made my recent visit from Qld very inspiring!

🌊 Ocean currents around Antarctica from our high-resolution (3 km) ocean model. 🧪

#FESOM #SciArt

Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.

Those telling me it was not Albanese’s fault and he really is trying his best.

Please.

Go be deluded elsewhere

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Marine carbon dioxide removal may be a future climate solution - David T Ho, Laurent Bopp, 2024 The ocean has absorbed 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and over 90% of excess heat, mitigating climate change but causing ocean acidification and marine ecos...

🧵 @bopplaurent.bsky.social and I were asked, "Should we think of the ocean as a climate solution?", our immediate reaction was that it's already one. Follow on to see why.

We mainly talk about marine CO₂ removal (mCDR), but some of the intro stuff about the ocean should interest everyone. 🌊1/n

an image made up of 36 rectangles (12 columns horizontally by 3 rows vertically). Each rectangle is a close up of the surface of the the skin or shells of seafloor creatures from Antarctica

Each rectangle is a close up of the surface of the the #skin or #shell of seafloor creatures from #Antarctica!
#colours #nature #marine #benthic

Demography 101: it’s not just the death of billions of adult corals on the Great Barrier Reef that matters.

Fewer breeding adults also means that far, far fewer larvae are produced.

Double whammy: Death rate up, birth rate down.

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