'Perhaps one day we will have a government able to grasp the nettle and actually tackle the nature crisis – for the sake of all of us'

Well said Megan Evans Brendan Wintle Hugh Possingham 👏 theconversation.com/threatened-spe…

Being creative - multidisciplinary approaches to measuring biodiversity at scale. Improving what we know about nature & what we have across different land tenure. Massive week trialling new tech....we'll let you know where we land 😆 Dianne Gleeson Sydney Science Engineering Sydney Uni

Massive congratulations Luke Silver for being awarded your PhD!! You should be extra proud of your success after having to go into Coivid lockdowns 3 weeks after you started! Kathy Belov Sydney Science

Back in January, scientists at IMAS rescued 25 critically endangered red handfish from the wild, protecting them from record-high temperatures.

After caring for the handfish, most have now been returned to the sea 🐟 🌊

📸: Jemima Stuart-Smith & Tyson Bessell

Many #GenomeBrowsers only show one #genome assembly at a time. NCBI presents a new visualization tool called the #ComparativeGenomeViewer ( #CGV ) that aids in pairwise comparison of whole-genome eukaryotic assembly-assembly alignments #PLOSBiology plos.io/3QYDtUP

Our early- and mid- career researchers are taking the stage this morning with their fascinating research
Emma Peel from Kathy Belov and Prof Carolyn Hogg group told us about their amphibian 🐸 AMP discovery
#CIPPSbythesea2024

🦚 Early-bird and abstract registration has been extended to May 1st, this Wednesday! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your research with the Australasian genetics community! gsa2024.com/registration

Does conservation work? Our paper by Re:wild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by RSPB Science) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases BirdLife Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This thread provides a great summary of the latest devil facial tumour disease intel.

Q: What could GO WRONG with a major cancer genomics study in which tumours are sequenced to only 15x depth?

A: An awful LOT! 😟

Our detailed reanalysis now out in Royal Society Publishing:
tinyurl.com/RSOSrebuttal

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Talking today at AWS Summit - biodiversity, genomics & our need to reduce impacts of AI tech revolution on nature & climate. Thanks Amazon Web Services for the chance to contribute to the conversation! Wow ICC Sydney is a very big space! Sydney Science Kathy Belov Threatened Species Initiative Earth BioGenome Project

We back federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's proposed rejection of a luxury apartment and marina development at an internationally important wetland near Brisbane.

Martine Maron -“This is absolutely the right decision. Many community members have tirelessly

Amazing job by Simon Ho & colleagues!!

Exciting findings from Simon Ho & Aabid Chowdhury with Australian Museum & global universities!

They combined data from 360+ species & 200 fossils to reconstruct the most well-supported Tree of Life for modern birds.

Published in nature , read more: tinyurl.com/bdzjbsfy

Protect biodiversity to prevent future pandemics. Lessons from an important new study for the World Health Organization (WHO) #PandemicAccord

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Did you know...up to 90% of frog genera have no genomic or transcriptomic data. Here, we assemble the first genomic and transcriptomic resources for the recently described southern stuttering frog (Mixophyes australis).

Read more here
doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

The Albanese government is drifting from its environmental commitments – it’s time for transparency and good faith, Great op ed by Jack Pascoe via The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Human pandemic prevention should start with conserving natural habitat for bats and other wild animals according to new research in Nature Communications .

Dr Alison Peel Griffith University : “We showed that Hendra virus is most likely to pass from bats to horses in places where habitat destruction