Brad Murray
@ecologybrad.bsky.social
Ecology, conservation, evolution. Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.
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Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪
Category 5: Dr Jennifer Matthews
YouTube video by NSW Premier's Department
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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪
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'Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem... @australianmuseum.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social
‘Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research
The sex and age of an animal turn out to be stronger predictors than habitat for higher PFAS levels, suggesting they accumulate over a lifetime.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
'Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem... @australianmuseum.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social
Urban biodiversity: Adult butcherbird feeding young in a street tree nest
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Urban biodiversity: Adult butcherbird feeding young in a street tree nest
So excited to hear that Olivia De La Mare, an MSc student in my research group, has won the 2026 Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence award. Science meets art, well done Liv!
www.bundanon.com.au
www.bundanon.com.au
Bundanon - An art museum embedded in the landscape
Bundanon is a place for research, creativity and connection to living cultures.
www.bundanon.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
So excited to hear that Olivia De La Mare, an MSc student in my research group, has won the 2026 Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence award. Science meets art, well done Liv!
www.bundanon.com.au
www.bundanon.com.au
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Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia
New research awaiting peer review has provided a few revelations about the make-up of South Australia's algal bloom, with a new predominant species — Karenia cristata — identified by scientists. Here's what we know so far.
What is the new species detected in SA's algal bloom?
New research awaiting peer review has provided a few revelations about the make-up of South Australia's algal bloom, with a new predominant species — Karenia cristata — identified by scientists. Here's what we know so far.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia
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🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥
This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥
This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
Nice to see this research about naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats published, I'm one of the many co-authors who contributed neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1511...
A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats
Global databases have contributed to our understanding of alien, naturalised and invasive plant species distributions. Still, the role of species invasions in habitats, specifically in aquatic habitat...
neobiota.pensoft.net
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Nice to see this research about naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats published, I'm one of the many co-authors who contributed neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1511...
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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?"
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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 🌿
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🐝🌸 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?"
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
🐝🌸 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?"
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"
Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!
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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!)
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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!)
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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
I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators
🌸🐝🌼🪰🪻🦋
#STEMEducation
#Pollination
August 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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
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
July 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch
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🔥🌱 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...
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...
July 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🔥🌱 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...
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...
Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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...
Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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🔥🌱 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...
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...
July 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🔥🌱 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...
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...
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🚀 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
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
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www.biogeographyuts.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
🚀 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
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
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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...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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 ...
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.
🔥🌱From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches🌱🔥
Moisture loss rate drives the species-specific sensitivity of shoot flammability to water status
By @azajmahmud.bsky.social , Nursema Aktepe, @schwilk.org ilk.orgdoi.org/10.1002/ajb2...52
Moisture loss rate drives the species-specific sensitivity of shoot flammability to water status
By @azajmahmud.bsky.social , Nursema Aktepe, @schwilk.org ilk.orgdoi.org/10.1002/ajb2...52
May 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.
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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
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
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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
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
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🔥🌱 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
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
May 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🔥🌱 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
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
May 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social, UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution
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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/...
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/...
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...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝
May 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝