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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · Jun 19

cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙

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

Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature

Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.

www.nature.com

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Jun 15

Do you use spotlighting to find them or another method?

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks Nick, I’ll take a look. I don’t think this is quite what I was thinking of but I guess I’ll find out when I look closer :)

Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Apr 9

Note data are not genetic/microbiome data

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Apr 9

After conducting a PERMANOVA to formally test for differences in animal communities, what is the best/most appropriate way to identify and test what specific species are driving community differences?

Desert salt lake photo for interest

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Apr 4

Are there any good, free online toxin/poison databases that describe toxin/poison classifications, modes of action, etc?

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Mar 3

We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!

nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...

Ecologist

Bush Heritage Australia - Arid Rangelands or Evelyn Downs Reserve, SA

nrmjobs.com.au

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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · Mar 17

Funded PhD project with scholarship at UTas with Menna Jones [email protected] (March 2025) www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Mar 7

theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...

Woolly mice are cute and impressive – but they won’t bring back mammoths or save endangered species

“De-extinction” research is a poor alternative to helping ‘pre-extinction’ animals still alive today.

theconversation.com

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Dr Elen Shute @lonerangifer.bsky.social · Mar 6

Raising the dead ain’t so easy. Saving threatened species, that’s a thing we know how to do!

theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...

Woolly mice are cute and impressive – but they won’t bring back mammoths or save endangered species

“De-extinction” research is a poor alternative to helping ‘pre-extinction’ animals still alive today.

theconversation.com

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · Mar 4

@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been taken to court over her potential failure to protect threatened species. It is good to see public scrutiny if whether the Minister is fulfilling her legal obligation to safeguard these species & could set a precedent for other species.

shorturl.at/Se6AE

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Mar 3

We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!

nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...

Ecologist

Bush Heritage Australia - Arid Rangelands or Evelyn Downs Reserve, SA

nrmjobs.com.au

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Feb 24

Study participants awarded 43% more money to people with whom they shared trivial or random similarities than to people who were different, suggesting that interindividual comparison, not just groupism, underlies discrimination. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Close-up image of a hand preparing to flip a coin. Stock photo.

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Subscribe today so you don't miss out on the edition heading for inboxes first thing tomorrow morning.

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Feb 24

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Managing multiple threats: Evaluating the efficacy of broad-scale introduced predator management in improving native mammal resilience to fire

Preventing further biodiversity loss requires understanding which processes threaten biodiversity and the effectiveness of management actions in mitig…

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Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · Feb 17

For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils

Second generation rat poisons are so potent that they’re banned for home use in Europe and North America. But here, you can pick them up at Bunnings or Coles.

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Jules Farquhar @julesfarquhar.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here’s every mangrove snake occurring in the NT. Found within about 30 minutes of each other during a recent slide around in the Darwin mangroves.

-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)

-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)

-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Feb 4

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs

YouTube video by Nicholas Clark

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Dr Emily Scicluna 🌏 @drdunnart.bsky.social · Feb 3

Fresh publication alert! 🔥
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · Feb 4

Does baiting feral cats, foxes and dingoes work?
Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Feb 3

Yong Foo, Dan Noble and I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com

Have a read.

Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...

Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works

Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?

theconversation.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Feb 3

Yep!

"Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..."

theconversation.com/poison-baits...

Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works

Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?

theconversation.com

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Feb 3

I can't really comment on the abundance or quality of such studies sorry. Our key research questions were separate from this and hence our selection criteria would have excluded many of these studies.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Feb 3

Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?

Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works

theconversation.com

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Feb 3

Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines

Toxic baiting has been widely adopted for the control of exotic canines and felines. However, high variability in findings make it difficult to gauge …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pat Taggart @tagsecology.bsky.social · Feb 3

@danielwanoble.bsky.social

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