Ecology is not a dirty word

Bogong moths have been in the news the last few weeks.

A common argument for ‘ethical’ use of GenAI in academic research and practice is that it’s okay to use these tools to write the final product that you claim authorship for, i.e. drafting, editing or translating sections of a journal… Continue reading →

I’ve written here and here about how the flawed windscreen phenomenon is not scientifically testable.

Generative AI tools are openly accessible, increasingly normalised, and mostly inequitable.

I’ve missed writing.

Saunders, Lees, Grames (2025) Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss Science denial is one of the greatest threats to humanity.

New paper published in Austral Ecology: Rapid on-ground assessment after the 2019–2020 megafires reveals new information on rare and threatened plants in northern New South Wales, Australia Back in 2020 we won a grant from the Commonwealth Government Bush…

There are many reasons that academics may unexpectedly find themselves at a research career crossroads.

AI is here (and has been for a while).

At the end of 2022, we all thought Twitter (now called X) was about to break.

In a fitting end to the ridiculous year of misinformation that it was, this fake news story on spiders being attracted to a particular brand of body butter caught my eye.