Posts from qaecologists- Linking species distribution models with structured expert elicitation for prediction of management effects November 11, 2020
- New paper: Connectivity over a disease risk gradient enables recovery of rainforest frogs November 3, 2020
- Projecting future deaths from COVID-19 cases October 30, 2020
- COVID-19 dynamics October 20, 2020
- Discover the beauties (and oddities) of the avian world, rate some birds and help science September 28, 2020
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Virtual #ISEC2020 June 22, 2020 Michael McCarthy
- QAECO’s favourite papers of 2018 April 12, 2019 qaecology
- What is HPC and why would I use it? April 4, 2019 qaecology
- Kickstarting the year with HGAMs February 25, 2019 qaecology
- Philosophical discussions in the lab: Žižek criticises ideological ecology June 5, 2018 qaecology
Tag Archives: Australia
Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets
‘Publish or perish’. The overused phrase describing career aspects in today’s academia. Whereas day-to-day work is rarely quite as grim, we all learn early on that our performance as scientists is very much measured by the number of publications, citations, … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Group
Tagged Australia, competition, metrics, misconduct, science, scientific rigour
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Changing patterns in plant invastions—Qaecologists unlock the power of the 21st century herbarium
Herbaria are more relevant than ever. Led by Aaron Dodd, Qaecologists and friends used 3 million specimen in the ‘virtual’ herbarium at the Atlas of Living Australia to study a 4 billion dollar national problem: invasive plants. You won’t believe what they … Continue reading
Australia’s favourite eucalypt
Voting closed on Monday 24 March at 11:40 p.m. Congratulations to Mountain Ash; regnans in excelsis. E. regnans reigns on high. Snow Gum E. pauciflora won silver, and it was bronze for Ghost Gum C. aparrerinja. Honourable mentions go to … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Polls
Tagged Angophora, Australia, Corymbia, Eucalypts, Eucalyptus, poll, vote
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Recent Qaecologist blog posts (May 2013, Weeks 3 & 4)
Another fortnight has gone by in the QAECO lab and there is another smorgasbord of science writing for us all to feast on. QAECO PhD student Sana Bau is conducting a study on technical information and conservation decisions and is looking for … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Conservation, News
Tagged Australia, Biodiversity, conservation, Environment, National Park, victoria
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It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks
This post was originally published on The Conversation and is authored by Euan Ritchie, William Laurance, Corey Bradshaw (re-blogged on his site), David Watson, Emma Johnston, Hugh Possingham, Ian Lunt and QAECO’s Mick McCarthy (re-blogged on his site too). It arose from a … Continue reading
Recent Qaecologist blog posts (Feb 2013, Weeks 1 & 2)
Blogging is now a big part of the QAECO lab. New blog posts by members of the lab are coming out almost on a daily basis. You can always find the latest posts in the sidebar of the lab website, but in … Continue reading
Posted in Qaecologists
Tagged Antarctica, Australia, Big Desert, Conservation Biology, New Zealand, PADDD, Ross Island, salix, wildlife photography
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On triage, public values and informed debate: trade-offs around extinction
By Mick McCarthy & Hugh Possingham (This article was first published in the November 2012 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group, and is a modified version of a discussion that appeared recently on the website The Conversation) At … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point
Tagged Australia, conservation triage, Hugh Possingham, Kimberley, Mick McCarthy, Threatened species
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Whereto for early to mid-career researchers: A Qaecologist reports from Canberra
Pia Lentini, a post-doc in the QAECO lab, attended the Early-Mid Career Researchers Forum, Science pathways: getting science on the national agenda held this week in Canberra. She reports on her experience in a triology of blog posts titled Young Australian Scientist … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, post-docs
Tagged ARC, Australia, careers, Early Career Researchers, research, science, Women in science
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