Tag Archives: Australia

Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

‘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 →

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Changing patterns in plant invastions—Qaecologists unlock the power of the 21st century herbarium

Posted on August 28, 2015 by

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 →

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Australia’s favourite eucalypt

Posted on March 13, 2014 by

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 →

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Recent Qaecologist blog posts (May 2013, Weeks 3 & 4)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

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 →

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It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

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 →

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What could be wrong with transparent conservation decision-making?

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

By Michael Bode (This article first appeared in the Spring 2013 newsletter of the Resource Modelling Association. The newsletter and society journal – Natural Resource Modelling – contain some great articles on modelling that contains both biological and economic processes). There is a … Continue reading →

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Recent Qaecologist blog posts (Feb 2013, Weeks 1 & 2)

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

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 →

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