Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 29/11/2025🚨 🦎 New paper out exploring shingleback lizard movement ecology and habitat selection in a fragmented agricultural landscape 🌳 Main takeaway: retaining small patches of native vegetation is crucial to provide habitat and maintain landscape connectivity link.springer.com/article/10.1... 011
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 07/10/2025🚨 New research 🦉 Using citizen science data, we created a regional SDM for the cryptic sooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa). We then used field surveys and occupancy modelling to validate the SDM. 🌳 We discuss factors driving habitat suitability and conservation implications for this apex predatorpublish.csiro.auDeveloping a regional species distribution model and validating with independent survey data: a case study of an avian apex predator, the greater sooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa)Context Comprehensive understanding of the distribution and habitat requirements of wildlife species is crucial for the development of effective conservation strategies. For cryptic predators, such as... 061
Reposted by Dylan WestawayTerry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Areas of ocean that are cooler than average are shown in BLUE. 23412
Reposted by Dylan WestawayElla Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Is there a potential to strengthen ecological processes as a way to restore fire regimes? 🔥 🔥 New Paper Out! 🔥 🔥 @adrianregos.bsky.social @bakxbakx.bsky.social @fmoreira65.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social and our other co-authors explore this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 42513
Reposted by Dylan WestawayGrant Linley @glinley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I am happy to share my final PhD chapter in @oikosjournal.bsky.social The 2019–20 wildfires altered vegetation structure yet had little effect on most species’ relative abundance. However, several species shifted their diel activity in burnt landscapes. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #FireEcology 1116
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 09/05/2025link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comGenome-wide diversity and MHC characterisation in a critically endangered freshwater turtle susceptible to disease - ImmunogeneticsSmall, isolated populations are often vulnerable to increased inbreeding and genetic drift, both of which elevate the risk of extinction. The Bellinger River turtle (Myuchelys georgesi) is a criticall... 020
Reposted by Dylan WestawayPauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Mr Dutton appears to have very little understanding of the broad functioning of the CSIRO and its achievements. WiFi anyone? www.csiro.au/en/research/...csiro.auBringing WiFi to the worldWe invented and patented wireless local area network (WLAN) in the 1990s – a technology that has given us the freedom to work wirelessly in our homes and offices. 062
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Some pics from helping Josh Fastuca, set up field sites for his honours research. Josh will be using a variety of methods to assess the effect of cats, foxes and rabbits on herpetofauna. Carrying around tin and tiles brought back repressed memories from my PhD 😆 Excited to see what Josh finds! 190
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 15/03/2025🚨 New research out today from my PhD exploring population genetics of 3 lizard species across fragmented and continuous habitat. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 0115
Reposted by Dylan WestawayCam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025An important bit of detail in this story: “They also lower the intensity of bushfires by burying leaves & branches that fuel fires, thereby shaping whole ecosystems.” 26734
Reposted by Dylan WestawayMichael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025“South Australian scientists have demonstrated a clear link between the proximity of native vegetation (which attracts pollinators) and higher crop yields, showing why widespread clearance of native vegetation is not a good idea.” theaimn.net/dont-clear-n...theaimn.netDon’t clear native vegetation if you want high crop yieldsSouth Australian ecologists have provided irrevocable proof why native vegetation is critical for healthy crop yield. 8271122
Reposted by Dylan WestawayOur Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 31/01/2025🚨 EXPOSED: The Truth About Regenerative Grazing 🚨 Environmental experts @jennifermolidor.bsky.social and Ashley Capps reveal why this "sustainable" beef trend is pure greenwashing. Must-listen episode with @jasminsinger.com & @marisul.bsky.social! 🎧 ourhenhouse.org/ep786 1194
Reposted by Dylan WestawayDavid Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Accused by a whistleblower of covering up an oil spill that killed dolphins and sea snakes, Santos get fined just $10k 🤯 Santos spends up to $US3.3m per year on a private jet for their executives so I don’t think AUD10k is going to hurt them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...abc.net.auGas giant Santos fined $10,000 for 25,000-litre oil spill off Pilbara coastThe energy giant has pleaded guilty to causing an oil spill in 2022, that leaked 25,000 litres of oil off WA's north-west coast. Santos will pay a $10,000 fine and $9,700 in court costs for failing to... 75805321
Reposted by Dylan WestawayLizardGuy @lizardguy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Here's my #EmotionalSupportSpood, a Pellenes bitaeniata from the north-west slopes of NSW Australia. #Spiders #OzNature #Cute #Salticidae 313028
Reposted by Dylan WestawayHarry Moore @harryymoore.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I've recently been trialling some thermal binoculars to help with creature tracking. Pretty impressed so far, picking up lots of things that are often tough to get eye shine out of, like this chuditch (western quoll) #WildOz 2257
Reposted by Dylan WestawayHarry Moore @harryymoore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025One of the best things about Perth is that you can normally order an oat flat white <150m from a weedy seadragon #WildOz 2232
Reposted by Dylan WestawayJens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Restored vs Near-natural #wetlands: lower plant diversity incl rare species - but #grazing had positive effect as did available species pool size, prior presence of near-natural habitat & restored #hydrology; high soil Fe+N had negative effects🌿🐂💦 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlandsRestoration of plant diversity in wetlands is challenging, but our results point to potential remedies: plan restoration areas near colonisation sources of the target biota, restore hydrology to near... 16521
Reposted by Dylan WestawayUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 30/12/2024#YearInReview: Animal agriculture harms the environment and is a major driver of the climate crisis. Novel meat & dairy alternatives can provide more sustainable ways for humanity to source its protein, according to a UNEP report issued earlier this year: www.unep.org/resources/wh... 14417
Reposted by Dylan WestawayKelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...zamudiolab.orgPost-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogsWe are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie… 25181
Reposted by Dylan WestawayDr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Wildlife restoration in fragmented agricultural landscapes: trialling wild-to-wild translocation with two common reptiles #ESAus2024 0134
Reposted by Dylan WestawayDr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Dylan Westaway’s PhD work w/ @biodiversityguy.bsky.social, finding 84% survival rate of translocated dragon lizards to isolated habitat patches in highly fragmented landscapes. And no sign of ⬆️ post-translocation movement rate. Hope for ⬆️ resilience of our rad reptiles❤️. So good! #ESAus2024 0297
Reposted by Dylan WestawayDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Overall, the global food system does more damage to the planet than anything else we do, even burning fossil fuels. drawdown.org/insights/how...drawdown.orgHow food and farming will determine the fate of planet EarthAgriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm an... 1430099
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 24/11/20241 of 6 reticulated pythons (Malayopython reticulatus) we saw taking advantage of the smorgasbord of bats roosting in this Balinese cave 0135
Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Some holiday herping in Bali: - Sunda king cobra (Ophiophagus bungarus) - White-lipped put viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) - Mangrove cat snake (Boiga dendrophila) - Oriental vine snake (Ahaetulla prasina) 040
Reposted by Dylan WestawayDavid Chapple @chapplelab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Our new paper, led by PhD student Luke Bonifacio, demonstrating that the Data Deficient Ravensthorpe Range slider qualifies for listing as Critically Endangered. @monashbiol.bsky.social. www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24048publish.csiro.auA noodle in a haystack: determining the conservation status of the rare and Data Deficient Ravensthorpe Range slider, Lerista viduataContext One-seventh of the ~157,000 species assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are Data Deficient (DD), with insufficient information to assess their extinction risk. Such a statistic... 31911
Reposted by Dylan WestawayAndrea Shaw @shaws-light.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Roadrunner with a copperhead snake. Creepy, yet cool at the same time. #wildlife #birds #texas 1132533