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Brad Murray

@ecologybrad.bsky.social
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Ecology, conservation, evolution. Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
With all of the bad stuff in the world currently, including in science, it was great to chat to @virginiagewin.bsky.social for @nature.com about a good day in science. For me, it's burning a new species on our plant BBQ. Even better when it is done with school kids! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Best. Day. Ever. What does a good day in science look like?
Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
One of my favourites, Pimelea linifolia from the lower Blue Mountains (NSW Australia)
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Aaron Greenville @aarongreenville.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…
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PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change
Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and nutrient addition, and in-turn, quantify the loss of ecosystem function resulting from species turnover. Further, this project will identify species that contribute the most to function.
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Wildfire research focuses on beech forests Here's what PhD student Georgia Stevenson has been up to... @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social www.bioeconomyscience.co.nz/news-and-eve...
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Wildfire research focuses on beech forests | Bioeconomy Science Institute
New wildfire research is putting the litter bed flammability of New Zealand’s beech forests under the microscope.
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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New #FireEcology article 🚨 "Moisture content ranges in live Eucalyptus leaves vary among species and strongly affect ignitability" by William McNeice, Anne Griebel, Daniel W. Krix, Brad R. Murray, Matthias M. Boer, Brendan Choat, and Rachael H. Nolan #SNFECO 🔥Read it here: ow.ly/e5CB50YbQBM
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Liv De La Mare @oliviadelamare.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My article for the 2025 AWS Wildlife Ecology Research Scholarship is now available to read in the summer ‘26 magazine! I’m extremely grateful for the support the Australia Wildlife Society has provided for my project. Grab a copy here: www.aws.org.au/magazine/
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Are green firebreaks a useful fire management tool under climate change in southeastern Australia? TLDR: yes, in many scenarios, especially when used in conjunction with other fire mitigation measures by @ericamarshall.bsky.social @trentpenman.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Are green firebreaks a useful fire management tool under climate change in southeastern Australia?
Fire management under changing climatic conditions presents several challenges, including the need to manage fire regimes for multiple objectives, suc…
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
More than 100,000 reads so far. Thank you everyone for engaging with our article and this vitally important conservation issue.
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Alex Slavenko @alexsla.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
An excellent and thorough rebuttal of the extremely flawed paper by Wallach & Lundgren (2025). 🧪🌏
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Cats and foxes did it. Leading Scientists refute "Invasive Species Denialism", reaffirming introduced predators as a major cause of mammal extinctions. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/leading...
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Cats and foxes did it. Leading Scientists refute “Invasive Species Denialism,” reaffirming introduced predators as a major cause of mammal extinctions | Biodiversity Council Australia
25 leading conservation scientists, ecologists, and mammal experts refute the controversial claim that there is "little evidence" that introduced cats and foxes have caused extinctions in Australia.
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BEAM | Ngura Nandamari @beamuts.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thrilled to see our latest research featured in @theguardian.com @australianmuseum.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @coorongdan.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social
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Liv De La Mare @oliviadelamare.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This week I had my first opportunity to present my research at the Ecological Society of Australia’s conference poster session! A great opportunity and already looking forward to next year. #esa2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪
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Category 5: Dr Jennifer Matthews
YouTube video by NSW Premier's Department
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BEAM | Ngura Nandamari @beamuts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
'Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem... @australianmuseum.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social
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‘Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research
The sex and age of an animal turn out to be stronger predictors than habitat for higher PFAS levels, suggesting they accumulate over a lifetime.
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Urban biodiversity: Adult butcherbird feeding young in a street tree nest
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
So excited to hear that Olivia De La Mare, an MSc student in my research group, has won the 2026 Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence award. Science meets art, well done Liv! www.bundanon.com.au
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Bundanon - An art museum embedded in the landscape
Bundanon is a place for research, creativity and connection to living cultures.
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James Hitchcock @jameshitchcock.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The final version is now available #AmJBot bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live‐leaf flammability in plant species of fire‐prone forests
Premise The flammability of live leaves in canopies varies considerably among plant species. Identifying macroevolutionary processes that shape variation in leaf flammability contributes to an under.....
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥 This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
Prescribed ecological burn conducted at Como in southeastern Queensland, Australia. Fires were implemented in either autumn or winter, and obligate seeding species were subsequently monitored over time to see if recovery differed with fire seasonality. The work was undertaken as a joint collaboration between the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Queensland Parks and Wildlife and HQ Plantations. (Photo credit: Mark Ooi.)
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Nice to see this research about naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats published, I'm one of the many co-authors who contributed neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1511...
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A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats
Global databases have contributed to our understanding of alien, naturalised and invasive plant species distributions. Still, the role of species invasions in habitats, specifically in aquatic habitat...
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Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to @zoexiro.bsky.social and @ecologybrad.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk 🌿
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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect. Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!
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Zoe Xirocostas @zoexiro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Spent the past month in Greece 🇬🇷 on holiday and visiting family. But surprised to see so many reminders of Aus (Eucalypts) planted on so many islands! (could they be contributing to the wildfires Greece is being ravaged by? So many questions!)
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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'm still buzzing after an amazing day at the Sydney Science Trail, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan! #NationalScienceWeek I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators 🌸🐝🌼🪰🪻🦋 #STEMEducation #Pollination
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Fight fire with food #forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart #agroforestry systems By Ashley Pacheco, Hannah Goodman et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Study co-authors Hannah Goodman, Lexi Hankenson, and Dr. Deborah Apgaua (left to right) demonstrate the plant flammability testing apparatus, showing how samples are burnt.
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and @zoexiro.bsky.social on our latest flammability project Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests @botsocamerica.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone #forests By @ecologybrad.bsky.social, @zoexiro.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
A fire in dry sclerophyll forest in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia).
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Frédérik Saltré @fredsaltre.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚀 We’re live! The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab @UTS finally has a website! 🎉 🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org #Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science @ecologybrad.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social
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Home | BEAM
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Geochemical proof that Aboriginal Australians have been changing landscape-scale fire regimes (cooler, less-intense fires) for at least 11,000 years, and probably much longer doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs - Nature Geoscience
A shift towards more-frequent, less-intense fires in Australia began about 11,000 years ago due to management by Indigenous societies, according to charcoal and stable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ...
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 27/05/2025
Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.
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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 This year's theme, "Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all", highlights the critical roles bees and other pollinators play in agrifood systems and ecosystem health. Here's a Lipotriches bee buzz-pollinating a Dianella flower (Wangal land). #worldbeeday #ozpollinators
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
 Illustration of methods used to assessed fuel characteristics (moisture, architecture, chemistry and mass) across a range of scales from individual plant organs or excised parts to communities and landscapes. Remote sensing, field measurements, and laboratory work are each suited to assessment of fuel characteristics at different but overlapping portions of this range, thereby creating opportunities to synthesize the “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to understanding flammability. Art drawn by by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social, UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Very excited to see this paper out! Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies
Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fire–vegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representat...
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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Fascinating article in The Conversation by UTS marine ecologists Shauna Murray and Greta Gaiani: Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches theconversation.com/mystery-solv...
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Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.
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Zoe Xirocostas @zoexiro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Excited to be attending Science Meets Parliament 2025 in Canberra. Kicked off this morning with insights from Bill Shorten around R&D investment and amplifying science within government policy #SMP2025
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
At the National Maritime Museum.
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Such inspiring ecological research on plant flammability now being used to help reduce wildfire impacts. Great work Tim!
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
UTS’s pollination ecologist extraordinaire at ESA 2024, fantastic research Yvonne!
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great to see UTS’s Jonathan Webb presenting his incredible long-term reptile conservation research at #ESAus2024
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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thysanotus tuberosus (Asparagaceae), common fringe-lily, spotted on my walk today.
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