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Marian Turner

@marianlturner.bsky.social
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Senior Editor, Nature Ecology & Evolution. Melbourne/Naarm.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 06/01/2026
Fine-scale field analysis and modelling of the spatial dynamics of infection of Darwin’s frogs with Bd fungus identifies highly localized transmission dynamics that generate clustered epidemics and can drive collapse of local subpopulations 🧪🐸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Localized transmission of an aquatic pathogen drives hidden epidemics and population collapse in a terrestrial host - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Fine-scale field analysis and modelling of the spatial dynamics of infection of Darwin’s frogs with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus identifies highly localized transmission dynamics that generat...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 07/01/2026
Read the accompanying commentary from Gabriel Maturani Barrile 👇 "Hidden outbreaks in an amphibian pandemic" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eXWAQ
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Hidden outbreaks in an amphibian pandemic - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Zooming in at fine spatial scales reveals that pathogens spread through close contact can produce striking variation in infection rates among groups of host animals just metres apart, which drives hid...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 19/11/2025
New Comment: A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 25/11/2025
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 27/11/2025
New Worldview 👇 "Cultivate your empathy" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Catherine Lovelock argues that empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes Free to read: rdcu.be/eR1J2
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Cultivate your empathy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Empathy is helpful when integrating Indigenous and Western science, which in turn can lead to beneficial environmental and social outcomes
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Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 08/10/2025
Our October issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧪 💧Wetland carbon sequestration 🌊Starfish diversity in the deep sea 🧬Genetic architecture of reproductive success Cover shows a colony of king penguins, from Carter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the October issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing a colony of king penguins. The headline reads "Antarctic challenges"
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Delighted to send this @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... to the authors of this paper today www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Long-beaked echidnas? Yes please! A cartoon for people who cannot bear any more news about anything dreadful | First Dog on the Moon
Let the echidna discourse begin!
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I'm heading to #ICCB2025 tomorrow. Happy to chat about @natecoevo.nature.com so please seek me out!
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Proud of my brother Lincoln who has sought for years to shine spotlight on Monash and Woodside, and is quoted in this (and championing academic freedom of speech)
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
An exclusive academic conference held in Prato, Italy, last year -- organised in partnership between Monash University and Woodside -- has become the latest flashpoint for staff concerned about its relationship to Australia's biggest fossil fuel producer. This from me in The Guardian.
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Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership
Senior lecturer says university staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 10/06/2025
Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧬Airborne eDNA 💰Costs of biological invasions 🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 24/04/2025
A series of recent investigative reports in the New York Times have criticized global panda breeding programmes. Here, Yang et al. clarify three misconceptions and argue that the reporting misrepresents the breeding programme and its conservation effects 🐼 rdcu.be/ei9aM
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Global breeding programme benefits wild panda conservation
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Global breeding programme benefits wild panda conservation
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 25/04/2025
Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect species richness and community composition www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spillovers and legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect specie...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
With this column today, I learn that Robin McKie is stepping down as science correspondent for The Observer. It's impossible to overstate how legendary Robin is, and this column, with its solid defence of science and celebration of its wonder, is typically astute. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor
Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world
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Gareth J. Williams @remotereefs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority. A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of. My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd
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Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projec...
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program. The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.
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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 03/03/2025
In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s hard to celebrate public schools gaining full funding. Its hard because kids now in kindergarten must wait till Year 10 before their education is fully supported. Its also hard when most private schools remain overfunded. Its hard to celebrate inequality. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW public schools to be fully funded by 2034, leaving Queensland as only state outside deal
Commonwealth will pay for a quarter of public school funding, up from a fifth, replicating an agreement reached with South Australia and Victoria last month
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 28/02/2025
Dean Karlan, USAID's chief economist, has resigned and gives his story to NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/02/2025
We are often told that we need to keep exporting gas to places like Japan, or risk a geopolitical disaster. Dr Yuki Tanabe explains to the #ClimateIntegrity Summit why Japan doesn't need Australia's gas.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 07/02/2025
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
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Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What could you do with $13,000? Is every Australian, adult and child, feel comfortable that they are sending, on average, over $13,000 of their money to the USA for some submarines. We had two in the First World War, AE1 and AE2, they did nothing, and brave Australian submariners died.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If you want to know what the hell is happening in Germany atm, this is an excellent summary. 👇
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A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany | Jörg Lau
The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible says Die Zeit writer, Jörg Lau
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 15/01/2025
Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂. Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
Two birds of different species looking at each other from different sides of a river
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Join our news team as a science reporter based in Berlin or Sydney! Applications close January 20th👇🏻 Please help spread the word @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Also from Emily Nicholson and colleagues on the role of the Red List of Ecosystems in the KM-GBF #ESAus2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Roles of the Red List of Ecosystems in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The Red List of Ecosystems is a headline indicator in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This Progress illustrates how the Red List of Ecosystems can be used by Parties to the Framewo...
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
For a primer on the KM-GBF monitoring framework that Emily Nicholson just discussed at #ESAus2024, see www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective charts the development of the Monitoring Framework for tracking progress towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including details on the process of indicator sele...
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Marian Turner @marianlturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm really looking forward to attending #ESAus2024 next week. I'll be cycling in through Royal Park every morning. Happy to chat about @natureecoevo.bsky.social so please say hi.
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