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Tom Le Breton

@tomlebreton.bsky.social
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Postdoc working on fire management in threatened ecosystems and conservation of threatened plant species. Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A good summary from @deepcutnews.bsky.social of the misinformation doing the rounds in the media almost immediately following the mass shooting
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Misinformation runs rampant as Bondi mourns
Unfounded accusations spreading online have linked the attack to Iran, Hezbollah, Trump and Mossad
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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Happy to share my new publication in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415.... Vegetation spillovers from Aus protected areas are common & widespread; also, management inside the area can affect vegetation outside the area. Spillovers don't factor much into conservation policy, but perhaps they should! 🧪🌍🌐
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Protected area management has significant spillover effects on vegetation - Nature
Analysis of effect sizes of vegetation spillovers from protected areas in Australia shows that 71% of over 3,063 analysed protected areas had a positive spillover effect, and that these effects c...
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
On unethical editorial practice at STOTEN - Science of the Total Environmental- and how this has ultimately led to delisting at Clarivate. english.elpais.com/science-tech... #academia #academicchatter
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing | Science | EL PAÍS English
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024
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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos, @ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Mechanisms Through Which Fire Drives Population Change in Terrestrial Biota
Understanding the mechanisms through which fire influences populations is necessary to protect species from fire regime change. We develop a cross-taxa framework that identifies mechanisms through wh...
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions. Katus shortfall- the unknown loss of biodiversity past, present and future is broader than ‘dark extinction’- species becoming extinct before being formally described nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
National climate change risk assessment for #Australia’s natural ecosystems tech reports are online: We report Australia’s natural ecosystems are highly exposed & vulnerable to climate change across the land and sea. 1/🧵
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29 Natural Ecosystems Technical Report: Synthesis
This assessment found Australia’s natural environment is highly exposed and vulnerable to climate change. The projected change is outside the conditions to which most native species have adapted.
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Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱 Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes" 📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025. 🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C... #Fire #Botany #Plantscience
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UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences @unswbees.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr Chantelle Doyle @saltandbrine.bsky.social - joining ABC's Top5 Science program for 2025 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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TOP 5 2025: WINNERS - ABC listen
The ABC is pleased to introduce the 2025 winners in Science, Humanities and Arts Top5 programs.The successful applicants will spend two weeks in residence at ABC Radio National.
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Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hugely excited for our work on the Nullarbor Caves to be featured on the ever excellent First Dog on the Moon. Oh yeah... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Did you know that there are huge caves full of weirdy bugs and ancient life right under the Nullarbor desert? | First Dog on the Moon
We simply don’t know even a fraction of what is in them
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Tom Fairman @itsnotfairman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I've been banging on about this issue - immature alpine ash, fire and seed - for years so it was great to get a chance to contribute to this ABC Landline story about it. "A 'time bomb' in the state's ash forests" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Alpine forests face collapse without urgent reforestation, say scientists
Bushfires and a lack of seed have created a "ticking time bomb" in Victoria's alpine and mountain ash forests, scientists are warning.
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Mark Ooi @markooiecol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Finite resources, lots of species requiring conservation. @saltandbrine.bsky.social asks the question - how far do we go for each plant species? A simple question generating deep thought! #ICCB2025
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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
There's "a false perception that Labor values the environment movement & its endorsement. In reality, Labor only wants to neutralise it. [..] They want to be able to name-drop supportive organisations in press conferences, but they’re far less willing to adopt those same groups’ policy proposals"
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When nice isn’t working: Rethinking climate advocacy under a Labor government — campaign-republic.com
After Labor’s recent election win, many in the climate and environment space breathed a sigh of relief. The Coalition and its nuclear fantasy were resoundingly rejected. In its place, a government tha...
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Tom Le Breton @tomlebreton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Tom Le Breton @tomlebreton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Varroa mite arriving in Australia has been a big worry for agriculture and bee keeping but it will also result in a massive decline in feral honeybee populations. This will affect many native plant species visited by honeybees, our new paper aimed to understand what those effects might be 1/5
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed. This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
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Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are
The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests
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Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
10 = The officially recognised number of #extinct Australian #invertebrates. We show the actual number is likely much higher, 9,000+ species. AND 1-3 invertebrate species are being lost each week. This level of loss is not sustainable. This is a wake up call 🌍🧪 theconversation.com/around-9-000...
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Around 9,000 species have already gone extinct in Australia and we’ll likely lose another this week – new study
A new study estimates there have been more than 9,000 Australian invertebrate extinctions since 1788. Only one has been officially listed.
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Tom Le Breton @tomlebreton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thanks to everyone who came, if you still have questions or just want to chat and see me around #ESAus2024 come say hi.
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Shyam PHARTYAL; First-Gen MS/PhD; Seed Ecologist 🌱 @shyamphartyal.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Overcoming Major Barriers in Seed Ecology Research in Developing Countries | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core doi:10.1017/S0960258523000181
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Tom Le Breton @tomlebreton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New paper out in Conservation Biology. We propose a simple conceptual model for examining threat management programs and identifying areas for improvement. We show how it can be used in the context of managing fire around threatened flora. 1/4 dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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Conceptual model for assessing a science–policy–management framework for threat mitigation
Fire regimes are changing globally, leading to an increased need for management interventions to protect human lives and interests, potentially conflicting with biodiversity conservation. We conceptu...
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Don A. Driscoll @dadriscoll.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏 The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic... The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q
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‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire
Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.
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