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Solving important #conservation problems around the world in partnership with #scientists, governments, NGOs, and industry

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✨ Job opportunity! ✨

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is hiring a Director, Conservation Science.

More information here:

dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

08.03.2026 01:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TOP 5 – ABC Media Residency Program - ABC listen The ABC TOP 5 program is tailored for early-career researchers. Program graduates are equipped with career-long skills, knowledge and confidence to communicate with media and their audiences about the...

Applications for the 2026 ABC TOP 5 media residency are open. The media residencies in Science, Arts & Humanities give 15 early career PhD scholars the chance to spend two weeks with some of the ABC’s leading journalists and producers.

Learn more: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

08.03.2026 00:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friends of Biodiversity - Faculty of Science - University of Queensland

Have you joined our latest initiative, Friends of Biodiversity?

Get involved if you're passionate about solving Australia's biodiversity crisis and interested in attending related talks, workshops, and citizen science opportunities.

science.uq.edu.au/community/fr...

Register: ems.gs/3iGO0ledsts

08.03.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Science communication and media training to increase impact

✨ We are now offering our Sci-comm and Media workshop online ✨

Join Dr Christina N. Zdenek (BirdLife Australia and Australian Reptile Academy) and Jaana Dielenberg (Biodiversity Council) in this one-day, practical workshop.

Register here:
cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/events-and-s...

08.03.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Jeanette Williams for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

08.03.2026 00:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Australia’s harmful fossil fuel approvals

CBCS's Hannah Thomas led a Letter published in Science, alongside Hugh Possingham, Carissa Klein, James Watson and Michelle Ward, addressing Australia's harmful fossil fuel approvals.

Read the full Letter here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

24.02.2026 03:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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CBCS is proud to introduce a brand new initiative... Friends of Biodiversity! 🦜

The initiative offers events, citizen science and volunteer opportunities, plus lifelong learning through talks, workshops and articles.

Interested in joining? Register your interest here: ems.gs/3iGO0ledsts

24.02.2026 03:10 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Thank you to Dr. Oren Kolodny for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

18.02.2026 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Science communication and media training to increase impact

Are you ready to take your science communication or media engagement to the next level? Do you want to gain the skills and confidence to share your work through the media to increase the impact of your work?

Register here:

cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/science-comm...

17.02.2026 23:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CBCS's newly established Friends of Biodiversity initiative is hosting its first event! 🦜🌳

Join us for a screening of Flyways, an inspiring documentary about Australia's migratory shorebirds, followed by a bird walk led by Professor Richard Fuller.

Register: app4.vision6.com.au/forms/s/XDMq...

17.02.2026 23:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Biodiversity-harmful subsidies in Australia As a signatory to the Global Biodiversity Framework, Australia has committed to eliminate or reform biodiversity-harmful subsidies but has not yet initiated any relevant action. We present a prelim...

Paul Elton, a PhD candidate with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU and co-supervised by CBCS's Martine Maron, has published new research revealing Australia spends at least $26.3 billion annually on government subsidies that harm biodiversity.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.02.2026 23:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CBCS is proud to introduce a brand new initiative... Friends of Biodiversity! 🦜

The initiative offers events, citizen science and volunteer opportunities, plus lifelong learning through talks, workshops and articles.

Interested in joining? Register your interest here: ems.gs/3iGO0ledsts

16.02.2026 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TEDxUQ 2026 Buy Tickets on Humanitix - TEDxUQ 2026 hosted by TEDxUQ. Advanced Engineering Building, Advanced Engineering Building, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia. Saturday 14th March 2026. Find event information.

We are happy to share that TEDxUQ 2026 is back again! This year, they will be having Dr. Christopher Lawson, a postdoctoral research fellow within CBCS, speaking at their event.

Grab a ticket to support Chris here:

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15.02.2026 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Director's Update - January 2026 | TERN Australia Director's Update - January 2026. Click here to learn more.

📰 The first Director's Update of 2026 is now available! Read about the impact of #extremeweather on our field #infrastructure, a retrospective look at long-term TERN participant Professor Wayne Meyer, joining our #webinar, and more.

Read the full update: www.tern.org.au/news/directo...

02.02.2026 23:29 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2026 Summer R Workshops @ UQ – R Workshops @ UQ

Are you ready to embark on your journey into the world of R and statistical analysis? Registrations are now open. For more information, see our website mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/su...

For any questions, email cbcs-workshops@uq.edu.au

03.02.2026 08:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ocean dynamics of Aldabra Atoll Primary Supervisor: Noam Vogt-Vincent

The ILESLA Programme at the University of Oxford is offering a PhD on the oceanography of Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles.

Applications close Thursday 8 January 2026. More information, including how to apply, is here: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/ocean-dynami...

03.12.2025 05:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

JAMSTEC/Tohoku University, Japan, is offering 10 postdoc opportunities.

You should hold a PhD in a related field by the effective date of employment, and in addition be no more than 5 years post-PhD. Applications close 21 December 2025: www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/de...

03.12.2025 05:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Dr Nikki Sims-Chilton for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

03.12.2025 05:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CR2026_09: Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species at Swansea University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - CR2026_09: Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species at Swansea University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe University and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology are offering a funded PhD opportunity on “Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species”.

Applications close Monday 12 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

30.11.2025 23:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cute little spikey echidnas have massive poos! The size of a go card! The 💩 can also be detected by dogs. Let's turn 💩 into conservation solutions. Great talk by Kate Dutton-Regester at @uq-cbcs.bsky.social @brisbanetimes.bsky.social @qld.greens.org.au @hugepossum.bsky.social

25.11.2025 01:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Kate Dutton-Regester for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

30.11.2025 22:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2026 Summer R Workshops @ UQ – R Workshops @ UQ

Are you ready to embark on your journey into the world of R and statistical analysis? Transform your research questions into robust statistical insights with our 2026 Summer R Workshops in an immersive exploration of R programming and statistical modelling: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/su...

30.11.2025 22:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Nathalie Rosenberg Bach for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

23.11.2025 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Liz Foote for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week.

If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

23.11.2025 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ocean Programme Officer Ocean. Headquarters, Gland, Switzerland

The IUCN is seeking a full-time, fixed-term (up to 24 months with possibility of renewal) Ocean Programme Officer to be based at their headquarters in Gland, Switzerland.

Applications close at midnight Swiss time on Tuesday 25 November: hrms.iucn.org/vacancy/7439

17.11.2025 02:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Alien terrestrial vertebrates of Hong Kong: species richness, taxonomic composition and introduction pathways - Biological Invasions Invasive alien vertebrates have multiple negative impacts on biodiversity and impact human well-being and the economy. Hong Kong has been a major international shipping and trading hub for centuries. ...

CBCS's Samuel Ho has published a paper from his undergraduate project, which is the first to collate a database of the introduced vertebrates in Hong Kong and study the factors shaping them and temporal patterns.

Read the paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

17.11.2025 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site‐level screening for biodiversity risks

CBCS alum Divya Narain has led a paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC colleagues titled “A framework for capturing indirect impacts in site-level screening for biodiversity risks”.

Read the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

17.11.2025 01:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Three jobs: 2 postdocs, one lecturer We are excited to announce three positions in our research group. We are seeking passionate educators and researchers in ecosystem conservation science and biodiversity indicators. The successful c…

Postdoc and lecturing opportunities at The University of Melbourne in Professor Emily Nicholson’s research group: two postdocs on biodiversity indicators and monitoring (two+ years each) and a four-year lecturing role in ecosystem conservation science.

conservationscience.org.au/2025/10/20/t...

17.11.2025 01:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to CBCSers Lily Bentley and Alice Twomey and CBCS alums Michelle Ward and Caitie Kuempel, who have all been named as finalists in the 2025 Queensland Women in STEM Prize!

Winners will be announced on Thursday 13 November.

05.11.2025 23:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Expression of Interest - Writer/Copyeditor (Contract) — WWF Protecting Whales & Dolphins Initiative

The WWF Protecting Whales and Dolphins Initiative team is looking for a creative writer and copy-editor on a six-month contract to start in early 2026. Closes 17 November: wwfwhales.org/expression-o...

05.11.2025 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0