Martin Breed

🌳Exciting PhD opportunities at @Flinders in restoration ecology! Projects on soil microbiomes, ecoacoustics, restoration monitoring & environmental microbiomes. Each well funded and closely linked with industry More details here: linkedin.com/posts/martinbr…

Excited to announce #SoilYourselfSeptember! A speaker series promoting the soil, gut and mind connection! Led by the Grounded Minds Consortium (a Deakin University & Flinders University collaboration). Book your free tickets here: jakemrobinson.com/sys #soilhealth #guthealth

🦠🩷Could love be microbial? ❤️🦠 Does a microbial-endocrine interplay shape love-associated emotions in humans? A hypothesis New paper out: journals.asm.org/eprint/HH8FANE…

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. The Academy offers a comprehensive relocation package including research funding, Australian research infrastructure access, family relocation support, and visa acceleration. We are seeking research leaders, senior scientists and innovation experts. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 Learn more: science.org.au/news-and-event…

We have just opened searches for three new continuing Teaching & Research Academics.  All positions are open at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), and we have one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Preprint update [now to peer review] - Are degraded ecosystems a blind spot for global health? - Do soil microbiomes & monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids connect healthy ecosystems to healthy people? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm cycling 2,000 km in 2 weeks to raise money for 2 ecosystem restoration charities in S. Australia––Trees for Life & The Forktree Project. The challenge involves oodles of hill climbing (> 2 Mount Everests!) Find out more and donate here: gofundme.com/f/the-trails-f… Pls rt 🙏

@yanisvaroufakis The ratchet of media has rotated to the right

Is this the best the Guardian can do on Xmas eve? Rely on (and amplify) the opinion of a low-intellect neocon who has never seen a US war or massacre he did not like? theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

@GuloThoughts Oh mate, sorry to hear that. Great to hear some positive news though. Stay strong 💪

Life update: My first semester as an assistant professor, I was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer and spent the last 3 months in chemotherapy. An absolutely brutal experience, but I just celebrated my first clean scan & am excited to start next semester from a better place.

🚨My publisher @pelagicpublish is offering a Christmas discount of 30% off your total order. Please consider purchasing #InvisibleFriends and #Treewilding as a gift and use the code XMAS30 at the checkout! Many other nature books to choose from, too! 🦠🌳pelagicpublishing.com/products/treew…

@donaldmcknight2 Thank you!

The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() 🧵

📢 Excited to finally release our new tool ReefAdapt.org - making genomic information more accessible for #marinerestoration. Out now @CommsBio nature.com/articles/s4200… @uwaoceans @UWAresearch @Flinders

@kyliesoanes Hugely deserved - keep up the good work!! 👏

In a field where advocacy, engagement and outreach are so critical yet still so undervalued, this one truly means so much to me 🙏 #scicomm

Please take 10-mins to complete our nature connection research survey: qmunature.github.io/Survey Please also repost. Thanks! 🍃

Excited to share our latest paper showing that sound boosts the growth of 'friendly' fungi! 🎶🍄 T. harzianum growth & sporulation increased when stimulated with a vintage-radio-like white noise. We're hoping to develop this to aid soil restoration. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@KaliMiddleby @PlantCellEnvir @SkyrailResearch @jcu @jcu_dro @AWCheesman Great to see this out - great work Kali!!

Does leaf temperature and heat tolerance depend on climate of origin? The first results from our tropical tree provenance trial tropadapt.org (and my 2nd phd chapter) have just been published in @PlantCellEnvir Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/A7TUVQFT…

Applying for an ARC DECRA or Future Fellowship? Here's some advice ARC or your research office won't tell you. Based on experience (I've been fortunate enough to have sponsored/hosted 6 ARC fellows, and held 3 fellowships) tinyurl.com/tbbpxfty

New #review in #ProcB - Monitoring #soil fauna with ecoacoustics #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #Ecosystem @CraigLiddicoat @_jake_robinson @_MBreed

New Review in #ProcB - Monitoring #soil fauna with ecoacoustics #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #Ecosystem #Ecology@_jake_robinson @CraigLiddicoat @_MBreed

@eurekaprizes @EuanRitchie1 @Deakin @deakinresearch Huge congrats @EuanRitchie1!!

🏆 Professor @EuanRitchie1 @Deakin @DeakinResearch is awarded the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/qzIMt96cx40