Casey Taylor

Are you an ecologist looking for postdoc and interested in urban disease ecology w/ field and labwork? A four-year postdoc position on pathogens and parasites of urban rats, movement ecology and the effects of pest management! Application DL is 18.6.! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-P…

In our paper out today in @naturesustainab we show how mouse damage to wheat crops can be reduced without needing to kill any mice, even during plague conditions. rdcu.be/dcICV with @cathjprice, @sydneyrats, Jenna Bytheway

One of the best parts of #ESASCBO2022 was the tote bag designed by @paperbark_ capturing the floral and faunal diversity of Dharawal land and sea where the conference was held 🌱

How can we make the #TSBakeOff more effective at raising awareness about threatened species? Post on Instagram! Not just our Twitter echo chamber. Diversify species, not just the popular ones everyone knows about 🐨 @BambiraptorF #ESASCBO2022

Incredible talk (as always) by @elsakohane this morning! Such a clear and concise presentation about the often overlooked nuance of bat box use. We still don’t completely understand bats’ preferred boxes, but we do know they prefer them well maintained! 🦇

Green roofs have many benefits but how placed in the landscape and at what scale matters! Great work by @JuliaSchiller10 at #ESASCBO22

Peter Banks on an eco-evolutionary way to distinguish who’s native and who’s alien in a changing world #ESASCBO2022

What animals are interacting with brush-turkey incubation mounds? Check out my presentation at #ESASCBO2022, Monday 2pm in the Pacific Room, to find out more!

Rapid creek you special ✨ Can you believe this is literally in suburban Darwin? 🌅

Curious? Want me-time? A meetup? Life needs more drama? Some self-care? Or just want something to do? So many good reasons to get out and spend some time with nature near you... choose one that works for you! Our @UrbanFieldNats thoughts at @SEI_Sydney sydney.edu.au/sydney-environ…

Brilliant to hear more about the wonderful world of ticks, the animals they bite, and how @AlexanderGofton and team are discovering more about their pathogens (lucky many of these ticks don’t often bite us) #RZSNSW22 @rzsnsw

The @BushHeritageWA mid-west monitoring surveys have kickstarted and this morning we were treated to a mob of these adorable ash-grey mice! 😍

OBIT 🧵 Daisy Boo Biscuit Potter today departed for the great litter tray in the sky, aged 18. Daisy was voted ‘objectively worst cat in the world’ 3 years running, and her hobbies included vomiting and ignoring us.

Creatures surround us in our urban environments. All we have to do is look carefully. Professor @dieterhochuli shows us a living world right on our doorstep. 🪰🦋🦜 #shirtloadsofscience @UrbanFieldNats 🎧Apple: apple.co/3pnIx6A 🎧Android: bit.ly/GuidetoCreatur…

Dr Peter Irwin presenting on Australian ticks and the novel microbes found in ticks over the past 7 yrs via metagenomics. #tbd

Found a few Yellow-footed Antechinus on a farm near Holbrook this morning. If you’re quiet they can be pretty confiding. Volume up to hear this one peeling bark to find a snack underneath. I think you can even hear it nomming! #WildOz

New natural history note out in @AustralEcology! Brush-turkeys have been spreading in suburban Sydney for well over a decade. We catch them in the act using #CitizenScience, observing tagged birds moving 8-37km on foot through the urban landscape! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Yes, the state of the environment is grim, but you can make a difference, right in your own neighbourhoood - from me, in today’s @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/yes-the-state-… #urbannature #conservation #wildoz @SciMelb

Spotted in the wild! Our @UrbanFieldNats book is in bookstores from 2 Aug, more detail and preorder: urbanfieldnaturalist.org/book @andrewxburrell @thomvandooren @dieterhochuli @Wingtags @murdochbooks @booktopia #naturelovers

Odour is everywhere (a thread)! Many animals exploit #odour to find food, avoid threats, and attract or judge potential mates. Our new paper in @AIBSbiology focuses on odour in terrestrial ecosystems to introduce the concept of an #olfactorylandscape. academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…