May 20, 20217 minGONE FERAL: TASMANIA'S HISTORY WITH CATSBy Alex Paton When people find out I am studying feral cats, I get hit with a lot of questions and opinions. Well, mostly opinions, and...
Mar 26, 20215 minA VERY CUTE PROBLEM: HOW DOES CUTE AGGRESSION OCCURBy Yeevon Teo A friend of mine has a white, fluffy Shiba Inu. She is one of the cutest dogs I have ever seen. The first time I saw her I...
Dec 2, 20205 minWHAT IS ENDEMISM AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?By Annie Nguyen In my research to understand the structure and drivers of flora that are on volcanic soil in eastern Australia, I often...
Aug 12, 20206 minMETA-ANALYSIS TRUMPS FAKE NEWSBy Tom Botterill-James Meta-analysis: a tool to avoid drowning in a sea of information, or, ‘should you be trying to get your hands on...
Jun 10, 20205 minAUSTRALIA'S BIRDS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN CULTUREBy Matthew Fielding Birds have been on the Australian continent for eons. Australia is even recognised as the origin of the songbirds...
Apr 15, 20204 minBUSHFIRES AS DRIVERS OF EXTINCTION: PRESENT & PASTBy Matt McDowell The recent massive firestorms that incinerated much of Australia’s vegetation has left people reeling, but the impacts...
Mar 4, 20205 minTHE OPENING UP OF INDIGENOUS LANDS IN BRAZIL IS A THREAT TO GLOBAL-SCALE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATIONBy Carley Fuller Araribóia indigenous territory in Maranhão state, north-eastern Brazil, has been described as an island of green amid a...
Jan 20, 20206 minRESPONSIBLE WILDLIFE "PROVISIONING"By Rebecca Wheatley Over the past five months, huge areas of Australia have been devastated by fire and drought. As of writing, over 10...
Dec 10, 20194 minINEFFICIENCY NEEDS CULTIVATING TOOBy Luke Yates The title of this blog post is a line that captured my attention while reading the recently published book, Range, by David...
Oct 7, 20197 minSHOOTING THE VECTOR: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR USES TO SUPPRESS A DEADLY ANIMALBy Tessa Smith Like all good netizens, I have at least once gotten into an argument with strangers on the internet. The argument in...
Aug 26, 20196 minUNDERSTANDING BIAS-VARIANCE TRADE-OFF WITH ILLUSTRATIONBy Kasirat Turfi Kasfi When I sat down to brainstorm a topic to write for the DEEP blog, I thought what would be that one thing that...
May 29, 20196 minNUCLEAR, RENEWABLES, OR BOTH? By Barry Brook I’ve long been interested in sustainable energy systems. In 2008 I co-wrote a popular book on nuclear energy, have...
Mar 15, 20196 minARE WE MISSING THE BIG PICTURE? HOW TO THINK GLOBAL AND ACT LOCAL FOR PROTECTED AREASBy Cristian Montalvo Mancheno Land-use change is one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss (1). Setting aside protected areas (PAs)...
Jan 8, 20195 minNO COUNTRY FOR OLD TREES: TASMANIAN ANCIENT PLANTS AND NEW FIRE REGIMESBy Stefania Ondei Bushfires have been ravaging Tasmania for more than a month. This is not an isolated event, but rather the latest...
Nov 20, 20185 minWOULD MOVING A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME SMELL AS SWEET?By Shane Morris As I watched “Arrival”, a movie about aliens descending to Earth and their interaction with a human linguist, I got...
Nov 6, 20184 minENERGY FOR THOUGHT: FOOD SECURITY CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH AN INCREASE IN ENERGY SUPPLYBy Elise Ringwaldt In 2017, I was invited to visit The Breakthrough Institute and attend their Dialogue: Democracy in the Anthropocene....
Oct 5, 20185 minWHAT OPTIONS DO WE HAVE TO MITIGATE ‘DANGEROUS’ IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE?By Sanghyun Hong Although it is a little bit late, we are doing something to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, aren’t we? We are...
Sep 10, 20185 minTHE FORGOTTEN TASMANIAN EMUS By Tristan Derham If you are from Tasmania you have likely heard your mate’s story about the time they, or their friend’s friend, saw a...
Aug 6, 20184 minTHE BIG DEAD BIRDS OF AUSTRALIABy Matt Fielding When we think of fossils, we typically think of dinosaurs and giant mammals. However, Australia was also home to more...
May 31, 20189 minTHE TRUE STORY OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS– INTERROGATIONS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS – By Lucile Lévêque The popular ideas we have about the way birds became...