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Dale Nimmo
@biodiversityguy.bsky.social
Professor in conservation biology and fire ecology
Missed out on an ARC Future Fellowship, despite being scored an A by all three assessors. It's a reminder to not read too much into the detailed assessor reports. If my experience is not an unusual one, it appears they don't count for much.
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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#IndustryFellowships #IE25 announcement cont.:

Outcomes summary:

Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 50 / 180 (27.8%)
Funds: $24.74M / $89.58M (27.6%)

Approved grants requested $25.00M; 98.9% provided.

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July 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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ARC says outcomes for Future Fellowships and Early Career Industry Fellowships will be announced tomorrow (Wednesday 9 July).

Such announcements have been happening around 11am AEST recently.

(Apologies for my tardiness to report this – was offline for a bit.)
July 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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I am happy to share my final PhD chapter in @oikosjournal.bsky.social

The 2019–20 wildfires altered vegetation structure yet had little effect on most species’ relative abundance. However, several species shifted their diel activity in burnt landscapes.

doi.org/10.1002/oik....

#FireEcology
July 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Mining reshapes animal communities at a local and landscape-scale www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This was a bad decision @albomp.bsky.social One that will be held against you for decades. It will come back to bite you every time you try to claim the high moral ground on climate change. www.smh.com.au/business/the...
In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan
If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.
www.smh.com.au
June 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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"The Albanese government will launch a lobbying campaign in a bid to reverse a Unesco recommendation that an ancient rock art site in Western Australia can’t go on the world heritage list until damaging industrial emissions linked to a controversial Woodside gas development are stopped."
Australia to lobby Unesco over barring of ancient rock site from world heritage list due to Woodside emissions
Site is home to more than a million petroglyphs, some almost 50,000 years old, but reports say it has been damaged by the Karratha gas plant
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There's a few more days until applications close for this PhD project. The project would involve working with my group to help test ideas about fire naivety, using lizards. It would involve a mix of field work and behavioral trials www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...
May 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Serotinous Seed by Void of Kings — a song inspired by the phenomenon of serotiny. But can you spot the ecological error in the lyrics? 🎵🌱 (h/t Jodi Price)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Void of Kings - Serontinous Seed
YouTube video by Voidof King
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale environmentally themed murals #WomensArt
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
New paper on the meaning of 'megafire'.
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onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Politicians are elected to represent their communities and should be accessible to everyone, not just those with the biggest bank accounts.

These cash-for-access dinners for the privileged few have to stop.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What a $5,000 ticket will and won’t get you at one of Canberra’s budget night fundraising soirees
As you decipher how the budget may alter your life on Tuesday night, your politicians will be raking in the cash by wining and dining donors and lobbyists
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"If you can’t captivate an audience with the wonders of wildlife without harassing a wild animal, then perhaps it’s time to rethink and refine your social media strategy."

theconversation.com/yes-its-a-te...
Yes, it’s a terrible idea to pick up or interfere with wild animals – especially baby wombats. Here’s why
‘Momma’s right here and she’s pissed’: influencers can show wildlife to their audience without traumatising baby wombats
theconversation.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Senate Inquiry into Governance in Universities kicks off this morning — really important insight into the corruption of public institutions by corporate boards
March 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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#FutureFellowships #FT25

Detailed Assessor reports are now available in RMS and rejoinders have opened.

Here’s an older thread with suggestions on dealing with assessor reports – especially the #ARC3DayRule – and constructing a rejoinder.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15191...
Thread by @ARC_Tracker on Thread Reader App
@ARC_Tracker: 🚨#DECRA #DE23 applicants❗️ Rejoinders open in RMS tomorrow (28 Apr) – short🧵👇 First: Sooo important to read reviews ASAP. Can be hard. But do it. Why? #ARC3DayRule. For fun, ARC gives yo...
threadreaderapp.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Australian governments are failing to conserve biodiversity, meaning their extraordinary values are being lost and global conservation targets will likely fail. The next federal government must do better.

My letter with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social in @science.org.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Addressing Australia’s biodiversity crisis
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Ongoing bushfires in VIC's Grampians National Park.
January 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Appalling decision by the PM.

He has denied, delayed, and now decided to do nothing. He has caved to lobbying from the gambling industry, and it’s our young people who will pay the price.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Labor shelves crackdown on gambling ads until after election
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s timidity on the gambling advertising debate was evidence of his alleged weakness of character.
www.smh.com.au
January 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It's "woke" to *checks notes* support parks.
January 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The Grampians/Gariwerd fire now and December 2024.
January 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Some more Sentinel Hub images of the Little Desert (Victoria, Australia) wildfires, showing the breadth of impact. The fire spans about 55 km from east to west. Some unburnt patches remain within the fire boundary, but there are also extensive areas with no unburnt refuges.
January 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
One of the first publicly available satellite images of the Little Desert fires in western Victoria, before (top) and after (bottom). Obviously very grainy, but the fires are clearly quite extensive.
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM