Evie Jones
@devilevie.bsky.social
Carnivore ecologist. PhD on Tasmanian devils, quolls and forestry. Dogs are great. She/they
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Evie Jones
@devilevie.bsky.social
· Jun 29
Forecasting habitat suitability across large carnivore ranges with climate and land use change
Climate and land use change are major drivers of current and future species distributions. Large carnivores are particularly vulnerable to human impac…
www.sciencedirect.com
First postdoc paper published! Featuring carnivores, climate, and land use change www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Come and work with us! Please share widely!
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
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@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
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@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Deakin University hiring Lecturer, Environmental Botany in Burwood, Victoria, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 2:37:03 AM. Drive innovation with Deakin’s Environmental & Science programs through teaching excellence…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Come and work with us! Please share widely!
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
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@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
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Congratulations, @albomp.bsky.social & Minister allegedly 'for' the environment, Murray Watt!
"More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025, report finds
ACF analysis finds amount of habitat approved by Albanese government for land-clearing hit a 15-year high last year
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Congratulations, @albomp.bsky.social & Minister allegedly 'for' the environment, Murray Watt!
"More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This issue has always baffled me coz it seems like there is an obvious solution which is to let more young people in
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in. n.pr/3NH3yso
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM
This issue has always baffled me coz it seems like there is an obvious solution which is to let more young people in
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Take a moment to lower your blood pressure with this one.
This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Take a moment to lower your blood pressure with this one.
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Cool coyote article about ❤️🩹! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Coyotes mate for life—and grieve when their partner dies
Scientists hope understanding coyote widowhood will someday help humans in their own grief.
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Cool coyote article about ❤️🩹! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive"
And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.
And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive"
And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.
And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.
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Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death. "At least 13 people, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather and a lack of adequate shelter and aid – blocked by Israel"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
MSF urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death
At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.
www.aljazeera.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death. "At least 13 people, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather and a lack of adequate shelter and aid – blocked by Israel"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
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Get on board. The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is a great and important organisation
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
jewishcouncil.good.do
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Get on board. The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is a great and important organisation
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
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Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
Carbon in Context
www.carbonincontext.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
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Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The real breakthrough of the year isn’t AI.
It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.
It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The real breakthrough of the year isn’t AI.
It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.
It’s the explosive growth of renewable energy.
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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
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So many lawmakers are completely out of touch with how the internet actually works.
We prepped a page with resources and FAQ’s on Section 230 and why tampering with it is a bad idea.
They would do well to read it. www.whatissection230.org
We prepped a page with resources and FAQ’s on Section 230 and why tampering with it is a bad idea.
They would do well to read it. www.whatissection230.org
What is Section 230
www.whatissection230.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So many lawmakers are completely out of touch with how the internet actually works.
We prepped a page with resources and FAQ’s on Section 230 and why tampering with it is a bad idea.
They would do well to read it. www.whatissection230.org
We prepped a page with resources and FAQ’s on Section 230 and why tampering with it is a bad idea.
They would do well to read it. www.whatissection230.org
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“It's maddening to see the number of inquests that I attend, the number of funerals that families have to attend, and the fact that we are 30 years after the royal commission, and the situation is getting increasingly worse…”
Indigenous deaths in custody at a record level in Australia. So horrific.
Indigenous deaths in custody at a record level in Australia. So horrific.
'It's maddening': Anger and frustration amid record Black deaths in custody
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979. Experts say over-incarceration remains a national crisis and prisons are neglecting the physical and mental health...
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“It's maddening to see the number of inquests that I attend, the number of funerals that families have to attend, and the fact that we are 30 years after the royal commission, and the situation is getting increasingly worse…”
Indigenous deaths in custody at a record level in Australia. So horrific.
Indigenous deaths in custody at a record level in Australia. So horrific.
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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"Software company Atlassian found that *96 percent of companies didn’t achieve significant productivity gains*, and MIT researchers showed that *95 percent of companies get zero return from their pilot programs* with generative AI." 🤪
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"Software company Atlassian found that *96 percent of companies didn’t achieve significant productivity gains*, and MIT researchers showed that *95 percent of companies get zero return from their pilot programs* with generative AI." 🤪
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“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”
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I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
gavinmjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
The dingo fence dates from an era where our stellar environmental management decisions included bounties on thylacines and introducing cane toads. Absurd that this is still a thing.
South Australia’s treatment of dingoes is draconian, and wrapped up in a system that favours colonialists over Fist Nations’ concerns, and the health of ecosystems www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in.... Some commentary from me in this article by Charlie Gilchrist.
New Dog Fence on track as livestock attacks down but not out - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A multimillion dollar rebuild of South Australia’s dog fence, aiming to protect its $4 billion livestock industry, is on track for completion.
www.indailysa.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The dingo fence dates from an era where our stellar environmental management decisions included bounties on thylacines and introducing cane toads. Absurd that this is still a thing.
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South Australia’s treatment of dingoes is draconian, and wrapped up in a system that favours colonialists over Fist Nations’ concerns, and the health of ecosystems www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in.... Some commentary from me in this article by Charlie Gilchrist.
New Dog Fence on track as livestock attacks down but not out - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A multimillion dollar rebuild of South Australia’s dog fence, aiming to protect its $4 billion livestock industry, is on track for completion.
www.indailysa.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
South Australia’s treatment of dingoes is draconian, and wrapped up in a system that favours colonialists over Fist Nations’ concerns, and the health of ecosystems www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in.... Some commentary from me in this article by Charlie Gilchrist.
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Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
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What wonderful conservation news to wake up to!
Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES.
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
“Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick.
🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
Historic Victory for Sharks as Oceanic Whitetips Upgraded to Appendix I at CITES Banning International Trade
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...
newsroom.wcs.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
What wonderful conservation news to wake up to!
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AI use is killing open science. Good to see @socarxiv.bsky.social are doing their best to try and contain damage.
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
AI use is killing open science. Good to see @socarxiv.bsky.social are doing their best to try and contain damage.