Dr Samantha Munroe
@drsalmonroe.bsky.social
Ecologist at CSIRO. I love #scicomm and the great outdoors. Studying #sharks #prawns #grass #soil #koalas #environment
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I mean...if nothing else...this will solidify the nickname "Chairman Dan".....
I mean...if nothing else...this will solidify the nickname "Chairman Dan".....
Dan Andrews meets with Xi Jinping
A huge Chinese military parade is under way in Beijing.
www.9news.com.au
September 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
www.9news.com.au/world/chines...
I mean...if nothing else...this will solidify the nickname "Chairman Dan".....
I mean...if nothing else...this will solidify the nickname "Chairman Dan".....
Just posted a new video to the channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=srW2...
Roads connect us. But what if the very thing that keeps us moving is quietly reshaping the natural world? #ecology #science #wildlife #biology #nature #environment 🌏🧪
Roads connect us. But what if the very thing that keeps us moving is quietly reshaping the natural world? #ecology #science #wildlife #biology #nature #environment 🌏🧪
The Unexpected Ways Roads Are Changing Nature
YouTube video by Dr Sam Munroe
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September 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Just posted a new video to the channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=srW2...
Roads connect us. But what if the very thing that keeps us moving is quietly reshaping the natural world? #ecology #science #wildlife #biology #nature #environment 🌏🧪
Roads connect us. But what if the very thing that keeps us moving is quietly reshaping the natural world? #ecology #science #wildlife #biology #nature #environment 🌏🧪
For #ScienceWeek, let me share my fave tool: my portable centrifuge 💙 During my PhD, I studied the diet of #sharks by spinning blood samples to extract plasma. I measured stable isotope values of plasma to find out what they ate. Years of sea spray took it down #CSIROSuperStarsofSTEM #WomeninScience
August 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
For #ScienceWeek, let me share my fave tool: my portable centrifuge 💙 During my PhD, I studied the diet of #sharks by spinning blood samples to extract plasma. I measured stable isotope values of plasma to find out what they ate. Years of sea spray took it down #CSIROSuperStarsofSTEM #WomeninScience
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Celebrating National Science Week, #CSIRO Superstars of STEM are sharing their favourite piece of science.
Superstars of STEM is a #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia program smashing gender assumptions and creating diverse STEM voices to inspire the next generation.
#SuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek
Superstars of STEM is a #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia program smashing gender assumptions and creating diverse STEM voices to inspire the next generation.
#SuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek
August 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Celebrating National Science Week, #CSIRO Superstars of STEM are sharing their favourite piece of science.
Superstars of STEM is a #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia program smashing gender assumptions and creating diverse STEM voices to inspire the next generation.
#SuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek
Superstars of STEM is a #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia program smashing gender assumptions and creating diverse STEM voices to inspire the next generation.
#SuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek
To everything there is a season… and the season for fieldwork ends when you get promoted #Ecology #AcademicLife #ResearchLife #SciComm 🌎🧪
August 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
To everything there is a season… and the season for fieldwork ends when you get promoted #Ecology #AcademicLife #ResearchLife #SciComm 🌎🧪
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Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...
June 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...
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This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.
Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.
The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.
After a year away from the channel, I am diving back into the world of content creation! To kick start things once again, I watch and review the shark science and ecology in "Under Paris" (better late than never!) #sharks #science #ecology #marinebiology🌏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAz...
May 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
After a year away from the channel, I am diving back into the world of content creation! To kick start things once again, I watch and review the shark science and ecology in "Under Paris" (better late than never!) #sharks #science #ecology #marinebiology🌏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAz...
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Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Planet now has 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined
Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system.
Until…
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Just published our research on how wet season freshwater flows impact the resource use of banana prawns in coastal habitats 🌊🦐🌏. Flows bring nutrients to estuaries & nearshore prawns, suggesting nearshore prawns are at risk from long-term disruptions in flow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trace element and δ13C values of the banana prawn Penaeus merguiensis reveal the importance of catchment-derived resources across both estuarine and nearshore habitats
Wet season freshwater flows deliver catchment nutrients (terrestrial and freshwater) to tropical estuaries that stimulate productivity and support con…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Just published our research on how wet season freshwater flows impact the resource use of banana prawns in coastal habitats 🌊🦐🌏. Flows bring nutrients to estuaries & nearshore prawns, suggesting nearshore prawns are at risk from long-term disruptions in flow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A much needed good news story and an important reminder that one day, the unique relationship between our two nations can be restored.
But in the meantime... #buycanadian #madeincanada #Canada 🍁❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
But in the meantime... #buycanadian #madeincanada #Canada 🍁❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Paying for every meal in packed Canadian restaurant, U.S. couple apologizes for Trump politics | CBC News
“Everyone was cheering” after an American couple dining at a Windsor, Ont., restaurant on Saturday stood up, apologized for what U.S. President Donald Trump is doing, and paid for everyone's lunch, ac...
www.cbc.ca
February 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A much needed good news story and an important reminder that one day, the unique relationship between our two nations can be restored.
But in the meantime... #buycanadian #madeincanada #Canada 🍁❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
But in the meantime... #buycanadian #madeincanada #Canada 🍁❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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WAIT WHAT YES BRING ME TO FLORIDA LET’S GET ON THE BOAT
Yes, this is the lab that hosts “drag and tag,” shark tagging research with drag queens that raises money for Florida LGBTQ youth.
We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
WAIT WHAT YES BRING ME TO FLORIDA LET’S GET ON THE BOAT
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#Ep2 of our podcast #Cooked for #ScienceFriction on ABC Radio National is out today! At 11.30 or on ABC listen/where you get podcasts.
It's on the carnivore diet-it's the only ep I don't have a proper matching outfit for, so I made this.
If you have strong feelings, please listen before shouting.
It's on the carnivore diet-it's the only ep I don't have a proper matching outfit for, so I made this.
If you have strong feelings, please listen before shouting.
February 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
#Ep2 of our podcast #Cooked for #ScienceFriction on ABC Radio National is out today! At 11.30 or on ABC listen/where you get podcasts.
It's on the carnivore diet-it's the only ep I don't have a proper matching outfit for, so I made this.
If you have strong feelings, please listen before shouting.
It's on the carnivore diet-it's the only ep I don't have a proper matching outfit for, so I made this.
If you have strong feelings, please listen before shouting.
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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
January 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Proud of PhD student Rachel Atkins for her latest paper! For her thesis, she's using #fossils to reconstruct past ecosystems & understand the effects of climate change on South Australian plants. Here she describes plant fossils from caves ~ 820–24,230 years BP 🌏
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quaternary plant macrofossils from Robertson Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia: vegetative remains
Recently discovered fossils from Naracoorte Caves have enabled reconstruction of the local palaeovegetation of the Naracoorte region and improved understanding of floristic changes that occurred du...
www.tandfonline.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Proud of PhD student Rachel Atkins for her latest paper! For her thesis, she's using #fossils to reconstruct past ecosystems & understand the effects of climate change on South Australian plants. Here she describes plant fossils from caves ~ 820–24,230 years BP 🌏
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Would you like a scientist to visit your school, library or community organisation in 2025?
Our inspirational Young Tall Poppy scientists are not only brilliant in their research but also at communicating science to the broader community.
Connect with us at [email protected]
Our inspirational Young Tall Poppy scientists are not only brilliant in their research but also at communicating science to the broader community.
Connect with us at [email protected]
December 12, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Would you like a scientist to visit your school, library or community organisation in 2025?
Our inspirational Young Tall Poppy scientists are not only brilliant in their research but also at communicating science to the broader community.
Connect with us at [email protected]
Our inspirational Young Tall Poppy scientists are not only brilliant in their research but also at communicating science to the broader community.
Connect with us at [email protected]
My next car, I hope it is electric 🌙
November 27, 2024 at 10:27 PM
My next car, I hope it is electric 🌙
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Ever sailor moon fan needs
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Ever sailor moon fan needs
The #SouthAustralia Great #Koala Count might be over, but you should keep counting koalas! Download the #CSIRO Koala Spotter app today to count koalas for the National Koala Monitoring Program. Data will help determine the population status of these furry icons.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Koala Spotter – Apps on Google Play
Koala Spotter allows you to capture Australian Koala sightings for conservation
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November 24, 2024 at 11:43 PM
The #SouthAustralia Great #Koala Count might be over, but you should keep counting koalas! Download the #CSIRO Koala Spotter app today to count koalas for the National Koala Monitoring Program. Data will help determine the population status of these furry icons.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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I made a starter pack of my fellow shark science and conservation professionals. There were about 350 of us on Twitter so we’ve got a ways to go, but many are here! Follow them and get more sharks in your feed, which I assume everyone wants. 🧪🌎🦑🦈
go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
November 21, 2024 at 12:08 PM
I made a starter pack of my fellow shark science and conservation professionals. There were about 350 of us on Twitter so we’ve got a ways to go, but many are here! Follow them and get more sharks in your feed, which I assume everyone wants. 🧪🌎🦑🦈
go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
It’s time for the SA Great #Koala Count! November 16-23rd, we need South Australians to help count koalas. Download the Koala Spotter app & record koalas you see in your area. You'll be supporting the CSIRO National Koala Monitoring Program. Learn more greatkoalacount.nkmp.org.au
November 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM
It’s time for the SA Great #Koala Count! November 16-23rd, we need South Australians to help count koalas. Download the Koala Spotter app & record koalas you see in your area. You'll be supporting the CSIRO National Koala Monitoring Program. Learn more greatkoalacount.nkmp.org.au