Bird Ecologist at Australian Museum
Sydney, Australia
Joined February 2014
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Read the study: “Tracing the introduction of the invasive common myna using population genomics” nature.com/articles/s41437-0…
By @KamolphatA @KyleMEwart @NoisyMajor @DrRebeccaJ @ASanture @alt_allele
Top explanation A and Anna, and such interesting and important results.@GretelMajor @callaghanct
Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt and Anna Santure discuss how they have used diverse samples of common myna DNA to trace its introduction history from the native range across its invasive distribution in the Pacific.
Listen now: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod…
@GenSocUK @MDPointer
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Good on you Grets - very proud😊
Congratulations superstar @GretelMajor for a super successful PhD thesis defense! Super proud of all your achievements - PhD#8 now done 🤩😍🥳🍾 @Tim_WoodfieldNZ @OtagoCHCH thanks to the examiners @KrisKilian Kirsty and Torsten @ASBTE1 @ISBioFab #proudsupervisor
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Very proud of @GreteMajor’s celebrity status as she finishes her PhD in bioengineered transplants post-#mastectomy and raises funds for her Antarctic #WomenInSTEM leadership program otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/ne… . Following her mentors @DrRebeccaJ @jodirowley @callaghanct @Wingtags
Please give Gretel a helping hand: chuffed.org/project/96136-ho…
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So proud of the superstar @GretelMajor! Best student oral presentation at #ASBTE2022 @ASBTE1 @OtagoCHCH #proudPI #proudsupervisor @Tim_WoodfieldNZ
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Richard Major retweeted
So proud of the superstar @GretelMajor! Best student oral presentation at #ASBTE2022 @ASBTE1 @OtagoCHCH #proudPI #proudsupervisor @Tim_WoodfieldNZ
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New research reveals that a cockatoo flipping a bin-lid is a far more significant behaviour than first thought - watch out for these clever cockies!
@DrBarbaraKlump @LucyMAplin @Wingtags @wild_sonja @NoisyMajor @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav @tarongazoo @austmus australian.museum/blog/amri-…
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The world-first research proves our cockies learn the unique bin-opening behaviour through social learning.
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We are very pleased to announce Professor Kristine French from @UOW and Professor Richard Kingsford from @UNSW as the winners of the 2021 ESA Gold Medal!
To read more about their work, visit ecolsoc.org.au/esa-gold-meda…
#ESAGoldMedal #unsw #uow
Nice one @GretelMajor - following in the footsteps 😉! @jodirowley @callaghanct @DrRebeccaJ @ASanture
Hot of the press! Our latest review in @TrendsinBiotech on challenges in fat grafting, congratulations and well done @GretelMajor for leading this lockdown baby! bit.ly/3uVIrEw @ASBTE1 @Tim_WoodfieldNZ @OtagoCHCH @Khoonono #regenmed #tissueengineering
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Although restricted to a 15 square kilometre island in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, populations of the endangered Lord Howe Island Woodhen are still maintaining social distancing! @austmus @AnimalConserv
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But birders driving around comes at a cost (e.g., carbon emissions). We did find that, in general, most birders would be willing to donate money to NGOs, in order to view vagrants, suggesting that there are conservation fundraising options that could be explored! #conservation
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On #WorldBiodiversityDay, its important to understand the unique values people derive from nature. We demonstrated (doi.org/10.1080/14724049.201…) how #birders and #twitchers value #biodiversity. Vagrant Aleutian Terns in Old Bar, NSW in summer 2017/2018 generated >$200,000 AUD!
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Hey @ChrisBathTV @CostasGarden @Wingtags @CitSciOZ @SydneySCB @abcsydney @Twitchathon @HabitatStepping @MagpiejonesD @dieterhochuli @frenchkris007 @NoisyMajor @thehabitatguru Pls retweet - and see many (all?) of you there!
Sydney-siders: Don't let urban birds fly under the radar. Join @BirdlifeOz at a public forum on Feb 20 and talk to us about what is needed to conserve Sydney’s birdlife. Your input will help us shape our new Urban Bird Conservation Action Plan.
Register: bit.ly/2Gu3jMO
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(1/7) What makes an urban bird? How do we define just how 'urban' a particular species is? Some species, like this Noisy Miner, are clearly well-adapted to exploit urban areas! We address this #ornithology question in a recent paper in @Oikos_Journal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Listen to Dr Barbara Klump talking with @ChrisBathTV on @abcsydney about the Cockatoo bin-opening survey
Please help us map bin-opening by reporting whether you "have" or "have not" observed this behaviour: tinyurl.com/y8a5
Full chat on our Facebook page
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One week to go #IOCongress2018 and our sattelite meeting "Applied aspects of #urbanecology - an international initiative iocongress2018.com/avian-urb… Monday 20 Aug, 1-4 pm. Key notes by Amanda Rodewald (USA), Les Underhill (South Africa) and Corey Callaghan (Australia)
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Oz Brush-turkey is on the move in Sydney
We are asking u to report sightings of #wingtags, untagged birds, nest mounds, nocturnal roosts & chicks to inform Matt Hall’s @EcoMatt94 PhD research @dieterhochuli @Sydney_Science @alburns1 @tarongazoo @RBGSydney
youtu.be/bf0nnPLpuLA
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A cool paper with @mitchest and @Wingtags relying on #birders and @Team_eBird data from urban greenspaces around the world! @CES_UNSW
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… teapawt.net/AustmusResearch/status…
New Blog!
Birds flock to big urban parks: The size of a greenspace is the most important predictor of urban bird diversity. @callaghanct @NoisyMajor
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