Dylan Westaway

Wildlife ecologist | PhD candidate @CharlesSturtUni studying reptile conservation in the Victorian mallee

[Jayden Engert @jaydengert]

New research: carbon farming projects in Australia are predominantly located in marginal lands where they don't deliver benefits to the species that most need habitat restoration and protection.
https://t.co/FncSQ5X73x
https://t.co/FDb7ENkdzr

[Dylan Westaway @DylanWestaway]

@GLinley2 Big week for you Dr Grant! 🔥

[Eamonn Wooster @eamonn_wooster]

Australian ecological communities appear to be pretty fire resilient. New paper out in @JAppliedEcology led freshly minted PhD @GLinley2 (hire him - he's on the job market)

https://t.co/qrlw53wpSy

[Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather]

What if, like Norway, we taxed our big corporations instead of taxing students for their education?

We could make uni free, fund dental & mental into Medicare, and build hundreds of thousands of homes people can actually afford.

It’s been done around the world - why not here?

[Dr Anna Cresswell @A_K_Cresswell]

Phone conversations with @Harryymoore over summer often went along the lines of
‘Guess what I just saw?’
‘Black-shouldered kite.’ 🦅

Along with other birders we were noticing an unusually high number of certain bird species. We set out to investigate with @Team_eBird data:

[Anna- @annatime94]

I’m more worried about boomers watching sky news than my children accessing social media.

[Dylan Westaway @DylanWestaway]

@TimBarlow3 @FletcherEcology Thanks Tim, that looks promising. Struggling to get it going on the phone but will give it a proper go on the laptop tomorrow 👍

[Emma Sherratt @DrEmSherratt]

Bloody chuffed to say my promotion to Associate Professor has been approved 😁
Here I am in all my colours. Because I’m living proof it’s not what you look like, it’s what you do and who you are.

(Sling for my broken shoulder - because I’ll always be accident prone 😅)

[Dylan Westaway @DylanWestaway]

Great to see a farmer implement my recommendations to redistribute rock piles to provide ‘stepping stones’ connecting isolated rocky outcrop habitat of the threatened striped legless lizard (Delma impar). Unique head scales allow us to tell if individuals are dispersing #wildoz

[Dylan Westaway @DylanWestaway]

@zuuletc Nice one! Congrats!

[Nicholas D. Carter @NicholasDCarter]

"Pound-for-pound beef might be the most climate-polluting substance people regularly use."

"If all American beef were raised with grass-fed methods, it would take more land than we have in the entire country.”

Great overview with key studies cited:
https://t.co/ZMPymZGl5S

[Damian Michael @DrDMichael]

So, 2000 roofing tiles have been in place for almost three months and today we recorded our first pink-tailed worm-lizard beneath one #wildoz @Gulbali_Inst

[Nicholas Wu @NicholasWuNZ]

Increasing land drying & drought will threaten water-sensitive species such as frogs 🐸. We examine the potential exposure risk under different warming scenarios | https://t.co/7DbqVeADRT | @NatureClimate

[Richard McLellan  / kaarnka (raven/crow - Martu) @RichardMcLellan]

“My research shows it is a keystone species for native fauna and yet we pull it out of the ground to make perfume … with no thought to its ecological value in the landscape”
https://t.co/1dvnrBJ3jN
#ThreatenedSpecies 1/2

[Ecology & Restoration Australia @E_R_Australia]

Because everyone needs more cute in their feed....#leadbeaterspossum #artificialhollow #hollowsashomes

[Harry Moore @Harryymoore]

New paper from @A_K_Cresswell ! 📄✨ C~scape, a coral metacommunity model, captures fine-scale coral dynamics across reefs. Case study from the Great Barrier Reef shows its value for management and restoration. https://t.co/F0UCL3Z7I4

[Eamonn Wooster @eamonn_wooster]

ISBE is a truely special conference. Grateful to @Gulbali_Inst for funding this trip and organisers for the ability to present this forthcoming work. #ISBE2024

[Jay Tilley @jj_tilley]

BHP is decarbonising in Chile, but not in Australia because...