Alyssa Weinstein

Biodiversity Conservation 🌱🦜🪸Research 📚🔬Policy 📝🌏 Regulation 👩‍⚖️⚖️

[ISBE2024 @ISBE2024]

Please repost. Generous travel awards available to support PhD students, postdocs and other ECRs, as well as researchers from developing nations, to attend #ISBE2024 in Melbourne. The call for applications are now open. Details here:

https://t.co/bOPz4BuqiT

@BehavEcol

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

Very excited to be taking on a new part-time opportunity as Editor for Australasian Plant Conservation! 🌱 ✏ APC informs plant conservation by supporting knowledge exchange between research, management, community, and practitioners - a cause I'm super keen to contribute to🍃🤝

[ANPC @ANPlantC]

A big welcome to our new Editor for Australasian Plant Conservation, @lys_m_weinstein ! Exciting times ahead for APC, with Alyssa's first issue being the Summer issue, 32(3)
Read more about Alyssa here:
https://t.co/k0pJZHTeEZ
Learn more about APC here:
https://t.co/kklruM3Fjg

[Charlotte @ChaMsnr]

📢Looking for an AI image generation course covering videos, images & animations.

Needs: Interactive live classes (not just videos), in English, on different tools (MidJourney, DALL-E, Firefly, Runway, Leonardo, etc.)

Any recommendations? 🙏 #AI #OnlineLearning #ImageGeneration

[ipbes @IPBES]

💥DEADLINE EXTENDED💥

🌍Passionate about #biodiversity?🐾

🔍@IPBES invites nominations for experts to help scope #GlobalAssessment2!

🎯Experts in natural, social sciences, policy & more. Interdisciplinary & diverse nominations encouraged!

📅19 Nov: https://t.co/S3Vuzdc7Yt

[ipbes @IPBES]

🌐Help shape global #MonitoringBiodiversity assessment!

@IPBES seeks Fellows from academia, government & civil society!

Contribute on #biodiversity modelling, AI, citizen science & more.🍃🔬🐾

Apply by 19 Dec : https://t.co/RqSkKvepou

Early-career? Step up #ForNature!🌱

[ipbes @IPBES]

🚨DEADLINE Extension🚨

Online dialogue on the nomination of @IPBES experts & fellows📢

🗓️26 Oct
🗣️IPBES members, observers & other interested stakeholders
📌To strengthen engagement by Gov. & stakeholders in the nomination process

Register by 25 Oct at: https://t.co/8Z1G0C4BcH

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

The @IPBES summary for policy makers on invasive alien species was released yesterday 🐁🌏 In a nutshell: to protect global ecosystems we need effective management and integrated governance, and now. So as a first step please read and share! https://t.co/3siN8b6v58
#ForNature

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

Thanks so much @e_m_joyce for inviting me to be part of the @LMU_Muenchen Botany Seminar Series, it was an honour to present at such an amazing institution in the middle of the most wonderful botanic gardens! Loved my time in Munich and was fantastic to catch-up 🙂🪴🌵🌳🌿

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

My latest paper is out 😀🎉

[Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution @FrontEcolEvol]

New Research: Conservation assessment of the Drakaea livida (Orchidaceae) ecotypes and an evaluation of methods for their identification: Morphologically cryptic taxa must be accounted for when quantifying biodiversity and implementing effective… https://t.co/6FAHf7Lpwz #Ecology

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

@PaulineGrierso1 Thanks so much Pauline!! :)

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

After years of adventuring though south-west WA hunting hammer orchids, I've just published a paper on Warty Hammer Orchid ecotypes in Plants! 🙂🌱🐝 @EcoEvo_ANU

https://t.co/J3ebWTuWb9

[Christine Rose-Smyth - VerdantIsleOrchids @verdantisleOR]

Day 2 of #orchidtalks with @ANPlantC
Noushka Reiter on rewilding, @lys_m_weinstein on pollination ecotypes, with outstanding graphics, & Len Carrigan on the volunteer perspective. 😍

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

@verdantisleOR @ANPlantC Thanks @verdantisleOR! Was great to see such a diversity of talks 🙂

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

Excited to be doing something a bit different this week - attending the UN @FAO Conference as part of the Australian delegation with @synergylyn! 🌱🌾🐷🌿🌎 #FAOConference

[Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry @DAFFgov]

Team members from #CBR 🇦🇺 @DeptAgNews in Perth, virtually attending this week’s 42nd session of the FAO Conference in Rome, Italy.

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

@AusAmbRome @FAO Thanks @AusAmbRome! 🙂

[Julianne Cowley @AusAmbItaly]

🙏 to our agriculture team in Canberra 🇦🇺 for moving to the kinder time zone of WA to support us virtually through this week’s important @FAO conference. Sorry you couldn’t make it to 🇮🇹 this time. But 👍 & kudos for #innovation & #workingsmarter!

[Julianne Cowley @AusAmbItaly]

An honour to have @BillGates give the Robert McDougall Memorial Lecture - celebrating an eminent 🇦🇺 economist who played a significant part in the establishment of @FAO in the 1940s. An undoubted supporter, in his age, of better data and #aginnovation! @AusAmbEnviro

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

This May I'm Walking for Namadgi, which raises funds for the recovery of Canberra's beautiful Namadgi National Park. Please donate if you're in a position to do so, I'll be walking/running around racking up the kilometres as much as I can! 🔥🌱💧🌱🏔🦘🌳
https://t.co/BPQMIiOFUn

[Alyssa Weinstein @lys_m_weinstein]

This marvel is going to the top of my post-covid botanical tourism list!! 😃🌿🌍

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Jackal food is a parasitic plant native to Africa that siphons off nutrients from other plants' roots. Its flowers surface after heavy rainfall & emit a carrion-like stench to attract pollinators. Its fruit is similar to a potato & attracts animals like jackals.

[📸: E. Black]