@melkmack

Collection Manager (Marine Invertebrates) Museums Victoria | 🇦🇶🇦🇺 Sea cucumber enthusiast 🌊🐷 | She/Her | Views are my own | Wurundjeri land

Joined January 2016
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JOB ADVERT! Looking for a project coordinator for #marine #restoration projects, based at UNSW in Sydney. Must have full working rights in Australia & extensive experience diving and boating. Please share! For more information and how to apply: external-careers.jobs.unsw.e…
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WiPS@WomeninPolarSci17 Nov 2023
Are you a woman who does polar research and fieldwork? Please consider participating in a survey on lived experiences in the field, led by PhD students for a review article as part of a collaboration between the journal PLOS Climate and members of APECS. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F….

Surveying the lived experiences of women on polar fieldwork

As a person with experience of polar fieldwork, we invite you to participate in this survey. We aim to document and gather empirical evidence on the polar fieldwork experiences of researchers who...

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🌈 Today the 18th of November is Polar Pride Day! 🐧🌈🐻‍❄️ Onboard the Ushuaia and the Island Sky Homeward Bound Women in STEMM are celebrating diversity and the wonderful contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar research! 🥳 #PolarPride2023 @PridePolar
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Some krill, a psolid sea cucumber and a serolid walked into a bar…. Happy #PolarPrideDay
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Check our editorial on the latest #deepsea research on #systematics, #ecology, #biodiversity, #policy and #conservation! @DSBSoc @16dsbs @DeepStewardship @DeepSeaConserve
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Come and join us! ⬇️
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DEADLINE next Mon! 20 Nov #PhD #scholarship w @NaturalEngland @ExeterMarine @water_nomad & @ResearchEssex @EssexLifeSci! Testing #eDNA and #acoustics to detect these beautiful, cryptic UK fauna. bit.ly/3QXdCwH #findaphd #studentship #conservation #seahorse
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Sea cucumbers surprise scientists with spectacular light show #bioluminescence newscientist.com/article/239…

Sea cucumbers surprise scientists with spectacular light show | New Scientist

Ten sea cucumber species have been found to emit light for the first time, and researchers predict 200 more deep-sea species in this group could be bioluminescent

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Georgia Nester@gnester13 Nov 2023
Dive into the deep!🪼 Exciting #PhD opportunity at @deepseauwa and @minderoo for Aus and NZ students! Use #eDNA and other genetic tools to explore biodiversity and investigate trophic relationships in deep-sea environments researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/s…
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Think I'm all about fish? Well think again, as I have a cool SNAKE BRAIN Honours project available. Working with @jcroweriddell and myself, the student will study the brain-endocast relationship in snakes to uncover the ecology of fossil & transitional forms 🐍🧠🩻 – at Adelaide, South Australia
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We are very excited to launch our first grant round! MICF grants are available to support projects targeted at the conservation of Macquarie Island. Applications close December 18th at 5pm AEDT. More details can be found here: macquarieisland.org/grant-ro… #macquarieisland #grantround
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JOB: Invasive Species Manager. Deliver invasive species program on Christmas Island, including the cat eradication plan and control program for yellow crazy ants. Australian Government job - Parks Australia #conservation #invasivespecies nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2023/200… #NRMjobs

Invasive Species Manager

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Parks Australia) - Christmas Island

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Job Alert. Auckland Museum is looking for a new Curator, Marine Invertebrates. Full time, permanent role. Applications close November 28 NZT. aucklandmuseum.elmotalent.co…
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abc.net.au/news/2023-11-09/m…

Divers uncovering secrets of Australia's megafauna past concealed deep in underwater caves

Hidden in watery chambers around South Australia's Limestone Coast are fossils telling the story of a prehistoric Australian world, which researchers are determined to find.

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Thomas Wernberg@twernberg23 Oct 2023
📢POSTDOC POSITION (3 yrs): #kelp forests, #climatechange and #marineheatwaves. Come work with me, @Filbeek, @MelindaAColeman, @GeorgeValentin_ and our superb 🇳🇴🇩🇰 colleagues @Havforskningen. Field work, experiments, international collaboration and more jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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Jack Ashby@JackDAshby23 Oct 2023
NATURAL HISTORY #MUSEUMS TWITTER - help please! I'm on my last chapter: how collections can save the world. What's your favourite example of: 🌏specimen research that feeds into environmental conservation? 🧬novel ways specimens have provided data for scientific research?
Jack Ashby@JackDAshby16 Mar 2023
I'm VERY EXCITED to share the news that I’ll be writing a new book with @PenguinUKBooks on the secrets of the world’s natural history #museums, exploring: 🪰what you see (& don't see) when visiting 🪓honest histories of how collections were made 🌍how they can help save the world
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