🗓️ Kickoff mid-2025, share findings at global Indigenous exchange If you’re keen, hit me up! https://t.co/dEQDZKXFXD

🚨 Honours project opportunity! Looking for a student to lead a decolonial lit review. Indigenous applicants encouraged. 📍 UQ-based, co-supervised w/ @Meg_Mucioki 📖 Exploring migratory kin, food sovereignty & rights of nature 🌏 Part of a global Indigenous research collab

Get off Canva and immediately implement complete sanctions, cease all weapons trade, expell the ambassador and beg for forgiveness

#BREAKING: More than 350 academics and professional staff have signed an open letter in support of students at the pro-Palestine encampments "We reject the characterisation of these peaceful and urgent student-led protests and encampments as antisemitic" https://t.co/RA1wk7WwwO

Hosted by the UQ School of Environment, the presentation will explore the importance for Indigenous peoples, embedded within their knowledge traditions, to lead the emerging discourse around how rights for nature laws could and should apply in Antarctica

Recent work in Aotearoa (NZ) has provoked dialogue across Māori hapū and iwi and with other Indigenous peoples around the world about Indigenous perspectives on Antarctica.

Mob - please come be a part of Dr @BillyVanU seminar: Provoking Indigenous Yarns About Antarctica When: 2.30pm Thursday 29 Feb Where: Room 139, Goddard Building 8, UQ St Lucia. Zoom link: https://t.co/IY4Bt3jUNr. Meeting ID: 894 7553 2622.

QR bypasses key limitations of LSR, but has some of its own which we discuss. Overall, we hope that experimental biologists not aware of QR might consider it in data analysis and think more about hypotheses concerning responses outside the mean of datasets. 7/7

In a real dataset, LSR showed DNA damage from UV light in tadpoles decreases at higher temperature (on average). QR revealed that this relationship did not hold true for tadpoles experiencing the highest (more lethal) levels of DNA damage, raising interesting questions. 6/7

With a simulated dataset with non-constant variance, least squares regression (LSR) demonstrated that means are identical. However, it is clear that the treatment has an effect on the ends of the distribution, which QR reveals. 5/7

To highlight this, we used real and simulated data to show two contrasting ways data at the extremes of the distribution can tell different stories to the mean response. QR has been used a bunch in fields like economics but isn't too well known in experimental biology. 4/7

There's nothing wrong with averages, but interesting questions and hypotheses exist about other responses which we might fail to appreciate. For example, we might be interested in outliers, or asking whether treatments influence near maximal or minimal responses. 3/7

The 'mean focus fallacy' has been argued to pervade the sciences largely due to the statistical education we have. This suggests our research questions could become adapted to our statistical tools and not vice versa (this resonated a bit with my own PhD research). 2/7

New paper in press @J_Exp_Biol - we discussed how a focus on means in experimental biology could constrain the scope of inquiry. We showed how quantile regression (QR) can be a useful statistical tool for exploring this. 1/7 @barham_kate @Franklin_EcoLab https://t.co/vHUo7PRO6d

Blackfullas have stood with Palestinians for decades. This work is a continuation of our anti-genocidal activism including when we stood against the oppression of Jewish mob in 1938. When everyone else has lacked a moral compass and fortitude we have been clear eyed.

Had a bit of a yarn about @implexidens and I (and others at UQ) trying to shift how science institutions approach ecological field teaching on Aboriginal lands. Thanks @drkatelynbarney, Prof Tracey!

#UQ's @CoenHird has found tadpoles in colder environments can use a previously unknown mechanism to mitigate UV damage 🐸🌞❄️ Via @CosmosMagazine: https://t.co/WOrPEnAUrL @UQscience

New research has found that tadpoles from one group of amphibians are surprisingly good at reducing damage from UV radiation.

Thanks @UQscience @UQ_News teams for the great article on some of my recent PhD research 🐸☀️❄️ https://t.co/XFChiFrU7t https://t.co/fhpy0evvGP

Ultimately, I do not want to see honey owned and commodified by non-Indigenous folks without permission with little respect for our cultural heritage and rights. Please reach out if you'd like to submit a comment and would like me to send you mine 5/5