Coronavirus forecast
I've made a shiny app that gives a ten-day forecast, by country, on likely numbers of coronavirus cases. The app is designed to give people a sense of how...
Occasionally, as the mood takes us, we will write a blog post. These usually end up being dropped on Twitter or LinkedIn, so you can stay tuned there. In the meantime, here is a listing of our blogs, in reverse chronological order.
I've made a shiny app that gives a ten-day forecast, by country, on likely numbers of coronavirus cases. The app is designed to give people a sense of how...
Are you an academic? Want to do less, and make your research accessible to all? Read on. Academic publishing companies make vast profits by selling acce...
Let's start with a doomed species. The white lemuroid possum is a spectacular creature that lives in the high altitude rainforest of Australia. As climate c...
Rather than cut and paste, here's a link to a quick article explaining the idea. Read it and then read on... How on earth did we ever come up with th...
Pop quiz: what have cancer and cane toads got in common? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. They're both examples of a spreading population. In the case of...
It goes without saying, perhaps, that your immune system is important to you. Without it, you'd rapidly be consumed by bacteria and fungus, and in the short...
All these fascinating results showing that things on expanding range edges evolve in certain ways got me thinking. When pathogens spread through ...
Cane toads are really good invaders. They move astonishing distances, and they breed like maniacs. A female toad can lay thousands of eggs at a ...
You may or may not have gathered by now, but I care about snakes. In fact, it could be argued that I misspent my youth chasing them. In these ad...
In northern Australia, the cane toad front pushes westward at around 55km per year; more than five times faster than it used to advance when toads were...