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.

Coronavirus forecast

4 minute read

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...

Picking pairs for climate change

3 minute read

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...

Genetic back burning to halt invasions

2 minute read

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...

Evolution makes invasions unpredictable

5 minute read

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...

Stopping the toad invasion

2 minute read

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 ...

Snakes and Toads

2 minute read

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...

Cane toads and advancing range edges

2 minute read

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...