Maarten De Brauwer
Research Scientist at Southern Cross University
Into weird fishes, estuaries, environmental DNA, and anything ocean related
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerLet's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerHighly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social Apply now: apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerWe start our examples of good news with the recovery of the estuary of Bilbao, in Northern Spain This picture shows the evolution of estuarine #biodiversity in past 30 years #GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerNew paper: eDNA metabarcoding at African savanna waterholes revealed 95 species. Wet season shows overall richness, dry season favors mammals. Primer choice matters. We’re excited about eDNA powering wildlife monitoring! 🦒🐢🪿🐍 doi.org/10.1111/eva.... #eDNA #Africa #wildlife
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerOnly the satirical news sites are covering the White Nationalist Perth shrapnel bomb attempt like it should be covered. #Auspol
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerLuckily, @albomp.bsky.social's @australianlabor.bsky.social aren't still approving projects that are massive carbon bombs... Duty of care? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerPhD position in fish ecology at the university of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social with fieldwork at Kristineberg marine station @kristinebergcenter.bsky.social Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerSubmit your abstract to #ECSA61: Bridging the gap between science and policy in estuarine and coastal marine biodiversity: the way forward, which will take place in Brussels, Belgium from 24-27 August 2026. #MarineEcology #Research #GES4SEAS
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerNot a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerDefending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.” A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerThis is on TOP of previous delays. Linkage R2 was supposed to be announced in December, delayed to Feb/March, and now March/June. That's a 6 month delay from the original start time planned with industry. This is why we look like a joke to industry!
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- Reposted by Maarten De Brauweratrocious. How can anyone, but particularly ECRs who are often in insecure work, plan with this??
- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer"Ancient scientists understood the importance of deferring to specialists and listening to expert advice. However, they were also keen for their readers to understand where scientists acquire knowledge and how scientific facts can be verified." theconversation.com/5-lessons-ab...
- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer📢 #PhD opportunity! Interested in #eDNA and protecting our #rivers? We are recruiting a PhD researcher to tackle a very topical challenge: Empowering citizen scientists with an eDNA toolbox to safeguard #freshwater fishes. Deadline: January 16th 2026. #PhDPosition #CardiffUniversity bit.ly/49bl4gO
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerThe world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerBiologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerA new year is here and there’s just 10 days to apply for the new #SEA4FUTURE #S4F #postdoc position to work with us on #eDNA and #Sustainability of #Mediterranean #Fisheries (link below!) 🐟 🧬 🦐 Don’t miss out on the opportunity! @thefsbi.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social
- We are hiring! If you like the #sea and its #fish and are motivated to apply #eDNA methods to make #fisheries more sustainable, then this #postdoc position might be perfect for you: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/post... @thefsbi.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer🔥 Hot off the press: ever wonder if you could get demographic info for natural pops with #eDNA #environmentalDNA? Well wonder no more! First proof of principle for sex-ratios coming to a computer screen near you: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Really enjoyed revisiting @universityofleeds.bsky.social where I did my first postdoc with @mariabeger.bsky.social a few years ago Great to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and share some of my current research @fchong.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerNew post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerHonestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits? The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com #KnowledgeSlavery
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerTo add context, part of why there were so many more applicants is because they moved DECRA back six months, effectively skipping funding the scheme for a year. They had to extend eligibility as a result, so this was essentially two years in one. But with no adjustment to number of grants awarded.
- Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia. [Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerFab talk from @megcevans.bsky.social about government trying to use capitalism (for profit model) to attempt to solve problems created by capitalism (environmental damage and biodiversity loss). But $2bn to solve biodiversity crisis isn't much compared to many other publicly funded things. #esa2025
- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerFormer #ANU Vice-Chancellor, Genevieve Bell, will receive remuneration of more than half a million a year for the next five years - despite taking 12 months off. For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Maarten De Brauwer“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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- Reposted by Maarten De BrauwerI'm so, so tired of reading, reporting on and seeing these results. This was easily one of the prettiest places in the world, forever changed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- If you haven't registered yet, be sure to put it in your calendar asap! Cool #eDNA webinar coming up this Friday! @sednasociety.bsky.social
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