Amanda C. Niehaus
Brisbane
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Animal Magic
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. With pieces from Chris Flynn, Geraldine Brooks, Laura Jean McKay and many more, this edition of Griffith Review visits habitats near and far, wild and domestic. We visit the site of T-rex excavations, swim with turtles, spend a night at the zoo, find out about the storied history of mould, and diagnose pre-teen horse girls.
Manganese Exacerbates Seasonal Health Declines in a Suicidally Breeding Mammal
INTRODUCTION Reproduction is so costly that organisms typically distribute their efforts and offspring over time to accommodate the competing energetic demands of growth and survival, and delay breeding during periods of poor health or environmental stress (Koons et al., 2008; Tuljapurkar, 1990). However, not all species hold back for the future—some invest all resources into a single (usually promiscuous) bout of breeding and then die.
Integrating conservation biology into the development of automated vehicle technology to reduce animal–vehicle collisions
Abstract Every year, hundreds of millions of animals die in collisions with cars. For some species, road strikes are a major cause of population declines, and reducing collisions is a conservation priority.
A letter from our editors, old and new
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Transitioning from postdoc researcher to gig-economy scientist
‘Gig’ work, facilitated by app-based services like Deliveroo and Uber, is predicted by experts to move into other working environments in the future.Credit: KristinaBlokhin/Alamy Last year, I finished one of Australia’s most prestigious postdoctoral research fellowships, worth more than US$250,000. I don’t know what I expected afterwards. An office? A tenure-track job? Throughout my career, I had viewed myself as an academic scientist — until I wasn’t.
The Breeding Season
Fiction Reviewed by Fiona Wright • The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus Allen & Unwin, $29.99 pb, 272 pp, 9781760529536 Fiction Reviewed by Fiona Wright • The Breeding Season is a novel that grapples with big ideas: the connections between death; grief, mortality and the bodily experience of them; how the male gaze preconditions how women (and female animals) are portrayed and described in science and art.
The Breeding Season
This debut novel by scientist and writer Amanda Niehaus explores the intersection of art and science, marrying poetic, visceral writing with scientific exploration of issues, particularly sex, reproduction, death and interaction between men and women. The story examines the personal – a couple’s struggle to cope with devastating loss... Read on >
Sex, death and the northern quoll
Dr Amanda Niehaus's enthusiasm for field biology as a graduate student took her from her native Ohio, to Argentina, Alaska, and then to Australia, where she settled. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the first year of her daughter's life, her world was upended. Amanda underwent an intensive period of treatments, and although the cancer was defeated, she had to accept she could not have any more children.
Write fiction to discover something new in your research
Credit: Getty In the final month of my Australian Research Council fellowship at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, I published papers about sex-crazed marsupials, wrote grant applications and finished The Breeding Season, an as-yet-unpublished novel. Yes, I wrote a novel — fiction founded on my science research. The story takes what I know about reproductive conflict in wild animals and explores it in humans. It’s the hardest and most gratifying thing I have ever done.
Daylight saving time can decrease the frequency of wildlife-vehicle collisions
AbstractDaylight saving time (DST) could reduce collisions with wildlife by changing the timing of commuter traffic relative to the behaviour of nocturnal animals. To test this idea, we tracked wild koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in southeast Queensland, where koalas have declined by 80% in the last 20 years, and compared their movements with traffic patterns along roads where they are often killed.
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