The Thermal Ecology Alliance is growing rapidly and we are now at 51 countries! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

We’ve started the Thermal Ecology Alliance! Go grab a cup of TEA and join the movement www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Think of it as a digital morphologist’s take on pumpkin carving. Happy Halloween, everyone!

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we looked beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging techniques – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo

🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨 Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae. Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers? There's a whole bunch more names to use! Let me explain ...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

No update from ARC about ongoing Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships delays. On 29th May, ARC told @jsresearchpro.bsky.social they couldn’t "provide further detail”👇 Remember, they told us to wait for an update a month ago. Nothing since. Seems so out of touch. Just explain what's happening!

Many elongate species show a positive correlation between body size & number of vertebrae (pleomerism), but some groups lack it entirely, the reason for which we don't yet understand. Snakes, being long, are good model species for investigating this...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍🐍 @puttert.bsky.social

Thanks @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social for a great summary! It was a pleasure working with @keoghlabanu.bsky.social, Emma Sherratt, Scott Hocknull and Andrew Amey on this paper. I counted a lot of vertebrae...

Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Emily Roycroft! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2025 in Athens, GA in June. Learn more about her work here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @emilyroycroft.bsky.social

Hi. Thank you to everyone - all 161 people - who signed the letter in support of nominating @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. The nomination was lodged last night. Keep your fingers crossed for a good outcome for our masked hero.

Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush

Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign! forms.gle/ie7b32rWcZKK...

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ Check out the amazing research by @patricepottier.bsky.social et al. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

I made this over the break. Why would I do such a thing? Am I some sort of #phylogenetics dork? Well... yes, but that's not why. To fully explain I'll have to do one of those sewing-strings-wrapped-around-a-spool dealies. 1/ 🧪

I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...

Wildlife Ecologist Lecturer job in Perth at Murdoch University www.seek.com.au/job/80462670...

Lecturer position in Conservation Genetics available at Murdoch University #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics www.seek.com.au/job/80462290

The "Spags🍝 and snags🌭" study is officially out in @journal-evo.bsky.social w/ @alexskeels.bsky.social and Scott Keogh Shout out to Stephen Zozaya for this amazing photo of the Kimberley shallow-soil blindsnake Check it out at: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... more in this series of post 👇

SA Museum controversial restructure vetoed, with state government promising 'recalibrated' future for institution - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-19/sa-museum-restructure-scrapped-following-government-review/104371408

SA Museum restructure axed after Premier's Review - InDaily https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/19/sa-museum-restructure-axed-after-premiers-review

"Hey Dr Putter PhD, now you can say that you've got more degrees than a thermometer."

‘A deeply colonial backward step’: why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum? | Museums | The Guardian...

South Australian Museum restructure on hold as state government launches review - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/sa-government-holds-review-museum-planned-restructure/103767994

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have scientists up in arms...

Critically endangered northern corroboree frogs spotted in Namadgi National Park for the first time in five years - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/corroboree-frogs-found-in-namadgi-national-park-breeding-program/103733222

Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily https://www.indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/2024/04/10/hundreds-sign-open-letter-to-premier-over-sa-museum-plans

Australian museum’s plan to cut research draws fire from scientists | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/australian-museum-s-plan-cut-research-draws-fire-scientists

'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily https://www.indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/2024/03/13/thrown-away-more-concerns-over-sa-museum-research-plan

It's official! @PutterT found out five minutes ago that his PhD is done! Who knew blind snakes could take someone this far. Great work Putter.

Huge congrats to @PutterT on an excellent PhD exit seminar to a full house, culminating in a traditional Thai gift from his fellow students. Who knew studying blind snake evolution could take you this far. @EcoEvo_ANU

The happy faces of a couple of best talk winners from the recent Biosystematics conference in Canberra - congrats to @PutterT and Sophie Newmarch! @biosyst2023 #Biosystematics2023

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Is this the first Australian blind snake on a journal cover? Great paper from @PutterT and great photo from @StephenZozaya. Journal of Biogeography. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.14700

Well since this is a new thing people are doing this week with google scholar titles.....yes, we like Australia and Australian herps in our lab.

Big day for wrap up Honours and Masters talks in the lab. Ying (Masters on months), Jade (Honours on lizards) and Ben (Masters on spiders) all did great talks. @Yiing

Registration for the 2023 ASH Conference is now open! Townsville, 5–7th December 2023, hosted by Conrad Hoskin. More information is available here: http://www.australiansocietyofherpetologists.org/2023-conference-townsville-qld @AusSocHerp

It's the 25th anniversary of our little “advice” website for research students and postdocs.  Check it out of you don’t know about it.  It’s also the 25th anniversary of our little lab here at ANU. Can't believe it. https://keoghlab.com/resources-and-advice-for-students

The next Australian Society of Herpetologists conference has been announced - Townsville - 5-7 December! Start making some plans. @AusSocHerp http://www.australiansocietyofherpetologists.org/2023-conference-townsville-qld

Leveraging morphological and genomic data to elucidate evolutionary patterns | Centre for Biodiversity Analysis https://cba.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/leveraging-morphological-and-genomic-data-elucidate-evolutionary-patterns

Check out this new video on why our school, our university and our city is a great place to do a PhD. It even stars members of our lab. You bloody ripper. PhD at ANU Research School Of Biology https://youtu.be/kVxb706Ti04 via @YouTube

Thorny devils are older than Australia's deserts, scientists hope the lizard's genetics can tell us why...