Always fun to reminisce on conservation work! 🌴

✨ SAVE THE DATE ✨ This year's AES Conference will be held jointly with our friends at the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists 🧬 📍 University of Wollongong 📆 2-4 December Mark it in your calendars ✏️ more information to come soon!

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 Kim is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia working on invertebrate cognition, with a current focus on intraspecific variation in cognitive ability. When she’s not staring at ants, Kim enjoys pilates, baking, and occasional photography. 🐜

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 Yong is a DECRA fellow at the University of Western Australia working on the impact of sexual selection on life history traits and their trade-offs. One current focus is the physiological mechanisms mediating these effects, such as diet and oxidative stress 🥦

Hello friends! We are ⭐ Kim, Nirjana, and Aadhi ⭐ the new CEB representatives for 2026! Over the coming year, we'll be sharing all the exciting and diverse research happening within CEB, so stay tuned.👀 🐜 @brainiants.bsky.social🧠 🪲@hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social 🫘 🦜@nirjana-dewan.bsky.social 🧬

Had a really great time at the UWA SBS conference where I got to share some preliminary results on intraspecific variation in cognition in R. metallica! 🐜 #cognition #ants #invertebrates

Cryptic spiders 🕷️❓ Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea). Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.linkedin.com/posts/kimber... Back to searching for nests for the first chapter of my PhD research on infraspecific variation in cognition in R. metallica 🐜 #ants #cognition

This year’s HDR Festival at #UWA was the first I had a chance to attend as a PhD student! 📚 www.linkedin.com/posts/kimber...

#AES2025 started with a blast with @brainiants.bsky.social talking about the effect of inbreeding on survivorship and fecundity in European royal families! Keep them coming @pebblemouse.bsky.social

En route to #AES2025, see you soon Brissy! ☀️🌴🐜

Excited to be heading to #AES2025 in #Brisbane in a few weeks to present my masters dissertation, where these dashing gentleman may be involved 🤔 @austevolsoc.bsky.social #evolution #inbreeding

Escaping desk-bound duties by gallivanting in the Julimar State Forest for the Bioblitz last weekend! 🌧️ Although a bit soggy, it was great to see so many people joining for a chance to turn the forest into a national park!

Taking some time off 🏖️ working on research proposals and presentations by jumping back into #photography 📷 after abandoning it for a while 😆 Rainy days make for great pictures it seems! 🌧️

Had a great run presenting in front of fellow CEB-ists! Onto the real thing tomorrow! 🐜💪🏼

@brainiants.bsky.social discussed her PhD proposal this afternoon where she plans to study variation in intraspecific cognition & its relation to complex behaviors, specifically combat and group foraging in Western Australian ants. 🐜 @mandyridley.bsky.social @notthebestsam.bsky.social #LeighSimmons

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb

Another great open day for the CEB and prospective Zoology students! 🌱☀️

Darwin came to town! @beetlebonking.bsky.social @brainiants.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social #UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience