Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122

🦎 We tracked free-ranging lizards with custom-made backpacks to test if thermal performance predicts survival in the wild. The link between lab-measured physiology and real-world fitness? Not so straightforward. Read more in @JAnimEcol: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feeling very humbled to receive the 2025 Mike Bull Award from Nature Foundation🦎 Mike Bull was a giant in Australian ecology—his work on lizard behaviour and long-term field studies shaped our understanding of species and systems. www.naturefoundation.org.au/news-events/...

🚨 To all #microclimate aficionados, this is a major update of the #SoilTemp initiative which has just metamorphosed into the beautiful #MEB network for #microclimate #ecology & #biogeography #network The #SoilTemp initiative 🐛 turns to #MEB network 🦋 ⬇️ Check it out ⬇️

New research shows Gila monsters may lose critical habitat as the climate warms — and their limited movement ability could stop them from reaching new areas. Great write-up in @ScienceNews. Read the full paper by Hromada et al. (2025) in Ecology and Evolution: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

The late Eric Pianka made thousands of observations of desert lizard body temperature and activity. We used them to test biophysical models of their cost of living and projected the models to past and future climates in Africa and Australia #unimelb #ARC @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...