PSA: People talk about bad influences but they never tell you to avoid the retired ladies on your street who think champagne on a Monday is a good idea. HIDE! They don’t know it’s a work night! They don’t even know the day of the week.

This is great work by the environment department and need to happen a lot more regularly

We need a phylogenomics person in Western Australia! 3 year position, open to international applicants. Entomology is a plus but not a requirement. Collaboration with Berkeley and U Western Australia. Share widely! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

#arachtober Pip trap bycatch, bring your tongs!

This morning we found a lovely Lerista macropisthopus

Went on a bit of a successful adventure!

The first herp of the trip was the classic byneo’s gecko

Australia feels like an island of sanity in an ocean of chaos these days, if you were wondering

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I’m a mammal taxonomist now!!! 😜 Two new species of adorable marsupials, the kind that have the will to kill you but lack the size to be effective. Led by my PhD student @kultarrcam.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Using chatGPT to assess how to make student essays hard for chatGPT is surprisingly effective.

A nice article on work led by an honours student on kengoor, one of those Australian things that wants to kill you, it just can’t

The most classically Australian video of all time. And the editors deserve an Oscar

I teach a pretty hardcore masters unit on how to ID animals, with peeps like @idrnik.bsky.social. The students are so impressed I know all the characters in the key for each species. Folks, secretly, we’ve been using the same individual bugs for four years. I don’t know the key, I know the bug.

A bit of road reptile rescue during recent fieldwork. FYI thorny devils are the MOST vacant reptiles I’ve ever encountered.