Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New species alert! 🦎🧪 We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:

I want to summarize the results of this preprint for the public because I think they're significant. Please keep in mind that the paper has not yet been through peer review. This is a genetic analysis H5N1 2.3.4.4b, the new bird flu strain everyone's talking about. 🧪🧵 1/6

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I'm very happy to announce I just published a paper from my post doc with Gavin Thomas in @natureecoevo.bsky.social! So if you're interested in #macroevolution, #phylogenetics and sexual size dimorphism (SSD), strap in doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@callanalexander.bsky.social on birds in vineyards - heaps of native birds present, and using a cool combination of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to overcome false positive issues in AI detection of bird calls #ESAus2024

Now at #ESAus2024 Paul Sunnocks is reflecting on how ecology and genetics are closely entwined in #conservation🌏 science. Genetic traits drive demography of populations. Things that increase extinction risk: - inbreeding depression - loss of useful function - reduced adaptability

Penguins!! #ESAus2024

Sea turtles!!! #ESAus2024

Mike Kearney showing how to determine which koala traits are functional based on theory around heat exchange #ESAus2024

Awesome research showing that employing "teacher toads" right before a cane toad invasion can teach taste aversion to goannas, allowing them to persist in the landscape once the actual invasion front arrives #ESAus2024

There are many ways to make your code reproducible! Here are some by @daxkellie.bsky.social that I wasn't aware of to keep track of package versions in your R project (yikes) #ESAus2024

@julesfarquhar.bsky.social getting an extraordinary amount of data from snake call outs, snake catchers sitting on heaps of high quality data #ESAus2024

The dire state of Australian frogs by Geoffrey Heard #ESAus2024

Important reminder by @chapplelab.bsky.social - data deficient / not evaluated species should be treated the same as threatened, and they are more likely to be threatened than not #ESAus2024

Loving the puns by @meg-shaw.bsky.social #ESAus2024

It's been a while since I've been active here, but what better way to return than with an awesome conference? Come find me next week at #ESAus2024 or stay tuned for my general impressions of the state of Australian ecology (probably very impressed)

These two pics were the most viral thing I ever posted to Twitter, so in the interest of reposting our bangers, here is my turtle Stu, whom I “rescued” from the local grocery store.

Proud member of squid cluster

Five years ago I was in Hawaii with a good camera. Neither of these is true anymore, but I miss those days. So here's a photo of an 'I'iwi from back then, because these are amazing birds 🪶

Adding some #herps to my feed, with this Manapany day gecko (Phelsuma inexpectata) from Réunion

My first post on this app, so naturally reposting a lizard