Museums do more than entertain the public. South Australian Museum houses 150000 samples of snap-frozen DNA from countless animal and plant species- many endangered/extinct This Biobank is vital for research into biodiversity, conservation & climate change #MuseumSelfieDay MuseumSelfie

I'm going to repost this thread, with the explainer that a lecturer in Australia is the same as an Assistant Professor elsewhere. #palaeoclimate #climate #isotopes #sediments #Quaternary #palaeoenvironments

Excited to present the SahulTraits database i've been working on with Frédérik Saltré and John Llewelyn at the 7th CABAH symposium! Dr Emma Rehn put together a short video about the database you can check out below. 📹 youtu.be/54fzGysRtho octopusdata.org

JOB: Invasive Species Manager. Deliver invasive species program on Christmas Island, including the cat eradication plan and control program for yellow crazy ants. Australian Government job - Parks Australia #conservation #invasivespecies nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2023/2001… #NRMjobs

🎇The Population Biology and Genomics Group led by Ben Phillips and Brenton von Takach is hiring!🎇We're looking for a Post Doc to lead modelling work on containment and eradication of pest species. See here: staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/…. More info on the PBG Group here: popbiolgenomics.org

It's officially out and on sale!

Big news. Prof Shine etal have scientifically proven the 100s of millions of $ (just in 1 region) saved by farmers choosing to keep mice-eating snakes around rather than killing the helpful snakes, contrasted w/ the very small risk of snakebite for farmers tinyurl.com/yp87xksb

Great talk from Seamus Doherty on using #network #modelling to estimate #species #extinction #risk in #australian wet tropics. @GlobEcoFlinders CABAH John Llewelyn @conservbytes

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ In this new preprint @EcoEvoRxiv, we aimed to answer this question at truly global scales 🌍 doi.org/10.32942/X2T02T A thread 🧵(1/27)

The position is now open: recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj_iframe… 1 month to apply, salary 3.9-4.7k€ Contact me for any info (including on the application procedure). Please retweet & spread the voice, thanks! EU_ScienceHub @conservbytes Dr Grégoire Dubois 🌏🌍🌎 Alessandro Cescatti Pieter Beck Marijn van der Velde

Two “whistling” #frogs in South Australia new to science! A taxonomic assessment of the Brown Tree Frog reveals two additional undescribed species in South Australia, including a species endemic to Kangaroo Island. Research led by Tom Parkin australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

New paper day! 🆕 "A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia" out today in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology introducing *Harajicadectes zhumini* to the world... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

To all the snake people! At iNaturalist is a group for Snake Predation Records worldwide. There are already over 7500 entries. inaturalist.org/projects/snake…

I would like to share our paper on "ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles" that was published today in Scientific Data More details can be found at: nature.com/articles/s4159… #ScientificData #reptiles #Traits #OpenAccess #Science #Database

Some very concerning developments happening at the South Australian Museum under the latest leadership. Research is central to the roles of museums and the move to slash research staff will severely reduce the relevance of the institution. indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Australian museum’s plan to cut research draws fire from scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

First paper from the trial pygmy bluetongue translocation showing that the lizards are behaving as they would as if they were in their source locations. And first paper from PhD student Dee Trewartha #PBT doi.org/10.1111/acv.12… Jess Clayton Steph Godfrey (she/her)

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the… via Dynamic Ecology

New at Tetrapod Zoology -- Ray Hoser, Number 1 Taxonomic Vandal .... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/5/07… #reptiles #herpetology #taxonomy #snakes #squamates