Field ethologists, I highly recommend this bag for wildlife research. You could sit down anytime to score or record animal behavior. There’s an insulated cooler inside to keep the samples cool/equipment dry. This thing made my field days. 🏃‍♀️💚
#rainforestEEB #wildlifephotography

Thanks to Science Graphic Design for the amazing logo of the research group I established at UOW. Send me an email if you are looking for a PhD project on macro-evolution, phylogenetics, venom evolution, species delimitation or more! more info at desquerre.com

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

Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time.

As Jodi Rowley (@UNSW) + Damian Lettoof (@CSIRO) write, pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species. theconversation.com/we-found-pesti…

Broad-scale pesticide screening in livers from multiple frog species collected across NSW finds legacy pesticides and first detections of rat poison in amphibians! Very thankful to be invited to help with this research lead by Jodi Rowley and NSW DCCEEW
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#Pesticides detected in 36% of Australian frogs, including Brodifacoum in 17% of the frogs. This is the first report of #rodenticides – chemicals meant to poison only rodents – in wild #frogs . Damian Lettoof

theconversation.com/we-found-pesti…

Guess what? Frogs are the latest non-target wildlife to be exposed to rat poisons... scary stuff!

My study from last year showed how a prescribed burn conducted exactly to prescription killed 77% of a critically endangered species in the block. #AustralEcology tell me it's a #TopCitedArticle ; we need change now.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Tesla is the lowest cost car to maintain

🐸 Happy #EarthDay ! Exciting news: the updated Australian Frog Atlas, powered by #FrogID data, is here! Featuring detailed maps of Australia's 254 frog species, including range extensions and new species discoveries. Access this invaluable resource today: australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

New Lerista taxonomy paper out today in Zootaxa (10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.2).

We sink Lerista arenicola, and all L. microtis subspecies, into L. microtis. We also highlight the challenges posed by past uses of the subspecies rank.

Dm me for a pdf.

ChappleLab School of Biological Sciences, Monash

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)

Does anyone have any images they've taken of the below boa species? If so, two of our Snake Specialist Group members, A/Prof Graham Reynolds and Professor Bob Henderson, would love to hear from you for their upcoming book, 'Boas of the World'!

🚨 Just published!

Pobblebonks! A revision of the Northern Banjo Frogs, led by Tom Parkin. Two new Australian #frog species scientifically recognised!

Thank you to all those people that submitted FrogID recordings of this species- they were vital!

australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

Pre-print of a little side project I’ve been working on over the past year. My photographic poster of the frogs of Victoria is nearly finished!

Anyone who is interested can send me a message and I’ll put your name on the pre-orders list. The size is A1.

Two good reasons to watch where you’re walking in the desert at night 🕸️🐍

Nerd alert! #ScholarshipsAvailable Come study the evolution and history of biotic exchange between Australian and Papuan vertebrate lineages. PhD scholarships available with Dr Paul Oliver at #GriffithUniversity , details in link below 🦎🐸
griffith.edu.au/research-study…

And here it is! Our study identifies both inland tectonic and environmental factors that were the likely drivers of diversification in rice paddy #snakes .
Now in Scientific Reports
nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Australia is pretty much one giant sand pit. No surprise then that lots of critters have shovel-like adaptations to dig out a living beneath the soil surface. Take for instance the narrow-banded shovel-nosed snake (Brachyurophis fasciolatus) which can teleport into soil with ease

This teeny, tiny Jan's Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi) was hanging outside my front door last night. AA battery for scale 🥹.