Australian Researchers, To support @arc_tracker (now on Blue) being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpnGt… Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send out the link. Word of mouth. Do it!

New paper in nature led by Patrice Pottier! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? | nature.com/articles/s4158… | See thread🧵

Looking to improve repeat classification in your genome? Try our new tool! It excels at classifying previously unclassifiable repeats in amphibians and other non-model eukaryotes 🧬🐶🐸🪱🦇🐟

McKenzie Post Doctoral Fellowships at University of Melbourne for early career researchers (who have completed PhD on or after 17th March 2022). 3 year research opportunity with A6 level salary A$ 25,000 research grant Details at sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fundi… EOI must be made by 24th April 2025

I'm opening a K-12 learning centre in Canberra! We'll offer after-school courses in STEM, digital art, public speaking, and maths & English tutoring. It's been my dream to contribute to children's education, and I'm excited to open in just a month. ivlearning.au 🧵1/3

🚀 Exciting news for early-career researchers! The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. Applications are open now! postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Check it out!!! Huge congrats Dan.

Very happy and humbled to have received this award. A huge thanks to all my wonderful colleagues Ecology&EvolutionANU and abroad who made this possible!

The Australian Academy of Science is excited to announce the establishment of a Global Talent Attraction Program. But we must act swiftly. There’s no time to waste as other countries are mobilising to attract talent to their shores. Partner with us to build a profound and

After nearly a decade of work, I’m thrilled to share the publication of the southern corroboree frog genome—a high-quality, chromosome-level assembly made possible by an incredible team from University of Melbourne, Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), Wellcome Sanger Institute, Zoos Victoria & more. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today we celebrate 99 years of Sir David Attenborough! 🎂🍃 In 1996, Attenborough opened the Gould wing of the ANU Botany and Zoology building. Happy birthday to this living legend! 📷: ANU Archives

Pretty happy with how my latest book turned out. The pdf version is freely available online.

This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋 Check out the app: spr.ly/60174PzBZ Made by UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Thomas Mesaglio @[email protected] Will Cornwell and team. spr.ly/60184PzBw #rstats #Shiny #ecology

Come join us. Three permanent academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at School of Biological Sciences, Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. A great place to work. youtube.com/watch?v=HvHZFR… Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

🐸 FrogID Dataset 6.0 is now online! Thanks to over 39,000 people, the dataset covers 6 years of #FrogID records across Australia and includes 974,700+ records from 226 species – that's nearly 1 million frog records! Read more: australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we look beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo

Check out this great article by Roy Ebel on his recent paper in ZJLS. Fantastic video as well. New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them. ⁦Roy Ebel⁩ theconversation.com/new-study-peer…

Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Check out the latest on osteoderm evolution from Roy Ebel!

Happy World Lizard Day! 🦎 Whether you prefer them earless, legless, spiny or spiky, lizards are incredible creatures. There are over 600 different species in Australia, and more than 6,000 different lizard species across the globe. Today we're taking a moment to appreciate