Our article was just published in the Conversation!🦇 One of Australia’s tiniest mammals is heading for extinction – but you can help theconversation.com/one-of-austral… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

New paper from Lyrebirdlab: Male superb #lyrebirds #mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display #Wildoz 🎶 In Animal Behaviour: tinyurl.com/2ftjd7fc w/ppl from UOW CSES Cornell Lab Ecology&EvolutionANU Animal Ecology Lab Western Sydney U - HIE

A group of Christmas Island flying foxes hanging out in a banana tree. It’s so cool to see these little characters up close in the wild!

An exciting opportunity for a field-based PhD project, the student will need to be comfortable with prolonged and very remote field work in western Queensland, bring a strong collaborative approach, and be passionate about research that informs management of threatened species

This iconic Australian spider-eating #bat was once safe from fire – until the Black Summer burnt its rainforests theconversation.com/this-spider-ea… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand #wildoz Christopher Turbill Western Sydney U - HIE @nswdpi Australasian Bat Society

Multiple postdoctoral Research positions are available in Soil and Plant Microbiomes, in our group Western Sydney U - HIE Prior experience in virome, metagenomics and/or metabolomics is advantageous. Deadline for application submission in 3 October. Please re-tweet uws.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?e…

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

If you are interested in the impact of #SocialTransmission in #VocalMimicry, this talk led by Fiona Backhouse in the #ABS2021 conference is for you! Available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6309…

Dr Anthony Chmiel The MARCS Institute Fiona Backhouse So wonderful to be a part of the 2022 Music Science Conference The MARCS Institute It was an exciting day! Thanks for inviting us! Animal Ecology Lab Western Sydney U - HIE UOW Research UOW CSES Cornell Lab

A new study led by Western Sydney University Western Sydney U - HIE reveals Albert’s lyrebirds are losing their voice due to continued habitat loss, with variation in song diversity indicating declining population health and the need for conservation action. READ - bit.ly/3utXgzL

Lyrebirds are losing their voices due to continued #habitatloss Western Sydney University doi.org/grf6mq phys.org/news/2022-12-l…

Our new paper is out in @Amornith! We now know that "Preferred nesting habitat of the slow-breeding Superb #Lyrebird is rare and was disproportionately impacted by Australia’s “Black Summer” #megafires (2019–2020).." academic.oup.com/condor/advance…. Congratulations Lyrebirdlab

Cuteness & New Paper🚨 We use Close-kin mark-recapture to assess the critically endangered 🎄🏝️🦇 CKMR estimated total adult female abundance to be ~2050 individuals! Scientific Reports CSIRO Western Sydney U - HIE BATsLAB Australasian Bat Society Animal Ecology Lab nature.com/articles/s4159…

#ABCscience is having a #lyrebird song and dance extravaganza for #scienceweek! abc.net.au/news/2023-08-1… For more on the science of lyrebird song and dance see lyrebirdlab.org/publications including (thread):

@Jones_ann Alex C Maisey Fiona Backhouse Animal Ecology Lab Western Sydney U - HIE

Our new research aims to better understand two threatened species: the Christmas Island goshawk and the Christmas Island hawk-owl.🦅🦉 We're learning more about their population sizes, habitat preferences, diet and genetic diversity. #ChristmasIsland nesplandscapes.edu.au/projects/nesp-… 1/2

‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos dlvr.it/T3JHVs

Just published: Quantifying Diets of Wildlife and Fish: Practical and Applied Methods Bringing together knowledge from both terrestrial and aquatic systems, this book explores traditional approaches as well as newer methods for studying animal diets. publish.csiro.au/book/8027/

New paper on the musical #dance of the Albert's #lyrebird. #birdsong journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…… Fiona Backhouse Animal Ecology Lab Bryce W. Robinson

Excited to share our paper on bat mating systems! 🦇 We categorise mating systems based on male reproductive skew, and propose a new mating system: lek-like mating systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… Dr John Martin Journal of Animal Ecology Western Sydney U - HIE Professor Justin Welbergen Karrie Rose Ecology and Evolution