One small tube, 192 samples, around 105 described sphenomorphine skinks. Up to 5453 genomic loci per sample, each at least 120 base pairs. Call it ~200bp average, that's 209,395,200bp of DNA sequence data in <0.1mL of fluid 😁🦎 Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) #ANU #griffithuni #qldmuseum #PhDthings

Food in Canberra was good but dayum I've missed my kitchen/garden, and making breakfast for my girl! Home eggs poached with DIY hollandaise, arugula, basil pesto, on toast with pancetta, grilled Baharat and pepper paste. Sunday, off to a good start! #breakfast #goodtobehome #more

There's still so much to learn about Australia's biodiversity - especially in the north! New species of leaf-tailed gecko discovered on Scawfell Island in Great Barrier Reef abc.net.au/news/2023-03-0… via ABC Australia

Check out some of our work on Australia’s best animal: the Thorny Devil. And keep us in mind while you road-trip WA. We’re still looking for more samples btwn Geraldton and Shark Bay! abc.net.au/news/2023-03-1…

It's #TaxonomistAppreciationDay ! If you missed this article by Paul Oliver and myself, today is a good day to catch up #Taxonomy #Biodiversity tinyurl.com/2fzus9bk

💚🐸It's World Frog Day!🐸💚 #Frogs & other amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on earth- almost half are threatened with extinction. Want to help? Improve local frog habitat, keep cats inside, avoid pesticide use, contribute to FrogID! #WorldFrogDay

Happy #WorldFrogDay y'all!! Here's a calling Tyler's Treefrog (Litoria tyleri) from Mt Glorious, Brisbane 🐸🐸🐸

🧵Our Australian blindsnake phylogenetics paper just got published🐍🧬! Ian Brennan, Liz Broady, and Scott Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social). Link to paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here's a summary🧵 :

#Oysters 10/10

Our new paper is out in Molecular Ecology! "Notes from the taxonomic disaster zone: Evolutionary drivers of intractable species boundaries in an Australian lizard clade (Scincidae: Ctenotus)". Fun collaboration with tweep Dan Rabosky. Find PDF copy at ivanprates.org/publications.

Very cool stuff as always form PutterT and Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) :)

Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inner ears of these critters! doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

Happy #WorldLizardDay folks, let's play #GuessTheEyeball 🦎👀 This is from one of some 800 plus species in Australia so that should narrow the field a little 😉 Drop your own #LizardEye below to keep the game rolling! #lizards #reptiles #WildOz #naturelovers

#tenyears #decadeofsnakes 😁🐍🎉

The #AustralianSocietyOfHerpetologists conference is this week! Plenaries by #seasnake morphology specialist Dr Emma Sherratt and wizard of #reptile evolutionary ecology Prof. David Chapple, what's not to love? I'll be posting at mastodon.world/@janne_torkkol… 🐍🦎#science #herpetology

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…

'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Pew pew 😜 #findthelizard 🦎 QUT QUT Digital Media Research Centre QUT Urban Studies Lab Griffith University Queensland Museum Kurilpa @BulewoDudley Atlas of Living Aust The Lizard Lab @STEMEd_QUT @UQ_CBCS UQ Science medium.com/@janne.torkkol…