Can sleepy lizards (aka shingleback skinks) count? Check out our new paper on quantity discrimination in Behavioral Ecology: academic.oup.com/beheco/advance… Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈, PhD Madeleine H Ben Ashton Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Behavioral Ecology Behav Ecol Papers Mike Gardner

We all know genetic diversity is vital for healthy populations, so how do boom-bust species persist when we expect such drastic population changes to cause low genetic diversity? Dr Peta Hill and Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics colleagues unravel this paradox in their new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

The World Congress of Herpetology World Congress of Herpetology has many travel grants available for students and ECRs. Check them out here: 2024wch10.com/student_grant.… ✈️🐸🦎🐍🐊

Huge congrats to Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics's Simon Clulow & Richard Duncan along with Ben Scheele from Science & Medicine at ANU! We expect to see many exciting things ahead for the #frogs of the ACT and beyond 🐸🐸

That’s a wrap on ASH and my first trip to Townsville! Was fun to finally give my masters the light of day 🐸

Amazing work Emily J Stringer !!

A huge win for the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon! Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics researchers Bernd Gruber, Richard Duncan and Steve Sarre awarded funding to conduct a breeding and reintroduction program for the critically endangered #lizard. 🦎🦎 UC Faculty of Science and Technology

New paper out today on the cover of Science!!! Parasitic cuckoos and their hosts are locked in an evolutionary arms-race that is driving speciation. Biological collections can answer big scientific questions – in this case, how do new species form? CSIRO Museum Genomics

Jump on this phenomenal opportunity! Shinichi is the best to work with!

Hot off the press: our latest work on protecting threatened #frogs from the devastating #chytrid fungal pathogen out now in nature. Paper led by Anthony Waddle - out of his PhD no less! 🐸🐸 UC Faculty of Science and Technology IAE 📸Mike Swan nature.com/articles/s4158…

A great opportunity in a fantastic lab! Get on it!

Also a fantastic write up of the article by @BrianGratwicke & Anna Savage in nature's news and views. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Delighted to have been interviewed for this podcast! Follow link to hear about our newest research in nature These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus nature.com/articles/d4158…

Looking for a #postdoc? We're hiring! Come and work with Ben Scheele, Richard Duncan and me on a project investigating cutting-edge approaches to restoring amphibian populations in #chytrid-impacted landscapes. 3-year position, fully funded by ARC DP uctalent.canberra.edu.au/cw/en/job/5012…

So great to see this finally out and glad that I could contribute to it. Let’s hope it makes a difference.

You couldn’t get a better project, study system or PhD student! Jump on it! The Lizard Lab Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics

I am still accepting applications. Thanks 🙏

Huge congratulations to Milad Esmaeilbeigi on his first PhD paper, out now! Milad found evidence for a metal disease refuge from the deadly #amphibian #chytrid fungus, possibly explaining persistence of some populations of threatened #frogs 🐸 Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics authors.elsevier.com/c/1jalD3Ao67Ut2

It's also worth mentioning that Milad is presenting his work and latest paper as a finalist in the 3MT competition. You can see his pitch and vote for him at the below link - it only takes 5 seconds! canberra.edu.au/about-uc/event…

Ongoing lecturer position at Newcastle Uni: livehire.com/careers/univer…