It's #WorldFrogDay! 🐸 Some scientists from Science at Melbourne have dedicated their research to improving our knowledge and the lives of frogs. Prof Kirsten Parris (Kirsten M. Parris), Danielle Wallace (Danielle Wallace) and Mikaeylah Davidson (Mikaeylah Davidson) share some un-frog-etable facts.

Australia has a war on dingoes - and the winter baiting season is about to start in National Parks - targeting dingoes in the autumn/winter when they are breeding. No other native animal is killed with such abandon in National Parks. #NotInvasive #StopKillingDingoesOnPublicLand

Happy Tasmanian Devil Average Birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳 Tasmanian devils have a pretty well defined mating season, which means that most devils are born within a period of a couple of weeks in autumn. Meaning that every devils birthday is, on average, 1st April!

Today marks the end of my #PhD lab work; 7 experiments, 13,152 samples and 137 qPCR plates… Done ✔️

Stopping the amphibian apocalypse #wildhope documentary on pbs about our Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project with CheyenneMountainZoo Zoo New England National Zoo Smithsonian Panama m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXK6fT…

#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…

Looking for a PhD candidate to work with me and Bibiana Rojas on #poisonfrogs Station de recherche des Nouragues - LEEISA - CNRS!

Build a #frog a sauna and you just might save himb for life 🐸🍄🚫 Amazing work by Anthony Waddle et al, on the use of heat refuges to protect and even immunise bell frogs against the deadly chytrid fungus!

I'm thrilled to announce that the first preprint from the Amphibian Genomics Consortium (AGC) is now available on bioRxiv. This paper was greatly improved by the contributions of the AGC's diverse members 🐸🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

*me trying to convince everyone at #GSA2024 that we can and should be breeding frogs from improved conservation outcomes

Congratulations to the winners of our #GSA2024 student prizes! The Jenny Graves prize for the best lightning talk to Mikaeylah Davidson from the University of Melbourne! 🐸

I guess someone agreed with me… 🫵 breed those frogs! Thanks so much #GSA2024 for an amazing conference!

few more deets here. SNP panels are becoming a popular way to monitor species of conservation concern. However, the methods for selecting SNPs are inconsistent across studies. 1/N

New #bioinformatics workflows available! Luke Silver and Anna Syme have made assembling and annotating reference genomes accessible to everyone 👏 Discover how threatened species are supported by #bioinformatics 👇 biocommons.org.au/news/tsi-workf… #genomics Bioplatforms Australia

Frogs In The Ice Amphibian habitats are almost universally beautiful however, some transcend into the world of pure fantasty. This spectacular Tailed Frog (Ascaphus truei) is lucky to dwell in a mystical blue glacial ice cave high on the alpine slope of a majestic stratovolcano

Pleased to finally share the Global Amphibian Conservation Action Plan from IUCN SCC Amphibian Specialist Group time to save the amphibians! portals.iucn.org/library/node/5…