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I have a summer scholarship available in my lab on fishing spider mating behaviour. 10 weeks work over summer, $8K stipend. Apply here by 15 Sep (with a working link this time! waikato.ac.nz/study/scholars…

Please check out and share this PhD opportunity, looking at the effects of rising CO2 levels on freshwater mussel biology: findaphd.com/phds/project/i… in a project co-supervised by Dr Christopher Cornwall and scientists from NIWA, and working alongside hapori Māori

‘The #pāua that clings to the sea’: a new #species of #abalone found only in waters off a remote NZ island chain theconversation.com/the-paua-that-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Zoology_Otago Royal Society Te Apārangi Genetics Otago University of Otago Ngati Kuri DrAbbySmithOtago Marine Science Otago

📣 New preprint! We found 40 species with wild populations genetically adapting to climate change 🧬🌡️ We call for the field to make better use of these study systems to determine *when* and *how* genetic adaptation to climate change can take place🔎👩‍🔬 doi.org/10.32942/X2S616

We're moving #kakapo off one of their biggest islands. Why? #conservation #parrots #birds blog.doc.govt.nz/2024/08/29/con…

Congratulations Professor Josephine Pemberton awarded British Ecological Society highest honour – honorary membership Her research on wild animal populations in the Rum Deer Research & St Kilda Soay Sheep Project projects have led to ground-breaking insights into the natural world ➡️edin.ac/3TeRej4

First, Fay Morland led this exciting study on the demographic drivers of reproductive failure, in collaboration with Patricia Brekke ZSL Science, John Ewen & Anna Santure published in PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Very happy to be involved in examining rRNA repeats in mammals with Hardip Patel,Richard Edwards and Ganley Lab 👇 academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

Is there repeatability in the genetic basis of local adaptation to climate variation? Jim Whiting Sam Yeaman Kathryn Hodgins and colleagues found that across plant species separated by >300 Myr of evolution, the answer is yes. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Fruitful project with Célia KOELLSCH & Robert Poulin, Zoology_Otago: 1) Microbes linked to parasites may drive host phenotypic changes (doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…). 2) Host microbiomes relate more to parasitic infections than to host size or egg presence (doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpa…).

Find out how the genetic basis of the kākāpō structural color polymorphism suggests balancing selection by an extinct apex predator – such a great collaboration w Hernán Morales Dr Andrew Digby Deidre Vercoe GenomicsAotearoa Anna Santure Joseph & many more: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

New paper out in PLOS Biology! Two SNPs fully explain kākāpō color polymorphism, likely under balancing selection from extinct predators🦜🦅🧬 Great collab of many evol biologists, conservation scientists and physicists, led by the brilliant Lara Urban journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Check out our The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand piece in response to recent #NewZealand media coverage that #moa and #kiwi were recent immigrants from Australia akin to #takahē and #moho theconversation.com/are-kiwi-and-m… - with Pascale Lubbe Alan Tennyson 1/2 University of Otago Genetics Otago

"the pictures illustrate a type of intergenerational memory loss called “shifting baseline syndrome”. When change is slow, each generation believes their version of the environment is normal" theguardian.com/environment/20…

The kākāpō is an endangered #parrot endemic to NZ. Lara Urban Hernán Morales & co's study of most living #kakapo shows that their green vs olive #feather color #polymorphism has a structural basis and may result from past predation #PLOSBiology plos.io/4daSv1Z

Our latest paper on #Maori language #biocultural #conservation #TEK Cultural Evolution Society Miguel Clavero SCB British Ecological Society Margaret Stanley NZ EcologicalSociety

New review from the lab on all things kmer pop gen, led by Miles Roberts, Olivia Davis, and Robert Williamson arxiv.org/abs/2409.11683

A Master (M2) opportunity to work on evolutionary population genomics of the European common lizard in my lab (ISYEB, MNHN) in the hearth of Paris (possibly followed by a funded PhD!). devillemereuil.legtux.org/m2-internship-…

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