During my PhD, I got alot of unhelpful advice Now I'm a PhD supervisor, I know 💯 what I needed to hear 4 things every PhD student should know 🧵 #phdchat thoughtsofaphd PhD_Genie The PhD Story Happy PhD Supervisor PhDiva Refocused

Best of luck Kailah for this great piece of work on fossil lizards.

Today I introduced my postdoc Lynea to sleepy lizard babies - the first ones for 2023 Gerrut Norval Lynea Witczak, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Born this morning.

It takes alot of bravery to speak out publicly about situations like this 👏 and it is often hard for ECRs to bounce back from the damage caused. Hopefully exposure like this helps reduce the perpetration of extreme academic toxicity exemplified here.

The 2023 Mike Bull Award #ResearchGrant for Early Career Nature Scientists is now open! Early career researchers (late PhD or early post-doctoral research fellows) are invited to apply. Applications close 5pm ACST Tues 25 April 2023 - naturefoundation.org.au/what-we-do/sci… #NatureConservation

Promises to be a little warmer than the last one.... Looking forward to enjoying it from the back seat this time around!

Sometimes fieldwork throws up unexpected findings - this is what faced PhD student in the LEGS lab, Kim Michael. Apparently endangered pygmy bluetongues can hold their breath – for a long time. This one stayed under for 40 mins!! See doi.org/10.1111/aec.13… @Austral_Ecology

A mother sleepy lizard and her babies "say goodbye" in their special way after being released back into the wild Mike Gardner Flinders University Jess Clayton

It's the 25th anniversary of our little “advice” website for research students and postdocs.  Check it out of you don’t know about it.  It’s also the 25th anniversary of our little lab here at ANU. Can't believe it. keoghlab.com/resources-and-…

First of our lizard signs funded by Electranet has been installed! These will be at the entrances to the long term sleepy lizard site, started by C. Michael Bull, surveyed continuously since 1982. Very grateful that an energy company cared enough to make this happen. Gerrut Norval

Meet #TiliquaFrangens! This Pleistocene #Shingleback on steriods was the largest skink to ever live, and its demise expands the scope of the megafauna extinctions to the "mesofauna". Reconstruction: Katrina Kenny 1/3

Tiliqua frangens has the Australian media tickled-skink! 🥰

One of the best moments in my career. The rediscovery of the Victorian Earless Dragon. In 2019 I undertook the taxonomic research to show this little lizard was a unique species, different to those in the ACT & NSW. So, so pleased it is not extinct! Museums Victoria

Check out an unbelievable video of a Gould's monitor gobbling down 5 zebra finch chicks at Fowler's Gap in arid western New South Wales, Australia. Video by @MarcNaguib & Hugo Loning is on @simongriffith4 YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=HkyPFZ… Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences #lizard #predation

🎉 Exciting news! 📚 Thrilled to announce our #ARC #DP24 on restoring amphibian populations in chytrid-impacted landscapes has been funded, with Richard Duncan and Ben Scheele! 🙌 It's such a brutal process, commiserations to all the great projects that missed out 😞 Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics

Disturbing potential loss of museum research see indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

First paper from the trial pygmy bluetongue translocation showing that the lizards are behaving as they would as if they were in their source locations. And first paper from PhD student Dee Trewartha #PBT doi.org/10.1111/acv.12… Jess Clayton Steph Godfrey (she/her)

🥳On the final day of this year's World Congress of Herpetology, it's AWARDS time! 🏆Our Best #Reptile #Conservation Award goes to Deanne Trewartha (Flinders University) and her talk on heat water & #reptiles!🦎 🇲🇾 A wonderful ending for #WCH10! See you again at #WCH11 at the Pyrenees!😜 #herps #herpetology

Are you a student looking for a PhD? I have a funded PhD project on investigating the season of grazing and pygmy bluetongues in South Australia. Please contact me if interested. ASH