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This year’s Australasian Evolution Society Conference will be held from December 4th-6th at the University of Western Australia.

Registrations will open in July, while travel grants will open in a couple of weeks’ time. More details to come soon!

Sanctuary Manager - Mt Gibson
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary (via Wubin), WA

nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2024/2002…

Ecologist
Indigenous Desert Alliance
Alice Springs, Perth or other Regional town

nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2024/2002…

Proposed cuts to the Sth Australian Museum expose a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of a museum. If it shifts to simply a visitor experience, a crucial responsibility of gov't is abandoned. South Australian Museum researchers: deep thanks for your inspiration & insights over many yrs

New #OpenAccess research note documenting a range extension for the stripe-faced dunnart in WA. CSIRO Publishing publish.csiro.au/ZO/ZO23045
Photo by Josh Keen

Calling all Aussie #frog nerds! 🐸🐸🐸

Want to join the FrogID team to help identify the frog species calling in submissions? Apply now for a casual position as a FrogID Validator- applications close in 2 weeks!

iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/frogid-val…

Australian museum’s plan to cut research draws fire from scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

🚀 Excited to share our #PopGenInR workshop resources with everyone! 🌍 Uniting for biodiversity with genetics & R. Dive in:
- Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
- Code: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…
- Presentations: youtube.com/@dartRverse
- Slides: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…

📣Call for abstracts!📣 If you would like to present at the AMS Conference 2024 in Melbourne you can now submit your abstracts! Submission due date is the 31st of May, find more info and updates on the AMS website: australianmammals.org.au/conferences/co…

Join us for our April seminar! Features PhD candidate Ben Stepkovitch talking about the effects reintroduced western quolls have on prey species in a fenced reserve. Seminars are open to the public but please register at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

👋 Hey Phylogenomics Twitter 👋
We’re adding another tool to the kit, meet:
pipesnake
An all-in-one raw-reads to species tree pipeline. Written in Nextflow and designed for portability and ease-of-use.
Check out the workflow on GitHub:
github.com/AusARG/pipesna…

More words of support for the South Australian Museum and against cuts to its staff.
Once again, SAMA and its collections have been critical to my research and development as a scientist. And I’m happy to say that most of my important collections live there. Hopefully forever.

We, the Australasian Evolution Society executive, fully support this letter by SSE American Naturalist and Society of Systematic Biologists and stand by our colleagues in the call to support biological collections of museums and herbaria

NIWA Yes. Discovery is the FUN part of this-but now the WORK begins! and cutting funding to museums and removing researchers who describe these species?? does not make sense. SUPPORT YOUR MUSEUMS and their research! #taxonomytuesday

New paper! Are subadult dispersers at high risk of mortality in translocated populations? This was my honours project so I’m glad to get it published in #AustralEcology
Ecological Society of Australia

It’s open access so check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

SSE Council, along with American Naturalist and Society of Systematic Biologists leadership, has written an open letter to express concern for the ongoing reduction of support for biological collections. Read the full letter here: drive.google.com/file/d/12VBnvr…

Sad times for science at the SA Museum
indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Do you love phylogeography? Us too! Check out our latest paper on Pleistocene diversification with secondary contact in the Australian delicate mice, published today in Molecular Ecology (plus bonus new species!). Open access link here ->
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
#ozrodents #ozmammals

🌹🐾Behold! The most magical #ValentinesDay date... a 5.22g male #fattaileddunnart . This young #dunnart is likely around 70-80 days old, and has recently left mum to find a new territory. He won't become sexually mature until 210 days old... ready for next breeding season!

Already known for mating to death, the antechinus has now also been documented engaging in cannibalism: 'The males drop dead, which provides an opportunity for cheap energy gain for still-living males and pregnant or lactating females.'

#AusMammalogy QUT
theconversation.com/these-fierce-t…