🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪
I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬
Deadline: 4 Jan 2026!
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

We established the first local headstarting programme for Phelsuma day geckos, providing a critical conservation tool to secure the long-term persistence of a Critically Endangered species and a model for managing other threatened Phelsuma across the region.

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New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸

We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨

"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

A unique insect 🦗 – vertebrate 🦎 interaction: Seychelles endemic geckos feeding on planthopper honeydew.
Read more about it here: dx.doi.org/10.48716/bul...

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Markus @markusroesch.bsky.social, a visiting PhD student from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, University of Porto, is using #microCT scans and geometric morphometrics to study cryptic diversity within #Seychelles endemic bronze #geckos. 🦎

We are starting May with a fascinating talk from @jenniferappoo.bsky.social on the impacts of seabird-derived nutrients on mangrove ecosystems! Follow this link and set a reminder now! www.youtube.com/live/muPejoo... 🌏🪶 #WomenInSTEM #Seabirds #AcademicSky

Invasive species alert! Our molecular analysis confirms Agama picticauda is spreading in the Western Indian Ocean. 🦎🌿🧪

doi.org/10.1007/s105...

It was a great pleasure to present Seychelles reptile diversity and my research on the endemic bronze geckos today at the "Seychelles Endemic #Amphibian & #Reptile Symposium". 🦎🐍

@jimlabisko.bsky.social @simonmaddock.bsky.social

There is a symposium happening on Monday 20th Jan, titled "SEYCHELLES ENDEMIC #AMPHIBIANS AND #REPTILES: CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND NEXT STEPS FOR #CONSERVATION". We will be streaming the talks if you can't be here: Link tinyurl.com/Seychelleshe... or use QR code.

Nb. Schedule is Seychelles time.

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The Yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes, introduced on Reunion Island since the late 17th century, has recently emerged as a new and possibly significant threat to the Critically Endangered Manapany day gecko Phelsuma inexpectata. 🦎🌿🧪

dx.doi.org/10.48716/bul...

#NatureOceanIndien #addHerper

Gecko🦎 - plant🌿interaction between island endemics in Seychelles 🇸🇨. Read about it in Herpetology Notes:

www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/v...