Mikaeylah Davidson
@microbemik.bsky.social
Come for the frogs, stay for the science | PhD candidate @UniMelb | #WildlifeDisease, #Genetics and #Frogs 🐸🧬👩🏼🔬 she|her
So excited to share that I am officially a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University ✨
Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!
Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So excited to share that I am officially a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University ✨
Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!
Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!
And just like that, I am #PhDone 🥳
Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴
Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴
February 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
And just like that, I am #PhDone 🥳
Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴
Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴
Okay this is beautiful and how all stats explainers should be!
Helping a student with modelling - wanted to feel a little more confident explaining GLMMs so I reached for this oldy, but goody, visual explainer:
mfviz.com/hierarchical...
Maybe you'll find it useful
And remember - it's OK to need a brain refresher, even for things that you feel you *should* know!
mfviz.com/hierarchical...
Maybe you'll find it useful
And remember - it's OK to need a brain refresher, even for things that you feel you *should* know!
A Visual Introduction to Hierarchical Models
A visual explanation of multi-level modeling
mfviz.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Okay this is beautiful and how all stats explainers should be!
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
Trapdoor spiders are the best.
📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country
📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country
January 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Trapdoor spiders are the best.
📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country
📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country
It’s the first #frogfriday for 2025, so what better way then to share our new preprint 🐸🍄
We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️
shorturl.at/GJQtI
We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️
shorturl.at/GJQtI
January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s the first #frogfriday for 2025, so what better way then to share our new preprint 🐸🍄
We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️
shorturl.at/GJQtI
We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️
shorturl.at/GJQtI
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs
We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…
zamudiolab.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social.
Achievements unlocked!
Achievements unlocked!
December 17, 2024 at 1:13 AM
A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social.
Achievements unlocked!
Achievements unlocked!
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...
All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!
#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...
All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!
#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 AM
If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...
All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!
#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...
All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!
#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
It’s #frogfriday so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸
December 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
It’s #frogfriday so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL).
For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau...
🐍🧪🐸🔬
For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau...
🐍🧪🐸🔬
December 11, 2024 at 11:00 PM
We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL).
For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau...
🐍🧪🐸🔬
For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau...
🐍🧪🐸🔬
What do you study merch on point today 🐸👌
But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹
But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹
December 11, 2024 at 9:51 PM
What do you study merch on point today 🐸👌
But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹
But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...
The Waiting
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…
vimeo.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:09 PM
🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...
Our new preprint on designing the first custom SNP array for a #frog is out now! 🤩🐸🧬
Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity…
@keoghlabanu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.22541/au....
Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity…
@keoghlabanu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.22541/au....
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Our new preprint on designing the first custom SNP array for a #frog is out now! 🤩🐸🧬
Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity…
@keoghlabanu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.22541/au....
Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity…
@keoghlabanu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.22541/au....
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX
Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX
Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪
December 2, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX
Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪
#ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX
Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪
Elated to share the 2nd chapter of my #PhD was just published 🎉
We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Elated to share the 2nd chapter of my #PhD was just published 🎉
We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So happy to have finished my completion seminar, next up thesis submission! 💪
November 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
So happy to have finished my completion seminar, next up thesis submission! 💪
Reposted by Mikaeylah Davidson
Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action
Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl...
(and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
