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Postdoc in the Keogh Lab at the ANU. Evolution | Morphology | Macroevolution. From 🇹🇭, currently living in Ngunnawal country (Canberra, 🇦🇺) | sarintiatragul.com
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emilyroycroft.bsky.social
Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics
Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard
Ramm et al. show that Quaternary climate change predicts local extinctions and intraspecific differences in genetic diversity of the threatened Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis). Their data suggest...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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jameststroud.bsky.social
🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

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October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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markscherz.bsky.social
Happy #WorldSnakeDay from your mates over at @squamatespod.bsky.social! 🐍🧪
squamatespod.bsky.social SquaMates: A totally serious herpetology podcast @squamatespod.bsky.social · Jul 16
Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Tune in now to Episode 35, where the Mates talk about #snake ecosystem services, human-snake conflict, and #HotTakes on the likes of Steve Irwin, Jeff Corwin, and certain youtube… personalities.
Get links to watch and/or listen to the show at squamatespod.com/archives/2065
An illustration of the elephant trunk snake Acrochordus granulatus flicking its deeply bifurcated tongue underwater. These snakes feature blackish and yellowish or whitish stripes, and have ridiculously baggy skin with tiny, rough scales the helps them grip their fishy prey. They are the puppies of the snake world. Adorable. The logo of the show, SquaMates, featuring illustrations of a cobra, leaf-tailed gecko, axolotl, and anole, is across the top of the image. Across the bottom, a yellow box with purple text in a jaunty font reads 'Episode 35: The Elephant Trunk Snake in the Room'
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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dianafisher1080.bsky.social
Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia
James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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brennian.bsky.social
Good morning Australasian reptile genomics folks (that seems very specific).

The Open Consortium on Squamate Genomics has a presentation by Arthur Georges (Uni Canberra) on Telomere-to-Telomere reptile genomes, this morning at 9am AEST.

Join us for some dragon chat!

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July 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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kylethedavid.bsky.social
How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
puttert.bsky.social
Thanks @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social for a great summary! It was a pleasure working with @keoghlabanu.bsky.social, Emma Sherratt, Scott Hocknull and Andrew Amey on this paper. I counted a lot of vertebrae...
evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · May 16
Many elongate species show a positive correlation between body size & number of vertebrae (pleomerism), but some groups lack it entirely, the reason for which we don't yet understand. Snakes, being long, are good model species for investigating this...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍🐍
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May 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Many elongate species show a positive correlation between body size & number of vertebrae (pleomerism), but some groups lack it entirely, the reason for which we don't yet understand. Snakes, being long, are good model species for investigating this...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍🐍
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May 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Emily Roycroft! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2025 in Athens, GA in June. Learn more about her work here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @emilyroycroft.bsky.social
Text: Emily Roycroft, 2025 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize. Headshot of Emily Roycroft.
April 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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alexsla.bsky.social
A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪

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Review of evidence that foxes and cats cause extinctions of Australia's endemic mammals
Abstract. Over half of Australia's threatened and extinct endemic mammal species have been attributed to introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and cats (Fel
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April 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Helping @austevolsoc.bsky.social advertise!
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April 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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cogniivan.bsky.social
I'm opening a K-12 learning centre in Canberra! We'll offer after-school courses in STEM, digital art, public speaking, and maths & English tutoring. It's been my dream to contribute to children's education, and I'm excited to open in just a month. ivlearning.au 🧵1/3
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Fun-filled learning to grow life-lasting skills, Canberra
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March 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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ecolsocaus.bsky.social
🌸 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECOLOGISTS | MARCH 🌸⁠
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Check out this roundup of exciting jobs, scholarships and volunteer opportunities —your next adventure starts here!⁠
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#EcologyCareers #EnvironmentalJobs #Hiring #ecology
Job ad: Senior Ecologist with Sydney Water This is a great opportunity for a Senior Ecologist to join the high-performing and collaborative Environment and Heritage Services team. You will be responsible for providing ecological advice and conducting biodiversity assessment to support the approval of infrastructure projects along the asset value chain. Your subject matter expertise will also support strategic and operational business needs. Job ad: Ecologist South Australia with Bush Heritage Fantastic opportunity to work within a leading conservation organisation. The Ecologist will be responsible for development and implementation of the science and ecology programs. It is expected that this position will be available to support Bush Heritage partnerships in conservation, pastoral and Indigenous Protected Area sectors. Student opportunity: PHD - multiple opportunities We offer up to four PhD projects with scholarships in the project ‘Community completeness in monitoring of post-mining restoration success’. The project is a collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Camerino, Italy, as well as two mining industry partners – Iluka Resources Ltd and Alcoa of Australia Ltd. This collaborative research between ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists and restoration practitioners will investigate why particular plant species and plant functions are absent from post-mining vegetation, using the ecological concepts of species pools, dark diversity, and community completeness. Student opportunity: PHD: Measuring ecosystem recovery and conservation impact The project will involve conducting assessments for several threatened ecosystems to measure how close they are to ‘full recovery’, their past conservation legacy, and their recovery potential. The student will contribute to a broader project that is working to develop a global standard for measuring ecosystem recovery, similar to the Green Status of Species.
March 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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robynshaw.bsky.social
Checkout our @aunz.theconversation.com article for 5 strategies that can help safeguard #GeneticDiversity for resilient populations
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January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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kerrycobb.bsky.social
New preprint from myself and @snaildit.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

We looked at how domain adaptation can overcome errors caused by model violations when using neural networks to test for introgression between two populations.

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January 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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HOW TO... hold a conference for thousands of attendees in person and hundreds of people online in a way that worked for both sets of people.

The cost of hybrid was covered by online attendee registration, and substantially increased the reach of the meeting.
Accessible hybrid conferences are possible and affordable at large scale - Nature Astronomy
In August 2024, the International Astronomical Union General Assembly was held for the first time on the African continent, as a fully hybrid and open-access conference. This opportunity to approach s...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour

Deadline: 24th Jan 2025

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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January 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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evoldir.bsky.social
The IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology at Max Planck Institute Plön, Germany, offers funded doctoral positions starting Sep 2025. Applications open until Feb 26. More info: http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs #gradstudent
General information and news
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January 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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mariodosreis.bsky.social
A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab:

One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan)

And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)
January 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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alexsla.bsky.social
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December 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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aast242.bsky.social
Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes
Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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emitanaka.org
Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs

See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral/Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level A/BSalary package: $85,010 - $131,227 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: 3x Full-time, Fixed Term (Up to December 2027) The Position Three academic positions are ava...
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December 18, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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krynadachowska.bsky.social
I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
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December 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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waynemaddison.bsky.social
A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵
PhyIN: trimming alignments by phylogenetic incompatibilities among neighbouring sites
In phylogenomics, regions of low alignment reliability and high noise are typically trimmed from multiple sequence alignments before they are used in phylogenetic inference. I introduce a new trimming...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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simonmaddock.bsky.social
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...

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Hypogeophis alternans Morne Blanc, Mahé Congo Rouge, Mahé Silhouette Island
December 11, 2024 at 11:00 PM