Bec’s stellar supervisory team includes @annajmhopkins.bsky.social Harriet Mills and Saul Cowen. This work would not have been possible without the support of co-authors Tony Friend and Aaron Brace.

The amazing @rebeccajquah.bsky.social who I have the privilege of supervising, just got her first PhD paper published. She used eDNA to examine the diet of the world’s rarest marsupial and explores how this approach can help find new suitable habitat. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A whirlwind week! On Wed, I had the privilege of presenting 2 PhD chapters at WA’s Biodiversity Conference!

These looked at the fungal diets of boodies and woylies across a landscape gradient, and an eDNA survey of fungi on Dirk Hartog Island, a recent/future translocation site for these bettongs.

This wee rascal has gone untrappable for 2 years!! Well done to @rebeccajquah.bsky.social and Holly (MSc student) who caught her this morning. Aptly named Mojo Jojo, she is a very special mouse. MJ is allowing us to monitor the build a new mound-burrow system - literally from the ground up!

Run mouse run‼️

The art, the artist, the perfect little door and the morning views!

Back in the Pilbara and super lucky to be working on @pebblemouse.bsky.social‘s pebble mound mouse (Pseudomys chapmani) project 🪨🐭

#wildoz #rodents

A fat Mumma heading home
❤️🐭 @rebeccajquah.bsky.social

Lucky enough to have @rebeccajquah.bsky.social working on the pebble mouse project this year! Nice first morning with a beautiful newly caught female.

I’m a #reptile pet mum!🦎

This is Buzz and Woody! They’re southern banded knob tail geckos (Nephurus wheeleri) and I’ll be basing my whole personality around them from now on😌

Scenes from a couple of my side hustles this year:
🐦 Emus spotted running across a salt lake
🦅 Undertaking a bird survey
🐢 Excavating hatched turtle nests
🦘Quenda monitoring

#wildoz

Prior to #ESAus2024, I had a go at making polymer clay earrings for the first time. They’re potoroos in case you can’t tell🫣 But they’ve got nothing on some of the home made/sewn outfits others were rocking!

Petition to have a workshop on DIY #ecologicalfashion at future ecological conferences!

That’s a wrap on my first ESA! Highlights were presenting the first set of results from my PhD, getting to catch up with Mammal Society friends, getting to hear about other mycophagy projects and finishing the week with a species distribution modelling workshop! #ESAus2024