Fairly alarming language prefiguring my move to a new position

Although most plant pots in Grosetto are allowed to drain freely, those that don't often contain mosquito larvae! @mozzienique.bsky.social is on the case

@mozzienique.bsky.social and I have begun our conference trip to Italy by joining the greatest and most exclusive club in Florence

🦟New paper out in Evolutionary Applications🦟
The Australian mosquito Aedes vigilax is panmictic across one city (Newcastle) but has strong structure in another (Sydney). The structure was stable across years and may be due to industrial barriers

doi.org/10.1111/eva....
@evolappjournal.bsky.social

Our new paper on the parallel evolution of insecticide resistance is online now at @elife.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Pest: the two spotted spider mite

'Artwork' at my Airbnb is inspiring me to live-laugh-love at levels never thought possible

Watch out for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug! @ Auckland airport

Very excited to announce that I’m going to be joining the University of Sydney (SOLES) faculty later this year! #USYD

I'll be further developing my research program that uses genomic data to understand adaptation and dispersal, with applications in biosecurity and conservation.

We found no genetic structure at all across all of Newcastle region (~60 km).

But within Sydney, there was structure between two areas ~2 km apart! An industrial zone could be acting as a barrier here. The two areas were resampled one year later and the structure remained.

While not the main message of the paper, I like Fig 5, which compares inferences of discrete genetic structure when considered in isolation (top) or in tandem with isolation by distance (bottom). When we don't account for continuous structure, we get this artefactual background emerging in West VIC

First PhD paper from my student John Black! A study of continuous and discrete genetic structure, and spatial variation in individual heterozygosity, in Tasmanian bandicoots

doi.org/10.1111/mec....