Such an honour and pleasure to supervise @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social on his PhD studying the effect of pharamacutical pollution on behaviour and immunity in native rainbowfish with @annempeters.bsky.social & @bbmwong.bsky.social
Gabe presented his final milestone today @monashbiol.bsky.social!

Till death do us part- fruit fly edition. 🤓

Flies were frozen to euthanise before we counted their sex ratio. This pair, as you can see, was quite busy throughout and remained attached even after being frozen for 4 days. They are full sibs, so I call them Cersei and Jaime 🫣🙈

Not every day you get to wear the aprons once used by Leigh Simmons and Joe Tomkins in the legendary dung beetle lab—where so much cool science on sexual selection and evolutionary ecology has been cooked up (sometimes literally 🪲💩)
@invertebrateissy.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

🎉 Huge congrats to PhD student @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social who received an award at the #ASABSpring2025 conference in Liverpool for presenting his research on how pharmaceutical pollution impacts the behaviour and immune system of our Aussie native rainbowfish.
Way to go, Gabriel! 🐠🔬

These just might be my new study system for the next three years! Joe seems pretty happy though making dung cocktails! 😂 #dungbeetles #UWA

Happy to see a happy @bbmwong.bsky.social when there is good food 🍛🤤