The Thermal Ecology Alliance is growing rapidly and we are now at 51 countries! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

We’ve started the Thermal Ecology Alliance! Go grab a cup of TEA and join the movement www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Think of it as a digital morphologist’s take on pumpkin carving. Happy Halloween, everyone!

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we looked beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging techniques – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo

These Lizards have their own built in chainmail

YouTube video by Museums Victoria

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🚨🐸 Frog Nerds Assemble 🐸🚨 Recently we published a paper on the phylogenetics and taxonomy of Australia and New Guinea's tree frogs, the Pelodryadidae. Link here: tinyurl.com/4udpmxsm What does this mean for you Litoria-lovers? There's a whole bunch more names to use! Let me explain ...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Bob Wong@bbmwong.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social ‬& @willcornwell.bsky.social ‬ bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

No update from ARC about ongoing Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships delays. On 29th May, ARC told @jsresearchpro.bsky.social they couldn’t "provide further detail”👇 Remember, they told us to wait for an update a month ago. Nothing since. Seems so out of touch. Just explain what's happening!

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) 🧪🌍🐍 @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...

Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

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) 🧪🌍🐍 @puttert.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

Hi. Thank you to everyone - all 161 people - who signed the letter in support of nominating @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. The nomination was lodged last night. Keep your fingers crossed for a good outcome for our masked hero.

Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush

Functional Ecology@funecology.bsky.social · last yr.

📰Published📰 Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change🌡️ buff.ly/9jFq0Mu 🧪🌍

Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign! forms.gle/ie7b32rWcZKK...

Letter of Support for nomination of @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science

In signing this form you endorse the proposal to nominate @ARC_Tracker for a Eureka Prize in the category 'Leadership in Science'. The list of signatories will be appended to the nomination form. I wi...

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How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ Check out the amazing research by @patricepottier.bsky.social et al. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

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Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

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I made this over the break. Why would I do such a thing? Am I some sort of #phylogenetics dork? Well... yes, but that's not why. To fully explain I'll have to do one of those sewing-strings-wrapped-around-a-spool dealies. 1/ 🧪

I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...

Wildlife Ecologist Lecturer job in Perth at Murdoch University www.seek.com.au/job/80462670...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Wildlife Ecologist Job in Murdoch, Perth WA - SEEK

Join the school of Environmental and Conservation Sciences at Murdoch University as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer-Wildlife Ecologist

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Lecturer position in Conservation Genetics available at Murdoch University #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics www.seek.com.au/job/80462290

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Conservation Genetics Job in Murdoch, Perth WA - SEEK

Join the school of Environmental and Conservation Sciences at Murdoch University as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer-Conservation Genetics

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The "Spags🍝 and snags🌭" study is officially out in @journal-evo.bsky.social w/ @alexskeels.bsky.social and Scott Keogh Shout out to Stephen Zozaya for this amazing photo of the Kimberley shallow-soil blindsnake Check it out at: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... more in this series of post 👇

SA Museum controversial restructure vetoed, with state government promising 'recalibrated' future for institution - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-19/sa-museum-restructure-scrapped-following-government-review/104371408

SA Museum restructure axed after Premier's Review - InDaily https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/19/sa-museum-restructure-axed-after-premiers-review

"Hey Dr Putter PhD, now you can say that you've got more degrees than a thermometer."