Absolutely elated to finally share this manuscript 🐸🧬 We designed the first custom SNP array for an #amphibian and used it to uncover the genetic diversity in this threatened species which is maintained in a closed captive population. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So excited to share that I am officially a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University ✨ Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!

And just like that, I am #PhDone 🥳 Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴

Okay this is beautiful and how all stats explainers should be!

Holly Kirk@hollykirk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Helping a student with modelling - wanted to feel a little more confident explaining GLMMs so I reached for this oldy, but goody, visual explainer: mfviz.com/hierarchical... Maybe you'll find it useful And remember - it's OK to need a brain refresher, even for things that you feel you *should* know!

Trapdoor spiders are the best. 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country

It’s the first #frogfriday for 2025, so what better way then to share our new preprint 🐸🍄 We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️ shorturl.at/GJQtI

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

zamudiolab.org

A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social. Achievements unlocked!

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

It’s #frogfriday so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸

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... 🐍🧪🐸🔬

What do you study merch on point today 🐸👌 But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹

🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...

Our new preprint on designing the first custom SNP array for a #frog is out now! 🤩🐸🧬 Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity… @keoghlabanu.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....

Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack: go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪

Elated to share the 2nd chapter of my #PhD was just published 🎉 We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Okay how freakin cute is this, his even wearing a lil #PhD bonnet 🥹

So happy to have finished my completion seminar, next up thesis submission! 💪

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.

theconversation.com

A handful of baby corroboree goodness because this place is way better, and hopefully I can find my #frog lovin friends here 🤞🐸

Such an exciting first post here, because my #PhD completion seminar is next Thursday 🥳🐸🎓 If you’re interested in #frogs, more specifically the iconic corroboree frogs and chytrid fungus you can tune in at 12pm AEDT 👇