I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Feeling incredibly grateful to be presenting at such an important conference in the same city where I completed my master's degree. This is where I used to dream about doing the kind of work I have the privilege to do today @isbe2026.bsky.social

Paper alert! 🦎 Can lizards count? How does early-environment affect their quantity discrimination abilities? We investigated these questions. New paper w/ @danielwanoble.bsky.social @cpictus.bsky.social [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-026-10412-4]

Special thanks to Pablo Recio for doing the last talk at #ASSAB2026 about "Hormonal mechanisms of pair bonding in long-term monogamous reptiles"

Amazing talk by my partner @pablorecio93.bsky.social at ASSAB 2026 (@animbehav.bsky.social), and funnily, about pair bonding in reptiles

Amazing talk by @lisafontana.bsky.social at #ASSAB2026 @animbehav.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🦜 We gave wild cockatoos puzzle boxes across Canberra’s urban gradient. The finding? Urban birds approach faster, but are not better solvers. Our results suggest that urbanization shapes neophobia independently from cognitive performance. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Social and ecological factors associated with innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita)

Cities are challenging places for wildlife, but some species, like sulfur-crested cockatoos, adapt by finding new ways to feed and solve problems. We studi

doi.org

A new study shows how the handling of small ectotherms 🐸 can impact recordings of their body temperatures 🌡️. A modified Foerster forcep may help reduce heat transfer during handling & provide more accurate measurements of body temperature. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Italian friends! Sono stata invitata a partecipare ad un episodio di ‘Disco scienza’ con Andrea Bellati, se siete curiosi di saperne di più sulle mie ricerche andate ad ascoltare 🦜 open.spotify.com/episode/3sFz...

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is approaching 1000 members! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Excited to share insights on urban cockatoos innovations at the Australasian Ornithological Conference 2025, in Perth

Big day yesterday, CleverCockie lab member Lisa Fontana @lisafontana.bsky.social finished the last day of data collection for her PhD, completing an experiment on social learning in cockatoos. Congratulations Lisa! 🎉

📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species #Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Heat or stress hormones experienced in early life often impair cognition. A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that spatial learning is unaffected in lizards when the eggs experienced such stressors. 🦎🥚 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @pablorecio93.bsky.social @danielwanoble.bsky.social

Prenatal conditions do not affect brain physiology and learning in a lizard

Early environmental factors like heat or stress hormones can impair learning through brain metabolic function, crucial for neural development and synaptic plasticity. However, whether early environmen...

journals.biologists.com

Join Pablo Recio Santiago, PhD Candidate from the Noble Group, for his presentation on 6 June 2025 at 3pm! Details: rb.gy/agqx6d

E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Unravelling the interaction between hormones and incubation temperature on lizard cognition

Cognition plays a vital role in survival and reproduction, yet individuals often differ in their cognitive abilities. In my thesis, I investigated the combined influence of prenatal corticosterone (CO...

rb.gy