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Insects make up over half of all biodiversity of life, yet account for only about 4% of biodiversity research
5th Feb Webinar: Digital Naturalism Laboratories will share their research-making and documenting DIY science tools (e.g. Mothbox)
Register at: events.humanitix.com/sortee-…
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#MarineMondays are back! This series will keep you informed about some of the amazing critters you might discover throughout the Australian summer and what you can do to help them - stay tuned! #ozinverts #reefwatch
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tidyplots is an R package to generate publication-ready plots for scientific papers tidyplots.org/ #rstats
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Collective intelligence of ants solving a puzzle
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December is typically firefly season in Australia. Adult fireflies only live for a few days and don’t eat, as they don’t have any mouthparts. Keep an eye out for these beautiful beetles over the Christmas break! #firefly #christmas #ozinverts
Images: Tim Paasila (iNaturalist)
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Check out our Inside JEB commentary article on our new paper just out in JEB. I think it does a nice job summarising our findings!
As the world gets warmer, it’s stressing out animals like skinks which rely on the temperature around them to control their body temperature. Now, Crino & co show that this stress can also have lifelong affects on the skinks’ children
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ALT A delicate skink on some mulch. Photo credit: Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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🌳We’re seeking a dedicated and skilled Research Ecologist to join our team at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. 🌿
#STRIcareers #SmithsonianTropicalResearchInstitute #Ecologist
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JOB ALERT
We seek an engaged and effective research leader to join us @CamZoology as Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Wonderful colleagues, exciting opportunities to shape @Cambridge_SBS future.
Deadline 6 Jan
More here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48966/
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Fewer Christmas beetles seem to be seen each year, but we have lacked formal monitoring programs to help bolster these claims. 🪲🕵🏼♀️
Help track them by joining the "Christmas Beetle Count" on @inaturalist & check out @invertsau for ID help! spr.ly/6013QHBxW 📚✨
ALT Where have all the Christmas beetles gone? Christmas Beetle Count is a citizen science project between the University of Sydney, Invertebrates Australia & iNaturalist. A Christmas Beetle in a Santa hat is pictured
ALT A bar graph showing the increase in Christmas Beetle records since the inititation of Christmas Beetle Count (2021)
ALT Bar graphs showing the increase in Christmas Beetle look-alike species records since the inititation of Christmas Beetle Count (2021)
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This #WorldSoilDay we want to highlight curl grubs. They are the larva of scarab beetles (a family which includes Christmas Beetles) and can be beneficial to the environment. Avoid using chemicals to help keep them alive! Read more: theconversation.com/dont-kil… #ChristmasBeetles
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Fossil discovery 16 million yrs in the making: a well preserved sawfly, first of its kind in Australia, sheds new light on the co-evolution of insects & toxic plants.
Read about this fascinating find 🔽
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@juanita_rodr @CSIRO @WileyEcolEvol @Systematic_Ent
ALT This ‘extremely well-preserved’ fossil details a new species of now-extinct sawfly. © Michael Frese, University of Canberra.
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Forget everything you learnt about the birds and the bees, because these independent lizard ladies don’t need a man to reproduce 🦎
@BiologyANU @ourANU science.anu.edu.au/news-even…
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Dragonflies: Aerial Predators! Dragonflies control mosquito populations by hunting them in flight AND in the water as larvae! Create a welcoming environment with a pond or water feature in your garden to attract these agile predators #Dragonflies #MosquitoControl #NoSpraySpring
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Congratulations to Dr Sara Ryding (@zuuletc), who has won this year’s PhD ECR Best Paper Plenary Award for the paper “Long- and short-term responses to climate change in body and appendage size of diverse Australian birds”. We’re looking forward to Sara’s plenary at #AusEvol2024!
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A big congratulations to Dr Maddie James (@maddie_e_james ), who has won this year’s postdoctoral ECR Best Paper Plenary Award for the paper “Uncovering the genetic architecture of parallel evolution”. We can’t wait to hear all about Maddie’s research at #AusEvol2024!
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If you are looking for a PhD in insect conservation, pollination, sustainable agriculture, we have some great opportunities for 2025 entry. First step is to email me, with your interest and your cv. Possible projects are described here: zoo.cam.ac.uk/2025-26-projec…
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At 2.5 cm long & weighing less than a gram.... 🪶🥊
Bogong Moths can migrate 1,000 km to Australia’s alps in spring, but their numbers are declining. 🗻🌸
We need YOU! 🕵🏼♀️
Help track Bogong Moths via @ZoosVictoria’s Moth Tracker @ spr.ly/6019m2O9f
📸 | Paul George
ALT A bogong moth perches on a tree.
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Congrats to @arachnik on his latest PhD paper (cosupervised with Kath McNamara and Theresa Jones @urbanlightlab) out today in @royalsociety Biology Letters on impact of artificial light at night on spider brains. #BobWongLab
Link to the OA paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Interested in doing a PhD in Australia? Join our info webinar on 20 August to hear all about the opportunities in our Training Centre events.humanitix.com/phd-opp…
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Stories like this highlight why conservation assessments are critical. They flag what species are present so we can protect them and use legislative power under the EPBC Act. Without this, they can easily go under the radar #threatenedspecies #spider #WA
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