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It's a big day for Australasian mammal fans, with three new marsupials from West Papua! For me, the best bit is that two of them closely resemble fossils from Pleistocene sites in Queensland. Papers are open access, so go read 'em!

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Two PhD scholarships are available at Murdoch University within the WEEP Lab on bat ecophysiology in the Pilbara.

🌏 Open to domestic & international applicants
📝 Applications close 30th March 2026

More information about eligibility, selection criteria, and how to apply can be found below!

New phylogenomic paper led by Janne Torkkola on Sphenomorphini - Australia's biggest vertebrate radiation🦎out now in MPE!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

Phylogenomics and the origins of sharks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705779v1

Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard Ramm et al. show that Quaternary climate change predicts local extinctions and intraspecific differences in genetic diversity of the threatened Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis). Their data suggest...

Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

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Happy #WorldSnakeDay from your mates over at @squamatespod.bsky.social! 🐍🧪

Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Good morning Australasian reptile genomics folks (that seems very specific).

The Open Consortium on Squamate Genomics has a presentation by Arthur Georges (Uni Canberra) on Telomere-to-Telomere reptile genomes, this morning at 9am AEST.

Join us for some dragon chat!

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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

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) 🧪🌍🐍
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Text: Emily Roycroft, 2025 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize. Headshot of Emily Roycroft.

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

Review of evidence that foxes and cats cause extinctions of Australia's endemic mammals Abstract. Over half of Australia's threatened and extinct endemic mammal species have been attributed to introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and cats (Fel

A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪

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Helping @austevolsoc.bsky.social advertise!
careers.deakin.edu.au/en/job/57142...

the tinyURLs seems to be broken. I think this is the ad

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I'm opening a K-12 learning centre in Canberra! We'll offer after-school courses in STEM, digital art, public speaking, and maths & English tutoring. It's been my dream to contribute to children's education, and I'm excited to open in just a month. ivlearning.au 🧵1/3

Job ad: Senior Ecologist with Sydney Water This is a great opportunity for a Senior Ecologist to join the high-performing and collaborative Environment and Heritage Services team. You will be responsible for providing ecological advice and conducting biodiversity assessment to support the approval of infrastructure projects along the asset value chain. Your subject matter expertise will also support strategic and operational business needs.

Job ad: Ecologist South Australia with Bush Heritage Fantastic opportunity to work within a leading conservation organisation. The Ecologist will be responsible for development and implementation of the science and ecology programs. It is expected that this position will be available to support Bush Heritage partnerships in conservation, pastoral and Indigenous Protected Area sectors.

Student opportunity: PHD - multiple opportunities We offer up to four PhD projects with scholarships in the project ‘Community completeness in monitoring of post-mining restoration success’. The project is a collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Camerino, Italy, as well as two mining industry partners – Iluka Resources Ltd and Alcoa of Australia Ltd. This collaborative research between ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists and restoration practitioners will investigate why particular plant species and plant functions are absent from post-mining vegetation, using the ecological concepts of species pools, dark diversity, and community completeness.

Student opportunity: PHD: Measuring ecosystem recovery and conservation impact The project will involve conducting assessments for several threatened ecosystems to measure how close they are to ‘full recovery’, their past conservation legacy, and their recovery potential. The student will contribute to a broader project that is working to develop a global standard for measuring ecosystem recovery, similar to the Green Status of Species.

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Checkout our @aunz.theconversation.com article for 5 strategies that can help safeguard #GeneticDiversity for resilient populations
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New preprint from myself and @snaildit.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

We looked at how domain adaptation can overcome errors caused by model violations when using neural networks to test for introgression between two populations.

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Accessible hybrid conferences are possible and affordable at large scale - Nature Astronomy In August 2024, the International Astronomical Union General Assembly was held for the first time on the African continent, as a fully hybrid and open-access conference. This opportunity to approach s...

HOW TO... hold a conference for thousands of attendees in person and hundreds of people online in a way that worked for both sets of people.

The cost of hybrid was covered by online attendee registration, and substantially increased the reach of the meeting.

🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour

Deadline: 24th Jan 2025

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology at Max Planck Institute Plön, Germany, offers funded doctoral positions starting Sep 2025. Applications open until Feb 26. More info: http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs #gradstudent

A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab:

One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan)

And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)

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A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…

Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoctoral/Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level A/BSalary package: $85,010 - $131,227 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: 3x Full-time, Fixed Term (Up to December 2027) The Position Three academic positions are ava...

Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs

See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share
#postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions
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A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵