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Kim is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia working on invertebrate cognition, with a current focus on intraspecific variation in cognitive ability. When she’s not staring at ants, Kim enjoys pilates, baking, and occasional photography. 🐜
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@hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia currently working on sexual selection in cowpea seed beetles. He is not a father, yet still doesn’t have time for hobbies or interests of his own 🥀
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@simone66b.bsky.social is an Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland. Her work sits at the intersection of quantitative methods and evolutionary biology. Beyond academia, she enjoys modern jazz and punk rock. 🎷
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@puttert.bsky.social is a postdoc at the Australian National University working on phylogenomics and conservation genetics mostly on amphibians and reptiles. He is originally from Thailand. Outside of academia, Putter loves SCUBA diving and football ⚽🍌
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Yong is a DECRA fellow at the University of Western Australia working on the impact of sexual selection on life history traits and their trade-offs. One current focus is the physiological mechanisms mediating these effects, such as diet and oxidative stress 🥦
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@timtemizyurek.bsky.social is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland studying how eco-evo shapes individuals and populations of duckweeds. Outside of work he is interested in the extended evolutionary synthesis, philosophy of science and magic realism 🪄
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@kristoffer-wild.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher at the Biophysical Ecology lab at the University of Melbourne, interested in how animals function across variable environments. Outside of his work, he enjoys travelling, photography, and kayaking 🚣🏻♂️
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@alexskeels.bsky.social is a DECRA Fellow at ANU where he works on a broad range of topics relating to biogeography, macroecology, and paleoenvironments. He likes to hang out with his dog, read sci-fi, play the drums, and throw down on the pottery wheel 🏺
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@erinmacartney.bsky.social is an post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sydney, where she is particularly interested in how the environment impacts post-copulatory traits including male-male and male-female reproductive interactions ✍️
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Alistair is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney, who works on the effects of nutrition on life-history traits. From the UK, he moved to Australia in 2014. He is a father of two, and thus has no time for any hobbies or interests of his own 🧑🧒🧒
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@ondicrino.bsky.social is a senior lecturer in animal behaviour at Flinders, where her work centres around how developmental conditions shape endocrine responses that affect behaviour and physiology across life history 🐦🦎
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@damienesquerre.bsky.social is a lecturer and researcher in Biological Sciences from the University of Wollongong, focusing on evolutionary processes, specifically in reptiles and amphibians. In his spare time, he is an avid wildlife photographer 📷
New paper out with @tahliafulton.bsky.social and Alistair Senior! A complementary meta-analysis of Ivimey-Cook, Sultanova & Maklakov (2025) where we find that lifespan extending treatments dont square the survival curve.
Longer life ≠ compressed mortality.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
📍Here is the link for more information:
www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola...
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!
ECR/Postdoc position - 2 years.
ARC Discovery Project - Transgenerational implications of microplastic toxicity.
Field and mammal handling experience preferred. Microplastic analysis experience ideal.
Scope to support a PhD student.
Please email Renée (renee.firman@uwa.edu.au) for more details!
Final Week to Register!
AES 2025 | Brisbane | 1–3 Oct
🗓 Registration closes 29 Sept
Don’t miss your chance to be part of three days of evolutionary science, talks & community.
Secure your spot now!
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Last call!
Final registration for AES 2025 in Brisbane closes 29 Sept
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Calling all evolutionary biologists! 🧬
AES 2025 | UQ Brisbane | 1–3 Oct
Early-bird registration close 1 Sept
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AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now!
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
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AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now!
Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.
Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc
Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...
Calling all evolutionary biologists!
**AES 2025 Conference**
📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct
**Talks close 1 Sept**
Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community!
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#AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci
Postdoc in Avian Behaviour (2.5 yrs)
Study evolution of escape behaviour in threatened birds.
ARC-funded project w/ Matt Symonds & Mike Weston (Deakin), Lee Ann Rollins (UNSW).
Exp. in bird behavioural ecology required
Apply : careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
Flight cancelled so making the most of an extra day in Western Australia post #AusEvol2024 🦞
Had a great experience presenting some of my PhD work at #AusEvol2024 in beautiful Perth last week!
Check out my recently published paper in Ecology and Evolution about mito-nuclear incompatibilities between populations of the stingless bee Tetragonula hockingsi (part of my Honours project, and it's open access!): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A HUGE congratulations to Jennifer Evans for taking out the award for best student talk at #AusEvol2024.
Thank you to the wonderful Arludo for sponsoring the award.
Congratulations to our winners of the top 5 best student presentations, Rhiannon Eastment (@rhieastment@bsky.social), Chris Blake, Jack Manera, Kate Cooper, and Shiho Ozeki (shiho-ozeki@bsky.social)! And congratulations to Patricia Slattery for taking out the best flash talk!
Congratulations to Sarin “Putter” Tiatragul (@puttert.bsky.social) for being awarded the best postdoc presentation at #AusEvol2024! And a big congratulations to runners up Joe Meng-Han Joseph Chung and Upama Aich (@upama.bsky.social)
Had a great time presenting some of my early PhD results at #AusEvol2024! (As well as visiting the quokkas and penguins)
