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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Congratulations to Population Biology and Genomics @ Curtin's Dr Brenton von Takach for winning the ECR of the Year award in the 2024 Curtin Research Excellence and Engagement awards!! So proud! 👏🏽🎉🏆 @certhionyx.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/curtin...

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Coding Club is going strong! 💻💪😊 Today Michael Adamos presented on 'Multivariate statistical analysis in R' and research being undertaken by the forensic and analytical chemistry team. The Population Biology and Genomics team are proud to run this club😁 @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

👨‍💻Great to see so many people at the launch of the Curtin School of Molecular & Life Sciences Coding Club!👩‍💻Presented by the Population Biology and Genomics team, the club is for staff + students to help each other with coding and coding-related problems @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

🎇PhD Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin University🎇 Project: Estimating dispersal from population genomics data Supervisor: Prof Ben Phillips @benflips.bsky.social Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... Please share!

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Honours Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin University! Project: Could bilbies facilitate the Cane Toad invasion? Supervisor: Prof. Ben Phillips & Dr @judydunlop.bsky.social Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... @benflips.bsky.social

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

🎇PhD Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin University🎇 Project: Integrating population ecology & decision theory to inform invasive species management Supervisor: Prof Ben Phillips @benflips.bsky.social Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... Please share!

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Damian Lettoof @lettsgetsnakes.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

First detection of rat poisons in wild amphibians... authors.elsevier.com/a/1i-sK_17Gg...

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Dr. Sean Buckley @congensean.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Are you a herper 🦎🧪student looking for a postgrad research project? Well boy do I have a project for you! Join @pezoporus.bsky.social, @certhionyx.bsky.social and I in Perth for a Masters project on connectivity and genetic diversity of two urban reptile species! May include fieldwork if desired.

Flyer describing research project titled "Navigating the urban environment: landscape genomics of two skink species in Perth." Text reads "Understanding connectivity across the urban environment is an important part of conservation management. This exciting Masters research project will combine genomic and environmental data to assess connectivity and genetic diversity in two fossorial skinks endemic to Western Australia — Buchanan’s snake-eyed skink, commonly found in urban gardens, and West-coast laterite ctenotus, restricted to remnant bushland. Comparing how these two different species move across the landscape will help inform conservation management of urban biodiversity. The student will conduct lab-based (DNA extractions) and computer-based (bioinformatics and population genomics analysis) work in this project. Field work is not required but may be optionally included. The student will be supervised by Dr Sean Buckley, Dr Rob Davis, Dr Brenton Von Takach (Curtin University) and

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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

We found a stripe-faced dunnart well outside of its known range in WA. Short paper here --> www.publish.csiro.au/ZO/ZO23045. Photo by Josh Keen

An adorable small marsupial with a stripe of black fur running from the top of the head down to the nose, it stands on a substrate of dry bark and leaves, facing the camera and poised as if to leap away from the photographer

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

If you know someone interested in reptiles - please let them know about this opportunity!

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

It is April here in Western Australia & we're hitting the 6 month mark since we had any meaningful rainfall. The hills to the east of Perth are quiet, as if holding their breath, waiting for the heat to break & refreshing rains of Djeran to begin.

A deep blue sky is striated with high clouds, above the dry shrubby heathland of the Darling scarp. The low vegetation is baked to a rich yellow brown colour, with the sparse and twisted moodjar (Nuytsia floribunda) and spikey-topped balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) standing tall.

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04... Looks like WA might be witnessing the 2nd ever "forest collapse" on record right now. Places shown in the article are all areas I've visited several times in the last 6 months & entire stands of vegetation have died between visits. Scary stuff. #climateChange 🌏🧪🪶

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Ecologists warn of second 'forest collapse' event in WA as record dry spell continues

It's been likened to coral bleaching, but on land — and experts are fearful dry conditions have Western Australia on the brink of another devastating 'forest collapse' event.

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

🏙️🌳Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin recently brought WABSI and Curtin representatives together in a forum on urban biodiversity research. Thanks to all who participated. 🏙️🌳 Read more here: popbiolgenomics.org/news/WABSIFo... @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social @hollykirk.bsky.social

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

🎇Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin hosted the 'Cost and Feasibility of Eradication' workshop this week. Thanks presenters Dr Dave Ramsey, Dr Michael, Scroggie, Dr Dean Anderson, and thanks our attendees for participating!🎇@benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social @thescrogster.bsky.social

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

📢 New paper out! Ever wondered what's going on with the random patch of grass behind your house? Wanted to know how much vegetation is hiding beside railways? Our method identifies & maps these informal green spaces! 🌿🗺️ 🌏🧪 #urban #urbanNature #urbanPlanning www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure from the paper showing a map of the City of Darebin, Victoria, Aus with different types of informal green space identified. Examples of the different types of informal green space are shown in thumbnail images around the map: brownfield sites, utility easements, street verges, railway sidings and vacant lots.

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

🎇Join us at Curtin University this Fri 08/03 at 3pm for a seminar featuring Prof. Ben Phillips and Dr Brenton von Takach of the Population Biology and Genomics Group! 🤩🧬 More on the group here: popbiolgenomics.org Abstracts, details, & bios in images 👇. @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Expressions of interest for this PhD project and scholarship opportunity with Dr Brenton von Takach and Prof. Ben Phillips close this week! please share with your networks. 🪲🪳🪰🪱👨‍🔬🧬 @certhionyx.bsky.social @benflips.bsky.social

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Pitcher plant traps have evolved at least six times, with two types found in Australia: the southwestern Cephalotus, which contains just a single species, and the tropical genus Nepenthes, which is represented by a few species (3000 km away!) in far north Queensland

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

A shot-hole borer invasion in Perth threatens urban trees, important crops and native forests. Understanding the impacts of both the pest and its management will ensure we get the best possible outcomes in both the short and long term. theconversation.com/australias-s...

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Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack

It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

🎇PhD Opportunity - with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin!🎇 Project: Understanding animal dispersal and habitat connectivity using genomic data Supervisor: Dr Brenton von Takach Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... About the group here: popbiolgenomics.org @certhionyx.bsky.social

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

📝 New quoll paper is out! 🧬 Declining populations of northern quolls will lose genetic diversity through time. If we strategically conserve at least eight populations across Australia, we can prevent the loss of > 90 % of that diversity! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I have a funded PhD project for someone! It's a good mix of landscape ecology and biology with cool fieldwork, and will build skills in genomics and data analysis. Focal species are native and invasive invertebrates. Please tell anyone who might be interested! popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie...

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Just uploaded the first ever published or online photos of Cyathostemon gracilis, a lovely southwest endemic Myrtaceae shrub with slender branchlets and decussate leaves: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

It's been a busy end to 2023 for the Curtin University Population Biology and Genomics Group! Check out the latest updates and news here: popbiolgenomics.org/news/ @certhionyx.bsky.social @benflips.bsky.social

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Good to be back onto the orchid content that we all know and love. Here's some of the latest found just east of Perth

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

If you've got a spare 20 minutes, have a listen to my chat with the Director of the Forrest Research Foundation about conservation and invasive species in Australia open.spotify.com/episode/6tHe...

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