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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Our TREE paper is now out in its final published form! Well done @yoricklambreghts.com for leading this and doing the heavy lifting! DM him for a PDF. @cellpress.bsky.social

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Our recent paper on lizard societies now online in a special issue of Animal Behaviour. DM if you want me to send you a PDF.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It’s a proud moment when your star exPhD student, now early career researcher, is the senior author on a Biology Letters paper in the same issue of Biology Letters as you. And to be precise, the paper above! @lizabeldm.bsky.social

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A huge congrats to Dr Jai Lake! Jai just gave his exit seminar at Macquarie on why lizards are social. To be slightly more precise, his PhD was about the mechanisms underlying sociality. Papers are submitted and in prep! Watch this space. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While at Univ. Tasmania.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Just out - our review of social learning in reptiles and its implications for animal culture. Part of a special issue on animal culture and conservation in a changing world. Happy to send a PDF if requested.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Huge congrats to Jai Lake for submitting his PhD thesis on the mechanisms underpinning social complexity. A huge amount of work - Jai learnt a whole range of new skills in the process. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While (Uni Tasmania), with help from Dan Hoops + colleagues at Columbia University.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Check out biologists Maddi Holmes and Kathy Potter from @muche-macquarie.bsky.social talking frog science at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Happy birthday to the architect of natural selection and evolutionary theory - a true legend! Here he is as a youngster. We will be celebrating his birthday in our lab meeting today. #charlesdarwin #darwin #originofspecies #naturalselection

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Huge congrats to recent grads Dr. Victoria Russell and Dr. Yorick Lambreghts cosupervised by me, Geoff While and Erik Wapstra through the University of Tasmania. Both spent substantial time in the Lizard Lab at Macquarie University. Well done!

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Christine Wilson (@keytarchris) is retiring from the Lizard Lab after 10 years service! Chris has helped with field work, ordering supplies, checking on animals on weekends and public holidays including Christmas. Chris has been a great friend and supporter of the lab and we can’t thank her enough!

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Huge congrats to Rachel Wong for graduating with a Masters of Research! Rachel worked on quantity discrimination in water skinks, which we hope to submit for publication soon.

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

The Lizard Lab had a great week at ISBE in Melbourne a few weeks back. We had lab alumni, honorary and current members all give great talks! Well done everyone! #isbe2024

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