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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Absolutely elated to finally share this manuscript 🐸🧬 We designed the first custom SNP array for an #amphibian and used it to uncover the genetic diversity in this threatened species which is maintained in a closed captive population. Read it here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

So excited to share that I am officially a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University ✨ Excited for the next few years, working across several exciting projects, not just 🐸, but 🪰🦐🐨🐠🐕🪸🦪 in the Animal Genomics & Breeding Laboratory!

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And just like that, I am #PhDone 🥳 Couldn’t be prouder, happier or more tired. So much to be said, but for now we celebrate and we sleep 💃🍸😴

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Okay this is beautiful and how all stats explainers should be!

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Trapdoor spiders are the best. 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It’s the first #frogfriday for 2025, so what better way then to share our new preprint 🐸🍄 We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️ shorturl.at/GJQtI

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social. Achievements unlocked!

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s #frogfriday so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸

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Simon Maddock @simonmaddock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau... 🐍🧪🐸🔬

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

What do you study merch on point today 🐸👌 But seriously how cute is this, my lab used a photo I took and got it embroidered onto a hat for my #PhD defence 🥹

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...

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The Waiting

Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Our new preprint on designing the first custom SNP array for a #frog is out now! 🤩🐸🧬 Designed to improve conservation outcomes in the Endangered corroboree frog, we genotyped >900 frogs, looked at their population structure & diversity… @keoghlabanu.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack: go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Elated to share the 2nd chapter of my #PhD was just published 🎉 We looked at the impacts of Bd isolate and dose used in experimental exposures, and found they have significant impacts on infection outcomes 👎🐸🍄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Okay how freakin cute is this, his even wearing a lil #PhD bonnet 🥹

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So happy to have finished my completion seminar, next up thesis submission! 💪

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

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Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A handful of baby corroboree goodness because this place is way better, and hopefully I can find my #frog lovin friends here 🤞🐸

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Such an exciting first post here, because my #PhD completion seminar is next Thursday 🥳🐸🎓 If you’re interested in #frogs, more specifically the iconic corroboree frogs and chytrid fungus you can tune in at 12pm AEDT 👇

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