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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#AES2025 Day2, Jackson Randell discusses the importance of understanding genetic purging and its implications for trapdoor spider conservation 🕷️ @austevolsoc.bsky.social @brunobuzatto.bsky.social @rowanlym.bsky.social @reneecatullo.bsky.social

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Patrice Pottier @patricepottier.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️ Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally. See the thread below for a digest 🧵 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Nature

Photo credit: Peter soltys. Image created by Nicholas Wu.

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Focusing on bringing back extinct species distracts from a more urgent reality: species are going extinct right now, and we are not doing enough to save them." @emilyroycroft.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com 🌏 theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...

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Woolly mice are cute and impressive – but they won’t bring back mammoths or save endangered species

“De-extinction” research is a poor alternative to helping ‘pre-extinction’ animals still alive today.

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

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Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today at the UWA School of Biological Sciences Postgraduate Conference, we heard from our brilliant PhD researchers on everything from arachnids to marsupials to magpies! 🕷️🦅🐀 Below is a thread of their presentations 🧵

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Kym Ottewell @kymottewell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm late to the party in sharing this...our paper looking at global genetic diversity change is now out! What did we find? Check out the thread below

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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

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Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

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Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We’ve also created a 2-page policy brief for anyone wanting to learn more about conserving #GeneticDiversity- available in 14 languages (and more to come)! Follow the link below ⬇️ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/uWHeC71Zo8...

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Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Checkout our @aunz.theconversation.com article for 5 strategies that can help safeguard #GeneticDiversity for resilient populations 🧬🐸🌲🦅🦒🍄🐝🐠

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Bruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My legendary students independently made a bunch of stickers for the lab with this logo (which they also created; art by Diego Solano-Brenes). I'm so lucky to have this crew — check their projects out here: www.buzatto.info/people Special thanks to Tricia Slattery and Diego!

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hot off the press. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

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Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

3 year #Entomology museum job at the Western Australian Museum. Apply if you ❤️ insects, collections and identifying! 🦟🪰🦗🐜🐝🪲 search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

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WA Government Jobs | Project Officer (Entomology)

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

📣 Heredity best student paper prize talk We look forward to Kate's talk tomorrow at Popgroup Thur 9th @10am (LT1 ) Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social #pgg58

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Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation - Heredity

Heredity - Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation

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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Harry Moore @harryymoore.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've recently been trialling some thermal binoculars to help with creature tracking. Pretty impressed so far, picking up lots of things that are often tough to get eye shine out of, like this chuditch (western quoll) #WildOz

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 20/12/2024

A Perspective explores the consequences of bypassing natural selection in assisted reproduction—including the filtering of sperm for quality inside the female reproductive tract—and options to mimic such selection to reduce risks to offspring. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can bypass female-modulated sperm selection (top of figure) that ensure that genetically compatible or competent sperm are used for fertilization. ART can also introduce a range of novel environmental stressors (bottom of figure) that generate epigenetic modifications in offspring. Failure to design procedures that both mimic natural conditions and mitigate the harmful effect of unnatural environmental conditions during ART can impact the health trajectories of ART offspring and potentially their descendants.

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Alastair J Wilson @ali--wilson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Happy new year all. Last couple of weeks for this PhD opp so giving it a bump. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested. I'm back to work 6th and happy to chat to anyone with questions from then on.

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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

3: A great paper by student Ash Potter showing that sperm respiration is density dependent: sperm remain quiescent at high densities to conserve energy. This idea was first proposed ~100 years ago but Ash’s work was the first to comprehensively confirm it. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Per capita sperm metabolism is density dependent

Summary: Patterns of density-dependent metabolism extend beyond diploid phases into haploid phases – sperm exhibit metabolic plasticity in response to changes in density, which is likely an adaptive r...

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The life of each of us began when a sperm and an egg came together. But what happens at a molecular level? Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"We describe a #mtDNA variant that confers protection against variety of pathogens in #Drosophila. This protection was at least partially caused by enhanced cell-mediated innate #immunity, including higher numbers of immune cells prior to and during infection." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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A naturally occurring mitochondrial genome variant confers broad protection from infection in Drosophila

Author summary The strength of immune response and the disease symptoms vary among individuals even when exposed to the same pathogen. Much of this variation is due to the genes directly involved in a...

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Erica Larson @ellarson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We have a postdoc position available in the lab on post-copulatory barriers in hybridizing crickets. We have genomic data ready to be analyzed and crickets ready for experiments. This is a great collaborative group and a study system with a lot of potential for new projects. Join us!

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Here we are releasing Arasari the Chuditch back into the wild at Mt Gibson. He'd run 30km+ onto a neighbouring property so we brought him back to the release area where he'll be safer from feral predators and more likely to contribute to the gene pool. #WildOz

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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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.

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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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!

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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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)

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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That’s a wrap! From the AES executive committee, we’d like to sincerely thank all attendees of #AusEvol2024 for a wonderful 3 days in Perth

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Don A. Driscoll @dadriscoll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Update on conservation status of Australia's freshwater fish. It looks grim and more effort needed to limit invasive trout and habitat loss. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

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Scientists say 35 freshwater fish species should be added to the threatened species list

The largest survey of Australia's freshwater fish suggests about one third should be listed as threatened species.

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Don A. Driscoll @dadriscoll.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏 The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic... The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q

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‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire

Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.

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Don A. Driscoll @dadriscoll.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature

Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...

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Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If animal conservation and cool genetics approaches are your thing please consider giving my outstanding colleague @theg-cat.bsky.social a follow for the latest on innovative approaches to conservation of reptiles, birds and mammals with a side serving of fish.

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Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I’ve been very slack about posting on Bluesky, but this work with the brilliant @jesshadlow.bsky.social and Jon Evans is a great place to start! Here Jess provides to our knowledge the strongest evidence yet for within-ejaculate cryptic female choice. Thanks to @muriellealund.bsky.social for sharing

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