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Last night’s trifecta: great drinks, awesome food, and catching up with this legend of a PhD supervisor Keogh Lab

Welcome Dalia, our new lab associate! Huge congrats to Coni and Damien on a job very well done. Damien Esquerre constanza leon Ecology&EvolutionANU

NicheMapR v3.2.1 is now released github.com/mrke/NicheMapR… NicheMapR

Super cool work!

What are 'blind snakes' called in different languages? Does it mean 'blind snake' like in English? Or something else? At least Ian Brennan and I would love to know!

I just received the most chunk of data from Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL). The very first Southern Corroboree frog genome!!!! Getting this genome has been such a long time in the making. Having it should help change the course of the conservation for this highly threatened species. Stay tuned!

Could this be you? 🚨Job alert🚨 permanent Technical Officer WA Museum Boola Bardip | Terrestrial Vertebrate collections 🦆🦎🦘 looking after and managing >274000 specimens and >75000 tissue samples! #MuseumJob #MuseumCollections #ZoologyCollections #CollectionManager
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It's a huge day in our lab! Both Mitzy Pepper and Damien Esquerre just won ARC DECRA fellowships for their fantastic research on arid zone conservation genomics (Dr Pepper) and venom evolution (Damien). Superstars.

My order for the production of documents on the ARC CEO’s requested revisions to the National Interest Test statement was returned late yesterday.

This data reveals the concerning extent of the ARC CEO’s interference & just how broken & unnecessary the NIT is. 🧵

#DitchtheNIT

Following up on my whinge about the lack of ecology in the recent ARC Future Fellowships, here are some data (a real thread this time). 🧵

The ANU Research School of Biology participates in the Tour de Kids challenge to raise money for sick kids. To this end, we will be riding 1600 km in September. Please support your local team, the RSB Cyclodomorphs, with a donation or join us. Thank you. tourdekids.org.au/the-anu-cyclod…

Interested in a PhD studying the conservation, ecology, and/or physiology of declining Australian Turtles? Please consider this opportunity for Australian residents that closes on 31 October.

You can now view #oVertTCN specimens Zach Randall, Ed Stanley & I have been working on Florida Museum. Explore the Digital Imaging Division gallery: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/ga…

Among the images you'll find goodies like Sketchfab models, & links to scans on MorphoSource. Go see!

It's here! Out today in Current Biology. With continental-scale phylogenomics, we reconstruct the diversification of rodents across Sahul (New Guinea, Australia, Maluku, Solomon Islands) since the Miocene cell.com/current-biolog… free access>authors.elsevier.com/a/1fhE63QW8R%7… #ozrodents 🧵/1