Happy #MosasaurMonday! For an animal as common in museums as mosasaurs (> 4,000 specimens in N.A. alone), you may be surprised to hear that there are still 2 *fundamental* unanswered questions about them: what are they, & how many times did they become marine? a #scicomm 🧵...

New addition to the bookshelf Julie Angell

Really cool PhD opportunity Griffith University with Paul Oliver, working on 🇵🇬 biodiversity and how it relates to 🇦🇺 biodiversity. Application details in the ad: griffith.edu.au/research-study…

PhD Scholarship alert! Two positions open in the broad area of Australasian biogeography Griffith University in sunny (and biodiverse) Qld! Supervised by Paul Oliver, with possible co-supervision from Assoc. Prof. Ali Chauvenet (She/Her), Matt Phillips QUT or myself. Details: griffith.edu.au/research-study…

Nerd alert! #ScholarshipsAvailable Come study the evolution and history of biotic exchange between Australian and Papuan vertebrate lineages. PhD scholarships available with Dr Paul Oliver at #GriffithUniversity, details in link below 🦎🐸 griffith.edu.au/research-study…

Bird of paradise posters for sale by an insanely talented artist!

לישראל אין בעיית הסברה. לישראל יש בעיה של מדיניות של כיבוש וקולוניאליזם על עם אחר. בעולם של 2024 שבו אנו חיים שום סרטוני הסברה/ציוצים/האשטגים לא יצליחו לשנות את זה. אם מדינת ישראל רוצה לשנות את דעת הקהל עליה היא צריכה לשנות מדיניות שהיא לא כיבוש והתנחלויות. שמחתי לעזור

I've just learned that it's the day of the chameleons! I did a few illustrations of Veiled Chameleons for a children book 14 years ago.

Latest research out, from an excellent project led by @Samanth97963033 with the rest of the Cesar Australia team

I'm excited to announce that starting October 2024, I'll be opening a lab at the Technion Faculty of Biology! Biology Technion We will study the role of unique cell types in visual behaviors in zebrafish, using genetic tools, imaging, and behavioral approaches.

New paper led by Alex Slavenko uses models to explore the potential for transinfected endosymbionts to spread through aphid populations Cesar Australia PEARG authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

עכשיו בקפלן בגין, בהפגנה למען העסקה לשחרור החטופים ולסיום המלחמה. אני פה כדי לומר די להרג הפלסטינים בעזה, די להפקרת החטופים, די להרג בגדה המערבית, ודי לממשלה של מתנחלים שבשם השנאה לעם שלי, העם הפלסטיני, שורפת גם את העם היהודי. בואו הצטרפו אלינו לתנועת עומדים ביחד. רק ביחד ננצח.

I'm sorry, Lebanon. I know this doesn't mean much while you're being bombed and displaced, but know that there are Israelis who don't support this aggression against you. Some of us know that a ceasefire in Gaza could have stopped this madness.

If you kill everyone who you said was sabotaging ceasefire deals and then you still don’t make a deal, it sort of looks like you never wanted to make a deal. Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

Why is it so hard to hold two simple truths? Hamas should have never taken hostages and/or should have released them immediately. And it is wrong in every way to punish the whole population of Gaza for Hamas’s crimes. Not hard, I think.

May I offer US friends an Australian proverb in these trying times: Yeah nah shit's pretty fucked ay

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study