*New Paper Alert!* nature.com/articles/s4146… As my friend & former labmate Liang Ma says: "Deserts may lack water, but they do not lack life!" 🌵 These ecosystems are unique & diverse, yet also expected to be hit especially hard by climate change now & in decades to come. 1/8

#Postdoc position available on the #Trophic dynamics of #Ross #seals in the #Weddell sea, #Antarctica! Come work with me & Trevor McIntyre. 2-years, fully funded, travel options available. See details here: bit.ly/3BCSJOY @UnisaScience UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ZooEntUP

Dr Shannon Conradie is shortlisted as one of the Top 5 for the Jennifer Oppenheimer Ward Grant.

ACCEPTED for publication in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Variable choice affects estimations of vulnerability to climate change | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… @krista_natasha Shannon R. Conradie | #ornithology

#CallForPapers 📝: Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations in a Changing World Explore the world of thermoregulation and metabolic adaptations with Journal of Thermal Biology ! Share your research on how life copes with change. Deadline: Jan 15, 2024. #ThermalAdaptations #SEBiology

Following our The Company of Biologists workshop last year, the early-career researchers who attended penned this commentary: The challenges, opportunities and future of comparative physiology in the Global South: perspectives of early-career researchers journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Huge congratulations to Shannon R. Conradie on winning the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer research grant! Shannon's research uses scenario modelling to understand and predict changes in desert birds’ behaviour as they respond to global temperature change. #ORC2024 #OGRC

Congrats Shannon R. Conradie! Can’t wait to see your research findings. A well deserved recipient of this prestigious award for early career researchers.

Calling early career researchers interested in conservation physiology and science communication! We are looking for writers for our Conservation Physiology in Action series, see our website for further details: academic.oup.com/conphys/pages/… #ECR #SciComm

*Exciting new paper alert* Mapping tree canopy thermal refugia for birds using biophysical models and LiDAR link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Mapping tree canopy thermal refugia for birds using biophysical models and LiDAR | link.springer.com/article/10.100… | International Journal of Thermal Biometeorology | #ornithology

Important paper! Shannon R. Conradie used 100's of behavioural focals to inform biophysical models and improve their predictions. She found 3 southern African birds are at greater risk of lethal hyperthermia using behaviourally informed biophysical models: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Integrating fine-scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #Birds #Hypothermia #Ecophysiology @‌ecography.bsky.social Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

I am searching for a PhD candidate interested in investigating how knowledge of thermal physiology an d ecology of wild pollinators can help promote biodiversity conservation 🐝 Dynamic thermal team at Lund Univeristy. Apply by March 20 👇 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

It’s time to take science to the southern hemisphere! Save the date for the 1st Austral Animal Physiology Conference. Brazil, 6-9 Dec 2026. Follow aapc2026 on Instagram #comparativephysiology #ecophysiology #conservationphysiology #globalsouth

Little is known of heat-related mortality risks for 🐦‍⬛ birds in humid lowlands. This study indicates that avians in such environments face increasing risk of lethal hypothermia, although vegetation may provide a thermal buffer 🌳 Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conphy…