Huge congratulations to Milad Esmaeilbeigi on his first PhD paper, out now! Milad found evidence for a metal disease refuge from the deadly #amphibian #chytrid fungus, possibly explaining persistence of some populations of threatened #frogs 🐸 Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics authors.elsevier.com/c/1jalD3Ao67Ut2

Applications for the 2025 AWC ecology internship program are now open! Applying for an AWC internship was one of the best decisions I ever made: I loved mine so much I never left! If you're thinking of applying, I'm happy to answer questions about my experience with the program.

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

Warm winters are waking snakes early. Here’s what that means for them and us theconversation.com/warm-winters-a… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Damian Lettoof, Chris Jolly (Twitter absconder), and I just published an article on The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about the possible impact of a changing climate on snake sightings and abundance in Australia: theconversation.com/warm-winters-a…

Linear Regression clearly explained 👇🏻

Curve Fitting Methods

Meet Pugh’s Mountain Frog (Philoria pughi) 🐸 Breeding from spring to summer, this little frog can be heard calling in the Gibraltar Range and Washpool National Park in far northern NSW. If you're in their area, listen out for their low-pitched 'orrk' call. 📷: Stephen Mahony

A fun project finally published! We have genomic work coming out for some #snakes, but our survey work served as great data on its own for a fun paper on microhabitat and species distributions! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Another productive meeting the other day with the Oceania regional chapter of the IUCN Snake Specialist Group! Including bringing expert minds together to try and solve some bewildering mysteries uncovered in recent research w/in the group relating to snake conservation in Oz.

JOB ALERT. Come and work with the CSIRO & School of Biological Sciences, UWA as a quantitative field ecologist. A 2 year postdoc based in Perth working across the Kimberley & Pilbara on developing biocontrol for an invasive vine. Please RT! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/518340/…

As I’m about to take off to USA and attend the #SETAC conference I thought it fitting to finally read this classic, the book that kicked ecotoxicology into action! Catch ya soon Texas 🫡

First North American herp! A Texas spiny lizard I found in a park down the road from my hotel 🎉

𝗧𝗮𝗱𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱! It's Friday, and you know how we do it! Our #photographerfeature is 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀' image of tadpoles, which won the Natural History Museum #wildlifephotographeroftheyear

Awesome to see more snake work on PFAS happening! Finding similar patterns to my tiger snake work #setac2024

🚨 New paper! 🚨 ~100 mya two-toed theropod trackway is first indirect record of flap-running in a non-avian dinosaur (flapping to run quicker). Read more PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Brought to life by Julius T. Csotonyi #ADececchi #KSKim #MLockley #HLarsson Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him)

Here’s an awesome snake for #ReptileAwarenessDay, my first American pit viper the broad-banded copperhead 😍

In today’s herping highlight I bring you an iddy biddy banded eastern brown snake. This individual is likely to be 8-10 months old and will eventually loose its pattern as it matures #wildoz

This study goes way back to our grad school days working on Red-backed Fairywrens in Australia. Males come in two flavors: ornamented red/black and female-like brown. Females love the ornamented males but we never really knew why... UNTIL NOW! 2/8