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Great talk by Michael Jennions at ANU’s Science in the Pub

Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology is an amazing resource that has so many creative ideas for labs and class exercises. I wish I knew about it three years ago when I first started teaching ecology tiee.esa.org/misc/about.html

Venomous origins: Rafael Zardoya, Iker Irisarri and Diego San Mauro recommend this work from Sasha (Alexander) Mikheyev Agneesh Barua OIST in PNASNews on the #genetic #evolutionary origins of venom systems in mammals and reptiles facultyopinions.com/prime/73983518…

Do you ever wake up to an editorial decision email in your inbox, read the letter thinking "I don't remember submitting this work?!", just to realize it was an editorial decision on something you reviewed a long time ago?

Applied for Australian citizenship! This got me wondering. Did Australia pay British taxes like the American colonies? If so, why no independence movement? If not, why not? Can’t find an answer on the internet, my queries mostly return tax advice for expats.

A single graphic that summarizes a major failure of Australian leadership managing COVID.

I had no idea until now, but masking and social distancing are community health practices advocated in the Bible. After two months in lockdown I’m definitely doing the whole unkempt hair thing.

via The New York Times. Can someone explain to me how this can legitimately be a thing? I’m seriously concerned that the whole project is some kind of scientific fraud perpetrated on the public who feel guilty about ongoing environmental destruction. nytimes.com/2021/09/13/sci…

At the last minute Google and Apple removed an app the Russian opposition is using to coordinate its strategy for this weekend’s elections, providing voting advice, bending to the will of the government. Great job crushing democracy! I hope it’s worth it in the long run.

Cool new study on parrot behavior comes with great explanatory video. Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds youtu.be/9NewRHXrSN4

Yep, down for me, too.

I am bummed I won't be joining Australasian Evolution Society in person this year 😑... but I am excited to give my talk virtually at 1345 AEST in the 'Selection' stream 🧬! Come learn about ontogenetic patterns in heritability and play a little game of spot the lizard! 🦎👀 #AES2021 #AUSEVO2021

Amazing presentation and congratulations on winning the presentation prize!

What a way to end the year - at Chat 10 Looks 3 live, chatting all things fairy-wren (the podcast mascot) with Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb and the ANU Vice-Chancellor! Truly a privilege to be on stage with such powerhouses, sharing what I love 💙 #scicomm #phdlife

Because ARC won’t tell us what is happening with #DiscoveryProjects #DP22, I found it interesting to hunt for clues in their budget report, where they report in March being on target with an 8 month turnaround. Something must have hit them after that… preprints?

I was cleaning up my spam folder and found that I've been invited to a conference by a society I never heard of based on my "outstanding contribution", which was actually an erratum to a publication.

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the Australian National University for domestic or international students to work with endangered stick insects. See link for more details and please RT dropbox.com/s/ojr98s4j1agy…

Yikes, there are multiple varroa infestation sites in NSW, Australia now. dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/media…

What is the Varroa mite and what does the outbreak mean for Australia? 🐝 #ANUExpert Sasha (Alexander) Mikheyev explains the likely impact on bee populations and why scientists have a critical role to play in the long term. 📖 anu.edu.au/news/all-news/…

I was going to give Elon Musk a chance as the new @Twitter owner. However, it looks like he’s determined to use it to push both a discriminatory and an anti-science (shocked about that one tbh) agenda. I’m done with this platform.