New paper from my PhD out in Oecologia! We find that the social context mediates the expression of animal personality traits in the delicate skink. Big thanks to Annie Naimo Marcus Michelangeli Jake M Martin Andrew Sih Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) & ChappleLab. Check it out here 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s00442…

Social context, personality and gregarious lizards. 🦎🦎🦎 Check out the latest School of Biological Sciences, Monash PhD paper by Jack Brand (cosupervised with ChappleLab) with Annie Naimo Marcus Michelangeli Jake M Martin & Andy Sih. #BobWongLab #MonashEcology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Last official day as a Monash employee CTscanning all Australian species of lizards! We managed to scan 711 spp, that's more than 83% of them all! Plus hundreds for collaboration projects🦎🐍🐸 Thank you! ChappleLab #australianlizards @monash_uni Brandon bowman Melbourne Museum

Last day on Darling Downs. Comdamine Earless Dragon is one of Australia's most threatened lizards. A grassland species but less than 1% of native grasslands remaining here. Crop and road verges are so important for this beautiful dragon Museums Victoria School of Biological Sciences, Monash ChappleLab

1st day on my new job at @lizarddocmelville lab! That's how you start your herp field trip to QLD 👌🐍🦎🌞❤ #Chillagoe #fieldtrip #scientistlife #quaternaryreptileproject Museums Victoria #melbournemuseum Jane Melville AM

This week I published a paper – along with Arman Pili and Wyn Russell – in Biogeography.News exploring geographical variation in Lace monitor colour (A thread) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… (We had Mortimer M (Morty) create the Lace monitor artwork for us. Check out their other artworks!)

When is a creature extinct? It might seem a straightforward⁠ question—but it’s not always easy to answer. You have to be certain it isn’t out there, somewhere. Dr Jane Melville hopes this is the case for Melbourne’s missing dragon. Continue reading 🔗 fal.cn/3swRa

I am proud to share this paper with you all, published today. The results are quite surprising: in females, #ornaments have equal potential to be #adaptive by acting as honest signals as in males, regardless of their tendency for reduced elaboration.... nature.com/articles/s4146…

very happy to annunce a cool new paper from Anna Zimmin and #GARD: A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Georeferenced photographs obtained from #iNaturalist to study geographical variation in colour polymorphism reveals a mesic–arid gradient in the Lace Monitors (Varanus varius). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… Jules Farquhar Arman Pili Wyn Russell

1/4 🧵Does the invasion process favour extroverts? Our new Nature Communications paper shows how selective filtering of behavioural traits can mediate the success of alien species. nature.com/articles/s4146… 📸Jules Farquhar Jules Farquhar

Temperament and territory 🦎🌏: Extraversion enables greater success for invasive species, as discovered in a School of Biological Sciences, Monash international study in Nature Communications which compares native Australian and international invasive populations of the delicate skink: bit.ly/3rM3rgW

Chapple et al. show that the process of invasion itself can promote behavioral changes important to the success of widespread invaders. ChappleLab Jack Brand Annie Naimo Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) School of Biological Sciences, Monash UC Davis SLU Wild Research Massey University nature.com/articles/s4146…

Please RT! Continuing (tenured) academic position (starting at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer) in Water Science. Join our excellent, inclusive & welcoming team Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃. Monash University is a global top 50 university and Aus/Melbourne is wonderful! Closes 15 Nov. timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

#jobalerts : we are #hiring. 12-months #Research #Assistant position Flinders University. Work with me, John Llewelyn @GlobEcoFlinders and be part of a big #collaborative project CABAH: building a #trait + #interaction #Database for tetrapods in #Sahul. flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/flinders_emplo…

Madeleine de Jong et al found only partial support for hypothesis that different incubation temperatures would result in phenotypes characterised by a ‘cool’ or ‘hot’ thermal type in the delicate skink. cob.silverchair-cdn.com/cob/content_pu… ChappleLab Bob Wong (@bbmwong.bsky.social) @Craig_R_White

A big congratulations to Jack Brand (cosupervised with ChappleLab), who submitted his PhD thesis today 🥳🌟

⭐️NEW🗞️in Evolutionary Ecology We show that #activity is more reliable than other behavioural traits in estimating individual differences in behaviour that are stable over a good portion of the animals' life... 🦎 in this case 👉link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Is this you? We are seeking to appoint multiple new colleagues who will cultivate and demonstrate excellence in both research and teaching within the field of Ecology. We welcome applicants from any area of Ecology, but see more details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Ever seen a Bluetongue skink? What about a Monkey-tailed skink? No? Well, let me tell you a little about these guys and what we've learned from studying their evolution. Sidenote: check out our new paper in Current Biology sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ...