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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 12d

#AES2025 Day2, Jackson Randell discusses the importance of understanding genetic purging and its implications for trapdoor spider conservation 🕷️
@austevolsoc.bsky.social @brunobuzatto.bsky.social @rowanlym.bsky.social @reneecatullo.bsky.social

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Patrice Pottier @patricepottier.bsky.social · Mar 6

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️

Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.

See the thread below for a digest 🧵

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Nature

Photo credit: Peter soltys. Image created by Nicholas Wu.

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · Mar 6

"Focusing on bringing back extinct species distracts from a more urgent reality: species are going extinct right now, and we are not doing enough to save them."
@emilyroycroft.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com
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theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...

Woolly mice are cute and impressive – but they won’t bring back mammoths or save endangered species

“De-extinction” research is a poor alternative to helping ‘pre-extinction’ animals still alive today.

theconversation.com

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · Mar 5

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

www.nature.com

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · Feb 5

Everyone's friend the humble mollusc is here to save us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It seems the end of everything is upon us. Is no one coming to our rescue. How about … the molluscs?! | First Dog on the Moon

Did you know molluscs protect the citizens of Poland from water pollution? It’s true!

www.theguardian.com

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · Feb 7

Today at the UWA School of Biological Sciences Postgraduate Conference, we heard from our brilliant PhD researchers on everything from arachnids to marsupials to magpies! 🕷️🦅🐀
Below is a thread of their presentations 🧵

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · Feb 2

Reducing light pollution wherever and whenever we can will greatly help our night active insects, including the #moths, #beetles, #lacewings and other #inverts that share our environment
#ausinverts #wildoz #bugsky #teammoth

theconversation.com/while-you-sl...

While you sleep, these insects are working hard on the night shift to keep our environment healthy

Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.

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Kym Ottewell @kymottewell.bsky.social · Jan 30

I'm late to the party in sharing this...our paper looking at global genetic diversity change is now out! What did we find? Check out the thread below

Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · Jan 29

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

www.nature.com

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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · Jan 29

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

www.nature.com

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Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · Jan 29

We’ve also created a 2-page policy brief for anyone wanting to learn more about conserving #GeneticDiversity- available in 14 languages (and more to come)! Follow the link below ⬇️

url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/uWHeC71Zo8...

Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thrilled to see our paper out in @nature.com! Huge thanks to @cegrueber.bsky.social @katefarquharson.bsky.social & the core team for a mammoth effort over 6yrs! Privileged to work with 57 scientists who spent many hours screening papers & more. Missing the late Mike Bruford-who helped inspire it all

Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · Jan 29

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen

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Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · Jan 29

Checkout our @aunz.theconversation.com article for 5 strategies that can help safeguard #GeneticDiversity for resilient populations
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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · Jan 29

It’s not all doom and gloom! We show in @nature.com that genetic diversity is in decline, but in @theconversation.com we dive into five strategies to help maintain or restore biodiversity @robynshaw.bsky.social @katefarquharson.bsky.social
theconversation.com/gene-pools-a...
🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #popgen

Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species. We found 5 ways to help

Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline.

theconversation.com

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Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · Jan 24

How good

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Bruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · Jan 24

My legendary students independently made a bunch of stickers for the lab with this logo (which they also created; art by Diego Solano-Brenes). I'm so lucky to have this crew — check their projects out here:

www.buzatto.info/people

Special thanks to Tricia Slattery and Diego!

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hot off the press.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · Jan 15

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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Bruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · Jan 13

First paper of 2025 — the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually at least three different species:

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution

The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jan 10

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thanks Simone!

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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · Jan 9

3 year #Entomology museum job at the Western Australian Museum. Apply if you ❤️ insects, collections and identifying! 🦟🪰🦗🐜🐝🪲
search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

WA Government Jobs | Project Officer (Entomology)

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Jan 8

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with #extinction doi.org/10.1038/s415...

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature

A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

doi.org

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Jan 8

📣 Heredity best student paper prize talk

We look forward to Kate's talk tomorrow at Popgroup Thur 9th @10am (LT1 )
Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gensocuk.bsky.social #pgg58

Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation - Heredity

Heredity - Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation

www.nature.com

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Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thanks Sean!

Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · Jan 8

#evolbiol #evolsky #evolution #reproductivebiology #geneexpression #RNA #phenotypicplasticity #sexualselection

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Rowan Lymbery @rowanlym.bsky.social · Jan 8

New review paper!
@1jonevans.bsky.social @pacogarciagonzalez.bsky.social and I ask whether mature sperm cells might actively express genes. Really proud to see this one out - has been a long, difficult journey through much skepticism to publication. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Sperm are traditionally viewed as transcriptionally and translationally silent cells. However, observations that components of the cellular machinery of gene expression are maintained in ejaculated sp...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Jan 7

Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost.

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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