Tenured (or the Aussie equivalent) zoology position with us at University of Western Australia. Join us at a global top 100 university that is also very far away from the trials and tribulations of the modern world. Broad job criteria!

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52306...

It’s not good for me either - if I were to try and upgrade from my starter house I can no longer afford to leave it for other first homebuyers. And I have to pay a huge amount more stamp duty to move. So basically even though houses are worth more, no one can afford to leave them.

I bought a small house 5 years ago in Perth and the house price increases are nuts. In the last month the value went up by $30k. That means if you were saving for a 20% deposit, your savings target went up $6k in a month.

Totally unsustainable.

PSA: People talk about bad influences but they never tell you to avoid the retired ladies on your street who think champagne on a Monday is a good idea. HIDE! They don’t know it’s a work night! They don’t even know the day of the week.

Student caught trying to smuggle hundreds of insects out of Australia

This is great work by the environment department and need to happen a lot more regularly

@idrnik.bsky.social

We need a phylogenomics person in Western Australia! 3 year position, open to international applicants. Entomology is a plus but not a requirement. Collaboration with Berkeley and U Western Australia. Share widely!

search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

#arachtober

Pip trap bycatch, bring your tongs!

This morning we found a lovely Lerista macropisthopus

Went on a bit of a successful adventure!

The first herp of the trip was the classic byneo’s gecko

Australia feels like an island of sanity in an ocean of chaos these days, if you were wondering

That’s a major violation of ARC rules, I was just reading them. Ok for use in writing but not reviewing.

Australia’s cutest mammal is now Australia’s cutest three mammals Scientists have discovered that the kultarr – one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials – is actually three different species.

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Cryptic Kultarr: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Unrecognized Species of Carnivorous Marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in Arid Australia Conservation is impossible if we have not described all of the species we aim to conserve. This paper reviews the taxonomy of the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) a small arid-zone specialist native to....

I’m a mammal taxonomist now!!! 😜

Two new species of adorable marsupials, the kind that have the will to kill you but lack the size to be effective.

Led by my PhD student @kultarrcam.bsky.social

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I didn’t hate it!

Using chatGPT to assess how to make student essays hard for chatGPT is surprisingly effective.

Phascogales prevail 12 years on Twelve years ago, Ecologist, Angela Sanders and her team arrived at Kojonup reserve with 30 Red-tailed Phascogales. After more than a decade of careful…

A nice article on work led by an honours student on kengoor, one of those Australian things that wants to kill you, it just can’t

Just Waiting for A Mate in HD YouTube video by Sandman Panel Van

The most classically Australian video of all time. And the editors deserve an Oscar

I teach a pretty hardcore masters unit on how to ID animals, with peeps like @idrnik.bsky.social. The students are so impressed I know all the characters in the key for each species. Folks, secretly, we’ve been using the same individual bugs for four years. I don’t know the key, I know the bug.

A bit of road reptile rescue during recent fieldwork. FYI thorny devils are the MOST vacant reptiles I’ve ever encountered.