Always fun to reminisce on conservation work! 🌴

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This year's AES Conference will be held jointly with our friends at the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists 🧬

📍 University of Wollongong
📆 2-4 December

Mark it in your calendars ✏️ more information to come soon!

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

Kim is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia working on invertebrate cognition, with a current focus on intraspecific variation in cognitive ability. When she’s not staring at ants, Kim enjoys pilates, baking, and occasional photography. 🐜

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

Yong is a DECRA fellow at the University of Western Australia working on the impact of sexual selection on life history traits and their trade-offs. One current focus is the physiological mechanisms mediating these effects, such as diet and oxidative stress 🥦

Hello friends!

We are ⭐ Kim, Nirjana, and Aadhi ⭐ the new CEB representatives for 2026!

Over the coming year, we'll be sharing all the exciting and diverse research happening within CEB, so stay tuned.👀

🐜 @brainiants.bsky.social🧠
🪲@hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social 🫘
🦜@nirjana-dewan.bsky.social 🧬

Had a really great time at the UWA SBS conference where I got to share some preliminary results on intraspecific variation in cognition in R. metallica! 🐜

#cognition #ants #invertebrates

Cryptic spiders 🕷️❓

Congratulations to #CEB member Jackson Rendall on their recent publication in Austral Entomology (@austentsoc.bsky.social) about the natural history of the South Australian spiny trapdoor spider (Blakistonia aurea).

Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy New Year 🎊 and straight back into the thick of things 🐜 Sampling more nests and collecting ants for the first chapter of my research on intraspecific variation in cognition in Rhytidoponera… | ... Happy New Year 🎊 and straight back into the thick of things 🐜 Sampling more nests and collecting ants for the first chapter of my research on intraspecific variation in cognition in Rhytidoponera met...

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Back to searching for nests for the first chapter of my PhD research on infraspecific variation in cognition in R. metallica 🐜

#ants #cognition

#hdrfestival | Kimberley Wong Had a great time presenting my work during the 2nd #HDRFestival at The University of Western Australia 🎓 It was really enjoyable chatting to fellow PhD students and researchers across a range of disc...

This year’s HDR Festival at #UWA was the first I had a chance to attend as a PhD student! 📚

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#AES2025 started with a blast with @brainiants.bsky.social talking about the effect of inbreeding on survivorship and fecundity in European royal families!

Keep them coming @pebblemouse.bsky.social

En route to #AES2025, see you soon Brissy! ☀️🌴🐜

Image depicting 4 members of the Spanish House of Habsburg and the distinctive ‘Habsburg Jaw’

Excited to be heading to #AES2025 in #Brisbane in a few weeks to present my masters dissertation, where these dashing gentleman may be involved 🤔 @austevolsoc.bsky.social #evolution #inbreeding

Escaping desk-bound duties by gallivanting in the Julimar State Forest for the Bioblitz last weekend! 🌧️ Although a bit soggy, it was great to see so many people joining for a chance to turn the forest into a national park!

Two ring tailed lemurs posing like a high school photo

Taking some time off 🏖️ working on research proposals and presentations by jumping back into #photography 📷 after abandoning it for a while 😆

Rainy days make for great pictures it seems! 🌧️

Got lost in teams notifications but now I did! Hope the Pilbara is treating you well ☺️

Thanks Pauline, much appreciated! ☺️

Had a great run presenting in front of fellow CEB-ists! Onto the real thing tomorrow! 🐜💪🏼

Great fun presenting to fellow CEB members! Now on to the SBS talks tomorrow! 😊🐜

@brainiants.bsky.social discussed her PhD proposal this afternoon where she plans to study variation in intraspecific cognition & its relation to complex behaviors, specifically combat and group foraging in Western Australian ants. 🐜 @mandyridley.bsky.social @notthebestsam.bsky.social #LeighSimmons

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Nature - Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.

But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway

https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb

Another great open day for the CEB and prospective Zoology students! 🌱☀️

Darwin came to town!
@beetlebonking.bsky.social @brainiants.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social

#UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience