Biodiversity, herpetology, evolution. UQ zoology grad, snake catcher, all-round nerdperson. Owner @SnakeOutBris, Host/Co-Producer @WCC_Podcast. He/him ❤️✌️🌈
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined February 2013
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Happy Monday & #NewPaper on the phylogenetic position and morphology of Thornton Peak Calyptotis! Having split from its congeners in the early Miocene, we redescribe Calyptotis and erect a new genus, Calorodius, for this high-elevation paleoendemic 🦎👍
doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12550
Pew pew 😜 #findthelizard 🦎
@QUT @qutdmrc @UrbanStudiesLa1 @Griffith_Uni @qldmuseum @BulewoDudley @atlaslivingaust @lizard_lab @STEMEd_QUT @UQ_CBCS
@UQscience
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'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide…
Nerd alert! #ScholarshipsAvailable Come study the evolution and history of biotic exchange between Australian and Papuan vertebrate lineages. PhD scholarships available with Dr Paul Oliver at #GriffithUniversity, details in link below 🦎🐸
griffith.edu.au/research-stu…
The #AustralianSocietyOfHerpetologists conference is this week! Plenaries by #seasnake morphology specialist Dr Emma Sherratt and wizard of #reptile evolutionary ecology Prof. David Chapple, what's not to love? I'll be posting at mastodon.world/@janne_torkko… 🐍🦎#science #herpetology
A decade ago @SnakeOutBris was started, serving wildlife and community in the western suburbs. How time flies! Deepest thanks to all who lent a hand along the way, and to our talented team of snake charmers 😁 Here's to another decade! 🐍
#tenyears #adecadeofsnakes #Brisbane #QLD
Happy #WorldLizardDay folks, let's play #GuessTheEyeball 🦎👀 This is from one of some 800 plus species in Australia so that should narrow the field a little 😉 Drop your own #LizardEye below to keep the game rolling!
#lizards #reptiles #WildOz #naturelovers – at Brisbane, Queensland
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Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inner ears of these critters! doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z…
Very cool stuff as always form @PutterT and @Keogh_Lab :)
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Our new paper is out in Molecular Ecology! "Notes from the taxonomic disaster zone: Evolutionary drivers of intractable species boundaries in an Australian lizard clade (Scincidae: Ctenotus)". Fun collaboration with tweep @dan_rabosky. Find PDF copy at ivanprates.org/publications.
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🧵Our Australian blindsnake phylogenetics paper just got published🐍🧬! @ian_g_brennan, Liz Broady, and Scott @Keogh_Lab.
Link to paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Here's a summary🧵 :
ALT image of phylogeny and blindsnakes overlaid on a map of Australia
Weirdly awesome little lizard 😁 Ophioscincus ophioscincus, the Yolk-Bellied Snake Skink, a rainforest specialist and one of many limb-reduced #sphenomorphine skinks. These #wormybois wriggle and push through decomposing leaf-litter and soil on the rainforest floor. #WildOz – at Brisbane, Queensland
Their close relatives, the Coeranoscincus, have recurved teeth for eating earthworms, while Ophios have recurved teeth with flared bicuspid crowns, maybe some dietary differences but I think there's no dietary data on these. Happy to be proven wrong!
#WTFdothesethingseat
Happy #WorldFrogDay y'all!! Here's a calling Tyler's Treefrog (Litoria tyleri) from Mt Glorious, Brisbane 🐸🐸🐸
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💚🐸It's World Frog Day!🐸💚
#Frogs & other amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on earth- almost half are threatened with extinction.
Want to help? Improve local frog habitat, keep cats inside, avoid pesticide use, contribute to @FrogIDAus! #WorldFrogDay
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It's #TaxonomistAppreciationDay !
If you missed this article by Paul Oliver and myself, today is a good day to catch up
#Taxonomy #Biodiversity
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Check out some of our work on Australia’s best animal: the Thorny Devil.
And keep us in mind while you road-trip WA. We’re still looking for more samples btwn Geraldton and Shark Bay!
abc.net.au/news/2023-03-13/t…
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There's still so much to learn about Australia's biodiversity - especially in the north!
New species of leaf-tailed gecko discovered on Scawfell Island in Great Barrier Reef abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/q… via @ABCaustralia
Food in Canberra was good but dayum I've missed my kitchen/garden, and making breakfast for my girl! Home eggs poached with DIY hollandaise, arugula, basil pesto, on toast with pancetta, grilled Baharat and pepper paste. Sunday, off to a good start! #breakfast #goodtobehome #more
One small tube, 192 samples, around 105 described sphenomorphine skinks. Up to 5453 genomic loci per sample, each at least 120 base pairs. Call it ~200bp average, that's 209,395,200bp of DNA sequence data in <0.1mL of fluid 😁🦎 @Keogh_Lab
#ANU #griffithuni #qldmuseum #PhDthings
