Government budget cuts have cast a cloud over the future of the South Australian Museum. A proposed restructure could see more than two dozen researchers sacked and some exhibits scaled back. Lauren Rose #saparli #7NEWS

Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Pressure continues over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Australian museum’s plan to cut research draws fire from scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

What a great honour to receive this recognition from the Australian Academy of Science! Thanks for all support 🐳🐢🦈🐻‍❄️🦭🐧

Hacky trick to graph the states of one or more discrete (or continuous!) traits at the tips of a fan or arc style tree using #Rstats #phytools : blog.phytools.org/2024/03/hacky-….

(PS: the tree & data for this cool example come from Damien Esquerre et al.)

🚨 Just published!

Pobblebonks! A revision of the Northern Banjo Frogs, led by Tom Parkin. Two new Australian #frog species scientifically recognised!

Thank you to all those people that submitted FrogID recordings of this species- they were vital!

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🚀 Excited to share our #PopGenInR workshop resources with everyone! 🌍 Uniting for biodiversity with genetics & R. Dive in:
- Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
- Code: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…
- Presentations: youtube.com/@dartRverse
- Slides: github.com/mijangos81/Pop…

Thanks for having me and for the outstanding support over the years. I have to thank ARC for my career in my permanent new home Australia. Always great to give back a little to the younger generations especially if it includes cat, Simpsons, Breaking Bad and other related GIFs.

Check this out! This could save you a whole lot of time.

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-study…

'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

We, the Australasian Evolution Society executive, fully support this letter by SSE American Naturalist and Society of Systematic Biologists and stand by our colleagues in the call to support biological collections of museums and herbaria

Just a little fun for a Sat morning. ARC funding vs fossil fuel company tax concessions in 2022-23. Big thanks to the awesome ARC Tracker for all that you do. Please do something to fix this Australian Government.

Sources: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fossil-…
arc.gov.au/about/our-orga…

I'm SO proud to announce - THE #oVertTCN PAPER IS OUT! We wanted to scan all the vertebrates & wow did we give it a red hot crack!

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Here's the infographic from the paper. I used survey data, MorphoSource reports, & the oVert archives to put it together

It's official! PutterT found out five minutes ago that his PhD is done! Who knew blind snakes could take someone this far. Great work Putter.

PhD Scholarship alert!

Two positions open in the broad area of Australasian biogeography Griffith University in sunny (and biodiverse) Qld!

Supervised by Paul Oliver, with possible co-supervision from Assoc. Prof. Ali Chauvenet (She/Her), Matt Phillips QUT or myself.

Details: griffith.edu.au/research-study…

I would like to share our paper on 'ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles' that was published today in Scientific Data

More details can be found at: nature.com/articles/s4159…

#ScientificData #reptiles #Traits #OpenAccess #Science #Database

South Australian Museum punches way above it's weight in research quality & influence globally, Indigenous reconciliation, conservation, yet director wants to sack all researchers as 'research isn't reaching their audience'. Audience is national & worldwide. Appalling. indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

There’s a lot of carefully worded statements in here, but this amounts to the complete gutting of SAM natural sciences research and collection management. Museums are essential for biodiversity research and we need it now more than ever. indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…