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Chris Jolly
@ecolojolly.bsky.social
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Ecology | evolution | behaviour | fire | conservation | herpetology | Postdoc at Macquarie University. Living on Larrakia Country (Darwin)
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · 22d
New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social

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From anecdote to evidence: experimental validation of fire-cue recognition in Australian sleepy lizards | Biology Letters
Fire has shaped the evolution of both plants and animals. Animals exposed to fire throughout their evolutionary history are predicted to exhibit behavioural adaptations that enhance survival during fire. Here, we investigated whether Australian sleepy ...
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 22d
Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Aug 29
It’s always worth celebrating a student’s first paper! And an excellent one at that!

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Knocking out genes to reveal drivers of natural selection on phenotypic traits: a study of the fitness consequences of albinism | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Conclusions about the adaptive significance of phenotypic traits typically rely on correlations between the trait and fitness, but pleiotropic effects of a single trait on fitness and covariation amon...
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · Jan 18
🧪🌎🌍🦎🌡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards
Climate warming can induce a cost-of-living “squeeze” in ectotherms by increasing energetic expenditures while reducing foraging gains. We used biophysical models (validated by 2685 field observations...
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Jan 16
New paper evaluating the utility of eDNA metabarcoding for detecting the cryptic and Critically Endangered Arnhem rock skink in Kakadu National Park.

Despite sampling high activity crevices, we were unable to detect them using eDNA.

www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24072
Evaluating the utility of environmental DNA for detecting a large Critically Endangered lizard in tropical northern Australia
It can be challenging to reliably detect rare or cryptic species. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging tool for detecting species and is increasingly being used to detect reptiles in terrestrial en...
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 24
Surely a flash in the dark would reduce nocturnal vision, not improve it?
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 22
It may be hot and wet, but at least it’s consistent #darwinweather
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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Dec 17
✅ Do you use R or Python?
✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist?

Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful!

ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀

labs.ala.org.au

🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub
ALA Labs frontpage & text logo. ALA LABS text is in white, formatted as off-centre stacked text. Underneath is smaller text, "Experiments in code, data analysis & visualisation from the Atlas of Living Australia." The background is green grass with a Southern Brown Tree Frog in the middle, hanging onto the grass. It has a darker brown top and lighter brown underside. The frog's eye is a rich dark yellow, with a black pupil in the shape of an oval, stretching from the left to right side of the eye An animated scroll through an ALA Labs post, showing code, text and visuals to make a data visualisation in R. The article is on how to make a hexagon map of Australia, where each hexagon is an area of Australia, and each point in the hexagon is positioned and coloured to represent a species. Examples of dataviz that ALA Labs posts show how to make in R. They are colourful and fun. One of them is even 3D!
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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Dec 17
A swamp wallaby, one of my favourite macropods, on the cover of Nature, and I’m a coauthor on the paper www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @dadriscoll.bsky.social.

Achievements unlocked!
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · Dec 10
🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...
The Waiting
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…
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Andreas De Block @andreasdeblock.bsky.social · Dec 2
Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 10
😂 yeah, let’s blame him
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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Dec 10
@biodiversityguy.bsky.social delivering his @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Australian Ecology Research Award.

Congratulations, Dale! Thoroughly deserved recognition for your wonderful and important work. #ESAus2024
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 10
Wow! Who’s that handsome fella holding a blue tongue so awkwardly?!
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Dec 10
Next up... fauna and gigafires!

Grant Linley

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#ESAUS2024
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Justine E. Hausheer @justinehausheer.bsky.social · Dec 9
How to train your apex reptilian predators! Great research on how to protect varanids from cane toads #ESAus2024
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 10
A great article highlighting the incredibly important work @chapplelab.bsky.social, @julesfarquhar.bsky.social and team are doing to improve our understanding of Australia’s data deficient skinks! 🦎

www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildl...?
Skink on the brink - Australian Geographic
These researchers gave everything to their search – and found not one, but 23 critically-endangered long sunskinks.
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 8
Similar here in Darwin before 7am
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 8
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Warm winters are waking snakes early. Here’s what that means for them and us
Evidence suggests climate change could make snakes come out of hiding earlier. But it’s also likely to cause population declines or shifts in the long run, as snakes adjust to the new conditions.
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 8
It’s a big year for snakes in Australia. In fact, it’s always going to be a big year, so homework helps www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It’s a big year for snakes in Australia. In fact, it’s always going to be a big year, so homework helps
Hot, dry conditions bring numerous species into contact with people and pets, and not just in the bush. It’s good to know which is which
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 8
Saving ‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’ survival, say scientists www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Saving ‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’ survival, say scientists
Hunting bigger, more experienced animals eradicates memories and knowledge crucial to group survival, research suggests
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · Dec 7
Our review about the value of older animals appeared this weekend in the Age of Extinction series www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 7
Don’t even think about it mate!

Exciting to see an endangered northern quoll in Kakadu last night clearly avoiding its primary threat—toxic, invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina).
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 5
Just because they’re great, here’s a reptile!

Hidden dragon (Cryptagama aurita).

These little pebble mimicking dragons go decades between being seen. Before we found this guy in 2018, they hadn’t been seen since the 90s!

www.publish.csiro.au/book/7930/
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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · Dec 5
If you enjoyed that, imagine how much you’d love making one for Ctenotus!
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