Always fun to reminisce on conservation work! 🌴
11.03.2026 15:12
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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/...
www.linkedin.com/posts/kimber...
Back to searching for nests for the first chapter of my PhD research on infraspecific variation in cognition in R. metallica 🐜
#ants #cognition
This year’s HDR Festival at #UWA was the first I had a chance to attend as a PhD student! 📚
www.linkedin.com/posts/kimber...
#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
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