Lily Leahy

Finally! My last PhD chapter is officially out (sometime today). Here is a nice write-up by @abcnews that covers our work to understand how these lizards move, survive, and thrive in harsh Australian environments. And yes these jackets were custom! abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #DGC 📸:François Brassard

I've made the move! Find me at @lilyleahy.bsky.social #blueskyapp 🦋

🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨 Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, @cjanion, @RebeccaASenior and @andrewbdavies at @UCT_news! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥 This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by @HFSP. Please share and apply!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities? Us too! Come and work @CUBiosciences with me, @andrewbdavies, @cjanion and @RebeccaASenior on our @HFSP funded project. Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob

Looking forward to presenting at UniMelb Biosciences today as part of our ECR seminar exchange, link here: events.unimelb.edu.au/biosciences/ev…

Come see my talk today at #ICE2024Kyoto to hear all about metabolic rate variation in over 120 sp. of ants across climate and environment gradients and amongst the major clades of ants! Thanks @ant__frank for beaut photos and our wonderful collaborators! 11:15am Room C-2

cool paper alert reminds me of when I visited Sulawesi cloud forests full of flycatchers/whistlers/fantails/mixed flocks. Then went downhill to beautiful lowland forests and saw, like, no insectivores I was so puzzled - maybe it's the weaver ants!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

New paper on ants, fire and vertical stratification 🐜 🔥 🌳

"Science isn't finished until it's communicated." - Sir Mark Walport This brochure is the result of 6.5 years of work, and my attempt to summarise the findings of my #PhD 🐦 🦜 🦆 🦉 Check it out: doi.org/10.26181/25485… #SciComm #Research #UrbanEcology #BirdsInBackyards

New paper on the ant fauna of Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park in arid Australia. 1. Uluru 2. Kata Tjuta 3. Melophorus bagoti doi.org/10.1016/j.jari…

Ants on the cover of Ecography! The predatory 𝘖𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, a ground-dwelling species of the Australian Wet Tropics, check out our paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… Thanks François Brassard for the beautiful photo @ant__frank @EcographyJourna

Grateful that my photo made the journal cover of Ecography. Congratulations to @LeahyLily and co-authors for their article “Rates of species turnover across elevation vary with vertical stratum in rainforest ant assemblages”. Thanks for submitting my photographs for the cover!

The new #ZooTraits R Shiny app explore animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary studies. Dive into a universe of over 23,000 species traits across multiple ecosystems and taxonomic groups, now more accessible than ever. (1/7) #Ecology #Evolution #OpenScience

Entomologist please retweet Abstract submissions have now opened for the AES conference in Hobart 2024 which is running from Nov 17 to 21. Hope to see lots of you there! conferences.com.au/2024aes/

University of Michigan: Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Change Biology seas.umich.edu/globalchangebi… Please share!

Postdoc Available! Please RT. The Skelly Lab in collaboration with Martha Munoz lab are hiring a postdoc @Yale Looking for experience in genetics/genomics/evol bio to work on climate change and evolution. Two year appt., 65K/yr plus benefits. Details: campuspress.yale.edu/skellylab/join…

PhD Scholarship alert! Two positions open in the broad area of Australasian biogeography @Griffith_Uni in sunny (and biodiverse) Qld! Supervised by Paul Oliver, with possible co-supervision from @AChauvenet, Matt Phillips QUT or myself. Details: griffith.edu.au/research-study…

So excited to share our manuscript "Advice from the Field" based on an Inspire Session from #ESA 2022, with an amazing intersectional group of scientists discussing different angles of field safety and inclusion #DEIJ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

Here's something new that's a bit different to what I normally work on. Led by PhD student @ChongzheZ, in this article we propose a framework for "Linking nematodes and ecosystem function: a trait-based framework". authors.elsevier.com/c/1igSqcZ3X04gF @stefan_geisen