Mike Gardner
@MikeG_lizards
I am a molecular ecologist who works on lizards in the sub-family Tiliquini - investigating sociality and host parasite interactions with genes and genomics.
Are you a student looking for a PhD? I have a funded PhD project on investigating the season of grazing and pygmy bluetongues in South Australia. Please contact me if interested. @AusSocHerp
🥳On the final day of this year's @WCHerp, it's AWARDS time! 🏆Our Best #Reptile #Conservation Award goes to Deanne Trewartha (@Flinders) and her talk on heat water & #reptiles!🦎 🇲🇾 A wonderful ending for #WCH10! See you again at #WCH11 at the Pyrenees!😜 #herps #herpetology
First paper from the trial pygmy bluetongue translocation showing that the lizards are behaving as they would as if they were in their source locations. And first paper from PhD student Dee Trewartha #PBT doi.org/10.1111/acv.12… @ClaytonJessa @Dr_StephGodfrey
Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…
Disturbing potential loss of museum research see indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…
🎉 Exciting news! 📚 Thrilled to announce our #ARC #DP24 on restoring amphibian populations in chytrid-impacted landscapes has been funded, with @RichardDuncanUC and @BenCScheele! 🙌 It's such a brutal process, commiserations to all the great projects that missed out 😞 @UC_CCEG
Check out an unbelievable video of a Gould's monitor gobbling down 5 zebra finch chicks at Fowler's Gap in arid western New South Wales, Australia. Video by @MarcNaguib & Hugo Loning is on @simongriffith4 YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=HkyPFZ… @mqnatsci #lizard #predation
One of the best moments in my career. The rediscovery of the Victorian Earless Dragon. In 2019 I undertook the taxonomic research to show this little lizard was a unique species, different to those in the ACT & NSW. So, so pleased it is not extinct! @museumsvictoria
Some good news for your Sunday. This little guy is a Victorian grassland earless dragon. One hasn’t been seen in Victoria for over 50 years and was thought to be extinct in the wild - until now.
Tiliqua frangens has the Australian media tickled-skink! 🥰
The bones of the Tiliqua frangens, nicknamed ‘Mega Chonk’, were recently discovered in the Wellington caves in the Dubbo region. @kailah_thorn joins @michaelusher to speak on her discovery. youtu.be/c5gF01iEle8 #TheLatest #7NEWS
Meet #TiliquaFrangens! This Pleistocene #Shingleback on steriods was the largest skink to ever live, and its demise expands the scope of the megafauna extinctions to the "mesofauna". Reconstruction: Katrina Kenny 1/3
First of our lizard signs funded by Electranet has been installed! These will be at the entrances to the long term sleepy lizard site, started by C. Michael Bull, surveyed continuously since 1982. Very grateful that an energy company cared enough to make this happen. @GerrutN
It's the 25th anniversary of our little “advice” website for research students and postdocs. Check it out of you don’t know about it. It’s also the 25th anniversary of our little lab here at ANU. Can't believe it. keoghlab.com/resources-and-…
A mother sleepy lizard and her babies "say goodbye" in their special way after being released back into the wild @MikeG_lizards @Flinders @ClaytonJessa
Sometimes fieldwork throws up unexpected findings - this is what faced PhD student in the LEGS lab, Kim Michael. Apparently endangered pygmy bluetongues can hold their breath – for a long time. This one stayed under for 40 mins!! See doi.org/10.1111/aec.13… @Austral_Ecology
Promises to be a little warmer than the last one.... Looking forward to enjoying it from the back seat this time around!
The next Australian Society of Herpetologists conference has been announced - Townsville - 5-7 December! Start making some plans. @AusSocHerp australiansocietyofherpetologists.org/2023-conferenc…
During my PhD, I got alot of unhelpful advice Now I'm a PhD supervisor, I know 💯 what I needed to hear 4 things every PhD student should know 🧵 #phdchat @thoughtsofaphd @PhD_Genie @thephdstory @HaPhDsupervisor @Dissertating
The 2023 Mike Bull Award #ResearchGrant for Early Career Nature Scientists is now open! Early career researchers (late PhD or early post-doctoral research fellows) are invited to apply. Applications close 5pm ACST Tues 25 April 2023 - naturefoundation.org.au/what-we-do/sci… #NatureConservation
It takes alot of bravery to speak out publicly about situations like this 👏 and it is often hard for ECRs to bounce back from the damage caused. Hopefully exposure like this helps reduce the perpetration of extreme academic toxicity exemplified here.
I'm often asked why I resigned from my position at @Yale_BGC six months after moving to the US. I left because of Walter Jetz. (1/3)
Today I introduced my postdoc Lynea to sleepy lizard babies - the first ones for 2023 @GerrutN @lynea_witczak Born this morning.
Best of luck Kailah for this great piece of work on fossil lizards.
It is submitted! The last unpublished PhD chapter.