School of Biological Sciences, Monash

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD position. If interested, email me by 27 July (5 PM, Melbourne time). Please review the application requirements carefully before submitting your application. See more about our research here shawanchowdhurylab.com.

Can we extend passive acoustic monitoring of wildlife to individual monitoring? Lifi Huang and co-authors show that features learned by models pretrained on bird species data can be transferred to individual classification tasks with minimal effort. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Rohan Brooker and co-authors find the ability of cleanerfish to adjust their activity in response to competition underscores the role of behaviour in maintaining cleaning networks on coral reefs. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… @BBM_Wong

New results from Y Choy et al suggest that adaptation to combined stress allows basal cold tolerance and its plasticity to co-evolve, but not heat tolerance, highlighting the vulnerability of ectotherms to long-term climate change. researchgate.net/publication/39…

Classic population genetics theory predicts that inbreeding restricts the range of conditions leading to balancing selection but, in those cases where it does occur it may still play a role in adaptation. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40659359/

A study by EJ Howells and co-authors used spatial comparisons of quantitative genetic parameters and thermal history to provide evidence of widespread adaptive genetic variation and selection responses to climate warming in reef-building corals. nature.com/articles/s4155…

John Bowman and Jonathan Levins present data that lend support to the idea that FGMYB was the female sex-determining gene in the ancestral land plant, which has been speculated to have been dioicous nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

How can we better integrate biodiversity information from a variety of sources to provide more robust species population information for multiple management and policy objectives? Frank Muller-Karger and co-authors outline a framework here pure.lib.usf.edu/ws/portalfiles…

What do we know and understand about how plants respond to temperature? Avilash Singh Yadav and co-authors review existing knowledge science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Do we understand collision risks for seabirds in offshore wind farms? Mark Miller et al produce a parameter database to support Procellariiform collision risk modelling for offshore wind farm impact assessment. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... @rohanclarke

Do biological invaders encounter genetic bottlenecks that constrain adaptation? Paul Battley and colleagues find that introduced populations encompass high levels of genetic variation with little evidence of bottlenecks. nature.com/articles/s41...

New study in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals how white clover evolves rapidly across continents via large chromosomal changes. Led by Dr Paul Battlay, @MonashBiol @shaky_dingo + @njkooyers @evoecolab & Brandon Hendrickson. Read more: monash.edu/science/news-e… #MonashScience

Arabidopsis research has informed other disciplines including human biology and Lucia Strader and co-authors describe the role of Arabidopsis in elucidating immune mechanisms here academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

Detailed surveys of an endangered skink find it is likely to decline in a region of high-elevation cloud rainforests supporting exceptional biodiversity and endemism. But it remains possible that gullies provide microclimatic refugia to climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Jonathan Edwards et al describe a coalified log containing tunnels and coprolites attributable to termites plus smaller coprolites matching the size range of mites-the earliest trace fossil evidence of these taxa in circumpolar environments in Australia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have just opened searches for three new continuing Teaching & Research Academics.  All positions are open at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), and we have one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Looking for your first job after graduating or planning your next career move? Join us for Sci-Alumni Talks. This event is open to Monash Science Students and Alumni as part of our Professional Development Series! Thursday 12 June 12.30pm – 1.30pm Online eventbrite.com.au/e/sci-alumni-t…

If you are a graduate student or a postdoc, consider applying for one of our Travelling Fellowships and you could receive up to £3000 to visit another lab & collaborate with other researchers. Deadline 8 August 2025 For more information visit: biologists.com/grants/travell…

Check out the Lord Howe Island stick insect on the June cover of @Trends_Ecol_Evo featuring our article about integration animal welfare into conservation decisions. PDF available here: cell.com/trends/ecology…

Join us for the 23rd Melbourne Protein Group Student Symposium, at Bio21, Wednesday 16th July 2025. Generous talk and poster prizes available alongside inspiring keynote speakers. Submit your abstract and register now: tinyurl.com/pjxhw7yd