Steph Deering
@StephDeering95
PhD candidate @UC_CCEG🌱 MRes, BSc/BNaSc (Zoology), 💚🦎🐸 Studying behavioural innovations in overcoming species invasions (using crows & cane toads) 🐦⬛🐸
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Our latest work in Science explores how climate change is reshaping the energy budgets of desert lizards, revealing species-specific responses to warming. We show metabolic costs rise, but foraging opportunities shrink.🦎🌡️ 🔗science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵 (1/)
Feeling very humbled to receive the 2025 Mike Bull Award from Nature Foundation🦎 Mike Bull was a giant in Australian ecology—his work on lizard behaviour and long-term field studies shaped our understanding of species and systems. naturefoundation.org.au/news-events/la…
Check out @PabloRecio93’s first thesis chapter published in Animal behaviour! A huge study and fantastic work
This paper is finally out! @DanielWANoble @thekriswild #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition #Ecology #Reptiles 🧵👇
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
Had a wonderful time presenting some of my PhD work and meeting so many wonderful people at #ISBE2024. Until next time 🐦⬛
Another year of bird surveys complete! Huge shoutout to all my volunteers braving the heat to walk around and count birds 😂More importantly- that concludes all data collection/field work for my PhD 🥺 feeling lots of emotions! Now enjoying some final moments in the Kimberley 🌅
How to write your first paper I recommend this paper to all PhD beginners. @PhDVoice @Labiofy #PhDposition #phdlife #PhD #postdoc @thepostdoctoral #chemtwitter
Had a wonderful time presenting at my first international conference!! Borneo you were a blast 🎉#WCH10 @UC_CCEG
Come see me at the #WCH10 poster session and find out about post-release effects of translocation on the Canberra grassland earless dragon 🐉 🦎 find me at A-1247 between rooms 5 and 6 😊
If anyone at #WCH10 is interested in behavioural interactions between native crows and invasive cane toads in Australia - come along to great hall C at 3:30 today! 🐦⬛🐸
The whistling tree frog has high chytrid infection in adults, but very low prevalence in tadpoles. This is very unique! And I'll be talking about it today at 4pm in the GARD symposium (room 14) at #WCH10
Come check out my poster at #WCH10 - A-0627 to hear about some frogs!
Kari (@KariSoennichsen) using eDNA as a non-invasive method to monitor #chytrid infection in the wild #WCH10
Our new paper investigating if there is a relationship between social and physical #cognitive tasks in #magpies is out now in @SpringerANCO! @mandy_ridley @Ben_Ashton9 @CornishJackdaws doi.org/10.1007/s10071…
Another successful field trip finished for my PhD! We were able to do an exciting experiment in #sociallearning! 🐦⬛ If anyone is interested in volunteering- I have another field trip coming up in September- feel free to DM!
Huge congratulations to @ejstringe_r who today submitted her PhD!! 🎉🎉🎉 A job well done, with one chapter already published in #PNAS, Emily is clearly bound for great things!!
Amazing work @ejstringe_r !!
Boom-bust populations are a prominent part of Australia's unique ecosystems. But how do they maintain #genetic diversity when they face constant bottlenecks through the 'bust'? @ejstringe_r and colleagues reveal how, in their latest paper in @PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Little project update since it's been a while. I've had a second successful breeding season in my outdoor enclosures with 15 (!!!) tympo juvi's found yesterday 🥹 @UC_CCEG
Hot off the press @BiolJLinnSoc ! "Tick-tock, racing the clock: parasitism is associated with decreased sprint performance in the Eastern fence lizard". Work from way back where we examined the interplay between tick parasitism and locomotor performance in Eastern fence lizards
