PhD in ecology. Interested in all things ecology, conservation, parasites, disease. 📚🌿🌻🐀
Sydney
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Congratulations to my supervisors @sydneyrats and @dieterhochuli on a very well deserved award 😊🎉
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I chatted with the wonderful @jones_ann about ticks and their urban wildlife hosts!
We talk tick life cycle basics, what makes introduced animals like 🐀 and 🐇 important hosts, the possible origins of some public perceptions around bandicoots and ticks + more!
Ticked-off in Sydney! New episode of Off Track has just hit the feeds! It features @caseyttaylor and this handsome snoot buff.ly/3sNOfzD
My PhD research mentioned builds on a lot of the brilliant work by @HenryLydecker and was only possible with the guidance of my awesome supervisors @sydneyrats and @dieterhochuli @SydneySOLES 😊
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Just watched @siobhon_egan’s wonderful PhD exit seminar on the relationships between ticks, microbes, and wildlife hosts in Australia🐀🐇🦌🔬🎉 well done! :)
What’s better than a video of a Long-nosed bandicoot with a baby? A video of a Long-nosed bandicoot with THREE babies. 😍
Babies all round! These content little bandicoot joeys were one of the highlights of trapping at Warriewood Wetlands this week
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Our Covid-safe attire and elaborate set-up has encouraged some curious members of the public to ask “are you performing surgery?!” Nope, just collecting #ticks :) @Sydney_Science @SydneySOLES
Introduced rabbits could be important #tick hosts in some of Australia's urban bushland remnants. We found high numbers of #Ixodes larvae on rabbits, including Ixodes holocyclus, the Aus paralysis tick.
@HenryLydecker @dieterhochuli @sydneyrats
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Just the Tips - Do's and Don'ts of Working From Home youtu.be/B94s6TwcpDs via @YouTube
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There are some beautiful bushland remnants on Australia’s east coast. In this video, we’re setting up camera traps with a peanut oil lure to estimate tick host activity in remnants and adjacent yards.
@sydneyrats @dieterhochuli
Brush-turkey nest mounds are full of decomposing leaf litter & soil (like 3 tonnes of it..), so we’re asking if mounds are a hotspot for invertebrates (incl. ticks) @EcoMatt94
We’re surveying mounds reported using the Brush Turkeys app, so keep reporting!
A very bouncy juvenile long-nosed bandicoot nosing around before scooting under the fence #urbanwildlife
Emptied a vial of ~30 ticks collected the week before to ID under the microscope, assumed they were all dead, until a lone survivor righted itself and started to walk away...then towards me....
The tropical wildlife biology fieldtrip to the Top End last week was awesome! @Sydney_Science undergrads got to see heaps of cool critters🐍🦎🐊🕷file snake, green tree frog, wolf spider, black-headed python
Hidden women of history: Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th-century entomologist and scientific adventurer theconversation.com/hidden-w… via @ConversationEDU
Article about our tick survey in local magazine Pittwater Life. Thanks to the many Northern Beaches residents who have filled it out so far! The survey will be out until the end of Feb - help us understand more about tick occurrence on the Northern Beaches northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/c…
