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Renee Catullo

@reneecatullo.bsky.social

Biogeography and phylogenetics of Australia Conservation genetics Frog biologist/tragic Sr. Lecturer at U of Western Australia

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PSA: People talk about bad influences but they never tell you to avoid the retired ladies on your street who think champagne on a Monday is a good idea. HIDE! They don’t know it’s a work night! They don’t even know the day of the week.

15.12.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Student caught trying to smuggle hundreds of insects out of Australia

This is great work by the environment department and need to happen a lot more regularly

03.11.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@idrnik.bsky.social

15.10.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WA Government Jobs | Molecular Geneticist (Entomology)

We need a phylogenomics person in Western Australia! 3 year position, open to international applicants. Entomology is a plus but not a requirement. Collaboration with Berkeley and U Western Australia. Share widely!

search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

15.10.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#arachtober

Pip trap bycatch, bring your tongs!

12.10.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This morning we found a lovely Lerista macropisthopus

30.08.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went on a bit of a successful adventure!

30.08.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The first herp of the trip was the classic byneo’s gecko

30.08.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Australia feels like an island of sanity in an ocean of chaos these days, if you were wondering

12.07.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a major violation of ARC rules, I was just reading them. Ok for use in writing but not reviewing.

07.07.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Australia’s cutest mammal is now Australia’s cutest three mammals Scientists have discovered that the kultarr – one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials – is actually three different species.

theconversation.com/australias-c... @kultarrcam.bsky.social @planigale.bsky.social @reneecatullo.bsky.social

30.06.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cryptic Kultarr: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Unrecognized Species of Carnivorous Marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in Arid Australia Conservation is impossible if we have not described all of the species we aim to conserve. This paper reviews the taxonomy of the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) a small arid-zone specialist native to....

I’m a mammal taxonomist now!!! 😜

Two new species of adorable marsupials, the kind that have the will to kill you but lack the size to be effective.

Led by my PhD student @kultarrcam.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

29.06.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t hate it!

10.06.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Using chatGPT to assess how to make student essays hard for chatGPT is surprisingly effective.

22.05.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phascogales prevail 12 years on Twelve years ago, Ecologist, Angela Sanders and her team arrived at Kojonup reserve with 30 Red-tailed Phascogales. After more than a decade of careful…

A nice article on work led by an honours student on kengoor, one of those Australian things that wants to kill you, it just can’t

20.05.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Just Waiting for A Mate in HD
YouTube video by Sandman Panel Van Just Waiting for A Mate in HD

The most classically Australian video of all time. And the editors deserve an Oscar

11.05.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I teach a pretty hardcore masters unit on how to ID animals, with peeps like @idrnik.bsky.social. The students are so impressed I know all the characters in the key for each species. Folks, secretly, we’ve been using the same individual bugs for four years. I don’t know the key, I know the bug.

09.05.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A bit of road reptile rescue during recent fieldwork. FYI thorny devils are the MOST vacant reptiles I’ve ever encountered.

07.05.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0