Dr Emily Scicluna 🌏

🏆 #Animalwelfare Award for my continued commitment to improving welfare for our #fattaileddunnarts. #Captivemanagement of animals is a privilege, and every animal life is valued and respected. My efforts are supported by my incredible manager Andrew Pask and Colossal Biosciences.

www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/12...

Years ago a couple of our #dunnarts got #trichobezoars (hairballs) so preventative protocols were developed. 2000+ animals later, we haven't seen any more hairballs, so I helped #veterinarians publish this result, highlighting our commitment to our animals' health and #welfare 🙏

#mammalfashion post two - this time the outfits and accessories- absolutely on point! 🐾🦇🐭 so many mammalogists shopping at #princesshighway and #dangerfield!

Fashion off the field! The final day bought a gaggle of gliders with three of our fabulous mammalogists wearing various iterations! #mammalfashion #ausmamsoc25 #dangerfield #princesshighway #greaterglider

Snorkelling dunnarts and toasty pookilas- great talks this morning from @drdunnart.bsky.social and Phoebe Burns on two of our smaller critters 🐭🐾 #ausmamsoc25

Oh my goodness, was this at the botanic gardens? I am doing the bird walk Saturday and would love SO MUCH to see a noisy pitta!!!!

Thank you so much Sarah! ❤️🙏

First ever poster #presentation at #ICCB2025! Fat-tailed #dunnarts of the Victorian #grasslands are #threatened with #extinction
Sheep farming landscapes ✅️ Cropped landscapes ❌️
#climatechange is forcing Victorian farmers toward cropping = less #habitat for #native #fauna

Recent #research we #published! In non-fancy terms, this represents the first step for developing #marsupial IVF; working out how to collect high-quality eggs from female fat-tailed #dunnarts ✅
#assistedreproduction #reproduction

Fresh #research paper out today! Long-term impacts of #captivity on #skull #morphology and #endocranial volume in fat-tailed #dunnarts 💀🐭
Captive skulls = significantly shorter basal + upper molar lengths, broader zygomatic widths and longer palate and toothrow lengths, compared with wild dunnarts.

Less than a week to get your abstracts in for the 71st Annual Australian Mammal Society meeting! Get cracking - deadline Friday 2nd May!

It often is for me too actually, but this particular arid ecosystem the animals are a bit more hardy! What species did you work on?

Dig in day was fine with a top of 31 degrees but we have a 39 coming up in a few days so fingers crossed it doesn't tick to 40 otherwise we'll need to close our traps (for the safety of trapped animals)

Calperum Station #floodplains; "dig in" day is done!
Fingers crossed for dunnarts, planigale and amazing reptiles 🤞 #pitfalls #pitfalltrapping #surveying #ecology

FRONT COVER of February Dev. Dynamics! 📸Caleb McElrea
"Breeding fat-tailed #dunnarts in #captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology": anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#scientist #research #wildlife #womeninstem

Nice size #easternbrownsnake skin in my tile grid today. Did you know you can sometimes identify a #snake to species based on its shed? EBs have 17 dorsal rows and a divided anal scale. Though I wouldn't suggest counting the anal scales on a live one 🤷‍♀️ 🐍
#fieldwork #ecology #grassland #womeninSTEM

Forgot to get a card? I got you covered! Show your loved one you care with one of my widely applicable and not-at-all-niche Valentine's messages 🥰💝💘

#fattaileddunnart #dunnart #marsupial #threatenedspecies #ValentinesDay #Valentines

‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI Critically endangered bird detected after analysis of tens of thousands of hours of song meter recordings

This is just awesome 😍 #criticallyendangered #plainswanderer found in the western #basaltgrasslands for the first time in 30 years... a #habitat with <1% of original extent remaining (and the same #ecosystem #fattaileddunnarts call home!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in #Science; adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote equal participation of #womeninSTEM. Grateful for my manager Prof. Andrew Pask, and all other mentors who provide a supportive and inclusive workplace for ALL #scientists.

Fresh publication alert! 🔥
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

That is devastating! :(

Specifically I'm trying to work out if they're more likely to cache larger prey compared to something mouse sized. It seems likely to me that if they can just gulp it down, that's what they'll do rather than cache, but it's just my thoughts rather than evidence based.

Where are our Australian #invasivespecies specialists at? Who works on #redfoxes and #feralcats? Got any references for evidence of #fox and #cat prey-caching behaviour for me? Are they likely to cache some items more than others?
Thank you! 🦊🐱

In a lab of ~70 people, I was absolutely chuffed to be voted 'Most Likely to Brighten your Day' and in recognition of my 'Ethical Compliance' 🥹🙏

#ethics #ethical #science #research

In absolute awe of my little brother Lockie, who is about to set sail on a ~45 day trip to #Antarctica. He'll be working for 12+ months at Mawson #Scientific #Research Station, with the Australian #Antarctic Division.
Follow him on insta and tiktok! (@scic.travels)

Slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

#science #ecology #fieldwork #dunnart #calperum #carnivorousmarsupial #dasyurids #WildOz #ausmammals #research #womeninstem #womeninwildlife #womeninscience

Squealing over my first fat-tailed dunnart with — who else? — @drdunnart.bsky.social, plus thylacine bones in the Tiegs Museum

A couple gems of the #mallee.

#spinytailedgecko #growlinggrassfrog #commonscalyfoot #redtailedwormlizard #coralsnake
#snake #gecko #herpetology #WildOz #WomenInSTEM #fieldwork #ecology #science

Catch of the day: double dunnies! Common dunnart (Sminthopsis murina) lucky @drdunnart.bsky.social is here #calperum