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Nicholas Wu

@nicholaswu.bsky.social

Ecophysiology | herpetology | macroecology | meta-analysis | data viz. Lecturer and Head of the Wu Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Lab at Murdoch University | www.nicholaswulab.com

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✳️ We are delighted to announce a new editorial internship scheme for #EarlyCareerResearchers! ✳️

Interns will gain experience of:
✅ manuscript handling
✅ peer review
✅ editorial decision making

Full details and how to apply here: academic.oup.com/conphys/page...

#Publishing #ECR #PeerReview

02.12.2025 14:15 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪
I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬
Deadline: 4 Jan 2026!
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

01.12.2025 12:58 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Congrats @tomasvillada.bsky.social on your first paper from your PhD! He found Australian cave-roosting bats in colder climates stay longer in torpor and fatten more to survive in colder environments | doi.org/10.1007/s004...

21.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
Talentech - Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum Denmark // Leder af Konserveringsenheden ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum

The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

17.11.2025 08:02 — 👍 9    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1
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We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to understand how native fish species 🐟 of south-west WA will cope with climate change and human impact at @murdoch.edu.au | nicholaswulab.com

@austsocfishbiol.bsky.social @austevolsoc.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

12.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys

📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.

09.11.2025 07:18 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

06.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 270    🔁 112    💬 24    📌 37
3 x Master’s by Research projects: Artificial Habitat Optimisation for Fauna - Curtin University, WA, Sydney - Ecological Society of Australia Closing 30 November 2025 3 x Master’s by Research projects: Artificial Habitat Optimisation for Fauna Australia’s legacy of numerous unclosed mines provides a huge opportunity for habitat rehabilitati...

3 x Master’s by Research projects: Artificial Habitat Optimisation for Fauna - here at Curtin University Perth WA (not Sydney despite link!) Closing date for applications 30 November 2025
www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

05.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!

🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

28.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 26    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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Congrats @alangguth.bsky.social on your first paper from your PhD! She was able to grow fibroblast cells from bat wings 🦇 using more field-friendly techniques that will help us better understand disease dynamics without infecting bats directly! peerj.com/articles/202...

24.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Deriving fibroblast cell lines from wing-punch biopsies of Australian eastern bent-winged bats (Miniopterus orianae oceanensis) Cell cultures are a valuable tool for the study of in vitro disease processes, especially where such processes concern wild and/or threatened animal species. However, the collection of adequate sample...

First paper of my PhD just got published!
Want to find out how to make your own bat cells from field samples? Check it out!
👉 peerj.com/articles/20222

Thanks to my wonderful co-authors @labrannelly.bsky.social, Chris, Tomás, @nicholaswu.bsky.social @jhufschmid.bsky.social and Ellen 🦇

23.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Join us on 5th November to hear our Founding Editor Steve Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social speak about #Collaboration, #CoProduction and #Impact!

Sign up here: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

@sebiology.bsky.social #ECR #PhD

14.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Come join the free Harry Butler Institute event that explores the fascinating world of WA's turtles.
📍Boola Katitjin, Murdoch University
📅 22nd Oct - 5:30pm
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/talking-tu...

06.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...

01.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊 Cornell lab of #ornithology is looking for a full professor in animal comm & behaviour, and I think y'all are amazing and overqualified, sooo: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/302...

16.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
University of Southern Queensland hiring Lecturer (Animal Science) in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | LinkedIn Posted 12:32:42 AM. $112,381 to $132,831 pa + 17% Super + Leave LoadingFull-time continuing appointment (37.5…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Science position at the University of Southern Queensland. Candidates with a strong teaching background in Animal Science are encouraged.
📷 Toowoomba, Australia
Closes: 8th October 2025

🔗 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

17.09.2025 04:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#OpenScience #FAIRdata

15.09.2025 02:07 — 👍 56    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1
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2027 is going to be THE YEAR OF THE BATS!

A global celebration of the world’s only flying mammals and the vital roles they play in our ecosystems.

ENTER NOW!
www.yearofthebats.org

01.09.2025 17:13 — 👍 18    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ... Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

08.08.2025 21:16 — 👍 12    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

Woohoo! Congrats on starting your new position.

01.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

26.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 22    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 0
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University Lecturer in Biostatistics University Lecturer in Biostatistics

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

26.08.2025 11:01 — 👍 32    🔁 51    💬 0    📌 4

Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

23.08.2025 14:43 — 👍 8    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0

Hey Andy, I’m in WA now! Any bats roosting in your sites?

23.08.2025 01:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Curtin University hiring Research Officer - Toad Containment Zone in Perth, Western Australia, Australia | LinkedIn Posted 12:45:34 PM. Two-years fixed term, 0.6 - 1.0 FTE (3-5 days p/wk)$96,323 - $102,186 (G06) pro rata per annum…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

🚨 Research Officer - Toad Containment Zone at ‪Curtin University. Candidates interested in applied questions around cane toad control are encouraged.
📷 Perth, AU
Closes: 2nd September 2025

🔗 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

21.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Volunteer applications are now open for the 2025/26 flatback turtle nesting season at Barrow Island and Mundabullangana.

Duration: 15 – 19 days
Dates: Nov 2025 – Jan 2026
Closes: 8th September 2025
🔗 www.elementalconsultants.com.au/flatback-tur...

20.08.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Associate Professor in molecular/cellular animal physiology (281754) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Associate Professor in molecular/cellular animal physiology (281754), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025

🚨 Associate Professor in animal physiology position
at NTNU. Candidates with a strong ecological and evolutionary physiology background are encouraged.
📷 Trondheim, Norway
Closes: 1st September 2025

🔗 jobbnorge.no//en/availabl...

18.08.2025 12:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

18.08.2025 03:40 — 👍 19    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 5
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Open positions | University of Helsinki Read about our range of career options and apply now. Application processes ends on the date indicated in the job ad at 23.59 local Helsinki time (EEST).

3 prof positions open in Helsinki!

🧬Human genetics and genomics (open rank, DL 10.10)
🧬Cellular physiology (TT, DL 17.8)
🏙️ Ecological restoration of urban environments (open rank, DL 17.8)

www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/...

Come and join us in the happiest country in the world 5 years running!

16.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 13    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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Medellin, Colombia 2028!
#ibrc2028 #bats #batresearch

16.08.2025 03:30 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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