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Dr Zac Wylde

@wyldescience.bsky.social

Evolutionary ecologist, entomologist. Interested in sexual selection, nongenetic inheritance, chemical signalling, and life in general!

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squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

15.09.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...

07.08.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing. Scathing but so accurate.

13.06.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lecturer/PΕ«kenga - Evolutionary Ecology Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

Two jobs at a wonderful Zoo Dept at the University of Otago - a very high quality of life

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please repost and apply!

19.05.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The house fly (Musca domestica). Credit Matt Bertone 2014.

The house fly (Musca domestica). Credit Matt Bertone 2014.

"The house fly is a migrant, and it appears to suffer from an incurable case of wanderlust. The fly is born in a mass of filth, being, according to one philosopher, the resurrection, the reincarnation of man's own dirt and carelessness" - Murvosh & Thaggard 1966 Ann Ento Soc Am. Photo by M. Bertone

22.04.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Been looking at these ARC changes. If they go through - as early as next year - I assume this means DE26 & FT26 will be the last time these schemes run. If that's the case - big decision for people putting in this yr, that's a lot of work for only one chance at the schemes (rather than the usual 3)

10.03.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them β€” β€œthey’re studying the spit of lizards?!” β€” remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 30228    πŸ” 7897    πŸ’¬ 517    πŸ“Œ 267

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