Rebecca (Bec) Quah

Bec’s stellar supervisory team includes @annajmhopkins.bsky.social Harriet Mills and Saul Cowen. This work would not have been possible without the support of co-authors Tony Friend and Aaron Brace.

01.11.2025 10:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Gilbert’s Potoroo and the fun-guys: Co-existing mycophagous mammals as indicators of potentially available fungal food resources - Biodiversity and Conservation Understanding resource use and availability is critical for the success of wildlife translocations, especially for species with complex diets. Mycophagous (fungus-feeding) diets are particularly chall...

The amazing @rebeccajquah.bsky.social who I have the privilege of supervising, just got her first PhD paper published. She used eDNA to examine the diet of the world’s rarest marsupial and explores how this approach can help find new suitable habitat. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

01.11.2025 10:11 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Tomorrow, we get to return to my happy place! Back in the field to kick off another season of quenda monitoring

01.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needless to say, I wouldn’t be on track with my PhD without the support of the best supervisory team in the whole wide world @annajmhopkins.bsky.social @pezoporus.bsky.social @cowensaul.bsky.social and Harriet Mills ❤️

01.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today, a different chapter from my PhD got published in Biodiversity and Conservation!

This one on the use of co-existing mycophagous mammals as indicators of potential food availability for the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo 🦘🍄🍄‍🟫

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

01.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A whirlwind week! On Wed, I had the privilege of presenting 2 PhD chapters at WA’s Biodiversity Conference!

These looked at the fungal diets of boodies and woylies across a landscape gradient, and an eDNA survey of fungi on Dirk Hartog Island, a recent/future translocation site for these bettongs.

01.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This wee rascal has gone untrappable for 2 years!! Well done to @rebeccajquah.bsky.social and Holly (MSc student) who caught her this morning. Aptly named Mojo Jojo, she is a very special mouse. MJ is allowing us to monitor the build a new mound-burrow system - literally from the ground up!

25.07.2025 09:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Run mouse run‼️

04.07.2025 08:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The art, the artist, the perfect little door and the morning views!

Back in the Pilbara and super lucky to be working on @pebblemouse.bsky.social‘s pebble mound mouse (Pseudomys chapmani) project 🪨🐭

#wildoz #rodents

02.07.2025 04:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A fat Mumma heading home
❤️🐭 @rebeccajquah.bsky.social

27.06.2025 01:47 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Lucky enough to have @rebeccajquah.bsky.social working on the pebble mouse project this year! Nice first morning with a beautiful newly caught female.

24.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

I’m a #reptile pet mum!🦎

This is Buzz and Woody! They’re southern banded knob tail geckos (Nephurus wheeleri) and I’ll be basing my whole personality around them from now on😌

22.05.2025 04:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scenes from a couple of my side hustles this year:
🐦 Emus spotted running across a salt lake
🦅 Undertaking a bird survey
🐢 Excavating hatched turtle nests
🦘Quenda monitoring

#wildoz

30.12.2024 13:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Prior to #ESAus2024, I had a go at making polymer clay earrings for the first time. They’re potoroos in case you can’t tell🫣 But they’ve got nothing on some of the home made/sewn outfits others were rocking!

Petition to have a workshop on DIY #ecologicalfashion at future ecological conferences!

14.12.2024 04:54 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That’s a wrap on my first ESA! Highlights were presenting the first set of results from my PhD, getting to catch up with Mammal Society friends, getting to hear about other mycophagy projects and finishing the week with a species distribution modelling workshop! #ESAus2024

13.12.2024 07:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0