Oli Griffith

Fetal inflammatory signals regulate maternal investment in a pregnant marsupial https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.16.669780v1

The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without Tiny Matters · Episode

🧬 Ever wondered how something as bizarre and vital as the placenta evolved—not just in humans, but across the animal kingdom?

I had a great time chatting about the wild diversity of placentation (think: lizards, sharks, and more) on the latest episode of Tiny Matters.

🎧 Listen here:

The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without Tiny Matters · Episode

before working on this episode, i'd never thought about the fact that male seahorses have placentas, and now I can't stop thinking about it
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The Budget should include a massive and historic increase in funding for research. Not only is it needed, but we really should be poaching ever medical and scientific researcher from the US we can. Absolutely perfect timing.

The Ecology and Evolution of Invasive Populations Abstract. Why do populations spread through space, and how do they change as they do so? In answering these questions, this book shows that phenomena as di

New book out on invasions by the brilliant @benflips.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/59515

#FutureFellowships #FT25

Detailed Assessor reports are now available in RMS and rejoinders have opened.

Here’s an older thread with suggestions on dealing with assessor reports – especially the #ARC3DayRule – and constructing a rejoinder.
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Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying the following: "DP26 EOI applicants: tomorrow all lead CIs will receive an email with their outcomes and all applicants will be able to get their results in RMS. Due to the volume of applications, emails may be staggered throughout the day. Stay tuned for an update.".

The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.

For all the bad that is going on, one thing that I would like to see rub off on politicians is them saying things like "we will make mistakes, we wont be perfect, but when we do make mistakes we will fix it". Ofcourse in Musk's case, he won't fix it, but this phrase is new for US politics

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project).

Applications close 25th March 2025!

careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects.

Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them.

The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.

Poisonous creature — found among trash between houses — is a new species in Colombia The tiny animal lets out a single, piercing call.

Pretty excited that our new species appears to have flooded small local newspapers in the USA www.sacbee.com/news/nation-...

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen

Great to catch up with old friend @isobelronai.bsky.social for lunch on this windy day!

Also! Definitely check out all the presentations in the S9 “Cnidarian sensory systems as comparative models for the evolution of complexity” in Marquis C 8:30-3:30 tomorrow!

🧵1/4. New book finally coming out on 26 December 2024. This has been a monumental effort and I take the opportunity to thank my co-editor @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social, all of the amazing contributors, chapter reviewers and the team at Oxford Academic.

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Why do some mammals have short pregnancies while others take years? Wallaby study sparks new insights

Check out this story on our recent PNAS paper, which shows how our ancestors overcame challenges of pregnancy, to support an extended period of placentation.

Early career researchers: ALWAYS tap into the whisper network before you join a lab.

Cell-free placental DNA: What do we really know? Author summary Cell-free DNA are fragments of free-floating DNA released by cells into blood circulation. During pregnancy, the placenta releases cell-free placental DNA (cfpDNA) into maternal blood c...

Very proud of my grad students for putting together this comprehensive review on cell-free placental DNA. We found that reviews on the topic focus on clinical utility. Here we focus on basic science of cell-free placental DNA, what we know and current knowledge gaps
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Great to have our lab Christmas Party hosted by the wonderful Sally Potter! Such a pleasure working with an awesome group of people.

The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Eutherian mammals exhibit considerable variation in their gestation lengths, which has traditionally been linked to variation in other traits, including body mass and lifespan. To understand how gesta...

The evolution of gestation length in eutherian #mammals

Thodoris Danis & Antonis Rokas 🧪⚒️

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