@whatisitdoing

No longer active here. Find me on instagram (frogology_) or 🦋(frogology). Frogologist & PhD candidate at @mqnatsci 🐸 Working & living on Wallumattagal land

 Sydney, New South Wales
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Joined June 2018
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Watch me talk about my favourite frog for 26 entire minutes
The Lizard Lab@lizard_lab25 Sep 2020
This week's #herpoftheweek, presented by @whatisitdoing is none other than the glorious & most unusual of frogs, the Crucifix Frog (Notaden bennetti)! Watch the video to learn fun facts & hear the discussion that follows. @MQBiology @SimonClulow @aus_herp vimeo.com/461630148

Herp of the Week: the Crucifix Frog (Notaden bennetti) presented by...

This week’s Herp of the Week is presented by Maddi Holmes and to quote Maddi “This is my favourite animal in the world”! This presentation is jam-packed with fun facts about one of Australia’s most...

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Find me on #Bluesky, @frogology.bsky.social
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Look how cool and talented my supervisor (the frogs) is!!!
Anthony Waddle@AnthonyWaddle11 Jul 2024
Excited to see our research on the cover of the latest issue of @nature !! I was never much of a photographer - the frogs did the heavy lifting on this one by being cuuuuute.
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Btw my first paper from my PhD was published the other day 🤓 doi.org/10.1007/s11259-024-1…

Spontaneous reoccurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infections in Australian green tree...

Veterinary Research Communications - Heat therapy has been reported as a safe, effective, and readily available treatment method for heat-tolerant frogs infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis...

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Nothin like listening to @alieward’s @Ologies while I weigh and measure the prettiest frogs ever, and thinking all of the crazy facts I’d share about these perfect creatures 😌🐸
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Had the fortune to sit down with William McLennan’s (a naturalist who collected specimens for H.L. White) diary today, these entries felt particularly relatable 😅
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My favourite thing about following scientists outside of my field is that sometimes they post stuff that is entirely unintelligible to me but I still give it a like because they seem excited and I support their joy
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Anyone know of an alternative to Hygrochron iButtons? Can find many temp and RH data loggers but nothing of a similar size 😭
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I went slightly insane collecting data for this paper so please read it, or just look at the pretty figures that’s fine too ok ty ❤️🦎
The Lizard Lab@lizard_lab29 Oct 2023
Can sleepy lizards (aka shingleback skinks) count? Check out our new paper on quantity discrimination in Behavioral Ecology: academic.oup.com/beheco/adva… @birgit_szabo @whatisitdoing @Ben_Ashton9 @mqnatsci @BehavEcol @BehavEcolPapers @MikeG_lizards
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@abcnews20 Sep 2023
#BREAKING: Australia will cease efforts to eradicate varroa mite and transition to management of the deadly bee parasite. ab.co/48lTn2o

Australia abandons efforts to eradicate deadly parasite varroa mite after 15 months

Australia has decided it is no longer technically feasible to eradicate varroa mite and will move to management of the pest.

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If you're a scientist who will be in Melbourne on the 6th of October and can spare an hour to be part of a super fun science education panel, please get in touch!
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Any of y’all on tumblr? I’m having a great time over there and would love to follow more colleagues
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yea so i went back to tumblr tumblr.com/frog-ology if you wanna follow for frog content ❤️🐸

🐸 frog scientist 🐸 (@frog-ology) on Tumblr

Hey there! I’m Maddi and I’m a frogologist (not a real word) & PhD candidate studying conservation and behaviour of Australian tree frogs. My research focuses on mitigating the impact of chytrid, an...

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STUNNING (in the skin-crawling sort of way) attack by cookie cutter sharks on a swordfish! newsweek.com/fisherman-shock… “Fisherman Shocked After Reeling in Swordfish Covered in Strange Round Holes” 🗡️🐟🍽️🍪🦈😬 📸T.K. Walker
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Solidifying my reputation as middle author, our newest paper is out! The extent of rapid colour change in male agamid lizards is unrelated to overall sexual dichromatism. Great collaborative effort! 🦎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

The extent of rapid colour change in male agamid lizards is unrelated to overall sexual dichromatism

We studied the extent of dynamic colour change in both sexes in six agamid species. This study indicates that the extent of colour change is independent of the degree of sexual dichromatism and...

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I am beyond flattered 🥰 Thank you @EcolSocAus for making my first ESA one to remember!
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at this rate i’m going back to tumblr
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Come hear me talk about this work at 5:35pm tomorrow in Meeting Room 1! 🐸 PS yes that is 5 mins after the dinner bus is scheduled to leave, no I don’t know why they decided to schedule my talk to be after that
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anyone wanna psychoanalyse why travelling makes me so heckin anxious? I’m not at all afraid of the actual flying part, it’s everything else that has me on the verge of tears every time 😓
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I had so much fun giving this talk at #ASSAB2023, thank you to my audience for being the best research animals ever!
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As someone with thalassophobia, I'm really not enjoying the constant coverage of the dudes who got into a tiny tube to go to the bottom of the sea 🤢
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