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Recent lab research in the news: Conrad Hoskin has won a EUREKA PRIZE in Early Career Species Discovery! Here is the ANU media release. ABC Science / Cairns Post / Brisbane Times / 
Megan Higgie recently won the 2009 R.A. FISHER PRIZE which is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognise the most significant paper published in Evolution in the previous year based on a recent PhD dissertation. The award was for work Megan did while a PhD student in Prof. Mark Blows' lab at UQ. Our paper on
sexual deception in the Augrabies flat lizard is out in Procedings
of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Click here to get the
PDF. Click here for lizard
images for the media. Here are some of stories. ScienceAlert / Discovery
Channel
/ ABC
Science
/ AFP / Canberra
Times
/ and the
story was featured on the COLBERT REPORT in a segment called
"When Animals Attack Our Morals", check
out the video. Our phylogeny and description of the new Fijian iguana (Brachylophus bulabula) is out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B (click here for the PDF). Here are just a few of the stories. Click here for iguana images. ABC Science Online / ScienceAlert / Discovery Channel / Fiji Times / Fox News / North Korean Times / Canberra Times / Pacific Magazine / National Geographic / Science Daily / and my favourite, from the Institute for Creation Research. Phil Byrne's paper showing the highest ever level of polyandry in a vertebrate is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. (click here for the PDF). Phil's work was highlighted in Science, Nature and New Scientist. Here are just a few of the stories: ScienceNews / Nature / New Scientist / Science Daily / Innovations Report / ScienceAlert / The Economic Tiimes Conrad Hoskin was involved in the re-discovery of the Armoured Mist Frog, thought to be extinct since 1991. Its discovery has been big international news. Here are just a few of the stories: Fox News / CNN / ScienceAlert / Discovery Channel Mitzy Pepper's work on the geckos of the Pilbara, published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution and also BMC Evolutionary Biology, has been highlighted in the Canberra Times: Canberra Times |
