Associate Professor in Zoology & Ecology @UniNewEngland #Ecology #Herpetology #Freshwater #TeamHB3 @petercullenpct #SuperstarsofSTEM #lgbtqia She/Her
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8 Nov 2024
Happy turtle month! Itβs a high activity time for Australian turtles so please help us track nesting and turtle locations on the turtleSAT app!
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4 Nov 2024
The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() π§΅
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1 Nov 2024
November is π’ month and theyβll be lots of nesting action. Keep your eyes peeled for broken egg shells near to waterbodies and help our friends to cross the road safely.
Please log all any turtles or action you see on turtleSAT to help us better manage Australian turtles.
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1 Nov 2024
Which function do you use for ANOVAs in #R?
I have a suspicion/fear that many people are doing ANOVAs "wrong" in R (I'll explain what I mean by "wrong," as well as the "right" way after the poll ends). #Stats #Statistics #Research
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anova() in base R
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summary() in base R
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aov() in base R
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Anova() in car
59 votes β’ Final results
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Turtles often encounter fences as they wander over land in search of water, or a mate. Hereβs how to make fences turtle-friendly. @uninewengland @OhioState
theconversation.com/farm-fenβ¦
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10 Sep 2024
Love reptile research and remote fieldwork? Master's scholarship available at @BiolSci_UWA to study the Yinnietharra rock dragon - one of Australia's priority species. Project led by rock dragon expert Tash Lebas and a great WA team @AustSocHerp @S_van_Leeuwen @TSCommissioner
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12 Sep 2024
Some fantastic work by my recent honours student James Dowling @ERS_UNE - he identified problematic fence types that block turtle movements through ag land
Turtles often encounter fences as they wander over land in search of water, or a mate. Hereβs how to make fences turtle-friendly. @uninewengland @OhioState
theconversation.com/farm-fenβ¦
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deborah bower π’ π πΈ retweeted
12 Sep 2024
New paper by recent honours student James Dowling - mapped movement patterns & #fence interactions of #turtles traveling through #farm paddocks and addresses how we can make them more 'turtle-friendly'. Check out our paper in J of Wildlife Management wildlife.onlinelibrary.wileyβ¦
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6 Aug 2024
Back-to-back renewables sessions today at #ESA24! Come see me talk (104A at 4:30) about the potential for solar farms to support wildlife and ways to improve habitat suitability #SolarFarms #Conservoltaics #Ecovoltaics
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7 Aug 2024
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6 Aug 2024
We were very proud to hear about the incredible research of @DrEmSherratt during her plenary in the #WCH24 on sea snake evolution and morphology.. tiny heads with big implications π₯
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deborah bower π’ π πΈ retweeted
6 Aug 2024
If you missed it Rishab did a great job presenting his work on sticky geckos
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6 Aug 2024
Museum specimens are a wealth of knowledge, and morphologists know how to use it! @DrEmSherratt plenary @WCHerp #WCH24
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2 Aug 2024
PhD projects available on threatened reptiles @UQscience Please be in touch if interested!
wildlifeconservationlab.com/β¦
ALT Condamine earless dragons approve of this research
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deborah bower π’ π πΈ retweeted
Here are the talks out of the Tarvin Lab at #WCH10
Iβm giving two talks:
one on genome size evolution in poison frogs on Weds Aug 7 at 11am in room 3
And the second on the evolution of toxin sequestration in poison frogs on Aug 9 at 2pm in room 6
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#WCH10 here we come!!!
ALT Genome size evolution in dendrobatid poison frogs: Wednesday (aug 7) 11am room 3
ALT Passive accumulation of alkaloids in nontoxic poison frogs: Friday (aug 9) 2pm room 6
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5 Apr 2024
BARBIE Dragonfly! π©·
Have you ever seen such a stunning dragonfly?! β¨
The Crimson Marsh Glider is found near waterways across Asia! I was amazed seeing the colours of this beauty whilst in Langkawi and sat around for half an hour to get a photo! π€©π·
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6 Apr 2024
Look who showed up during a #turtle survey! @deborah_bower got this amazing picture of a Mountain Cow (tapir) that came down to the water for a swim in the Sibun River. #wildlifephotography #Belize
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deborah bower π’ π πΈ retweeted
15 Mar 2024
Data analysis retreat 2.0 is under way! Students are spending the weekend at UNE Smart Farm Field Lab analysing data from this yearβs experiments #datacamp #r #superlab β¦β¦@deborah_bowerβ© β¦@Remo_Boscoβ© β¦@MaxTibbyβ©
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4 Mar 2024
Swimming with freshwater #turtles is the most fun thing in the world
4 Mar 2024
We went scuba diving to simply watch hicatee rather than trying to catch them. Seeing them underwater is magical, & I wish everyone could have that experience. They are incredibly beautiful, majestic animals, and we need to protect them before it is too late.
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