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Happy turtle month! It’s a high activity time for Australian turtles so please help us track nesting and turtle locations on the turtleSAT app!

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() 🧵

@TimCurran8 TurtleSAT records go to ALA.. not yet iNat but hopefully at some point.

@deborah_bower Great photos! Do iNat records feed back into turtleSAT? Or does turtleSAT feed into ALA?

November is 🐢 month and they’ll 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.

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

Turtles often encounter fences as they wander over land in search of water, or a mate. Here’s how to make fences turtle-friendly. @uninewengland @OhioState #Echobox=1726123576-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/farm-fences-tr…

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

Some fantastic work by my recent honours student James Dowling @ERS_UNE - he identified problematic fence types that block turtle movements through ag land

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.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jw…

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

What to know more about #turtle social behaviour? Come see talk today at 1215. #WCH10

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 💥

If you missed it Rishab did a great job presenting his work on sticky geckos

Museum specimens are a wealth of knowledge, and morphologists know how to use it! @DrEmSherratt plenary @WCHerp #WCH24

PhD projects available on threatened reptiles @UQscience Please be in touch if interested! wildlifeconservationlab.com/post/phd-proje…

Here are the talks out of the Tarvin Lab at #WCH10 I’m 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 1/

Let’s go #WCH10! With 15 concurrent sessions everyday, it’s going to be a full on conference. @WCHerp

BARBIE Dragonfly! 🩷 Have you ever seen such a stunning dragonfly?! ✨ 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! 🤩📷

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

Data analysis retreat 2.0 is under way! Students are spending the weekend at UNE Smart Farm Field Lab analysing data from this year’s experiments #datacamp #r #superlab ⁦⁦@deborah_bower⁩ ⁦@Remo_Bosco⁩ ⁦@MaxTibby⁩