Congratulations to Jono Henshaw who has coauthored a paper on burying beetles lead by Rebecca Kilner (U. Cambridge) in eLife which is now available online. You can find the PDF on the Publications page (paper 191). Jono provided the modelling aspects of the paper.

Maider Inglesias Carrasco from the Basque country in Spain will be revisiting the lab for two months, arriving in early October. You can check out Maider's details HERE. 
Maider - We look forward to greeting you soon.

Luke has completed a large scale study cleverly drawing on published data and has now submitted an intriguing paper on the extent to which polyandry might evolve due to bet hedging...watch this spot. 

Jason, Sophie and Elly G are all making great progress with their Honours. 
Jason gives his final seminar today and then starts writing his thesis. He has some very cool results about the relationship between heterozygosity and paternity using AI. 
Sophie has her simulation model of sexual transmitted diseases and resistance evolution up and running, and can now start to play with varying parameters. (Thanks Jono!)
Elly G has finished 2 of 3 components of her initial proposal, and at least one of these experiments has already yielded an interesting finding. 
Well done all.

Congratulations to Megan, Regina and Frances whose new paper on predictors of male insemination success in mosquitofish has just been accepted by Ecology & Evolution. It is paper 190 on the Publications page. (And 'Yes', we know this is not a mosquitofish on the left)

Congratulations to Jennie Mallela who has a new paper in press at Coral Reefs on thermal stress makes in corals. It will be paper 189 on the Publications page. Well done Jennie.

A bunch of papers have been submitted. 
1. Keica Kerr, Pat Backwell and Michael to Behav Ecol 
(female choice in sun and shade by female fiddler crabs)
2. Megan, Regina & Frances  to Ecology & Evolution 
(selection analysis on insemination success by Gambusia)
3. Anna H & Isobel Booksmythe to Biological Reviews
(meta-analysis of mate guarding in birds)
4. Regina & Megan to Evolution
(inbreeding and compensatory growth in Gambusia)
Fingers crossed....... the publication process is underway.

Jason Marsh - his paternity data is now back & being scored. We will soon know if inbred males are worse than outbred ones at gaining paternity based on an artificial insemination experiment.

Congrats to Elly Gearing & Sophie Johns who gave very good seminars and have now submitted their proposal (which I think are fantastic). Let's hope the examiners like the proposals too!

Sad news - Elle Kelly has decided to withdraw from honours. We wish her all the best for the future, and hope that she will pick up her studies again when the time is right.

Awesome news. Luke Holman has been offered, and accepted, a tenure-track position at the University of Melbourne as a lecturer. On behalf of everyone in the lab - Congratulations!! We are all thrilled for you.

Congratulations to Regina VT who was one of the prize winners for the Thinkable Video competition run by the Australian Academy of Sciences - where you had to make a short video explaining your research. You can see her video here. Well done Regina!