Insects used in research are often excluded from legal and ethical guidelines designed to protect other laboratory animals.
Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/484NNUt
The love lives of frogs was featured on Riviera Breakfast yesterday - jump to 3:18:00 to hear the interview
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Sick frogs actually jump farther than healthy frogs! A pretty weird and unexpected finding. It shows how important reproduction and finding a mate are more for these little guys - even more important than surviving!
Check out the paper here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First paper of my PhD just got published!
Want to find out how to make your own bat cells from field samples? Check it out!
👉 peerj.com/articles/20222
Thanks to my wonderful co-authors @labrannelly.bsky.social, Chris, Tomás, @nicholaswu.bsky.social @jhufschmid.bsky.social and Ellen 🦇
Frogs can fight back against devastating disease by breeding! New article by @australia.theguardian.com overviewing our recent work
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Fascinating stuff from @labrannelly.bsky.social and coauthors: terminal investment in frogs infected with chytrid. 🧪
Poster presentation today about our insects class #acsme2025 🦟🪲 It’s been great fun talking all things insects and teaching today with other STEMM educators. Many also enjoyed our student-made memes from across the years of this subject
Congratulations to Dr Anna Langguth, winner of the Student Award at this year‘s WDA-A conference for her presentation on zymosan challenge trials in eastern bent-wing bats. @alangguth.bsky.social #wdaa2025
Did you know that intestinal parasites can increase the growth and fitness of frogs? Our new study shows that nematode parasites actually are helpful to the frog while the fungal disease chytridiomycosis causes sublethal effects. @that-frog-gorl.bsky.social
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Calling all @unimelb-secan.bsky.social students! Come take the breadth subject Insects Shaping Society (UNIB10018) - its full of fun, food, science, art, culture, history, law, architecture and of course Insects! If you don't love bugs yet, you certainly will in semester 2!
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Science chats with an entomologist and an expert in animal ethics who are monitoring how researchers report on the ethical treatment of insects
Sublethal infection with the fungal pathogen Bd did not alter thermal limits in the threatened alpine frog Litoria verreauxii alpina (avg. −3.5 °C to 36.4 °C), but by week 6 infected frogs jumped 23%...
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Understanding the impacts of disease even in non-declining populations is important for understanding population level health and resilience to other emerging threats. In this study we explored the i...
Cell cultures are a valuable tool for the study of in vitro disease processes, especially where such processes concern wild and/or threatened animal species. However, the collection of adequate sample...
