Evolutionary biologist • Head of the Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics Group at Monash University • ARC DECRA Fellow • genomics • museums • phylo • conservation • #ozmammals • she/her • Wurundjeri & Bunurong Country, Australia
Emily Roycroft
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PhD student Camille Kynoch (cosupervised in our lab) was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for her project "Breeding on Borrowed Time: Managing Flatback Sea Turtles Amid Climate Driven Male Scarcity". @monashbiol.bsky.social www.ecolsoc.org.au/grants-award...
The Government released the final report of the Strategic Examination of R&D yesterday. It's called "Ambitious Australia"🙃
Haven't read much, yet, but it says we should fund the ARC more. Like every single previous review.
Can we got on with it & do that, now?
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
Annual lab group photo tradition initiated - here’s the Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics Group, May 2026. I am so lucky to work with these fabulous folks! @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
Our team at @monashbiol.bsky.social have had some exciting grant wins over Dec/Jan!
First up, Honours student Emily Blackburn was awarded the Daniel Gilmore Scholarship in support of her research on the critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum: www.biosis.com.au/emily-blackb... #ozmammals
PhD student Tucksaorn (Orn) Bhummakasikara was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for her project "Genomics to inform recovery and management of the threatened Australian Pookila"! @monashbiol.bsky.social #ozmammals #ozrodents
Emily Roycroft
In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n
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Emily Roycroft
A five-year study of Australian media found three quarters of science stories quoted men.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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The 2025 Daniel Gilmore Scholarship winner is Emily Blackburn, who is currently completing her Honours at Monash University on the Leadbeater Possum.
