Mike Gardner

I am a molecular ecologist who works on lizards in the sub-family Tiliquini - investigating sociality and host parasite interactions with genes and genomics.

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

Are you a student looking for a PhD? I have a funded PhD project on investigating the season of grazing and pygmy bluetongues in South Australia. Please contact me if interested. @AusSocHerp

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

@Pensoft @WCHerp @Flinders @FlindersSTEM @FlindersCSE @conservbytes @FlindersUniNews @herpsocsg @GlobalWomenHerp @NicholasWuNZ @REPTILESMag @herphighlights Totally deserved recognition for Dee who has done some amazing work in her PhD - a great science communicator!

[Pensoft @Pensoft]

🥳On the final day of this year's @WCHerp, it's AWARDS time!

🏆Our Best #Reptile #Conservation Award goes to Deanne Trewartha (@Flinders) and her talk on heat water & #reptiles!🦎

🇲🇾 A wonderful ending for #WCH10!
See you again at #WCH11 at the Pyrenees!😜

#herps #herpetology

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

@Arachno_Jess @UniofAdelaide @invertsau Congratulations Jess - super interesting project!

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

First paper from the trial pygmy bluetongue translocation showing that the lizards are behaving as they would as if they were in their source locations. And first paper from PhD student Dee Trewartha #PBT https://t.co/oqXuf7cJIX @ClaytonJessa @Dr_StephGodfrey

[Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) @Keogh_Lab]

Hundreds sign open letter to Premier over SA Museum plans - InDaily https://t.co/gzcTRULpG3

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

Disturbing potential loss of museum research see https://t.co/ZKC4ijfDaU

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

@HoggCarolyn @KathyBelov @DrRebeccaJ Great work Carolyn! Look forward to reading it.

[Simon Clulow @SimonClulow]

🎉 Exciting news! 📚 Thrilled to announce our #ARC #DP24 on restoring amphibian populations in chytrid-impacted landscapes has been funded, with @RichardDuncanUC and @BenCScheele! 🙌

It's such a brutal process, commiserations to all the great projects that missed out 😞 @UC_CCEG

[The Lizard Lab @lizard_lab]

Check out an unbelievable video of a Gould's monitor gobbling down 5 zebra finch chicks at Fowler's Gap in arid western New South Wales, Australia. Video by @MarcNaguib & Hugo Loning is on @simongriffith4 YouTube channel: https://t.co/eREbFo8aIp @mqnatsci #lizard #predation

[Jane Melville AM @MVLizards]

One of the best moments in my career. The rediscovery of the Victorian Earless Dragon. In 2019 I undertook the taxonomic research to show this little lizard was a unique species, different to those in the ACT & NSW. So, so pleased it is not extinct! @museumsvictoria

[Dr Kailah Thorn @kailah_thorn]

Tiliqua frangens has the Australian media tickled-skink! 🥰

[Michael S. Y. Lee (biologist) @michael_s_y_lee]

Meet #TiliquaFrangens! This Pleistocene #Shingleback on steriods was the largest skink to ever live, and its demise expands the scope of the megafauna extinctions to the "mesofauna".

Reconstruction: Katrina Kenny 1/3

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

First of our lizard signs funded by Electranet has been installed! These will be at the entrances to the long term sleepy lizard site, started by C. Michael Bull, surveyed continuously since 1982. Very grateful that an energy company cared enough to make this happen. @GerrutN

[Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) @Keogh_Lab]

It's the 25th anniversary of our little “advice” website for research students and postdocs.  Check it out of you don’t know about it.  It’s also the 25th anniversary of our little lab here at ANU. Can't believe it.
https://t.co/d0vnYv6lZi

[Gerrut Norval @GerrutN]

A mother sleepy lizard and her babies "say goodbye" in their special way after being released back into the wild @MikeG_lizards @Flinders @ClaytonJessa

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

Sometimes fieldwork throws up unexpected findings - this is what faced PhD student in the LEGS lab, Kim Michael. Apparently endangered pygmy bluetongues can hold their breath – for a long time. This one stayed under for 40 mins!! See https://t.co/0dMivAOxJ6 @Austral_Ecology

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

@lizard_lab Look great! Many great experiments to come!

[Mike Gardner @MikeG_lizards]

Promises to be a little warmer than the last one.... Looking forward to enjoying it from the back seat this time around!

[Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) @Keogh_Lab]

The next Australian Society of Herpetologists conference has been announced - Townsville - 5-7 December! Start making some plans. @AusSocHerp
https://t.co/32fkihOJzF

[Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith @LNivisonSmith]

During my PhD, I got alot of unhelpful advice

Now I'm a PhD supervisor, I know 💯 what I needed to hear

4 things every PhD student should know 🧵

#phdchat @thoughtsofaphd @PhD_Genie @thephdstory @HaPhDsupervisor @Dissertating