Toby Kovacs

PhD candidate studying mutation rates and demographic histories in Koalas (and all marsupials). Honours studying cave cockroaches! Member of AWGG and MEEP @USYD

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

🚨!Out now in Systematic Biology!🚨

Read how we hurt molecular clocks 🪦with the ridiculous substitution rate acceleration found in the mitochondrial genomes of these cool looking cave cockroaches.

They indeed leave the rest of cockroaches in the dust!
https://t.co/qCOGKE2FKf

[Prof Carolyn Hogg @HoggCarolyn]

Work in conservation management? Check out our new paper on an easy‐to‐use toolkit for integrating genetics into conservation management! @KathyBelov @FarquharsonKate @ellemclennan @PariceBrandies @persoonia @lukesilver20 @ThreatenedSpGen @Sydney_Science https://t.co/P5tSctZhVL

[Sishuo Wang @SishuoWang]

greatly benefited from ziheng yang's books "Computational mol evol" & "mol evol a stat approach" for 15 yrs, finally a tentative solution manual https://t.co/Kn3tIDHILI step-by-step derivation, software operation, code, new insight in classic Qs. work collab'd w Jianhao 1/4

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

Thank you to everyone who helped with this project @DrSimonHo @HellemansSimon @BikemanNik @tom_oist @JaneMcRae and of course the untaggable James Walker, Jane McRae and Prof Nathan Lo!

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

🚨!Out now in Systematic Biology!🚨

Read how we hurt molecular clocks 🪦with the ridiculous substitution rate acceleration found in the mitochondrial genomes of these cool looking cave cockroaches.

They indeed leave the rest of cockroaches in the dust!
https://t.co/qCOGKE2FKf

[まーく @mark_roach5961]

ゴキブリが嫌いな人に理由を聞くと

「動きが気持ち悪い」
「不潔、汚い」
「黒くて大きい」

などが多い気がしますが、この子なら動きもかわいいし、綺麗だし、小さいので、嫌いにならないですよね...？

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

@LpezBio has been working hard this @AustEvolSoc conference and finally got bingo just in time for her talk this afternoon #AUSEVO2023 #AES2023 #builtdifferent #bingo #bluey

[Prof Carolyn Hogg @HoggCarolyn]

Check out our #preprint on @researchsquare: Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial https://t.co/Bp9ICCoBim @KathyBelov @FarquharsonKate @cabbagesofdoom @lukesilver20 @Sydney_Science

[ulurustatement @ulurustatement]

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[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

Excited to publish our population genetic analysis of three subterranean cockroach species (#Nocticolidae)! The Pilbara subterranean habitat appears to be conducive to gene flow for these tiny roaches, contrasting high endemism in other taxa.

https://t.co/SV0KWPkIO3

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

@Emily_Roycroft @arc_gov_au @ourANU @EcoEvo_ANU @scienceANU @AustmusResearch Wow very exciting, Congrats!

[Dr. Laura Bertola @LauraDBertola]

We still have capacity in our conservation genomics course (ID: 9) at #ICCB #ICCB2023
If you're from a lower income country and like to attend, but conference registration is prohibitive, please reach out! We may have some small funds! (but not enough to cover travel/lodging)

[Simon Ho @DrSimonHo]

We are pleased to announce the 14th annual Sydney Phylogenetics Workshop!

The workshop will be held @Sydney_Uni on 27-28 July.

It will provide an introduction to phylogenetic analysis and is suitable for early career researchers (students and postdocs).

[Future Science Talks @ScienceTalksAU]

EOIs to our free govt-funded Science Comedy Program are closing soon. Only takes 1 minute to fill out: https://t.co/hsKjFXKLU7

This is for a wide range of professionals! STEM, social sciences, govt, industry, & more...

Talks include #Scienceweek & @sydneyfringe

#scicomm

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Reparations for global climate justice?

In this new paper we quantify the compensation that over-emitting countries may owe to the rest of the world for the appropriation of atmospheric commons. Out today in Nature Sustainability, with the brilliant @AndrewLFanning. 🧵

[Dr Kylie Cairns @dr_cairns]

New work from @mikeletnic, Mathew Crowther, Heidi Parker, Elaine Ostrander and I in @molecology finds most DNA tested wild dingoes were pure. Prior DNA studies frequently misidentified pure dingoes as hybrids. https://t.co/FTrKsyRg8H @unswbees @CES_UNSW @EERC_UNSW 1/n

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

It was so much fun learning how to incorporate comedy into my science talks. As someone who has historically found public speaking challenging I can’t believe I actually enjoyed this! Thank you so much @ScienceTalksSyd

[Future Science Talks @ScienceTalksAU]

Native-cockroach guru @tobykovacs had the audience in stitches at the @Syd_Comedy_Fest 🪳

Interested in giving this a go? Our EOIs have just opened! Speakers will be selected for #scienceweek & @sydneyfringe

It only takes 1 min: https://t.co/o8n7foV7SU

[Future Science Talks @ScienceTalksAU]

Huge shout out to the brilliant & hilarious scientists at the @ScienceTalksSyd Comedy Edition Talks as part of the @Syd_Comedy_Fest

@logi_lorenzo @sallykhurst @erpfieee @tobykovacs @angeloniallegra were soooooo good 🤩

The science was top notch! And the jokes killed👌

[Toby Kovacs @tobykovacs]

@HoggCarolyn @Sydney_Science @NathanLo3579 @KathyBelov @ThreatenedSpGen @EBPgenome Congrats boss!

[Marty Kardos @martykardos]

We have a new paper, out today in @NatureEcoEvo , where we evaluated effects of inbreeding on individual fitness and population growth of the Southern Resident killer whales. https://t.co/ThMF3OymRa