• Since last news update, Alex McQueen has given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Florence Acacia McQueen. Now four months old, Florence is a smiley [...]

  The best type of productivity: baby Florence

  April 21, 2022
• Alas, all good things come to an end. Scarlett has left Deakin, at the completion of her Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowships. Fortunately, and [...]

  Goodbye to Scarlett

  April 21, 2022
• Brilliant results from Ryan, Rob and Jake – our three Honours students who completed at the end of 2021 – all of whom received first [...]

  First-class Honours all round

  April 21, 2022
• In recognition of collaborations across multiple continents related to studies of bird responses to human threats, three Deakin researchers led [...]

  Vice-chancellor’s prize for research

  April 21, 2022

• Since last I updated the news we have had four new papers come out from the group: a bonanza indeed! Click on the links below to find out [...]

  New publications from the group

  April 21, 2022
• Ryding S, Klaassen M, Tattersall GJ, Gardner JL, Symonds MRE (in press) Response to ‘Allometry to evaluate Allen’s rule in climate [...]

  Ryding et al (2022)

  April 21, 2022
• Hughes KM, Price D, Torriero AAJ, Symonds MRE, Suphioglu C (2022) Impact of fungal spores on asthma prevalence and [...]

  Hughes et al (2022)

  April 21, 2022
• Timmis AD, Symonds MRE, Weston MA (2022) The influence of resting posture and orientation on alertness and escape in shorebirds. Journal of [...]

  Timmis et al (2022)

  April 21, 2022

• Ekanayake KB*, Gnanapragasam JJ*, Ranawana K, Vidanapathirana DR, Abeyawardhena UT, Fernando C, McQueen A, Weston MA+, Symonds MRE+ (2022) [...]

  Ekanayake et al. (2022)

  April 21, 2022
• Among the many media articles on Sara’s paper, and retweets by Richard Dawkins and one of the Real Housewives of Beverley Hills (no, this [...]

  TV coverage of Sara’s shape-shifting research (including Late Show with Stephen Colbert)

  September 13, 2021