On Friday October 14th, Merin and Stine attended the annual Culture Night in H.C. Ørstedsinstituttet in Copenhagen. Merin presented her work on indian turtle species while Stine presented her work on great ape evolution.
Culture Night 2022
Website & lab moved to Copenhagen!
Since January 2020, I have been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Considering I did my MSc in Sweden and lived in Lund for 4 years, this doesn’t feel too far from home. I hope to keep the new website up to date and add my new […]
A new journal – BMC Ecology and Evolution & an image competition
I’m delighted to be a member of the editorial board for the new journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. We’re ready to consider a broad range of articles on evolution and ecology, including molecular and phenotypic evolution, population genetics and phylogenetics, palaeontology, behavioral ecology, macroecology, evolutionary developmental biology and biodiversity (including environmental DNA). I know many of […]
New position!
This January I started a new position as Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. I will stay on as an honorary appointment at University of Melbourne for the next year while I finish up my ARC DECRA work. Feel free to contact me in Denmark at my new email, christy.hipsley@bio.ku.dk!
Some lab updates
We’ve had some new publications in the past few months on using X-ray CT with genomics to uncover hidden lizard diversity in Australia: Chaplin K, Sumner J, Hipsley CA, Melville J. An integrative approach using phylogenomics and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) for species delimitation in cryptic taxa. Systematic Biology 69:294–307. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz048 Melville J, Chaplin K, […]
Paper on digital morphology data sharing out now
A long-time labour of love of mine is finally published in Scientific Data discussing barriers to digital morphology data sharing. Emma Sherratt and I surveyed colleagues online and reviewed the literature to find out how “open” published digital morphology data is, and the answer was…not much (but improving!). Read here ->https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0047-0
New thylacine article from The Wheeler Centre
Earlier this year, I was interviewed by Ivy Shih about my work on Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. That article is now online here, discussing the value of museum collections in reconstructing the life (and death) of this iconic Australian predator.
Amphisbaenian skull paper now online
Just in time for the holidays, you can now read about your favourite subterranean worm lizards here!
Dean’s Award
Last night Andrew Pask and I received a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (Team), for our integrative work on Tasmanian tiger. Thylacine – it’s the gift that keeps on giving!
Science Friction podcast
Last Thursday I was part of a discussion panel for the ABC radio show Science Friction called ‘Back from the Dead’. Euan Ritchie, Ben Novak and I explored different facets of the controversial de-extinction process, including – Will it happen? What is the technology? And if we can, should we bring back extinct species? You can […]