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Hot off the press! Roommates are not all they’re cracked up to be (if you’re a lizard)

by Riley | May 6, 2017 | Egernia, Sociality, Tree skink project

Recently, myself and collaborators published our study that found – social experience has a crucial role in development of a family-living lizard. We also discovered that despite their social nature, the Australian tree skink (Egernia striolata) does not...

Skinks and Ladders: A family-living lizard’s learning ability is not affected by their home environment

by Riley | Dec 30, 2016 | Cognition, Egernia, Herpetology, Publications, Social behaviour, Tree skink project

By Julia Riley A family-living lizard’s ability to navigate through a complex maze is not linked to how they were raised We have found that the learning ability of the Tree Skink, a lizard that lives with family, is not linked to growing up with others. These lizards...

The 8th World Congress of Herpetology

by Riley | Sep 7, 2016 | Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Science news

Note: the following post is by Julia Riley and also posted on her web page. On 14 August 2016, a small contingent of the Lizard Lab headed from Sydney, Australia to Hangzhou, China for the 8th World Congress of Herpetology. Our fearless leader, Martin Whiting, as well...

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

by Riley | Aug 5, 2016 | Book club, Books

Book Review A Riley & Whiting Collaboration Julia Riley’s Review: First, I would like to say as an expat Canadian researcher, I am happy to say that two Canadian professors wrote this book! Woot! This book proposes a means to tackle the effect corporatization of...

Dispatches from the field: South Australia tree skink reconnaissance

by Riley | Apr 27, 2014 | Dispatches from the field, Lab news, Social behaviour, Tree skink project

By Julia Riley The Tree Skink (Egernia striolata) field crew has just returned from fieldwork in South Australia. We (Julia, James, Martin and Dan) were checking out two new field sites for potential long-term monitoring of social systems. Our trip began by flying to...
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