Early Career Researcher of the year!
An excellent Chrissy party this year by the Faculty of Science at UNSW I was honoured this afternoon with the Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher of the Year! A great reason to skip out on half a days work and...
read moreAcademic Beard of the Month!
I was just given the honour of being named Academic Beard of the Month for December! This is obviously excellent news and it feels great given some of the other beards I'm placed in league with at Academic...
read moreWell done Rachel!
Rachel successfully completed her honours project today, finishing up her project with an excellent presentation! Rachel holds a special place in the Kasumovic Lab as she was the first honours student in the lab. She's set quite the standard!...
read moreMaddie passes!
Congrats to Maddie as she successfully completed her qualifying exam. Now she's a 'real' Ph.D. student! (Well, she always was in my books, but the Americans have some strange rules...) Well done!...
read moreScopus Young Investigator of the year
I was given an incredible honour this week by being awarded the Australasian Scopus Young Investigator of the Year in Biological & Life Sciences. It was a wonderful ceremony up at Surfer's paradise and was a lot of fun meeting the other winners....
read moreGood things come in threes
The more I talk to people, the more people seem to agree that it has definitely been a tough year. But thankfully we got this paper accepted to make it three this year! Kasumovic, M.M., M. D. Hall, H. Try, and R. Brooks. 2012. Developmental plasticity affects...
read moreCongratulations to Rob!
Rob was the winner of the Science Writers prize for the 2012 Queenlsland Literary Awards for his book Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World. Congratulations to Rob! A well deserved win for an excellent...
read moreFinally accepted!
It's been a long hard battle with this manuscript, but after submissions to 7 different journals over two years and over 21 reviews, the paper has finally found a home in Journal of Insect Physiology! Stoltz, J. A., M. C. B. Andrade, and M. M. Kasumovic. 2012....
read moreThe first of 2012!
It has been a tough year! But after making the rounds of the evolutionary journals, the paper has found a home at Ecology and Evolution! The most impressive aspect was the fact that it took 2 days to accept--nice! Something to be said about using already submitted...
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