Conferences & Outreach


Presentation for the Young Scientist Award at the SEB 2024 conference

Conferences

2025
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Presentation, How much do we know about embryos? 
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Poster, A call for a distributed experiment on fish embryonic thermal tolerance.

2024
  •  International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE): Presentation, How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? (12 min)
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Invited presentation, Plasticity and resilience of amphibians to global warming (20 min) 
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Presentation, Plasticity and resilience of amphibians to global warming (15 min)

2023
  • Australasian Evolution Society (AES): Presentation, How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? (15 min)
  • Genetics, Ecology, Microbiology, Medicine, Zoology (GEMMZ) conference: Plenary speaker, Plasticity and resilience of ectotherms to global warming (60 min)
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Talk, Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming (15 min)
2022
  • Australasian Evolution Society (AES): Plenary speaker, Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance (30 min)
  • Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (ANZSCPB): Presentation, Thermal tolerance of the world’s amphibians (20 min)
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Invited presentation, Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions 
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Poster, Climate vulnerability of the world's amphibians
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Workshop co-organiser, Introduction to Meta-Analysis in Comparative Physiology
  • European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB): Poster, Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions 
  • Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE): Invited speaker, Pre-registration: Why it is for you too!  (15 min)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB): Presentation, Is their future already written?  Developmental plasticity and the fate of animals in a changing world (12 min)
2021
  • Australasian Evolution Society (AES):  Presentation, Is their future already written? (3 min)
  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB): Poster presentation, Can developmental plasticity rescue ectotherms from rising temperatures?
  • Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE): Hackathon, Registered Reports Now! (1.5 hours)
  • Evidence Synthesis and Meta-analysis in R (ESMARConf
  • MetaScience 
  • Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI
2020
  • Association for Interdisciplinary
    Meta-Research and
    Open Science (AIMOS
  • Word Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB)
  • International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC)
  • Ecological Society of Australia (ESA): Presentation, Gender inequalities? A meta-analysis of sex differences in thermal plasticity
Poster presentation at the SEB 2022 conference

Acts of Service

  • Journal of Thermal Biology: Ontogenetic variation in thermal biology: assessing life stage-specific adaptations and sensitivity in animals. Guest editor (2025).
  • Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE): Board of directors, student seat (2023 - 2026)
  • Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE): Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee (2022)
  • Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE): Awards Committee (2022)
  • UNSW Science: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee (2022-2025)
  • UNSW Evolution & Ecology Research Centre (E&ERC): Postgraduate Committee (2022)

Outreach

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution Research Highlight: Overheated amphibians (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02706-7
  • The Conversation: Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits (2025) 
  • Eastside radio FM, Boiling Point: Why Open Science? (2023) 
  • The Conversation: Young cold-blooded animals are suffering the most as Earth heats up, research finds (2022) 
  • Pint of ScienceCan animals cope with climate change?  Sydney, Australia (2022)
  • Skype a Scientist: LadyGrove Park primary school, Didcot, UK (2022)
  • Skype a Scientist: ISS International School, Singapore (2022) 
  • Functional Ecology Research Highlight: Sex, heat and phenotypic plasticity (2021). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13959  
  • Nature Climate Change Research Highlight: A question of the sexes (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01177-5
  • #BatteryLow: Playing video games for Science. Live stream on Twitch. Sydney, Australia (2020). 

Teaching

  • SCIF1131: Introductory Skills for Science (UNSW, 2023)
  • SCIF1111: Perspectives in Medical Science, Scientific Literacy (UNSW, 2023)
  • MFAC1501: Introduction to Microbiology (UNSW, 2023)
  • BABS1201: Molecules, Cells and Genes (UNSW, 2023)
  • MSCI0501: The Marine Environment (UNSW, 2023)
  • MFAC1527: Society & Health (UNSW, 2022)
  • MFAC1522: Beginnings, Growth and Development B (UNSW, 2022)
  • MFAC1521: Beginnings, Growth and Development B (UNSW, 2022)
  • SCIF1111: Perspectives in Medical Science, Scientific Literacy (UNSW, 2022)

Peer-review

  • Biological Conservation
  • Biological Reviews
  • Ecology Letters
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A – Ecological and Integrative Zoology
  • Journal of Thermal Biology
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Nature Ecology and Evolution
  • PeerJ 

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