Nature Foundation facilitates the Mike Bull Award for Early Career Nature Scientists, a research grant honouring Professor Mike Bull and supporting early-career scientists.

2023 Mike Bull Award winner, Dr Stephen Zozaya, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) and joins webinar host, Lucy Clive, to share his career researching reptiles. Stephen's research has mainly focused on pheromones (chemical signals) and their influence on mate choice in Australian lizards. However, the Mike Bull Award funding has supported a new research direction, with a stronger conservation focus, including the discovery of several new species and populations of slider skinks (Lerista). Many of these species are threatened, but their conservation status cannot be updated until there is sufficient data to support listing as Endangered or Critically Endangered.