N. Joris Fleck
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Biology Master's student at
#LMU
Munich | Herpetologist 🐸🐍| Botanist🌿 | Host of
#Hissscord
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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Our new server is live! 🐍 A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help. 💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel! Please feel free to share and repost!
#Herpetology
#SEH2025
#Hissscord
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Karen R. Lips
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ASIH is soliciting nominations for the 2026 Margaret Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence - to be awarded to a mid-career scientist in Herpetology. Deadline 20 April 2026. Info here:
www.asih.org/awards/stewa...
🐸🦎🐊🐍🐢 Please share and repost!
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Margaret M. Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology — American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
https://www.asih.org/awards/stewart-award
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
2 months ago
🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪 I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬 Deadline: 4 Jan 2026!
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Dr. Earyn McGee
2 months ago
Don’t forget about the
#FindThatLizard
Scholarship!! Please share
#science
#scholarship
#funding
#herps
#HERpers
#lizards
#snakes
#frogs
#salamanders
#game
#challenge
#education
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629
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Hey
@nature.com
, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
3 months ago
The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Talentech - Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum Denmark // Leder af Konserveringsenheden ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=3010&ProjectId=153022&DepartmentId=19987&MediaId=5124&IsAdPreviewRequest=true&AdvertisementId=108976
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What a fun study to read while preparing my PhD application:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study
Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629625001055?via%3Dihub
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Renata C. Ferrari
3 months ago
"Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant" super happy to have been part of this work with
@njorisfleck.bsky.social
Prof Gudrun Kadereit, Andreas Fleischmann and Thibaud Messerschmid! I hope it's the first of many at LMU 👏😁🌵🎶
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3 months ago
Former lab member
@njorisfleck.bsky.social
and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/plb.70128
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My first ever lead-author paper got published! 🎉 Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers! (Also, please note the punny title)
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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉 That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other. Wanna join? Send me a message! (Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
3 months ago
A new post about the three
#newspecies
of toad we have just described from Tanzania, feat
@christianthrane.bsky.social
, Simon Loader,
@alicepetzold.bsky.social
, John Lyakurwa, and Michele Menegon! 🧪🐸🇹🇿
www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
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Three new live-bearing toads from Tanzania!
This week we have published an exciting new paper describing three new species of bumpy, bright-coloured, live-bearing, tree-dwelling toads from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! You can read …
http://www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
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Happy Halloween!🍂🍬 We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻
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Oakland Zoo
3 months ago
Ever hear a snake heartbeat? 🐍 🫀 (Sound UP) Our vets have noticed some irregular heart activity in Arroyo, the California King snake, so they’re using a doppler ultrasound machine, which allows them to hear the heart rate easily and count the amount of time between heartbeats.
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Systematics Association
3 months ago
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#YSF2025
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢 If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum! REGISTER:
tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
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YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
https://tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
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E. Yağmur Erten
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Applications for the MEME programme (
www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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Nicholas Wu
4 months ago
🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at
@ucddublin.bsky.social
. 📍 Dublin, Ireland Closes: 15th Oct 2025 🔗
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
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Systematics Association
4 months ago
Join us Nov 14th for
#YSF2025
, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics. Abstract submission closes Oct 25th! REGISTER:
tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc
systass.org/young-system...
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Young Systematists’ Forum
Young Systematists’ Forum An exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic…
https://systass.org/young-systematists-forum/
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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Second call for joining our server! 🐸 Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers. 💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com Please share!📣
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
5 months ago
Having a diffuse research group means that I rarely get to spend any time with my group in 3D. It was a great delight therefore to be joined by
@collinbos.bsky.social
@alicepetzold.bsky.social
@njorisfleck.bsky.social
and
@clarakeusgen.bsky.social
together in Bonn for the
#SEH2025
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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Our new server is live! 🐍 A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help. 💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel! Please feel free to share and repost!
#Herpetology
#SEH2025
#Hissscord
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Dr Alice Clement
11 months ago
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/515720/arc-grantfunded-researcher-a
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I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at
#SEH2025
. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
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I’ve been spending A LOT of time in scientific collections. Outside, the weather keeps changing. Inside? Permanent chill. 35°C? I’m freezing my butt off in the collections. -4°C? Still freezing my butt off in the collections. The only constant in my life right now is museum-grade air conditioning.
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An Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) found in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
#Herpetology
#lizard
#herping
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The CORPS team has won the 2025 Teaching Award from
#LMU
’s Faculty of Biology! 🏆 What began with preparing bird specimens in my living room is now the faculty’s first student-led, -organized, and -taught course. We are incredibly happy! Thank you all—here’s to CORPS 2025!
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Ordering primers for the first time and can't shake the feeling that an adult should probably look it over before I hit “order.”
#science
#labwork
#genetics
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Had the pleasure of visiting the
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
and getting an awesome tour of part of their collection from the amazing
@michela-johnson.bsky.social
— thanks so much, Michela! 📸 Holotype of the extinct crocodyliform Machimosaurus buffetauti Young et al., 2014
#paleontology
#FossilFriday
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Gluing a completely disintegrated lizard skull back together is about as much fun as it sounds. And yes, I'm using a toothbrush taped to a bucket for assistance. Not elegant, but at least it's creative. Sue me.
#herps
#bones
#Gallotia
#lizard
#herpetology
#LMU
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Nothing matches the feeling of finishing a manuscript, while an epic movie soundtrack is climaxing in the background.
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Interesting
#illustration
of a green
#iguana
in one of my favorite old
#books
. W. Lackowitz (1899) Das Buch der Tierwelt. Verlag von W. Herlet, Berlin, Germany.
#history
#library
#oldbook
#biology
#herpetology
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It's crazy how much housework I get done in a day when I need to finish a manuscript.
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That's my new favourite way of short-term labelling
#hummingbirds
and other long-beaked
#birds
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I finally finished another photo editing session. This time, a
#macro
shot of a
#tongue-flicking
𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴 (Günther, 1880) from
#Madagascar
.
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Am I the only one who measures how close to home I am by the fraction of roadside plants I can identify to species level?
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Found a little Common Tree
#Frog
(Hyla arborea) in
#Munich
, Germany, on the street at night!
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I'm trying to be a bit more active on this platform, since the other ones become increasingly annoying. I've (again) started working on the pictures I took on my last research field trip to
#Madagascar
a few months ago. This is a stunningly beautiful
#𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴
𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴!
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High fi...! Ugh, never mind. This tiny hand belongs to a tiny specimen of the tiny
#frog
species
#Stumpffia
madagascariensis, endemic to
#Madagascar
. This hand is less than 4 mm long!
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