🚨Preprint🚨 Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith

Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female? - Mashable

#museumselfieday at the Sam Houston State University Museum

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎 🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬 Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful). Sign up here: forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

Very stoked to get the most recent cover of @sicbjournals.bsky.social! Here's a glorious, pad-reduced viper #gecko (Hemidactylus imbricatus). Check out our the article below and the rest of this awesome issue! doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #GeckoEvoDevo

Had a great time learning about raptors and falconry yesterday with Joe from Walter B. Jacobs Nature Park for #ornithology class in the LSUS Museum of Natural Sciences!

As the public discourse around sex and gender pops up again - I think about the kid who hears ‘nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution’ - but who doesn’t see themselves represented. I wrote this for them. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-evoluti...

If you see this post, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery. Culebra, Puerto Rico

#Postdoc #Job Alert! The Cook Lab is hiring! We are excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms of social behavior in a changing environment #academia #academictwitter employment.marquette.edu/postings/21269

Together with #AaronComeault #FranzHoelzl @biobiiana.bsky.social and collaborators, we present a high-quality #genome assembly of the dyeing poison #frog 🐸🧬 and investigated the role of transposable elements (TEs) in gene-size variation. Find our paper here doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🧪🧬🖥️👩‍🔬 #evolution

Welcome to the world! A New Caledonian chameleon gecko (Eurdactylodes) that hatched today.

Excited to announce our new #openaccess paper in press at @anatrecord.bsky.social reporting preovipositional embryonic development in the legless #gecko #Lialis! #GeckoEvoDevo #diceCT Collab w: @drscanley.bsky.social and Dan Paluh anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Playing around with some old photos. I like the shape of this Heteronotia.

Spring emergence

Sex chromosomes & putative sex-determining gene (Foxl2) in the crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) In press at @sse-evolution.bsky.social Funded by @morrisanimal.bsky.social Includes: @sexchrlab.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Had a great weekend in Arizona exploring and naturalizing with the man/myth/legend @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social

🚨🍞 Fresh out of the oven! I am so happy yo share this new paper with @anura.bsky.social @drscanley.bsky.social and Jon Bloch! We found 28 Million years old fossils of the “Caribbean Amphinians 🎵🎶” Eleutherodactylus in Florida 🦴🐸 doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Excited to hear @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social talk about "The sprightly little sphaerodactyl and the dawn of the genomic age across amniotes"

I am now "very well endowed" @LSUS (i.e. I now have 2 endowed positions)! Both are w/ our small life science #museum, housing vertebrates (regional, Africa, Mexico), some spiders and crawfish, but also the largest collection of freshwater mussels in the southeast! www.lsus.edu/nine-lsus-fa...