An exciting new study now out in which I played a small part - Wood Frog Testicular Microstructure Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is... Excited to see this out, and to add a new taxonomic group to my pub list!! 🐸❤️

The GRC Venom Evolution, Function and Biomedical Applications is back for 2026! The conference and corresponding ECR seminar will be held in Barcelona in May 🐍🐜🐌🐝🦂🐡🪼🕷️🐞🇪🇸🌞

My kind of homecoming after an evening of roadcruising in Arizona!

I traveled to Guinea to find out what U.S. budget cuts mean for the fight against malaria. Here's my story in @science.org - with powerful photography by Marta Moreiras. www.science.org/content/arti...

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Whenever I (or other shark conservation experts) say "Ocean Ramsey does not raise awareness, she says very wrong things about threats to sharks and their policy solutions," some people feel the need to say "but she taught me something" ...and what they say is always a very wrong thing!

Feeding on crocodile tears… sounds like a staff meeting after the latest round of redundancies is announced…

Happy #WorldSnakeDay Here’s my favourite lifer of the year so far: four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata, from Krk Island, Croatia, earlier this year. Why not post yours? 🐍 #herp #herpetology #herper

How many mamba species are there? Find out from our new paper: Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Join our @naturambyth.bsky.social #AdderAction team for Celebration of Nature at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff on 12th July. Project Officer Matt will be running an info stall and talking about adder awareness, conservation & attitudes. More info 👇 www.arc-trust.org/Event/celebr...

Thank you to everyone who has shared & responded to our Call for Support thus far. Our Call proposes a more distributed & sustainable future where BHL is shared across multiple hosts supported by multiple funding sources. Find out more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... 🌱 📖 🧪 🌏 #ILoveBHL

Many congratulations to Molly Allum! She studied the crop foraging behaviour of the Zanzibar red colobus here in Jozani last year for her third year dissertation at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social ! Great dissertation - currently working on making it into a journal article!

1. It’s good to see this scandal being called out at last. My thanks and congratulations go to Lee Schofield, Karen Lloyd and Ian Convery. But it’s also absolutely infuriating that it has come to this point, as I explain in this thread. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.nature.com/articles/s44... New review paper on the large Middle Eastern vipers of the genus Macrovipera, led by Ignazio Avella. For those interested in #nomenclature, check out out little act of rebellion against changes to established names imposed by nomenclatural historians! #ICZN #taxonomy

Over the course of taxonomic history, a small but nefarious band of researchers have taken to publishing taxonomic names that their colleagues have regarded as poorly founded, poorly supported by good data, or unneeded and contradicting existing work... 1/n

CW: Another baby rattlesnake is taken by a magpie! This footage is from "after hours" when we do not operate the cam, but live observers watched as a magpie boldly strode right into the den opening and snagged a baby. youtu.be/c4d2Cu6vkCg

NEW GUEST BLOG 🐍 In this Guest Blog, the adder author Nicholas Milton discusses sensationalist stories and recommends reporting them to the Independent press regulator. Read more 👇 www.arc-trust.org/ne...

Announcing our Vanishing Viper 2025 conference to be held in September at Chester This special two-day event focused on our native adder, Viper berus, seeks to unlock the drivers behind adder declines & determine how research & landscape-level projects can meet the challenges #vanishingviper2025

Divergent selection and plasticity increases reproductive isolation early during incipient speciation. Find our new meta-analysis on experimental speciation studies here: rdcu.be/ek019 🧪 @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @pipdowning.bsky.social

Scientists have experimentally recreated the speciation process in several species. They split one population of the same species into two, let them adapt to environment A or B, and then bring them back together. Our meta-analysis of these experiments may surprise you: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#herpers #herper #herps #herpetology #thanatosis #Natrixhelvetica #grasssnake #snakes 🐍 Me: "God, is there anything more annoying to photograph than a snake that just will not sit still? God

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Please share - UK folks help the BTO collect information on how our Blackbirds are doing. The emergence of #Usutu- a mosquito-borne virus- may be causing their populations to fall in southern England. Need to understand if this impact is occurring more widely, including in Scotland

Don’t let the furs and feathers folks have everything their own way! Vote for Amelia’s adder photo on Facebook!

Hi all! I've been shortlisted for the BIAZA Photo Competition 2025 in the Native Species category!📸 Please can you vote for my photo on their Facebook! (just by reacting to my submission!) www.facebook.com/share/16MksF... - voting closes on Thursday night! The image below is the one to look for!🐍

New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

Sand Patching for Sand Lizards 🦎 A unique opportunity to get involved with habitat management for the rare sand lizard! Denbighshire Countryside Service are teaming up with Amphibian and Reptile Conservation to create sand patches at Barkby Dunes.

Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪 @earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting. Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025 🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE

We made the cover www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

🚨New 🦈 Study Alert by Hammerschlag et al: "Evidence of cascading ecosystem effects following the loss of white sharks from False Bay, South Africa" Illustration by Kelly of the Wild / Canvas of the Wild Open-access link to study: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

Field course last week: #amphibian swabbing for chytrid for our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Zoology with #Herpetology students in North Wales. #herps 🐸

It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo

Tried a couple of new sites this weekend. When snakes are elusive, #LizardAppreciation becomes a thing: beautiful Zootoca vivipara basking in the spring sunshine. #addHerper

We are extremely sad to hear Richard Fortey has passed away. Alongside his many outstanding achievements, Richard won the Linnean Medal in 2006. He will be missed by all of us here at the Society. Read more about his life and work: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Photograph: Paul Barrett/BBC

First field trip of the season for the 3rd year #herpetology class @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

A day out in the beautiful North Wales countryside yielded specimens of each of our widespread native reptiles. Spring has sprung!

Successful day training volunteers for DNA sampling adders in the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, for an English Nature led project on population genomics to assess population connectivity. Superb day in the field! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

The first #adders of the season are always a special moment! Ynys Môn/Anglesey, North Wales, yesterday.

Come work with us on squamate brain evolution! 🐍🧠🦎 @draliceclement.bsky.social @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

MScRes projects available within BEPs and across the @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social - more info here! www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/post... #postgrad #biologicalsciences #careers

⏰ CLOSES SOON We're looking for someone who… 🐍 has worked/studied wildlife conservation 📚 understands UK schooling systems 🐝 is passionate about connecting young people to nature …to develop a new national education #HopSpotsProject 👉 www.arc-trust.org/vacancies @HeritageFundUk

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation.

✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

This petition is 12th highest of 823 petitions on parliament website petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Thank you if you have signed. Plz have a look if you haven’t signed yet. We are aiming for 100,000 signatures by 22 May to trigger parliamentary debate.

tinyurl.com/4fnsbuck @uk.theconversation.com piece on our recent paper on the Aesculapian snake in N. Wales, where we ask how Anthropocene realities should change the way we think about non-native species just North of the native range. #herpetology #IntroducedSpecies @bangoruniversity.bsky.social