Does anyone have recommendations for cellular GPS tags (GPS + GSM) for box turtles? I want to be able to have the data sent to me remotely via a cellular network. Needs to weigh 20-30g or less. These would be attached to box turtle shells with epoxy.

The only native anole species in the US, Anolis carolinensis! I haven't actually caught carolinensis since I was a kid visiting the Florida Everglades with my parents, so it's been a minute! 🦎🦎🦎

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Got to assist with my labmate's urban pigeon gut microbiome research yesterday in the Bronx!

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Yellow-chinned anole (Anolis gundlachi) from Bosque de Carite 🤎

On my way to the Puerto Rico Herpetological Symposium! Excited to present some of my work on anoles and urbanization for the first time!! And also to see the talks being given by a bunch of my former students💗🦎☺️

My most perfect boy

Had the cool opportunity to talk about lizards and turtles in Central Park for Soapbox Science today!

Yesterday during wall lizard fieldwork, some very kind NYS Parks employees taught us how to tag monarch butterflies 😊🦋

A large male wall lizard from today's sampling on the north fork of Long Island! Stopped for hot apple cider and cider donuts post fieldwork🦎😊

Back to catching Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus) in NY!

Tegu time!!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

The NYU lizard colony (@kmwinchell.bsky.social) is now one step closer to being up and running! Today we finished these 56 lizard "condos" which can individually house 224 lizards! This has been a massive effort, and we are so excited to have reached this milestone🦎 We are so close to anoles at NYU!

Eek so cute!! Garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) near Ithaca, NY 🐍

One week ago, we wrapped up another successful field season in Puerto Rico! We completed the 8th season of my mark-recapture surveys for three species of Puerto Rican anole. We also added another 10 sites to our PR anole niche space project, bringing our total to 30 sites. Yay data! Yay anoles! 🦎🦎

Although totally not important for what I actually work on, I am now very good at snagging baby iguanas out of bushes.

Managed to lasso this stunning Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva (Pholidoscelis wetmorei) yesterday! 🦎💙

When you return from a day of urban field work to find a young crested anole just about ready to take a snooze on your door handle 🦎

Another Puerto Rican giant anole 💚

Today's cows 🐄🤍🇵🇷

super proud of lab alum Shira Linsk—featured in this story about NYU undergrads conducting "research that launched their careers". Shira completed TWO publication-worthy projects as an undergrad on #urbanecology & is headed to U Chicago for a PhD in ecology & evolution! www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Ugh he's just spectacular 🦎

The anole species I've worked with the most throughout all of my anole work: The yellow-chinned anole (Anolis gundlachi) 🦎💚

Although this iguana should not be in Puerto Rico, I am happy it matches my nails 🙃🦎

Find someone you look at like I look at this box turtle

Can't believe we wrapped up our first year of box turtle surveys a little over a week ago! I miss seeing these beauties already!

More Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus) - this time, in the Bronx!

Fun new things starting in the lab this summer as we dive deeper into the intersection of urbanization and invasion! This is an invasive wall lizard from NYC, a project being led by postdocs @annainthefield.bsky.social & @anthonysnead.bsky.social along with our summer REU students and NYU undergrads

A male Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina). This one in particular had really beautiful yellow coloring all around his head.

We kicked off our Eastern box turtle surveys three days ago! So happy to finally have this project off the ground. Very grateful for the over 50 volunteers signed up to assist with surveys, including NYC Parks rangers, NYU, Stony Brook, Columbia, and Fordham students, and many more 🐢

This punishes the students who earned those awards more than anything else. Absolutely terrible and corrupt.

At the end of the Angel's Landing West Rim Trail in Zion National Park. Absolutely incredible.

Incredible restaurant decor

On vacation this week doing a Utah national park camping trip! 📍Capitol Reef National Park

Nice little dink frog (Diasporus diastema) calling love the sound track of nature at night. #amphibianweek #frog #herpetology 🧪

Defended my PhD one year ago today 🥹🦎

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Can't wait to see these two excel in their respective careers!! And so lucky to have worked with my favorite bug girly, Shira 🦋

So proud of graduating seniors Emerald Lin & Shira Linsk for both winning undergraduate research awards! @annainthefield.bsky.social did an amazing job mentoring Shira on TWO manuscripts on urban moth biodiversity! Emerald is off to work w/Audubon this summer & Shira to a PhD program this fall! 🔥🔥🔥

These pictures are from a few years ago, but I am SO excited to be starting up a whole project on the Italian wall lizards in Queens, Brooklyn, and on Long Island this May with @anthonysnead.bsky.social and @kmwinchell.bsky.social and some awesome undergrads 🦎☺️

This week I wrote four new IACUC protocols and amended another one. So much cool research on the horizon!! And of course, all focused on herps 🦎🐢🦎

A lilac breasted roller looking resplendent

Just an angry little guy Brown anole (Anolis sagrei)

Hey Laura, my good friend has set up a Google form that’s connecting government employees who were laid off with recruiters in the private sector and it’s had an outstanding response thus far. bsky.app/profile/glit...

Now is the time for anyone with any ties to New Hampshire or UNH to get loud. This university serves people across the state in every major industry, in addition to its educational mission. To be clear: the NH legislature is stealing from its constituents, instead of serving them as is their charge.

New York is rainy today, but yesterday it was sunny and we went on a beach walk.

Happy World Frog Day!!! I've shared this before (RIP Twitter), but it's one of my fav frog photos! A male common coqui (Eleutherodactylus coqui) in Puerto Rico guarding a clutch of eggs :)