Another edition of Herp Science Sunday with Dr. Alex Krohn (@krohnzone.bsky.social) - there’s a lot going on beneath the forest floor… www.somuchpingle.com

Never get bored to observe this special primate endemic to the Southern part of Sumatra. We are very lucky to see this colorful adult male Mitred Leaf Monkey (Presbytis melalophos) who enjoys eating ripe Tarap Fruits ( Artocarpus odoratissimus ) #miteredleafmonkey #leafmonkey #wildlifephoto

Very important context here

Tiny Toad! I heard from @jencross.bsky.social were sharing these 🐸

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Very curious distribution of votes the Republican wants to throw away....

this is the most exciting thing that has happened to my town in a long time! 🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳

So many replies like this

Slippery dicks and sequential hermaphrodites munching on seaweed. What's not to love?

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

A truly magnificent place. Full of incredible turtles, lizards and snakes too!

In addition to applied statistics, I have another repository on #DataVisualization: "quick data vis" (github.com/cxli233/Quic...). It used to be under "Online_R_learning" but now it has its own repository on GitHub. I have used this content to teach 1st year grad students for 3 years.

Firschein's Salamander (Pseudoeurycea firscheini) from Veracruz state, Mexico. A male; the fleshy little nubbins at the snout's end are called cirri, and carry pheromones and other chemical signatures to the nostrils, in order to find females and locate rival males. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

I posted this on John Scalzi's feed earlier so I should post it here as well. My last book, "The Field Herping Guide: Finding Amphibians and Reptiles in the Wild" was published in 2019 (you can skip the Bazillionaire middle man and order directly from the press) ugapress.org/book/9780820... #books

A great article highlighting the incredibly important work @chapplelab.bsky.social, @julesfarquhar.bsky.social and team are doing to improve our understanding of Australia’s data deficient skinks! 🦎 www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildl...?

Look at those Ceropegia ampliata flowers! Yep those are flowers, this shape is typical for this genus. Inside of the tube there're hairs growing upside down, so that once an insect gets in, it has to struggle to get out, during the struggling the flower gets pollinated. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌾🌸

Super cool study. In its converse, makes me think a lot about what environments I'd expect outbreeding depression in translocated populations. Very thought provoking

The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

It's turtles all the way...over. #TurtleTuesday #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

I retired in 2019 and started a herpetology podcast. Five seasons and 106 episodes later, I still enjoy it (though I'm glad I don't have to make a living at it). I talk with folks doing research & conservation, authors, field herpers, etc. 1/3 🧵www.somuchpingle.com #herps #herpetology 🌿

This is a fascinating read

have contributed to a local civic news collective for a few years. it has: increased voter turnout, broken local news stories and used humor to do so. it’s a model worth thinking about @triangleblogblog.bsky.social

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

New Shabbat goals

Happy Thanksgiving www.ncrabbithole.com/p/north-caro...

Ride your bike in the holiday parade with us! triangleblogblog.com/2024/11/27/r...

wavefunctions when you observe them

A White-bellied Reed Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) from near Ranomafana, Madagascar. Also called the Starry Night Frog ❤️ A species I had hoped to see on my visit, and I saw exactly one. This one. #herps #NaturePhotography #FrogFriday

An excellent field validation study by USGS demonstrating the potential implementation of automated #eDNA sampling for routine species monitoring. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#SciArt 🐠🎨

Had an incredible time participating in shooting a movie that covers to some (small) extent our work in the conservation genomics space with my favorite director Werner Herzog. It was truly an honor. www.instagram.com/p/DCr55Rwz0Y...

If this is 2016 sci twitter redux can we get popgengoogling back plz?

Arrived in the quarantine camp of TCP at midnight after an exhausting drive over the piste from Guiglo to Taï. We finally entered the National Park long after dark and were greeted by a young female leopard who would walk in front of our car for 30 min. Great welcome.

A White-lined Chameleon (Furcifer antimena), observed at dusk, Reniala Reserve, SW Madagascar. The blue scales are kinda mind-blowing. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

Some of what I do as an entomology curator is Chrysis management.

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection: Genomics of endangered species 🐬🐒🐸🐍🫎🐧🦉🌴🌿 #consgen #conservationgenetics #conservationgenomics I’m very happy to be serving as Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. Deadline: 13 August 2025 More info: bit.ly/48VA9l6 @BioMedCentral

After a 53-day water crisis, Asheville has lifted its boil water notice

A bit disconcerting when one of the world's largest moth species is attracted to your headlamp! Found this beautiful Hercules Moth in far north Queensland. #wildoz #wildlife #nature #biodiversity #insects

Finally finding my niche here: evolutionary biology puns