Duskies are the cutest!!!

Saw a pygmy rattlesnake swim for the first time today while surveying at one of my mark-recapture sites- was so neat to see!!

Thank you Katie!!

Our latest study tracks the expansion of the invasive pentastome, Raillietiella orientalis, in Florida using opportunistic data collection with SLAM (Snake Lungworm Alliance and Monitoring). Read it here: www.reabic.net/journals/bir...

Since Jan '23, I’ve co-chaired the national PARC Disease Task Team. We host free public webinars with experts on herp disease issues. In Dec, we covered snake fungal disease, & this May, we’re diving into best practices for the healthy trade of herps! See attached to register. Hope to see you there!

Those in the U.S., call your reps to advocate for NSF, NIH, NPS, Federal workers, and ESA! If you need examples of condensed, personalized scripts from me as a PhD student in Florida, shoot me a DM! TWS shared a good post on this yesterday. www.instagram.com/share/BAE6-y...

hi all & happy holidays! I'm a 3rd year PhD student in Dr. Savage's lab and I'm new to Bluesky!! I post all of my research photos to my instagram @ fl.simiba. I'll present on a novel PCR assay I created at The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology conference next week! Will you be there?!