When I was a *postdoc* at MIT, I had Black, Brown and Indigenous students from across the institute coming to me for mentoring because they had advisors like this and WORSE. They were suffering and I was doing unpaid labor I wasn’t trained for that took from my research time.

After much preparation the Tarvin lab received our first frogs yesterday. Nuzha (lab tech) did an incredible job setting up the terraria. we had a frog party to celebrate! Our first species is Epipedobates tricolor, native to Ecuador 🇪🇨 ❤️🐸🧪🌎🥰🍾💪

I can't believe it! I received an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the evolutionary #biomechanics of #salamander locomotion! 😭 Interested in joining our salamander shenanigans? We're recruiting a postdoc for Fall 2024 and a PhD student and postbac in Fall 2025! nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

We are very happy to announce the 2024 #GWH scholarships for the 10th World Congress of Herpetology !This year we are funding 7 students from 5 countries thanks to proceeds from 📕 purchases! Congrats to each winner & do stay tuned to learn more about these amazing herpetologists in the coming weeks!

The Frog Con 2023 music album is finally up on youtube!! 🐸🥳 youtu.be/vfgfrp9icD0?si…

The best thing about this PhD by far has been teaching. I asked my students to draw me a frog on their final exams. And let me tell you they did not disappoint. My heart is so full with unhinged frogs 🐸 🖤 Put your favorite unhinged 🐸 in the comments. #phdlife #herpetology

I wrote a tutorial page for our Florida Museum website to help everyone get access to our #oVertTCN scans online via MorphoSource! Check it out: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/re…

Meet Showko Yamanaka (やまなか韶子/Showko Yamanaka), a #GWHbook artist! She is a Japanese #illustrator based in Osaka, #Japan. Her paintings and illustrations are focused on themes of greenery, flowers and food. Yamanaka mixes elements of whimsy and scientific illustration into her art (1/2)

How much does reproduction really cost? Out today in Science Magazine we show that more energy is spent creating offspring than are in the offspring themselves. 🧵science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out this online seminar talk Dr. Arifin will be presenting this Thursday, May 23rd at 18:30 CEST, organized by the Austrian Herpetological Society 🇦🇹. To join the virtual seminar please use this link 💻: us02web.zoom.us/j/87069706338?… Meeting ID: 870 6970 6338 Kenncode: 680836

Meet Lihuà, a #GWHartist based in #Malaysia. She created the portrait for herpetologist Ye Changxuan from China. Many of her designs highlight fashion silhouettes and are inspired by the curves of Chinese #calligraphy and #watercolor accents. (1/2)

Farm workers and other outdoor workers, as well as workers in facilities without air conditioning, will face extremely dangerous conditions in the days ahead. Lack of acclimatization can be deadly. Workers new to the job or new to the conditions are at risk of illness and death.

We invite you to the CHS_SHC2024 conference on Sept 20-23 in Sidney, BC! Details and links for registration, accommodations, and abstract submission are now available on our website: canadianherpetology.ca/conf/index.html Early bird deadline: June 30, 2024 Abstract deadline: July 31, 2024

📢Interested in doing fieldwork in the Amazon while studying 🐸 with amazing capabilities? Then this opportunity could be for you! Join Andrius Pašukonis and me at KLIVV Vienna for a PhD adventure on sensory ecology and cognition in #poisonfrogs 👇 Pls retweet! bibianarojas.co/news/

Amphibilive is live in our Discord now with a fat ripe tomato 🍅 unfortunately there isnt any sound right now but feel free to come hang out in chat!

this is a fun time to be alive because everyone is now openly at the end of their rope

A number of jobs are posted at UBC! Freshwater Ecologist JR18128 UBC Forestry ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacul…

Global Women in Herpetology booth at the World Congress of Herpetology! 🐸👩🏻‍🔬🐍👩🏾‍🏫🐢🧕🏽🦎👩🏿‍🔬 We will be here all week, please stop by! #GWH #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHerpetology #WCH10 #WCH #HERper #Herpetology #WomenInScience

MSc Opportunity!

Want to skip some of the hand-tagging of photos from your camera trap dataset? Want to feel cool and brag to your friends that you "trained your own AI model?" Me too 😂I wrote a tutorial about how you can do it using Roboflow and Python: sites.google.com/view/heather-g…