Huge pleasure to meet my PhD student Ade Prasetyo Agung in person for the first time here at the #WCH10! Ade is based at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, and we haven’t been able to get him over to Copenhagen for a visit yet.

World Congress of Herpetology #WCH10 Organizers and moderators, I implore you to stick to the schedule. I understand tech related delays. But if someone cancels, please do not continue on with the next speaker and push talks forward. Many people are missing talks they had planned to see.

Hey #WCH10! Gobsmacked by gliders? Perplexed by patagia? Dazzled by embryonic development? I'll be presenting some of my work tomorrow (6 Aug / 3:45 / meeting room 6) on gliding #gecko development in the Developmental Herpetology symposium. Hope to see y'all there! #GeckoEvoDevo

To anyone who missed my announcement today at #WCH10: my talk was double scheduled, and will in fact take place at 15:00 on Wednesday in Meeting Room 3!

And the quintessential conference picture with Aaron 😅 #WCH10

Our plenary speaker today is Emma Sherratt. It's a 🐍🐍🐍day!

Always an excellent talk by Definitely not @MarkScherz on all other platforms on the genomic treasures of museum specimens and the challenges associated with extracting their DNA 🧬 #WCH10

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Ever seen a Bluetongue skink? What about a Monkey-tailed skink? No? Well, let me tell you a little about these guys and what we've learned from studying their evolution. Sidenote: check out our new paper in Current Biology sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ...

Tune in to the premiere of Episode 27 of SquaMates: A totally serious herpetology podcast, all about rainfrogs, on YouTube, airing right now! #herpetology #herpers youtube.com/watch?v=OeZkMj…

Our latest episode is now live!!! This one is all about rain frogs 🐸 SquaMates: A totally serious herpetology podcast youtu.be/OeZkMji9HCs?si…

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4-year postdoc job now advertised in my lab to study the 3D neck motions in salamander feeding!#biomechanics #XROMM #vertebrae – see job link and thread below for details jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ517/pos… Applications close 27 September. Please contact me with any questions!

Finishing my PhD and looking for a postdoc for summer/fall 2025! I do functional morphology, biomechanics, kinematics, phylo comp methods, CT scanning, R and python coding and more! I like fish & herps but open to system! If you have funding or know of opportunities, let me know

Say hello to Platypelis saikamavo, a #newspecies of yellow-bellied microhylid #frog 🐸from #Madagascar, described yesterday in Zootaxa updates—Finally named, over TWENTY years after its discovery! mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

I am thrilled to announce I have secured an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (1.5 MILLION euros!) to study the #genomics of miniaturisation in vertebrates! Press release: news.ku.dk/all_news/2024/…

Coming soon!!

During the World Congress held in Borneo, we had a discussion with Definitely not @MarkScherz on all other platforms and Hiral Naik from SquaMates: A totally serious herpetology podcast. Tune in here: buff.ly/3QJG2bV Spotify: buff.ly/3GNlSJl Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/3IV4epB Also, WATCH on YouTube: buff.ly/4bi5Chz

Wow! A blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus I think) feeding on ant brood. These snakes are completely subterranean, so you can’t really observe them in the wild. They’re specialized predators of ants and termites and, evidently, they look really weird when they eat. Ant 🐜 🐍 🐜

Daniel Kronauer They have a weird, swiveling upper jaw piece that pulls the larvae in. Crazy anatomy! x.com/MarkScherz/sta…