Excited to have two weeks of box turtle surveys scheduled for this spring with a bunch of local partners and an incredible wildlife detection dog team! These are turtle shells from just one of my sites last season! All this variation in shell pattern and color from just one site is incredible.

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...

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Back from the field 🇵🇷

Back from the field! It was so busy I didn't have time to share any anole pictures!! Here are two male Anolis cooki fighting over, I guess, who owns this downed bamboo trunk? They were at this for a minimum of two hours.

@jhancsalazar.bsky.social and I just created the official Instagram account for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Anoline Lizard Specialist Group! If you're on Instagram, please give it a follow! Username: iucn_anolis www.instagram.com/iucn_anolis?...

This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students. If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you! 🧪

A common little cutie in San Diego! Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

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!

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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💗🦎☺️

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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 🦴🩻

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✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

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 🐄🤍🇵🇷