Want to join #TeamLizard2026? We are recruting volunteers for our upcoming field season (May-Sep). All main expenses (food, camping/accommodation fees, and other) and travel costs up to intra-European value will be covered. DM for full details.

EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Interns needed for a field study on the Eurasian common lizard in Austria, May-Sept 2025. Ideal for those interested in herpetology and ecology. Apply to John.Smout@glasgow.ac.uk.

Who's catching all these lizards? Meet the 2025 field team! It's a long season (May–September), so not everyone was there all at once, but here's most of us—including PI @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social and visiting ecophysiology collaborators, @jflegalliard.bsky.social and his PhD student Nicolas.

Interbreeding means overwintering controlled crosses in shared enclosures. This means that after catching lizards from the hybrid zone, the field team then had to care for them until they went into their enclosures, as well as incubate their eggs and care for the young. A lot of lizard husbandry!

You've heard of COW TOOLS, but did you know the Gail Valley is also home to an incredibly cool lizard hybrid zone? Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids. (Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)

We'll have some Actual Content soon, we promise -- but to get you started, check out Molly's thread from last year about what we're doing here:

Molly@mhuzzell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reposting my recent fieldwork thread from Twitter so as to have Content. Posts/images from July. Incoming: lizards, science, beautiful Alpine vistas 🧵

Hello world! We led a tour of the field site yesterday, and one of our guests was asking if we had social media. We didn't ... until now!