"I think the lizards just know they can easily defeat rats in hand-to-hand combat" @eric-gangloff.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Responses of Mainland and Island Wall Lizards to Rat Chemical Cues

Podarcis siculus (male, Pod Kopiste, Croatia). Italian wall lizards from island and mainland populations increase their tongue flick rates dramatically when confronted with chemical cues of rats, but...

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Go Alyssa!!!

Dr. Arun Sethuraman@arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Congratulations to @doc-brock.bsky.social on advancing her first MS student to candidacy! Such cool work with introduced Italian wall lizards across native and invasive ranges - looking forward to seeing what Alyssa and Dr. Brock will discover!

🧪 New paper out! Growing up, wall lizards undergo a UV-visible “awkward phase” (who doesn’t?) that we can’t see—but they can. These ontogenetic color changes may mediate juvenile–adult interactions by delaying the onset of adult social signals. doi.org/10.1002/jez.... #colsci #lizard #ontogeny

Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)

Wall lizards' ventral coloration undergoes cryptic ontogenetic color changes invisible without UV vision. We tracked wall lizards from hatching to one year of age. Spectrophotometry and visual modeli...

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Check this one out— super-cool mesocosm design to test the impacts of night time warming. Turns out, it’s not great for these lizards. Thanks to @constantperry.bsky.social and Alexis Rutschmann for the fantastic collab.

Constant Perry@constantperry.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper alert! 🦎🌡️🌙 « Warm nocturnal temperatures act as an ecological trap for a diurnal lizard » in @oikosjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/oik.11… It was a pleasure to design this experiment. @eric-gangloff.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

Thrilled to see *National Geographic* highlight the wall lizards living in Cincinnati and our research on these little guys! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... #WalliesWorld

10 lizards were smuggled into Cincinnati in a sock. Now there are tens of thousands.

Native to Europe, common wall lizards are growing bigger, faster, and more resilient in Ohio. Scientists say the city itself may be driving their evolution.

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Follow Dellen! 👇🏼

Dellen@parapletho.bsky.social · last yr.

I suppose I should actually get started on here! My name is Dellen, and I’m a zoologist, currently researching a widespread Plethodontid salamander in the Midwest! Hoping to stay connected to science and the rest of the world in getting active here!

The NPS says it’s just following orders. But executive orders are not laws. Contact the NPS and tell them that their compliance in erasing trans people is not acceptable.

Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · last yr.

Know our history. Keep telling our history. We can’t trust the government with it. Keep sharing our history so we can hold on to what the bastards try to take from us.

Though widespread and popular in the pet trade, we know very little about their natural history. In this study, lead by undergraduate student Ethan Livingston, we characterized their thermal biology. This Includes one of the highest temperature tolerances *ever recorded* for a vertebrate!

Eric Gangloff@eric-gangloff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out our first study with sandfish skinks (Scincus scincus)! Published in the Journal of Herpetology and available now (open access): doi.org/10.1670/2317...

Check out our first study with sandfish skinks (Scincus scincus)! Published in the Journal of Herpetology and available now (open access): doi.org/10.1670/2317...

Can't wait for @bhjuarez.bsky.social to get out here to Ohio and get started! We've got big plans!

Despite rescinding the original memo, the NSF continues to comply with the federal funding freeze and have not communicated with us on timeline... leaving many PRFBs without pay. Also, it seems that many Universities are unaware this is happening... spread the word

Thanks for the shout out, Randy! Very happy to be part of this symposium organized by @kmwinchell.bsky.social @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social — what a fantastic session!

Randy Klabacka@chico-huico.bsky.social · 2y ago

Climbing performance is multivariate- climbing and clinging show different patterns for different claw types in common wall lizards. There was also a clear interaction between SVL and sex on sprint speed. Cool lessons from wall lizards by @eric-gangloff.bsky.social and his lab! #SICB2025

Hi #SICB2025! Happy New Year! The PUI Action group has worked hard to develop events/ programming for the meeting to help build our community and provide mentorship. See all of the events in the comments below! Some require pre-registration!

Are you a researcher/practitioner working on urban ecology and conservation? We still have space in the starter pack! go.bsky.app/29rs45P 🌆🌇

If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this

Have you ever thought about the perks of doing fieldwork in your own backyard? ...Are you "urban-ecology-curious"? Come to our workshop at #SICB2025 on Jan 4 10:30-12:00 to learn about urban field safety, accessibility, engaging undergrads, designing experiments, permit perils, and more!

This is not to be missed! I’ll be there! #UrbanLizards #SICB2025

The lab is excited for SICB!!! Check out this talk by Marina on Saturday!! #gecko #sicb2025

Marina Vollin@mfvollin.bsky.social · 2y ago

OMG, #SICB2025 is in less than a week! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon in Atlanta. I will be presenting on my work examining gecko locomotion and prey capture following autotomy on Saturday (1/4) at 1:30 PM. Stop by International Salon 10 and say hi! 🦎

Check it out! The Salamander Population and Adaptation Research Collaboration Network is looking to hire *10* postbaccalaureate mentees for the second cohort of our NSF RaMP program. I'll be hosting one here at OWU! Details in flyer below and at sparcnet.org/home/sparcne....

Super-cool work from @agunderson.bsky.social and his lab. I was so taken by a presentation of this work from 2 years ago that we started collaborating to look at lead in wall lizards, too. The little buggers are nigh indestructible!

Alex Gunderson@agunderson.bsky.social · 2y ago

New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I want to create a list of turtle scientists around the world! 🐢 If you study turtles, could you please reply to this post or DM me so I can add you to my list of "Fun Turtle Science"? (Creating a list instead of a starter pack so I can pin it to my feed.)

‼️📝 New paper! 1st undergrad honor thesis from the lab! Hannah Owen looked at thousands of #spottedlanternfly @inaturalist.bsky.social images to study spatio-temporal & phenology patterns of the invasion, and to understand the role of #urban environments in their spread www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Spotted Lanternflies in the US Are Living Longer—and Cities May be Helping Them Spread

NYU researchers find longer life cycles and urban connection for the invasive insects, which could spell trouble for local ecosystems, but also point to cities as “early-detection zones” for controlli...

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Wait…does that make me the Herpetologist Santa??

Kinsey Brock@doc-brock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me: “Ooooh my lizard poop arrived !” Student: “A herpetologist’s Christmas” We are gonna see what these introduced wall lizards are eating and how much that overlaps with native lizards. Species from feces! 🦎 💩 🧬 #WallieWorld

Go work with Dan!

Dan Paluh@danpaluh.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of Dayton (Fall 2025) to study the evo-devo of tadpoles! More info here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Awesome to collaborate with @agunderson.bsky.social on this! More on lead in urban lizards coming soon…

Alex Gunderson@agunderson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Led by undergrad Maya Moore in Eric Gangloff’s lab, resilience to lead contamination in urban wall lizards! #lizards #ecotoxicology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...