🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

🌉This fascinating #research from the Peruvian Amazon provides a rare look at how arboreal #mammals navigate #forest canopy layers. 🗞️Read the full story on @mongabay.com, covered by Luís Patriani: news.mongabay.com/2026/03/acro... @morphoinstitute.org, @lindseyswierk.bsky.social

Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate in the @lindseyswierk.bsky.social and Powell labs at Binghamton University. I use #PopGen, #BehavioralEcology, and #VisualModeling to study the #evolutionary & #ecological processes of #divergence in a semi-aquatic #Anolis lizard species complex. #speciation #evolution

Thanks @mongabay.com! "Understanding how animals use bridges within continuous, undisturbed forests is a prerequisite for implementing effective connectivity strategies in fragmented landscapes where environmental risks are far higher." @morphoinstitute.org neotropical.pensoft.net/article/1547...

Across South America, canopy bridges evolve as a lifeline for tree-dwelling wildlife

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusi...

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What do Madagascar hissing cockroaches do when the air gets dry? Our Animal Behavior students @binghamtonu.bsky.social @harpurcollege.bsky.social figured it out! doi.org/10.1111/eth.... Students designed a study showing that cockroaches snuggle up, or not, depending on humidity. 🪳💧 🎉 Great work!

Some Cockroaches Like to Cuddle, Too

Some Cockroaches Like to Cuddle, Too: It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.

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We are recruiting Guest Faculty for the 2026 Amazon Research Initiative for Educators in the Peruvian Amazon!! 🌴 🐸 🐒 🦎 🌱 @morphoinstitute.org July 11-25, 2026 at the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (morphoinstitute.org/actsperu/) For more info and to apply: forms.gle/hxgaiPuYhdfD...

2026 Amazon Research Initiative for Educators Guest Faculty Questionnaire

When: July 11-25, 2026 in Loreto, Peru Where: Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies in the Napo-Sucusari Biological Reserve, Loreto, Peru (outside of the city of Iquitos) ARIE Program Details: w...

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Thanks to @somuchpingle.bsky.social for a great podcast on our lab's paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, led by Dr. Allie Martin @alliemartin.bsky.social 🦎💧 *Allie is currently looking for a postdoc to grow her genomics and/or Bayesian stat skills.* If you have or hear of an opening, please reach out!

Episode 121: Herp Science Sunday: Bubble-breathing Anoles - So Much Pingle

I'm so happy to produce another Herp Science Sunday segment with Dr. Alex Krohn! In this episode we talk with Dr. Alexandra Martin, one of the co-authors of a brand new paper, which lays out some asto...

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🌙 ⭐ Nocturnal mammals in the Peruvian Amazon love using human-made canopy walkways in trees! 🌳🌴 @binghamtonu.bsky.social @morphoinstitute.org Check out our new research here, led by Justin Santiago: neotropical.pensoft.net/article/1547...

🌳 These Man-Made Walkways Help Sloths, Monkeys & More!

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The story of colorful signals in water anoles continues...🦎🦎🦎 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... Fantastic research led by @kellywuthrich.bsky.social

Color-changing Females: Just Blending in or Born to Stand Out??

Across the Anolis genus, color and color change are used in a variety of ways, from camouflage to signaling. While many studies have focused on male coloration, few have explored the more subtle fe…

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My intro is in need of a little update!Hello bluesky! I'm a #behavioralecologist and recently earned my PhD in @lindseyswierk.bsky.social 's lab, studying #antipredator #behavior and #thermal #physiology in #Anolis aquaticus, a species of diving lizard!

I'm excited to share a preview of PhD student Sophia Zaslow's dissertation work on eastern red backed salamanders in our lab! 𓆈𓆈𓆈 Can't wait to see what comes next... www.instagram.com/reels/DPOp1o...

Binghamton University on Instagram: "POV: looking for the cutest critters in the prettiest place on campus 👀🦎"

1,135 likes, 16 comments - binghamtonu on September 30, 2025: "POV: looking for the cutest critters in the prettiest place on campus 👀🦎".

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Excited to (finally) share the last bit of work from my undergrad with @lindseyswierk.bsky.social Color change in female water anoles isn’t associated with social interactions, but color could signal body condition! doi.org/10.1093/biol... Check it out 🦎

Check out some new work on Amazonian tree canopy biodiversity from our lab! 🌳🙊🌳

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Camera traps show seven arboreal mammal species actively using artificial canopy walkways in an unfragmented Amazon forest, providing key insights for tropical conservation corridor design. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neot...

An exciting new study now out in which I played a small part - Wood Frog Testicular Microstructure Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is... Excited to see this out, and to add a new taxonomic group to my pub list!! 🐸❤️

Read the full research @lindseyswierk.bsky.social @alliemartin.bsky.social at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

High dissolved oxygen extends dive duration and suggests physical gill use in a vertebrate

Highlighted Article: High levels of dissolved oxygen in water extend dive durations in a semi-aquatic Anolis lizard, suggesting that anoles may rebreathe bubbles to uptake oxygen from stream water.

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Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Hello bluesky! I'm a #behavioralecologist and PhD candidate in @lindseyswierk.bsky.social 's lab, currently studying #antipredator #behavior and #thermal #physiology in #Anolis aquaticus, a species of diving lizard!

Easily one of my favorite interviews - such a great conversation with Millie! buymeacoffee.com/naturalistad...

Celebrating 50 Blogs with Bubble-Breathing Lizards and Lindsey Swierk — Adventures of a Young Naturalist

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Fantastic, thanks for putting this together Alex!

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

Starter pack of ecological and evolutionary physiologists. Definitely missing people so let me know go.bsky.app/N5Xvr8v

We have TWO new student-authored papers out this fall about Mexican jumping bean (larvae) behavior! Check them out! 🫘 #undergraduateresearch www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

This is gorgeous!!! 😍

Ligus@greyauk.bsky.social · 2y ago

The lab I did my doodle about 😊👇 #sciart #science 🦎

Our lab is thrilled to share new research published today in Biology Letters on the function of water anole 'bubble breathing' ! 💧🦎💧 #lizard #HERper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...