Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

🦎*Please share!*🦎 Review begins Oct 5. 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. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

One more month till the due date! Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Nicholas Wu@nicholaswu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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🐍 🗺️Announcing the Snakebite Community Map A free, global directory connecting researchers, clinicians & organizations working on snakebite envenoming. 📄 Read and share the 1-page announcement 🔓🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or via sites.google.com/view/snakebi... #SnakebiteAwarenessDay

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏

Opportunities

We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...

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Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!

Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)

Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...

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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Hissscord has reached >150 members! 🎉 That's an international assembly of 150+ scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined on one server to network and to support each other. Wanna join? Send me a message! (Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)

N. Joris Fleck@njorisfleck.bsky.social · last yr.

+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Our new server is live! 🐍 A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help. 💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel! Please feel free to share and repost! #Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord

New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd

Here are two of the four new species of moss-camouflaged frogs we just described in the journal Salamandra: Spinomantis fohitstilo and S. chlorostictus! The article is OA, available here: www.salamandra-journal.com/salamandra/6... 🧪🐸

🦎*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...

Say hello to Quentin’s Diamond Frog, Rhombophryne quentini. 🧪🐸 #NewSpecies

I had a toadtally great encounter today 🐸 🐸Common Toad (Bufo bufo) 📍Saxony, Germany #frog #toad

Happy that the Societas Europaea Herpetologica is now represented here @seh-herpetology.bsky.social Follow for herpetology related scientific and non-scientific content, news and announcements from the #European #Herpetology Society 🐸🐍🦎🐊🐢🧪🌍 #Conservation #SciComm #Ecology

New paper alert 📣🐍 Blind snakes are usually associated with strict fossoriality. Here, we present the first record of arboreality/ climbing behaviour in the worm-like Madagascar-endemic blind snake Madatyphlops ocularis. doi.org/10.1071/ZO25... #snakes @csiropublishing.bsky.social (Aust J Zool)

Happy (slightly belated) World Frog Day! 🐸 Photo: 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴, Madagascar #worldfrogday #frog #Madagascar

I genuinely wish that all snakes would move the way the horned viper does in this figure.

Biodiversity Pics@biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📯 The living world: . Boston: Samuel Walker & Co., 1868-1870, c1868.. [Source]

ASIH is soliciting nominations for the 2026 Margaret Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence - to be awarded to a mid-career scientist in Herpetology. Deadline 20 April 2026. Info here: www.asih.org/awards/stewa... 🐸🦎🐊🐍🐢 Please share and repost!

🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪 I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬 Deadline: 4 Jan 2026! employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share #science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

What a fun study to read while preparing my PhD application: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study

Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

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"Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant" super happy to have been part of this work with @njorisfleck.bsky.social Prof Gudrun Kadereit, Andreas Fleischmann and Thibaud Messerschmid! I hope it's the first of many at LMU 👏😁🌵🎶 doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Former lab member @njorisfleck.bsky.social and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱☀️🧪

Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant

Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).

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My first ever lead-author paper got published! 🎉 Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers! (Also, please note the punny title)

German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts). Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology doi.org/10.1111/plb.... #PlantSci

+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉 That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other. Wanna join? Send me a message! (Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)

N. Joris Fleck@njorisfleck.bsky.social · last yr.

+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Our new server is live! 🐍 A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help. 💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel! Please feel free to share and repost! #Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord

A new post about the three #newspecies of toad we have just described from Tanzania, feat @christianthrane.bsky.social, Simon Loader, @alicepetzold.bsky.social, John Lyakurwa, and Michele Menegon! 🧪🐸🇹🇿 www.markscherz.com/archives/6208

Three new live-bearing toads from Tanzania!

This week we have published an exciting new paper describing three new species of bumpy, bright-coloured, live-bearing, tree-dwelling toads from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! You can read …

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Happy Halloween!🍂🍬 We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) ⁣shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻