Rayna Bell
@raynacbell.bsky.social
Patterson Scholar + Curator of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences. National Geographic Young Explorer. I like frogs. A lot. she/her raynacbell.com
A project that started during my PhD: why is the Forest Reed Frog (and #reedfrogs in general) sexually #dichromatic. More questions than answers but it looks like sexual niche partitioning is not the explanation 🐸🏝️🎨 big thank you to my coauthors for their patience! academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
Excited to host a #ScientificIllustration #intern this summer @calacademy.bsky.social! Applications are due Jan 31st but we won't begin application review for a couple more weeks so if you're interested in applying and can't meet the deadline please reach out! www.calacademy.org/biological-i...
Science Illustration Internship
A paid internship in science illustration working with a scientist mentor.
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Attention 🐸🦎🐍🐢🐊 postdocs! If you are planning to attend #JMIH2025 consider applying for the Metallinou Postdoctoral Travel Award due March 28 ssarherps.org/2025/01/meta... #herp #conference
Call for applications: Metallinou Postdoctoral Travel Award
The SSAR is pleased to announce that it will continue to support postdoctoral fellows to attend and present their research at SSAR’s annual meetings and meet and interact with leaders in the field.…
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This is one of my awesome colleagues at the California Academy of Sciences! @arachnologynerd.bsky.social @calacademy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Championing queer scientists of colour: ‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’
Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.
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First lab publication of 2025: Diversification in #Guadeloupe #endemic #frogs along the slopes of an active volcano 🏝️🐸🧬🌋 #openaccess academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Funded #PhD opportunity to join the #frogvision team! Open to all nationalities, application deadline 20 Jan 🐸👀🧬 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/div...
Diversity and evolution of burrowing frog visual systems | TREES DLA
The evolution of burrowing ecologies has occurred in almost every major vertebrate group and often coincides with eye reduction and inactivation of vision-related genes. Anuran amphibians (frogs and t...
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Big congratulations to #Islands2030 graduate student Ayanna Browne on a successful defense of her masters on population genomic structure in five #endemic species of #anoles across the Anguilla, Barbuda, and St. Kitts island banks in the Lesser Antilles 🤗🦎🏝️🧬 super proud of all her hard work!
