And the local tree frog Hyla arborea sarda

And another endemic from Corsica and Sardinia… Podarcis tiliguerta

Picture of an Algyroides fitzingeri

Very happy to see this little guy again in Corsica … Algyroides fitzingeri

Ce que la respiration révèle de nous | Tangram | Ausha Respirer, c’est automatique. Mais si le souffle permettait de comprendre le cerveau, la santé… et même d'apprécier l’art ? Dans cet épisode de Tangram, la respiration devient un terrain d’exploration ...

Merci a Sarah-Lou Lepers du podcast Tangram de @psl-univ.bsky.social d'etre venue nous interroger au @mnhn.fr avec @anthony-herrel.bsky.social pour parler de respiration et du sommeil des reptiles🦎 !!

Lien vers l'episode: podcast.ausha.co/tangram/ce-q...

Video of an art installation in London

Had a project meeting in London but had time to quickly visit Dana Fiona Armour’s installation at Somerset house in London.. snakes, climate change and art.

Feel privileged to have been working with these amazing animals at Butantan

Thanks to Carlos Jared !!

Island Biology 2026 - Registration & Key Information Registration & Key Information

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🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

By integrating evidence from #mammals 🦁, #fish 🐟, #amphibians 🐸, #reptiles 🦎, and #birds 🐦, this paper highlights broader evolutionary patterns and provides a clearer comparative framework that facilitates interpretation of future results. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting news! 🚨🎉

On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!

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Darwin’s finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system Abstract. Climate change is known to influence biodiversity worldwide, with changes in organismal traits observed in many populations and species. Such eff

Are Darwin's finches affected by climate change? Time-series analyses of beak and body traits, precipitation and temperature show finches are a resilient system, responding mainly to short-term weather variation rather than to long-term climate change:

Carrión et al. (2025)

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CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd

Dr. Alice Gauthey, a Newton International Fellow, standing in a forest, smiling at the camera and holding a leaf. A quote about establishing early-career research independence appears next to her, attributed to her and mentioning The Royal Society: "I wanted to establish greater independence as an early-career researcher. The Newton International Fellowship provided both the time and the resources to develop a strong research portfolio."

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

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Thèse are copies from the FitzSimons field guide… maybe not what you needed

Hope this helps

Will have a look first tho tomorrow

I think I have a copy in my office what do you need

A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.

Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...

The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...

3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...

Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️

#Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring-breeding #amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #climatechange #phenology #frogs @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social

How do we capture fast and furious snake bites? High-speed video with 3D reconstruction, all at 1000 frames per second! @monashbiol.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Evolutionary consequences of extreme climate events Simon Baeckens and Colin Donihue review case studies of rapid evolutionary change in response to extreme climate events and sketch a framework for future studies in the rapidly changing climate of the...

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Des chauves-souris et Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères Le swarming : quand les chauves-souris femelles choisissent leur partenaire Les brèves du jour  Grande invitée : Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères au Muséum dʹhistoire naturelle

Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all)
Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July!
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Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social

Check it out!

Really cool paper by my collaborators!