This new issue contains not only great new #science, but also all #SEH council reports, including a summary of #SEH2025, meeting minutes and the new Code of Conduct. The news section is open to everyone! 🐸🦎
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+++ 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
Most of my group gathered in one place for the first time possibly ever. From left to right, former master's student Collin Bos, current postdoc Alice Petzold, me (Mark D. Scherz), former bachelor's student Joris Fleck, and current master's student and former bachelor's student Clara Keusgen.
Having a diffuse research group means that I rarely get to spend any time with my group in 3D. It was a great delight therefore to be joined by @collinbos.bsky.social @alicepetzold.bsky.social @njorisfleck.bsky.social and @clarakeusgen.bsky.social together in Bonn for the #SEH2025! 🧪🐸🦎🐍🧬
Last week: #SEH2025 in Bonn !
I gave my very first talk, about the Homology of the shoulder joint and forelimb muscles #anura.
I hope to submit the paper later this year, so stay tuned 😉
Many thanks to the organisers of this congress !
#SEH2025 #herpetology #anura #amphibian #frog #toad
This is the logo for the 23rd European Congress of Herpetology, which will be held in Bonn from the 8th to the 12th September 2025. The logo features the European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra terrestris), which is found in and around Bonn.
Last week, I attended the 23rd #European Congress of #Herpetology in Bonn, organized by the Societas Europaea Herpetologica #SEH2025. A total of 323 participants from 40 countries presented their latest research on #amphibian and #reptile #systematics #ecology #morphology #behavior and #evolution 🧵👇
I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at #SEH2025. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
Just back from #SEH2025 in Bonn 🇩🇪 where I presented early work on frog faecal metabarcoding 🐸💩🧬, joined the Herp-Omics Symposium, heard amazing talks 🐍🦎, and met brilliant people I hope to collaborate with in future. Already excited for SEH2027 in Tbilisi 🇬🇪
Last week: #SEH2025 in Bonn!
I met so many old and new friends from around the world, a great experience!
I presented by #postdoc work on the venom of the small "non-venomous" #hognose #snake, Heterodon nasicus.
Thanks to the @dfg.de Walter-Benjamin program
#venomics #zootoxinology
#SEH2025 what a week!
Plenty of great talks, lovely people and chats…
Also presented a poster on our Grass Snake project in Berlin.
It’s a wrap! #SEH2025 has been a blast and it’s been amazing to see old faces but meet so many new ones. Thanks to all that made it such a memorable conference. #Herpetology #Amphibians #Reptiles #SEHCongress2025
HiFi assemblies from museum samples
Honored to present our latest progress on using museomics to study the Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus at the 23rd European Congress of Herpetology. Also very happy to have met so many new friends during these five days! #SEH2025
Angele on the podium beside a slide showing some tiny blindsnakes, worm snakes, and thread snakes.
The final plenary of #SEH2025 is Angele Martins, talking about descriptive anatomy of blindsnakes, worm snakes, and thread snakes. Fantastic animals, and wonderful work! 🐍🧪
Amazing experience talking about my PhD work @ecology_ncl at #SEH2025, Bonn, Germany. Listening to some wonderful talks, checking out collections at Koenig museum, amazing conversations ...the list goes on. @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Collin in action talking about how diverse mitochondrial genome organisation is in amphibians
And now @collinbos.bsky.social is presenting on mitochondrial genome reorganisation in microhylid frogs from Madagascar, and how we can explore it using off-target sequencing from target capture sequencing reads. 🧪🐸 #SEH2025
Clara presenting her slides. Featuring some very cute frogs, including a frog with a few eggs around it.
Loving the Herp-Omics symposium at #SEH2025! Proud to see several members of my lab presenting here—my postdoc @alicepetzold.bsky.social presented and is one of the chairs! Up now, @clarakeusgen.bsky.social is presenting on the Bachelor’s thesis that she did with us.
The second day of #SEH2025 kicks off with a plenary talk from @markscherz.bsky.social on why miniaturisation in amphibians is a big deal. #Herpetology #Amphibians
Clara, wearing a T-shirt of my lab, beside her stunning black poster with brightly coloured images on it. The title:Dissecting without damage: inferring taxonomic affiliations from the gut content of a preserved museum specimen. It’s about an awfully preserved type specimen we scanned using phase-contrast CT, and segmenting the many ants it had in its gut to find out what kind of ants they were, and where it might have come from.
A wonderful first day of the #SEH2025 meeting today here in Bonn! Seeing my students presenting is especially gratifying; @clarakeusgen.bsky.social brought this absolutely beautiful poster. 🧪🐸
A small male chameleon, Palleon nasus, on my pointer finger. It’s about as long as the last last two phalanges. It’s tan with oblique dark brown lines, and has a rather pointy face and a short tail. Not exactly what you might expect for a chameleon.
On my way to Bonn for the #SEH2025 23rd European Congress of Herpetology! I’ll be giving a plenary on Wednesday about miniaturisation. Really looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones, and exchanging ideas across the field 🐢🐍🐸🧪
