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markscherz.bsky.social
Curator of Herpetology & Associate Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at Natural History Museum of Denmark • ERC StG: GEMINI • Co-host of SquaMates Podcast and AnatomyInsights on Youtube • He/Him
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Pretty cool seeing both my developmental staging series at the @devdynamics.bsky.social table and #Lepidodactylus itself in San Juan for SDB! #2025SDB #2025ICDB #devbio #GeckoEvoDevo #mourninggecko

As I tell my students, ChatGPT is an amazingly powerful tool for answering all sorts of questions, as long as you don't care whether or not the answers are correct.

Excited to share a new #OA paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social detailing evolution and development of hemibacula: bizarre mineralized elements in hemipenes of croaking geckos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GeckoEvoDevo #Aristelliger

€721 million in @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants has been awarded to 281 leading researchers across Europe. From AI to cancer prevention and space exploration, we are investing in Europe’s most cutting-edge science. Europe remains committed to excellence and global talent. ↓

Interesting update from the person who first called it out in the forums: "@procyonloiter and I just had a 3-hour in-person talk with @loarie and I am delighted to say that it has completely alleviated my concerns around this entire issue."

As a taxonomist, curator on the HerpetoGasy Bioblitz group, and top identifier of dozens of reptile and amphibian species from Madagascar on @inaturalist.bsky.social, I am seriously concerned by this move. 🧪🧵

Your favourite evolutionary science journal just got even better as we report a 2024 Scopus CiteScore of 2.6 and move to Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology! evolsyst.pensoft.net/news/874

I'm beyond excited to announce that I will be joining the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! Belasen Lab @ou.edu coming soon 🐸 ❤️

SkyBLAST is indeed a "lightning fast" version of NCBI BLAST sky-blast.com. Like, really fast.

Before and after shots of drawer installation in our #naturalhistory collections #museumlife

Chromosome-level genome assembly of the lemon sole, Microstomus kitt (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae). #LemonSoleGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly #GigaBytes gigabytejournal.com/articles/156

Ok so I didn’t really need that in my adult beverage but thanks for sharing

🐸 Did you know female frogs call too? This new review highlights the overlooked vocalizations of female frogs in 112 species (1.4% of all described anuran species)! 🧪🌎 👩‍🔬 #ecoevo doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

We recorded a NEW episode of @squamatespod.bsky.social today!!! Stay tuned! #podcasts #herpetology #scicom

Go out and find a beetle. It’s almost always worth it.