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Apparently it is not just turtles. An ichthyology colleague told me that they have recorded several new species for Danish waters in the last few months, that are typically found in American waters. Species that are usually too small to cross the ocean by themselves… #CurrentEvents?

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"This remarkable rediscovery marks the first official record of the bird on the island since Charles Darwin first recorded it during his visit in 1835." 🤯

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A baking success today! Hefekranz, a family tradition. I haven’t how one turn out so well in a long time, though! My own recipe: markscherz.tumblr.com/post/6981958...

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Now accepting donations in support of this kind of science.

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🧪 Please share with your obscure-marine-taxon-loving friends!

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Very excited to announce that the @nhmdk.bsky.social 🏛️🇩🇰 is #hiring a Collection Manager for its Marine Invertebrate collection! A vast, diverse, and beautiful collection. Please come and join our team here in Copenhagen! #MuseumJobs Please re-skeet and share!

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The mild temperatures and gentle rain have brought out the first smooth newts here in Denmark. I had to rescue this one from the cycle path last night; another was already half crushed. In peak activity season, I can save as many as five a night from one 20 m segment of path.

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DEADLINE: 30.03.2025 - Better hurry up! Participate in the #CETAF E-SCoRe Award for #natural history collection - based #research and take your career to the next level! 🚀 The 2025 edition is dedicated to PhD students. Check this page out 👇 cetaf.org/template-act... #Taxonomy #biodiversity

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Thomas Pape (@nhmdk.bsky.social) with an essential question: why #taxonomy is so important? Watch this #TETTRIsEU video and share it! #biodiversity youtu.be/s_4lkrXq5zc?...

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Today I’m at Copenhagen Zoo for a symposium on management of Danish #amphibians in the face of #chytrid. I’m excited to see this momentum to get a grip on the situation here, and understand its possible consequences.

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There are untold treasures amongst the uninventoried and unidentified objects we have on our shelves at @nhmdk.bsky.social. Just look at this extremely rotund fish. Collected in the early 1950, waiting 75 years (and counting) for some attention.

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Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

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A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis). #GreenToaddGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly #G3 🧬 academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

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Holy shit this is phenomenal

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Look at this phenomenal Paratilapia polleni at the Blue Planet here in Copenhagen! Gosh they’re beautiful fish. 🐠 🇲🇬

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hey bluesky! where are my fellow #HERpers at?

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I am so excited that we are going to be hiring a lab manager for our new labs! Could it be you‽ 🧪🥼🏛️

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Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Malaise traps in Singapore now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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"evolution under specific modes of environmental change promotes high mutation rates and ... shapes the local mutational neighborhood. ..increases in evolvability acquired through these two mechanisms play distinct roles in historical and novel environments." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #EvoBio

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Calling all creative minds in science communication! 🧠💡🎨 Join us at SMNS as a Content Creator and help bring biodiversity research to a wider audience! 🌿🧬📱 📅 Apply by 16.03.2025 🔗 Details: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/deta... #JobAlert #Hiring #ScienceComm #SocialMedia

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Excited to share the title of my next book... NATURE'S MEMORY: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE WORLD'S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS tells surprising stories about how nature is put on display, some hard truths about how these #museums were made, and how they can save the world. Out in April.🤩

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A comic about the good stuff

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Psst: carcinization is not inevitable! R is for Raninoides, one of the best examples of DEcarcinization. It's a true crab, but its body is elongated and the abdomen sticks out. The wrench and spadelike appendages, and torpedolike body, are good for burrowing (see video, next skeet) #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

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Today's frog flavour is lime 🍋🟢🐸🧪. Boophis viridis, a lime-flavoured frog if ever there was one.

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#museomics 🧪🏛️

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I don’t feel like I have anything to contribute to the conversation right now except possibly distraction by means of pretty frogs. So, here is Platypelis tuberifera. A personal favourite. 🐸💚🧪

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If you're an entomologist who lost your position in this nonsense, please message me. If you're an organization seeking a taxonomist or a broadly trained entomologist, reach out. I'm also looking for professors seeking PhD students, globally. #entomology 🧪

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In case you missed it! 🧪

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