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Very excited for our new review paper (with Tony Russell) on gecko adhesion, locomotion, and ecomechanics. This stemmed from the JEB symposium last year. @jexpbiol.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social #gecko #ecomechanics #adhesion journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Some Ensatinas I found in San Diego co. over the weekend. Last of the SoCal salamander genuses for my life list! And man it was sooo nice to disappear into nature for a day. Grateful for CA’s beautiful state parks! 🦎

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Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾 tucson.com/opinion/colu...

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Though widespread and popular in the pet trade, we know very little about their natural history. In this study, lead by undergraduate student Ethan Livingston, we characterized their thermal biology. This Includes one of the highest temperature tolerances ever recorded for a vertebrate!

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How did L.A.'s wildfires affect its animals? @antonsrkn.bsky.social has answers in this stellar piece, which features his stunning photos. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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Love this story of rattlesnakes collecting raindrops on their bodies to drink. Congrats to @snakeymama.bsky.social and the authors of this wonderful paper Paper here: academic.oup.com/cz/advance-a... @nytimes.com coverage here www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/s...

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Do you teach field-based courses? Or hope to? Wrote a brief commentary for the new Plant Science Bulletin on why these course need to be offered/supported. TL;DR the kids need to get outside... where integrative biology lives. #SICB2025 #STEMeducation digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/21...

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Hey! I'll be presenting at SICB tomorrow in the "Sound production and acoustic cues" session, room A704. The talk is actually biomechanics: it's about how Bearded Tachuri (a flycatcher from Argentina) makes sounds with fluttering feathers #SICB2025

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Okay, best SICB ever. #sicb2025

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Today! #SICB2025

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Excited to talk about parallel adaptation to urban environments in anole lizards at #SICB2025 as part of the Cities as Natural Experiments Symposium! Swing by Marquis A Saturday at 9 and say hi! We'll talk about thermal performance, morphology, and kinematics, so be sure not to miss this!

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Oh, I’ll also have stickers to hand out throughout SICB! Please stop me and ask for one if you see me 😁🦎

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OMG, #SICB2025 is in less than a week! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon in Atlanta. I will be presenting on my work examining gecko locomotion and prey capture following autotomy on Saturday (1/4) at 1:30 PM. Stop by International Salon 10 and say hi! 🦎

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A precarious perch (Great blue heron, Bolsa Chica CA)

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A pretty little princess I met yesterday (Yellow-rumped warbler)

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Me with my big find of today’s field trip - an itty bitty baby newt (Taricha torosa)! It’s the last field trip of the quarter and what a great critter to go out on! #herps

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Wow, really wild story and a great write up! I thought the discussion around getting the public engaged with wild animals vs the preservation of the native natural ecosystem to be especially interesting.

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This paper was a long time coming! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🐍 Coluber lateralis from the vertebrate natural history class field trip this weekend. I love their enormous eyes O.O

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Despite…everything… I actually managed to hit submit on my NSF post doc proposal. Good luck to all my PRFBuddies out there! I hope we all get it!

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Super cool work on urban wall lizards by my friend Eric Gangloff, new MS student Alyssa Head, and others! 🌆🦎 ☠️ 🩸

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Xantusia vigilis from a chilly San Bernardino Co. herping trip this weekend

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Hi Bluesky! Finally trying to make the move over from science twt. I'm a graduate student at UCR finishing up my thesis on the biomechanical consequences of gecko tail autotomy and currently looking for postdoc opportunities! Interested in anything reptile and amphibian -related, but esp genetics.

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