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N. Joris Fleck @njorisfleck.bsky.social · 14d

+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++

Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.

💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com

Please share!📣

N. Joris Fleck @njorisfleck.bsky.social · 23d

+++ 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

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 17d

While I'm sad our cover submission wasn't selected for our recent human duplication paper, check out the super cool illustration created with @lazaroillustration.bsky.social ! Certainly, you will be seeing Dennis lab members running around with "fishman" t-shirts at future meetings, inspired by Ohno

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 17d

"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish

Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19d

Yesterday's Tylenol press conference was at "inject bleach" levels of insanity, but it also revealed the plan for cancelling the MMR. Here's how I think this is going to go down.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Poison Pill to End the MMR is Tylenol

If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus

open.substack.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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N. Joris Fleck @njorisfleck.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Sep 12

i'm livid we live in a world where this isn't about people with passionate opinions about herpetology

Dan Udwary @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com · Sep 12

I hate to say, but there are more than one kind of frog guy.

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · Sep 12

anxiously waiting 😬

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 27

Demand some fucking resignations

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6

“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

www.statnews.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Aug 27

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due.

Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.

Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · Aug 23

saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.

The Global Burden of Climate Change Study Working Group

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Lameace Hussain, PhD @lameace.bsky.social · Aug 1

🐍 Florida has 500+ invasive species!
We're studying public views on 13 of these "iconic" wildlife species ranging from herps, fish, birds, and mammals— covering your knowledge, opinions & support for management.

⏳️8–10 min confidential survey (IRB #ET00022350).

Open to all not just FL residents

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Real talk: our lab is at the cutting edge of tracking climate change-related deaths, and we have exactly $0 of external funding to do it. We're getting $0 from NIH and NSF for the next few years. If you're able to materially support our work, it keeps projects like HAL alive.

The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Jun 25

We maintain the only living database of studies that measure the present-day health impacts of climate change. Please share, and support our work if you can - elbow grease and cash both go a long way for climate-health labs right now. (8/?) www.healthattribution.org/database

Database — The Health Attribution Library

www.healthattribution.org

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Jun 25

We maintain the only living database of studies that measure the present-day health impacts of climate change. Please share, and support our work if you can - elbow grease and cash both go a long way for climate-health labs right now. (8/?) www.healthattribution.org/database

Database — The Health Attribution Library

www.healthattribution.org

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 24

CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school

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ceej @ceej.online · Jun 17

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · Jun 10

I have a PhD and can’t afford to pay for my own healthcare.

Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Jun 8

I don’t know if this will happen but if it does, I see it as an extension of this super flawed but pervasive idea that our PRIMARY (only?) identity is being a scientist and that we should do anything, go anywhere, in service of THAT identity, over all others. For many of us, that simply isn’t true

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jun 8

A prediction I have is that in 1-2 years, European scientists will start treating staying in the U.S. right now as evidence you didn’t care what was going on, as opposed to “you care about the country and wanted to try to save what’s left,” and I think when that starts I’m going to go insane

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · Jun 5

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · Jun 3

We are so back

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · Jun 3

Meme image of character Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, played by Jessica Walter, saying "Good for her". She is an older white woman with light brown hair in a bob, wearing gold jewelry and nice clothes, holding a vanilla cupcake, sitting on a couch with a lamp nearby. Her face is slightly smug and admiring.

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congratulations to
@jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social and the rest of the team on a really cool pub! This novel PCR assay majorly increases our ability to detect the invasive parasite Raillietiella orientalis in North American snakes from fecal samples and cloacal swabs.
doi.org/10.3389/famr...

Title and author list of a new publication out in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, titled "A novel PCR assay and sampling techniques for the detection of Raillietiella orientalis"

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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · May 13

Everything sucks, but I had a reviewer give respectful, pertinent feedback that will make my paper better. So. Small wins.

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