Jackson Roberts
@jackson-roberts.bsky.social
Zoology Collections Manager @ Sternberg Museum of Natural History
| Father | Husband | Herpetologist | Parasitologist | Evolutionary Biologist |
website: jacksonrroberts.com
| Father | Husband | Herpetologist | Parasitologist | Evolutionary Biologist |
website: jacksonrroberts.com
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Greetings! I am the Zoology Collections Manager at the Sternberg Museum! Here is a typical cold day in Kansas, flipping Great Plains Ratsnakes on a 32F day. Quick question: as a new(ish) PI that is new to BlueSky, what's one advice or musing for new users? Thanks, and come see us at the Sternberg!
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It’s time for ✨Prepapalooza✨!
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s time for ✨Prepapalooza✨!
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
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𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘
I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks!
Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks!
Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘
I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks!
Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks!
Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
Been missing Louisiana recently. Made a Thanksgiving leftover gluten-free smoked turkey and andouille gumbo. Would have been better with fox squirrel instead of turkey, but you work with what you got!
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Been missing Louisiana recently. Made a Thanksgiving leftover gluten-free smoked turkey and andouille gumbo. Would have been better with fox squirrel instead of turkey, but you work with what you got!
If anybody wants to get me a gift for Christmas this year, please consider this. An UNOPENED FIRST EDITION of Darwin and Wallace… only $80K GBP for an opening bid!!!
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Darwin and Wallace | On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties... , [contained in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natura...
<p><strong>Darwin, Charles and Alfred Russel Wallace</strong></p><p>"On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" [1858...
www.sothebys.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If anybody wants to get me a gift for Christmas this year, please consider this. An UNOPENED FIRST EDITION of Darwin and Wallace… only $80K GBP for an opening bid!!!
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
My daily Prozac holding my mental health like Atlas holding the world up due to all the caffeine I throw at it. Not sorry…
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My daily Prozac holding my mental health like Atlas holding the world up due to all the caffeine I throw at it. Not sorry…
Repping the extant critters with my youngest for the @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social Fossil Day Celebrations!!!
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Repping the extant critters with my youngest for the @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social Fossil Day Celebrations!!!
Really nice to see a win!
My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Really nice to see a win!
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FWIW:
This paper, which argues that Twitter is no longer a useful or widely used place for talking about research and people have mostly switched to Bluesky, has been shared:
-68 times on Twitter
-3,560 times on Bluesky
🧪
This paper, which argues that Twitter is no longer a useful or widely used place for talking about research and people have mostly switched to Bluesky, has been shared:
-68 times on Twitter
-3,560 times on Bluesky
🧪
WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
FWIW:
This paper, which argues that Twitter is no longer a useful or widely used place for talking about research and people have mostly switched to Bluesky, has been shared:
-68 times on Twitter
-3,560 times on Bluesky
🧪
This paper, which argues that Twitter is no longer a useful or widely used place for talking about research and people have mostly switched to Bluesky, has been shared:
-68 times on Twitter
-3,560 times on Bluesky
🧪
If you’re looking for a sweet project in a cool place with an awesome PI, go apply to work with @jlwilliamson.bsky.social at U. Wyoming!
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
October 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you’re looking for a sweet project in a cool place with an awesome PI, go apply to work with @jlwilliamson.bsky.social at U. Wyoming!
Saturday, I found an Eastern Hognose playing dead, with a twist. Platt (1969) wrote about hognose,"The mucous membrane lining the mouth sometimes hemorrhages and the mouth becomes bloody." Autohemorrhaging is well known in herps (Horned Lizards, Gr. Antillean Boas), but less reported in hognose.
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Saturday, I found an Eastern Hognose playing dead, with a twist. Platt (1969) wrote about hognose,"The mucous membrane lining the mouth sometimes hemorrhages and the mouth becomes bloody." Autohemorrhaging is well known in herps (Horned Lizards, Gr. Antillean Boas), but less reported in hognose.
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Staff Spotlight 🌟 Learn how Samanta Orellana, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the BI/NHM is expanding global access to insect biodiversity!
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
KU postdoc preserves history of the natural world before it disappears
research.ku.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Staff Spotlight 🌟 Learn how Samanta Orellana, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the BI/NHM is expanding global access to insect biodiversity!
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
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🎉 Join our team! 🎉
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🎉 Join our team! 🎉
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
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Happy Friday and hello from Sternberg Museum Paleontology! We are new to Bluesky and kicking off with Tylosaurus for our first #FossilFriday. Did you know Tylosaurus is one of three state fossils of Kansas? Stay tuned for more about Kansas paleontology. Follow us for the latest from the Sternberg!
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy Friday and hello from Sternberg Museum Paleontology! We are new to Bluesky and kicking off with Tylosaurus for our first #FossilFriday. Did you know Tylosaurus is one of three state fossils of Kansas? Stay tuned for more about Kansas paleontology. Follow us for the latest from the Sternberg!
When decades-old rattlesnake tissues are being problematic for whole genomes, you wear and bring all the snake things for that Sunday DNA-extraction luck ☘️
September 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When decades-old rattlesnake tissues are being problematic for whole genomes, you wear and bring all the snake things for that Sunday DNA-extraction luck ☘️
Reposted by Jackson Roberts
the FHSU makervan is at the Hays kite festival today and tomorrow, stop by and make a button or a paper rocket!
September 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the FHSU makervan is at the Hays kite festival today and tomorrow, stop by and make a button or a paper rocket!
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CW: Injured snake
We see it all on the livecam: the good, the bad, the ugly. This baby rattlesnake appears to have tangled with a predator, perhaps a bird. We haven't seen it again, so we hope it is healing up in a sheltered spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJa4...
We see it all on the livecam: the good, the bad, the ugly. This baby rattlesnake appears to have tangled with a predator, perhaps a bird. We haven't seen it again, so we hope it is healing up in a sheltered spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJa4...
Baby's Got Back... Injury
YouTube video by Project RattleCam
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
CW: Injured snake
We see it all on the livecam: the good, the bad, the ugly. This baby rattlesnake appears to have tangled with a predator, perhaps a bird. We haven't seen it again, so we hope it is healing up in a sheltered spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJa4...
We see it all on the livecam: the good, the bad, the ugly. This baby rattlesnake appears to have tangled with a predator, perhaps a bird. We haven't seen it again, so we hope it is healing up in a sheltered spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJa4...
Really have been missing Louisiana recently and the time I spent at @lsumns.bsky.social as a PhD student. And the snakes. Oh man I miss the snakes.Here's a Cottonmouth from the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (Atchafalaya Basin). I miss their attitude so much!
September 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Really have been missing Louisiana recently and the time I spent at @lsumns.bsky.social as a PhD student. And the snakes. Oh man I miss the snakes.Here's a Cottonmouth from the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (Atchafalaya Basin). I miss their attitude so much!
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A comprehensive survey of scientists across ecology, evolution, and marine science has revealed significant disruptions to federal research programs following executive branch actions that began January 20, 2025.
www.firsthandaccounts.org/home
www.firsthandaccounts.org/home
Impacts on Science
This website hosts information about the impacts of federal and state policies since January 20, 2025 on the fields of ecology, evolution, marine science, and environmental science in the USA.
Partici...
www.firsthandaccounts.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A comprehensive survey of scientists across ecology, evolution, and marine science has revealed significant disruptions to federal research programs following executive branch actions that began January 20, 2025.
www.firsthandaccounts.org/home
www.firsthandaccounts.org/home
Greetings! I am the Zoology Collections Manager at the Sternberg Museum! Here is a typical cold day in Kansas, flipping Great Plains Ratsnakes on a 32F day. Quick question: as a new(ish) PI that is new to BlueSky, what's one advice or musing for new users? Thanks, and come see us at the Sternberg!
September 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Greetings! I am the Zoology Collections Manager at the Sternberg Museum! Here is a typical cold day in Kansas, flipping Great Plains Ratsnakes on a 32F day. Quick question: as a new(ish) PI that is new to BlueSky, what's one advice or musing for new users? Thanks, and come see us at the Sternberg!