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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · Apr 16

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

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Ivan Gomez-Mestre @igmestre.bsky.social · 26d

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

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Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 4

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.

Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

Austrospirachtha carrijoi, a species of rove beetle, with text that says: Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · Sep 2

A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Aug 31

AsoHerp is pleased to announce that after several requests from our friends around LATAM we have decided to extend the abstract submission and early fee subscription.
Please share with your colleagues and students this is the last chance for early registration.

👉🏽 www.herpcr2026.com

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Social Transfer Network @socialtransfernet.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:

Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Aug 11

La fecha se acerca!

We are so excited to welcome an amazing group of scientists that would be sharing their work with us at the conference.

Muy emocionados de tener un grupo de excelentes científicos que compartirán su trabajo con nosotros!

🐍inscríbete aqui: www.herpcr2026.com
#XIIICLH 🇨🇷

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Jul 22

Get to know our keynote speakers!
Conoce a nuestros invitados!

Inscríbete en el XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Herpetología y comparte con nosotros de estas charlas y mucho mas! 🐸

No olvides que si quieres participar en las ponencias debes enviar tu resumen antes del 31 de Agosto.🦎
#XIIICLH 🇨🇷

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Jul 14

🐸 Las inscripciones están abiertas en: www.herpcr2026.com/inscription

🐍Para participar no se olviden de enviar sus resúmenes para presentar sus trabajos herpetológicos hasta el 31 de agosto de 2025 www.herpcr2026.com/enviar-resumen

Consultas: [email protected]

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Jun 6

XIII CLH 🐸 23 al 27 feb 2026 🐍 San José, Costa Rica

La página de inscripción ya se encuentra abierta y pueden enviar resúmenes para presentar sus trabajos herpetológicos hasta el 31 de agosto de 2025.
Página web del congreso: www.herpcr2026.com

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Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin @rdtarvin.bsky.social · Apr 9

Cool new pub: No evidence of quantitative honest signaling in the poison frog D auratus academic.oup.com/cz/advance-a... out of the Saporito lab 🐸🧪🌿

nice photos of the scary 😉 defensive posture

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Asociación Herpetológica de Costa Rica @asoherpcr.bsky.social · Apr 9

📣 THE WAIT IS OVER!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the XIII Latin American Congress of Herpetology is now OPEN.

To register, we invite you to visit the following link 🐊:
www.herpcr2026.com/inscription

CLH2026
Registration and abstract submission until August 31

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Héctor Tejero @htejero.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hemos registrado por primera vez un CO2 en la atmósfera superior a 430ppm.

La última vez que esto ocurrió de forma consistente fue hace 14 millones de años.

Los primeros restos de Homo Sapiens tienen 300.000 años, los primeros del género Homo hace 2,4 Millones.

Vivimos tiempos extraordinarios

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Steve Ramm @steveramm.bsky.social · Mar 4

Do you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, seminal
fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Feb 27

Submit abstracts for the ESEB 2025 Symposium on "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" by April 25, 2025, in Barcelona. Details: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/ #conference

Call for Abstracts – ESEB 2025. Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Barcelona. Spain

eseb2025.com

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AmphibiaWeb @amphibiaweb.org · Jan 24

If you can sing, you're going to be a great taking care of the kids! Thinks female Reticulated Glassfrogs in a #AWnews highlight of Garrido-Priego et al. (2024) research. Read the news: amphibiaweb.org !

Reticulated Glassfrog guarding eggs by Jaime Culebras!

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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sending a hug, Terry.

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Raphael Viscarra Rossel @ravr19.bsky.social · Dec 26

Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Dec 19

Quietly renames “interesting papers to read in 2024” folder to “interesting papers to read in 2025” folder

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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · Dec 14

@xebernal.bsky.social @danpaluh.bsky.social @adrijeckel.bsky.social @monicaipv.bsky.social

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · Dec 10

🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...

The Waiting

Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…

vimeo.com

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Dec 10

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?

#DataVisualization

github.com/cxli233/Frie...

A figure comparing box plot and showing all data points.
Group1: normally distributed data.
Group2: bimodal data.
Group3: Data with 3 modes.

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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · Dec 4

BYOF Program
• Shifting the STM playing field: cooperation, conflict and mating system transitions | Dr. Steven Ramm
• A round-up of odd effects: epigenetic, indirect genetic, and age | Dr. Julia Schroeder
• The evolution of the placenta in livebearing fishes | Dr. Bart Pollux

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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · Dec 4

📣 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar
Mon Dec 9 @ 9am CST/4pm CET
The #SocialTransferNetwork invites you to a fun hour of talks, connections, and your favorite social fluid - whether that's a study topic like mucus, milk, or regurgitate, or a seminar beverage ☕️🧋🥛🍹
DM for link!

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