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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️

@taricha-rivularis.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley | Newts, toxins, and gay frogs! She/They ✨🏳️‍⚧️🐸🏳️‍⚧️✨

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jan 5

This is a link to an earlier version of the Gay Frogs Talk that I gave at SSAR this summer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7S...

Herpetology and queer internet culture

YouTube video by Kannon Pearson

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Grant Daniel @gdwildlife.bsky.social · 15d

Had an awesome time doing work on Taricha granulosa (Rough-skinned Newt) and Taricha torosa (California Newt) last Sunday.

Thank you to the ever amazing Kannon Pearson @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social for leading this and having me on to work on this research. The world is an amazing place.

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tragic Slip and Recumbent Bliss for my orzhov babes 🖤🤍

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Sep 2

somehow, fire lizard also works!
🦎🔥

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yearning always for salamander emoji. The best I can do is lizard-shaped-amphibian: 🦎🐸

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am doing a Q&A with @skypeascientist.bsky.social tomorrow at 10am PST! RSVP here if you want to interrogate me about newts and their poisons 🦎🐸🧪☠️: givebutter.com/2yhDvr

Newts

With Kannon Pearson

givebutter.com

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 22

Drew some owls at the @mvzucb.bsky.social art night!

#art #museum #specimen

A red marker drawing of a northern hawk owl. The caption says “resting branch face”

Green market drawing of a Great Horned Owl. The caption says “Birdie Sanders”

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 18

MYEHP

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 18

i'm thinking water/grass dual type

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 18

myeep

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · Jul 17

You need newt squeaks today. Refusing them is not an option.

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

It's pretty rare to hear, but newts can vocalize. Listen to this lil guy squeak at me!

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 18

Mandatory squeakage

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

The authors think the squeaks are to startle predators. They whistle (quietly) when touched on the back. And they click when exploring or defending a nice rock from other newts who might try to sit there instead 😠

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

There isn't much research in this area, but newts are thought to make three sounds: squeaks, whistles, and chirps!

I highly recommend this adorable article on their sounds: www.jstor.org/stable/38915...

Sounds Produced by the California Newt, Taricha Torosa on JSTOR

James R. Davis, Bayard H. Brattstrom, Sounds Produced by the California Newt, Taricha Torosa, Herpetologica, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 409-412

www.jstor.org

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

It's pretty rare to hear, but newts can vocalize. Listen to this lil guy squeak at me!

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

the award would automatically go to whoever applied closest to the deadline

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

I would love for there to be a real Gay and Struggling Fellowship for travel to herpetology conferences. The application would have two yes/no questions:
1. Are you gay?
2. Are you struggling?

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Jul 17

At the end of my #JMIH25 presentation, I thanked the Carl Gans Travelling Fellowship for funding my attendance. The auto-generated caption software heard something VERY different ☠️🏳️‍🌈

The bottom corner of Kannon's presentation slide showing the autogenerated caption "I'd like to thank my funding sources"

The bottom corner of Kannon's presentation slide showing the autogenerated caption "in particular, the gay and struggling fellowship"

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 25

All I want is a cute in-situ photo, is that too much to ask?? 😩

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 24

I put him there for a pic and he was not having it. He plodded off unharmed (it was only a 5in fall) and I decided he wasn’t worth the trouble to photograph. Silly lad

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 24

A rough skinned newt falling off a log. He did Not want to stay for a photo

A blurry image of a rough skinned newt falling off a log a log

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 12

I drew a desert tortoise shell for the @mvzucb.bsky.social specimen art night! You can see the accession number on some of the scutes and exposed bones

#sciart #illustration #art #museum

A desert tortoise shell sits on a cardboard box on a table. There is a colored pencil illustration of it in the foregrou d

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 8

Aw thanks!

Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 7

Some #art for a friend inspired by @mouseguard.bsky.social! They requested a giant mouse barbarian. I based the character on Petter's mouse, a very big species from Madagascar known from just one specimen! I also included an eastern falanouc teeth and skull, tho the species ranges don't rly overlap

A colored-pencil and ink illustration of a large mouse standing on its hind limbs. It is wearing a green cloak. In one hand is a long halberd and in the other is the tooth of a Falanouc — a Malagasy carnivore. A Falanouc skull and mandible are in the background, along with some Malagasy plants and fungi

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 3

A long (5ft) and lovely Sonoran gopher #snake (Pituophis catenifer affinis) that I saw in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last week!

#photography #herpetology

A long yellow snake with orangey saddle patches rests in the dappled sun atop a rock

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Kannon Pearson 🏳️‍⚧️ @taricha-rivularis.bsky.social · Apr 2

A bit belated, but happy trans day of visibility to those who celebrate! I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to exist and be visible as a trans person in professional, personal, and fieldwork settings. Thought it would be fun to share a pic of each!

Kannon holding a newt during a field expedition in San Mateo

Kannon dressed up for a night out: red dragon tshirt, makeup, and ripped jeans

Kannon giving a talk on queerness and herpetology. The slide shows a meme that says: “Inside of you are two frogs. One wants long flowing hair. One wants a shaved head. You are nonbinary.”

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