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Jenna Crowe-Riddell
@jcroweriddell.bsky.social
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ARC DECRA fellow at Adelaide Uni. Evolution of reptile brains and senses 🦎🐍 🧠 👁️👃sea snake enthusiast 🌊🐍 former #Fulbright scholar
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Alice Leavey @leaveylab.bsky.social · 10h
Happy World Anatomy Day! 🦎

What better way to celebrate than announcing our veiled chameleon head atlas! This includes an awesome collection of 3D models - skull (with sutures!), jaw and tongue muscles, and the brain - plus lesson plans for your next anatomy practical! ✨️ Links below ✨️
Chameleon anatomy - A 3D model collection by The Leavey Lab (@aleavey)
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilising contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the ...
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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 3d
Data available upon request
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d
"The chancellor approved it"
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 4d
Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸
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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 4d
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 11d
A new Jurassic fossil from Scotland, Breugnathair elgolensis, shows a combination of snake-like jaws and teeth with a lizard-like body and limbs, providing direct evidence of diverse squamate traits early in their history.
#Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws
A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, python-s...
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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 8d
Phoresis is the name for when one organism attaches to another for the purpose of travel, and pea clams (Sphaeriidae) are masters of it. They attach to birds, fish, salamanders, and even aquatic insects like dragonflies or water boatmen to get a ride upstream. Ride on, little clams! (293)
Figure from Zelaya and Marinone 2012 showing a reservoir in Bolivia, where an unfortunate water boatman was found with two pea clams clamped onto its little claws. A pea clam is shown, 4 mm long or so. A close up of a claw, and a chip on the shell from where the boatman tried to kick off its hitchhiker, and also a piece of the leg stuck in the clammed-up bivalve gill
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · 9d
Mulla Mulla in Exmouth, WA
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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 21d
major traffic incident
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · 27d
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Dr. Karly E. Cohen @karlycohen.bsky.social · Sep 4
New paper is officially out!
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.

www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
This common fish has an uncommon feature: forehead teeth, used for mating
New findings call into question one of the core assumptions about teeth. Adult male spotted ratfish, a shark-like species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, have rows of teeth on top of their heads,...
www.washington.edu
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Sep 10
Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · Aug 18
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Aug 18
The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions
This Superpooper Seabird Is Amazing Scientists
The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Aug 18
The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions
This Superpooper Seabird Is Amazing Scientists
The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions
www.scientificamerican.com
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 26
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
www.uni-bielefeld.de
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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · Jul 25
This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky
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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · Jul 22
A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Careers At Field Museum
Position Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology FLSA Status Exempt Department Negaunee Integrative Research Center Our Mission Since the 1893 World Columbian Exposition our organization has aimed...
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · Jul 6
Drosera whittakeri at Belair National Park (Photo by Vhon Garcia)
A small carnivorous plant with dew drops growing among the leaf litter
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Jul 4
The @albomp.bsky.social gov is very aware of the massive marine heatwave & its impacts on marine ecosystems—they just don't care

Labor refuses funds to fight SA toxic bloom

"the call for funding was rejected, as was a request for a meeting with the minister"

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Image of an article in the Financial Review by Phil Coorey titled 'Labor refuses funds to fight SA toxic bloom'
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · Jun 25
Now for something completely different...scanning subterranean beetle brains at the Australian Synchrotron 🪲🧠🚦
Computer screen displaying a 3D beetle microCT scan
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · Jun 24
Wow congrats Perry that's awesome!!!
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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · May 30
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · May 30
Me too!! We should chat!
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · May 28
I was gunna guess snake too but the olfactory bulbs aren't quite right. Cerebellum is very interesting for a limbless non climber. Does it swim through the leaf litter?
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · May 20
I love them 😅
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Jenna Crowe-Riddell @jcroweriddell.bsky.social · May 20
So weird!!
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