Anuj Shinde
@anujherp.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the ANU, Canberra 🦘
Macroevolution 📈| Biogeography 🗺️ | Herpetology 🐍🦎🐸| Biodiversity Informatics 🏛️📊
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Sizing up an elephant footprint in my profile pic
Macroevolution 📈| Biogeography 🗺️ | Herpetology 🐍🦎🐸| Biodiversity Informatics 🏛️📊
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Sizing up an elephant footprint in my profile pic
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Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are called the unicorn of the sea — for obvious reasons.
This illustration by Louis A. Sargent comes from "The wild beasts of the world", v. 2 (1909), contributed to BHL by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19657038 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌊
This illustration by Louis A. Sargent comes from "The wild beasts of the world", v. 2 (1909), contributed to BHL by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19657038 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌊
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are called the unicorn of the sea — for obvious reasons.
This illustration by Louis A. Sargent comes from "The wild beasts of the world", v. 2 (1909), contributed to BHL by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19657038 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌊
This illustration by Louis A. Sargent comes from "The wild beasts of the world", v. 2 (1909), contributed to BHL by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19657038 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌊
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Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
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Did you know? The toad fly lays its eggs in an unusual place: a toad’s nostrils. When its eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the toad’s face and body. Unfortunately, this leads to the toad’s demise.
Jona263d, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jona263d, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Did you know? The toad fly lays its eggs in an unusual place: a toad’s nostrils. When its eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the toad’s face and body. Unfortunately, this leads to the toad’s demise.
Jona263d, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jona263d, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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New on global conservation science:
Empowerment is central to people-centered conservation but rarely defined or grounded in theory. A review finds rhetoric often outweighs practice & research often focuses on communities in the Global South.
Petriello et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Empowerment is central to people-centered conservation but rarely defined or grounded in theory. A review finds rhetoric often outweighs practice & research often focuses on communities in the Global South.
Petriello et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
June 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
New on global conservation science:
Empowerment is central to people-centered conservation but rarely defined or grounded in theory. A review finds rhetoric often outweighs practice & research often focuses on communities in the Global South.
Petriello et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Empowerment is central to people-centered conservation but rarely defined or grounded in theory. A review finds rhetoric often outweighs practice & research often focuses on communities in the Global South.
Petriello et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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#LatestPublicationAlert!
Nishant Narayanasamy & team from Dr @stpalli.bsky.social's lab investigated how early multicellular clusters may have overcome this diffusion barrier to facilitate nutrient transport and exponential growth.
Congratulations to the team!🎉
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nishant Narayanasamy & team from Dr @stpalli.bsky.social's lab investigated how early multicellular clusters may have overcome this diffusion barrier to facilitate nutrient transport and exponential growth.
Congratulations to the team!🎉
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast
Metabolically generated flow is an emergent mechanism that alleviates diffusion limits in macroscopic multicellular yeast.
www.science.org
June 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#LatestPublicationAlert!
Nishant Narayanasamy & team from Dr @stpalli.bsky.social's lab investigated how early multicellular clusters may have overcome this diffusion barrier to facilitate nutrient transport and exponential growth.
Congratulations to the team!🎉
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nishant Narayanasamy & team from Dr @stpalli.bsky.social's lab investigated how early multicellular clusters may have overcome this diffusion barrier to facilitate nutrient transport and exponential growth.
Congratulations to the team!🎉
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology
Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk
✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology
Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk
June 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology
Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk
✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology
Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk
Two straight sets! What an incredible game ✨
June 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Two straight sets! What an incredible game ✨
Beautiful turquoise water near Exmouth, WA last month. We were sharing the beach with this bizarre-looking Lerista skink (second photo: L. planiventralis) that had left trails all over the sand.
June 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Beautiful turquoise water near Exmouth, WA last month. We were sharing the beach with this bizarre-looking Lerista skink (second photo: L. planiventralis) that had left trails all over the sand.
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Data are everywhere…
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Data are everywhere…
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
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Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
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New species alert!
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We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:
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We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:
April 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
New species alert!
🦎🧪
We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:
🦎🧪
We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:
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New paper led by Miranda Sherlock on "Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian". In this paper we found that populations of the Seychelles #caecilian Hypogeophis rostratus would have been connected by palaeo-islands across Seychelles
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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April 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New paper led by Miranda Sherlock on "Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian". In this paper we found that populations of the Seychelles #caecilian Hypogeophis rostratus would have been connected by palaeo-islands across Seychelles
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Very happy and humbled to have received this award. A huge thanks to all my wonderful colleagues @scienceanu.bsky.social and abroad who made this possible!
April 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Very happy and humbled to have received this award. A huge thanks to all my wonderful colleagues @scienceanu.bsky.social and abroad who made this possible!
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Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush
📰Published📰 Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change🌡️
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Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change
Daniel W.A. Noble, Fonti Kar, Alex Bush, Frank Seebacher, & Shinichi Nakagawa. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology article which can be found here. Climate change causes wa…
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April 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush
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Blue azurite and green malachite from the Singing Stone!
Detail of some kind of stone (not sure, anyone know?), American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Blue azurite and green malachite from the Singing Stone!
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'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #Spring
March 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #Spring
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How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
March 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
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I don’t feel like I have anything to contribute to the conversation right now except possibly distraction by means of pretty frogs. So, here is Platypelis tuberifera. A personal favourite. 🐸💚🧪
February 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I don’t feel like I have anything to contribute to the conversation right now except possibly distraction by means of pretty frogs. So, here is Platypelis tuberifera. A personal favourite. 🐸💚🧪
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New paper out in @animalecology.bsky.social! In this study, led by Avik Banerjee, we examined the link between stress and nutrition in wild lizards. Stress levels influence nutrient retention, not dietary composition, in these colourful agamids!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Does seasonal variation in the corticosterone response affect the nutritional ecology of a free‐ranging lizard?
Corticosterone responsiveness to metabolic challenges in the wild can vary between sexes and across seasons depending on the life-history stage. Given its role in mobilizing energy, corticosterone le...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New paper out in @animalecology.bsky.social! In this study, led by Avik Banerjee, we examined the link between stress and nutrition in wild lizards. Stress levels influence nutrient retention, not dietary composition, in these colourful agamids!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Northern fungoid frogs (Hydrophylax bahuvistara) getting it on in the Western Ghats
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Northern fungoid frogs (Hydrophylax bahuvistara) getting it on in the Western Ghats
Flipping rocks in the chir pine forests of Western Himalaya led us to a Mackinnon's Wolf Snake.
It's still cold here- perhaps we were its first visitors since winter began.
It's still cold here- perhaps we were its first visitors since winter began.
February 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Flipping rocks in the chir pine forests of Western Himalaya led us to a Mackinnon's Wolf Snake.
It's still cold here- perhaps we were its first visitors since winter began.
It's still cold here- perhaps we were its first visitors since winter began.