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krohnzone.bsky.social
@krohnzone.bsky.social
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Herpetology, conservation, genomics.

Director at Tangled Bank Conservation
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
Another edition of Herp Science Sunday with Dr. Alex Krohn (@krohnzone.bsky.social) - there’s a lot going on beneath the forest floor… www.somuchpingle.com
Episode 110: Herp Science Sunday: Nine Million Salamanders - So Much Pingle
Hello everyone!  Episode 110 features another edition of Herp Science Sunday with Dr. Alex Krohn. Alex and I had a crazy cool conversation with Dr. Evan Grant, of the Northeastern Amphibian Research a...
www.somuchpingle.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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pungkynandapratama.bsky.social
Never get bored to observe this special primate endemic to the Southern part of Sumatra. We are very lucky to see this colorful adult male Mitred Leaf Monkey (Presbytis melalophos) who enjoys eating ripe Tarap Fruits ( Artocarpus odoratissimus )
#miteredleafmonkey #leafmonkey
#wildlifephoto
February 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
krohnzone.bsky.social
Very important context here
February 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Tiny Toad!

I heard from @jencross.bsky.social were sharing these 🐸
A VERY small toad (Gulf Coast Toad young of year) sits on the fingertip of the post author. Toad was safely released.
January 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
krohnzone.bsky.social
Very curious distribution of votes the Republican wants to throw away....
triangleblogblog.bsky.social Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · Jan 18
What's that you say? A Republican would never try to cancel the votes of military members?

Think again.

Jefferson Griffin wants to toss nearly 700 of them, plus a few of family members overseas with them.

Getting these added to TheGriffinList.com soon...
January 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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mkramer.bsky.social
this is the most exciting thing that has happened to my town in a long time! 🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳
January 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
So many replies like this
An article from The Onion featuring a humorous headline about an SUV shopper's preference for safety in accidents: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident”. The image shows a smiling woman driving an SUV.
January 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
krohnzone.bsky.social
Slippery dicks and sequential hermaphrodites munching on seaweed. What's not to love?
coralcitycamera.bsky.social Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Dec 27
A slippery dick wrasse inspects a sprig of sargassum seaweed for a hidden tasty morsel while an intermediate phase (female) redband parrotfish just munches right into it #slipperydickwrasse #redbandparrotfish #coralcitycamera #miami #biscaynebay #coralcity
December 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.
A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.
December 20, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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daxkellie.bsky.social
✅ Do you use R or Python?
✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist?

Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful!

ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀

labs.ala.org.au

🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub
ALA Labs frontpage & text logo. ALA LABS text is in white, formatted as off-centre stacked text. Underneath is smaller text, "Experiments in code, data analysis & visualisation from the Atlas of Living Australia." The background is green grass with a Southern Brown Tree Frog in the middle, hanging onto the grass. It has a darker brown top and lighter brown underside. The frog's eye is a rich dark yellow, with a black pupil in the shape of an oval, stretching from the left to right side of the eye An animated scroll through an ALA Labs post, showing code, text and visuals to make a data visualisation in R. The article is on how to make a hexagon map of Australia, where each hexagon is an area of Australia, and each point in the hexagon is positioned and coloured to represent a species. Examples of dataviz that ALA Labs posts show how to make in R. They are colourful and fun. One of them is even 3D!
December 17, 2024 at 5:27 AM
krohnzone.bsky.social
A truly magnificent place. Full of incredible turtles, lizards and snakes too!
ilouque.bsky.social Irvin Louque @ilouque.bsky.social · Dec 14
For a great #naturalist experience, visit the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. Home to an endangered subspecies of Sandhill Crane, you can easily see several carnivorous plants in the longleaf pine savanna. 🌿
A grassy field with short palmettos and tall longleaf pine trees scattered against a vibrant blue sky.
December 15, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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chenxinli2.bsky.social
In addition to applied statistics, I have another repository on #DataVisualization: "quick data vis" (github.com/cxli233/Quic...). It used to be under "Online_R_learning" but now it has its own repository on GitHub. I have used this content to teach 1st year grad students for 3 years.
Table of content for "quick data vis": basics of R coding, tidy data frames, ggplot, mean separation, proportional data, heatmaps, relationship data, plot assembly.
December 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
Firschein's Salamander (Pseudoeurycea firscheini) from Veracruz state, Mexico. A male; the fleshy little nubbins at the snout's end are called cirri, and carry pheromones and other chemical signatures to the nostrils, in order to find females and locate rival males. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿
A side view of a salamander fills the image from left to right. The tail is at the right, the body pointing to the left, but the front third of the sally curves back to the right, with the face angled towards the camera. The overall color of the sally is dark gray with an overlay of very tiny light gray dots. The limbs are the same color, along with streaky blotches of a coppery orange. The tail has the same background color, but also has many irregular blotches, whitish and with some coppery orange hues here and there. The effect makes the tail resemble a lichen-spotted branch. The eyes are large and bulging from the head, and are completely black.
December 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
I posted this on John Scalzi's feed earlier so I should post it here as well. My last book, "The Field Herping Guide: Finding Amphibians and Reptiles in the Wild" was published in 2019 (you can skip the Bazillionaire middle man and order directly from the press) ugapress.org/book/9780820... #books
The Field Herping Guide
Herping is the observation of amphibians and reptiles for recreation or for the production of citizen science—the cold-blooded equivalent of birding. The F...
ugapress.org
December 12, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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ecolojolly.bsky.social
A great article highlighting the incredibly important work @chapplelab.bsky.social, @julesfarquhar.bsky.social and team are doing to improve our understanding of Australia’s data deficient skinks! 🦎

www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildl...?
Skink on the brink - Australian Geographic
These researchers gave everything to their search – and found not one, but 23 critically-endangered long sunskinks.
www.australiangeographic.com.au
December 10, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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minyaaa.bsky.social
Look at those Ceropegia ampliata flowers! Yep those are flowers, this shape is typical for this genus. Inside of the tube there're hairs growing upside down, so that once an insect gets in, it has to struggle to get out, during the struggling the flower gets pollinated. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌾🌸
December 5, 2024 at 9:47 PM
krohnzone.bsky.social
Super cool study. In its converse, makes me think a lot about what environments I'd expect outbreeding depression in translocated populations. Very thought provoking
December 6, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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seemasheth.bsky.social
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation
The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation
Abstract. Environmental heterogeneity can lead to spatially varying selection, which can, in turn, lead to local adaptation. Population genetic models have
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.

Go on girl. 😍
A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads: "SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male." This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
It's turtles all the way...over. #TurtleTuesday #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿
Photo of a still pond, with the far bank at the top third of the photo, filled with bushes and trees. In the middle of the pond is a log, running across the entire width of the photo. Perched on the log are 36 basking turtles, all in a line, most of them facing away from the camera. The photo is taken from distance, but their narrow heads and necks can be seen sticking up from their oval shells. Between the line of turtles and the far bank there is a single turtle basking on a small branch. Perhaps there is no more room on the log, or maybe this single turtle wants some alone time.
December 3, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
I retired in 2019 and started a herpetology podcast. Five seasons and 106 episodes later, I still enjoy it (though I'm glad I don't have to make a living at it). I talk with folks doing research & conservation, authors, field herpers, etc. 1/3 🧵www.somuchpingle.com #herps #herpetology 🌿
Episode 106: Herp Science Sunday with Dr. Alex Krohn and Dr. Andrew Durso - So Much Pingle
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode One Hundred and Six!  And I hope you all remain safe and healthy out there It’s Thanksgiving weekend and I want to take a moment to thank all of you out there lis...
www.somuchpingle.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
This is a fascinating read
shaylalove.bsky.social Shayla Love @shaylalove.bsky.social · Dec 2
Earlier this year, I went from Iowa to central Sardinia to write about the efforts to make American cities more like “blue zones,” the now-controversial longevity hot spots. In the @newrepublic.com:

newrepublic.com/article/1883...
The Longevity Hot Spots That Weren’t
Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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mkramer.bsky.social
have contributed to a local civic news collective for a few years. it has: increased voter turnout, broken local news stories and used humor to do so. it’s a model worth thinking about @triangleblogblog.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM