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...

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

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

Very important context here

A VERY small toad (Gulf Coast Toad young of year) sits on the fingertip of the post author. Toad was safely released.

Tiny Toad!

I heard from @jencross.bsky.social were sharing these 🐸

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.

Very curious distribution of votes the Republican wants to throw away....

Rent bikes and do some eating/playing/biking along the beltline

this is the most exciting thing that has happened to my town in a long time! 🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳

Definitely. I was really shocked by their repertoire. A colorful photo requires either a large combination of stealth and patience

Agamid color change is really nuts! Not something I've ever seen in our phrynosomatids

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.

So many replies like this

Slippery dicks and sequential hermaphrodites munching on seaweed. What's not to love?

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.

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

Not just any kit fox, a San Joaquin kit fox! Pretty special find!

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!

✅ 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

A truly magnificent place. Full of incredible turtles, lizards and snakes too!

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.

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.

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 🌿

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...

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

Skink on the brink - Australian Geographic These researchers gave everything to their search – and found not one, but 23 critically-endangered long sunskinks.

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...?

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 🧪🌾🌸

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

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

The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation

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.

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. 😍

I will bring the champagne!

Thanks for this great reporting. I live next to the train track that delivers coal to UNC twice weekly. I thought it would be easier to replace the coal with solar panels on every building until I read your article. I appreciate the detailed explanation

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.

It's turtles all the way...over. #TurtleTuesday #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

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...

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 🌿

This is a fascinating read

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