Rayna Bell

Map of Bioko Island with photos of male (Phase J, green) and female (Phase F, orange) forest reed frogs (Hyperolius tuberculatus) and the crater lake habitats at which the study was conducted.

A project that started during my PhD: why is the Forest Reed Frog (and #reedfrogs in general) sexually #dichromatic. More questions than answers but it looks like sexual niche partitioning is not the explanation 🐸🏝️🎨 big thank you to my coauthors for their patience! academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

Science Illustration Internship A paid internship in science illustration working with a scientist mentor.

Excited to host a #ScientificIllustration #intern this summer @calacademy.bsky.social! Applications are due Jan 31st but we won't begin application review for a couple more weeks so if you're interested in applying and can't meet the deadline please reach out! www.calacademy.org/biological-i...

Call for applications: Metallinou Postdoctoral Travel Award The SSAR is pleased to announce that it will continue to support postdoctoral fellows to attend and present their research at SSAR’s annual meetings and meet and interact with leaders in the field.…

Attention 🐸🦎🐍🐢🐊 postdocs! If you are planning to attend #JMIH2025 consider applying for the Metallinou Postdoctoral Travel Award due March 28 ssarherps.org/2025/01/meta... #herp #conference

Championing queer scientists of colour: ‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’ Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.

This is one of my awesome colleagues at the California Academy of Sciences! @arachnologynerd.bsky.social @calacademy.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are great and don't break the bank! The trade-off with dry-bag packs is it's not easy to get in and grab stuff, so I like that this one comes with a mini dry bag you can clip on and an external zipper compartment www.amazon.com/IDRYBAG-Wate...

Phylogeny of Guadeloupe's endemic Eleutherodactylus (E. barlagnei and E. pinchoni)

First lab publication of 2025: Diversification in #Guadeloupe #endemic #frogs along the slopes of an active volcano 🏝️🐸🧬🌋 #openaccess academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Funded #PhD opportunity to join the #frogvision team! Open to all nationalities, application deadline 20 Jan 🐸👀🧬
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/div...

Ayanna Browne poses with her graduate committee (Dr. Lauren Esposito, Dr. Rayna Bell and Dr. Michael Yuan). A slide from her seminar presentation is in the background with an illustration of two anole species and the expected results of her analyses: 1. individuals will be grouped by island 2. anoles on islands in closer proximity to one another will be more genetically similar.

Big congratulations to #Islands2030 graduate student Ayanna Browne on a successful defense of her masters on population genomic structure in five #endemic species of #anoles across the Anguilla, Barbuda, and St. Kitts island banks in the Lesser Antilles 🤗🦎🏝️🧬 super proud of all her hard work!