PiksteinLab🦎(Rachel Pikstein)

#PhoenixAZ GET READY for a night of CRITTERS & COMICS!
Dec.18th 6pm Broms Bug Box & Pikstein Lab bring you,
🪲Creatures of the Sonoran Desert and their comic counterparts!💬

Then 2 classes occur:
🦋Insect Taxidermy

🦉Owl~Pellet Dissection

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SKULLS, SIPS, & SCREECH OWLS
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Proceeds go towards safeguarding biodiversity & their habitats, along with sustainable practices, to ensure a thriving planet for generatiions!

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My FIRST international invitation 😍🇬🇧
England has always been a 2nd home, so honored 🥹🫶 counting the days!!!

#knowledgeispower #Herpetology

I don't know about you, but we are SSSSUPER EXCITED for Biology of Pitvipers 5 symposium at the Chiricahua Desert Museum in AZ!!
🤘🐍 🏔️🏜️ ❤️‍🔥 #Herpetology #Conservation #symposium2025 #ecology #animalbehaviour #snakes #venomoussnakes #Venom #herping

Did you know Pikstein Lab is centered on Saurology, but we also study snakes, insects, burrowing owls, air pollution, invasive species, conservation of Sonoran Desert ecosystems & the Everglades, endocrine disrupting pesticides, sustainable farming, & MUCH more⁉️👀 Check it out‼️⬇️
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#WorldSnakeDay #knowledgeispower Snakes play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance, acting as both predators and prey within food webs. They help control rodent populations, reducing disease spread and crop damage. Snake venoms are also used to develop essential medical treatments & drugs!

I just recorded 8 hours across 4 podcast/webinars over 3 days 🤯
WORTH IT ❤️🐍🎉for @snakeweek.bsky.social and it is ALL FREE to be posted here! #educationmatters!!
Visit:
✨ www.PiksteinLab.org
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Presenting a whole lot on lizards!! For the southwestern herpetologist Society, in San Bernardino County California

Presenting two posters for HERP-Fest in southern California

82 samples od tegu lizard blood to run microsatellite genetic testing on... I did it solo and it took 14, 8 hour days!!😱 At Dr Dean Williams laboratory, Texas Christian University, in Forth Worth TX.

That is poop ladies and gentlemen, 💩!!!! Burrowing owl manure preference study, Phoenix Arizona

Presentations. Symposiums. Lab work. Fieldwork. REPEAT! #phdlife

Hide and self seek

Hurry and look!!! 👀 ‼️ You don't want to miss @SnakeWeek DAY 3🎉🐍🐍🐍

A side view of a heavy-bodied snake in loose coils on the ground, head facing right. The snake's ground color is a uniform light brown, with no markings, and the underside is an even lighter brown color. The scales are smooth and shiny, and the tail at far left center is just a stubby little nubbin (natural feature). The eyes are small, the iris is brown, and the pupil is small and dark.

#SnakeWeek: A Rubber Boa (Charina bottae), from Washington State. Much of the time they are underground or under cover, pursuing rodents, lizards, etc. As a predator defense, these boas tuck their head under and wave their stubby tail (far left) as a distraction. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography🌿

Side view of a small tricolored snake stretched out in a series of loose curves, head facing right. The snake is stretched out on a flat rock surface covered with rusty orange lichen, and behind the snake is a view of some green-and-brown rocky desert scrub, with the blue Pacific Ocean visible behind, and finally on the horizon are the faint purple hills and mountains of mainland Mexico. The front half of the snake is tricolored, with alternating rings of this pattern: black-white-black-lavender-black-white-black-lavender. The lavender rings disappear about halfway down the body, leaving a simple black-white-black-white ring pattern. The head is mostly black, as are the eyes, with a white ring at the neck.

#SnakeWeek: This is Lampropeltis herrerae from Isla Santa Todos off the west coast of Baja Norte, Mexico. Essentially a Mountain Kingsnake, it was isolated from mainland populations by rising ocean levels, and now survives as a desert island kingsnake. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

A tiny Dekays Brownsnake is curled up in the palm of my hand.

Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Thia time last year I was having quite a snakey few days. Around 10:30 one night one of my kids said “hey Mama, there’s a snake in the family room” and there was this little guy.

Calendar of Events - Snake Week Snake Week is hosting a webinar series! Find out more and register here. Submit your Event Want to attend an event during Snake Week 2025?! Select 'Online' and/or 'In-Person' and then search for your ...

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YouTube video by Snake Week Snake Week 2025!

Snake Week starts now! I hope all you snake-lovers and snake-curious folks will join us for some of the bazillion events planned around the world to celebrate snakes this week. 1/4

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It's Snake Week! Follow @snakeweek.bsky.social and pre-register for these webinars now!
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@snakeweek.bsky.social is all about education, advocacy, & celebrating snakes!! Help us CELEBRATE 🎉 World Snake Day July 16th ❤️🤘during Snake Week..... by sharing, posting, and voicing some good 🐍 facts!!
#TheMoreYouKnow #Herpetology

Lol #animalbehaviour #snakes
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Quality!!!!

#SAFETYFIRST #NoApologies 😜
#venomous #ExoticAnimalCare

Voulenteer work with feathered distractions! (male Harris hawk) Wild at Heart Raptor Rescue, Cave Creek Arizona

Running microsatellite tegu lizard DNA in the genetics lab at Texas Christian University. Dr Dean Williams laboratory.

Symposium presentation

My first Arizona wild caught snake 🐍 = PURE JOY on my face for this adorable gopher snake!!

Greetings everyone✨ 1st POST!
This account is run by Rachel Pikstein, founder & lead scientist of Pikstein Laboratory for Conservation Research & Education. Our many projects are managed across the globe, from analyzing the DNA of invasive lizards 🦎🧬 to improving transrelocation success with owls!🦉