Justin M. Bernstein

If you're a fan of #snakes, then check out all of the incredible talks this week through the links for Snake Week!

So proud of the student I've been mentoring, Soe, on her first publication! Check it out @HerpNotes to see some neat country level records on wolf snakes in Myanmar! herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn...

@mammalbiogeography.bsky.social

A Holocene bat colony collapse highlights the importance of hot caves in the Caribbean | Biology Letters Species loss in fragile insular communities can alter the composition and stability of local assemblages. Climate change or anthropogenic pressures are sometimes attributed to the loss of Caribbean ba...

Wondering how fossils 🦴 can tell the stories of the past? Check out our new paper on Holocene #bats in the Caribbean, and what they taught us about extinction! 🦇 Congratulations to lead @mormoops.bsky.social at the AMNH, and all collaborators royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

@stevoallain.bsky.social has some expertise in this, I believe! And published a great study in our journal Reptiles & Amphibians; they mentioned a partially axanthic Anguis, but he knows more on this than I. doi.org/10.17161/ran...

Check out our new paper embracing the heterogeneity of whole genomes for understanding evolutionary processes! And it's on #snakes! Always a plus! Huge thank you to my collaborators @bwperry.bsky.social and many more!
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I did something I thought was impossible. I cleared out my email of 11 years, 30,000 emails. Including an email from 3 years from myself with a link "how to clear your inbox and clean your email."

I'm amazed that even in torrential downpours and flash floods, these guys still manage to hang onto branches or even just sit atop leaves. Pseudogekko and Cyrtodactylus in the Philippines

Rain and flash floods really bringing out the #frogs! This Rhacophorus was nearly white a few minutes before this photo

I'm a snake guy, but I can't not post some of the other beautiful species we see here in the Philippines, like this Kaloula! Check out those toes!

Another successful symposium in the Philippines! Doing these kinds of events between field research expeditions is imperative for local communities and academics to be aware of and understand why we do what we do!

Amazing elevation and landscapes in the Philippines, and beautiful species!

We hosted a seminar day specifically discussing research and enhancing student and local community awareness on #snake #biodiversity and education in the Philippines. A major success and the start of work to come! A huge thank you to FSUU, my collaborations, and all those that attended! 🧬

Thank you so much, Maria!

Awesome work by the team for getting Editor's Choice on our paper (doi.org/10.1093/jher...) in Journal of Heredity! Was so fun co-leading with Jackson Roberts🐍#genomics

Incorporating New Datatypes to Enhance Species Delimitation: A Case Study in Rice Paddy Snakes (Homalopsidae: Hypsiscopus ) | Zootaxa

A lot of exciting genomic work in my last year, but it's also exciting to get some really fun projects with collaborators done as well! More Mud #Snake research on the rise!
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Calliophis intestinalis, a beautiful coral snake in Asia that has amazing, colorful defensive displays. Highly venomous and a master of dramatically playing dead (notice the head tilt in the photo of it completely upsidedown, showing the black and white belly). #WCH10

I'm a #snake guy, but who wouldn't be fascinated by the giant stick insects in Malaysia. But here are green snakes to compensate anyways. #WCH10 #Borneo

The #WCH10 in Borneo has been incredible. With incredible wildlife of all types. I'll post some throughout, and end it with the best part of it all, the people I've gotten to see. To start, here is this beautiful forest dragon (Gonocephalus) with it's stunning eyes

Sad to be leaving #Evol2024 early, but it's time to head to Kuching for @WCHerp #WCH10! No title slide for my talk on diversity drivers of some Southeast Asian snakes, so here is a beautiful Myrrophis that will be in the talk! Credit to Artur Tomaszek in Hong Kong for the photo

Excited to talk about our rattlesnake transcriptomics research at #Evol2024! Come check my talk out on Saturday the 27th if you're interested in hybrids and genomes!

Woohoo! Our study is finally out, providing short-read whole #genomes for 18 #snake families! 🐍🧬 . Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jhered/advan.... Great work with @Sara_and_Snakes and all of our other collaborators and Iridian Genomes.

While I work on some genomics projects, I'm really excited to have been able to contribute to this book on aquatic #snakes! Ebook (and eventually limited prints) available at: herpconservation.com/book-fundrai...

Thanks so much, Aaron! 🙏🏻

And here it is! Our study identifies both inland tectonic and environmental factors as the likely drivers of diversification in rice paddy #snakes. This contrasts from common diversification paradigms of sea-level fluctuations in Asia.
Now in Scientific Reports!
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I've just been following the followers/following those I find but it's pretty tedious 😮‍💨

After many years of collaborations, our newest paper describing poorly-studied biogeographic paradigms for Southeast Asian snakes will be published! Watch this space!

Thank you so much! I do genomics, studying ecology and evolution (snakes 🐍)

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