Deepak Veerappan🐢🦎🐍🐸🔬🧬🌳⛰️ 🐕🏃‍♂️✌️

Now that I have hit 2k followers, here is a California whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis) 🐍 for your #bluesky feed. We saw it in #California this summer while hiking through the #pinnaclesnationalpark. No condors but can't complain 😉 #herping #snakes

Thank you! 😊 in person only 😑

RGS Explore Weekend: Your next great journey starts here Calling all future explorers! Join our flagship exploration community gathering for its 49th edition from 31 October to 2 November in London.

Join me at #RGSExploreWeekend2025 on 31 Oct – 2 Nov, where yours truly will be talking about "Sky Islands as Natural Laboratories: field notes from Western Ghats" 🐸🦎🐍⛰️. Tickets can be booked via the RGS website 👉 www.rgs.org/explore

Next illustration of the series: lab animals
#art #digitalart #illustration

major traffic incident

And my herp pin collection grows 😀

Pacific Gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer)

Western ratsnake (Pantherophis obsoletus)

Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)

Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)

Smooth earth snake (Virginia valeriae)

California whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis

#Kentucky, Red River Gorge 1 & 2 Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) different individuals

Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)

Redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata)

I finally had a chance to go through the photos from our trip to the US last month.

Here are the snakes that we came across. They were all taken in situ; note there are some images of roadkill animals in this series.

#worldsnakeday
A beautiful copperhead from Eastern US.

#newspecies🚨 🦎 from the #easternghats of #India

A screenshot of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) website homepage

Today we celebrate the incredible biodiversity of our planet – and the power of #OpenAccess to protect it. The Biodiversity Heritage Library makes over 62 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely available to all. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #Biodiversity #BHLib

Numerous Common frog tadpoles basking in very shallow water in a garden pond.

Numerous Common frog tadpoles basking in very shallow water in a garden pond.

Numerous Common frog tadpoles basking in very shallow water in a garden pond.

Here's where things #spawnwatch were at today. Rapidly maturing #tadpoles, packed in the shallows. This is good to see and would be a commoner sight if more people let gardens go wild and built more ponds. #frogs #ponds

It was a great day to go see adders in the North Pennines. We also saw slow worms, common 🦎, many raptors, rabbits, lapwings and the famous grouse! #spring #vipers #ukwildlife

🧵 1/ New study on squamate color evolution hits the press: we show that brightness variation in lizards & snakes is strongly linked to habitat openness 🌞 This reveals how ecological pressures drive color evolution in one of the most diverse groups of tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us on squamate brain evolution! 🐍🧠🦎
@draliceclement.bsky.social @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

Here, she is on her way to a marathon

A little 🐢 named after yours truly is roaming the Spanish countryside 😃

📸 see original articles/from one of my collaborators

Slide from a forthcoming talk on 🐍🐍

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Thanks!

Year of the 🐍

Here is a beautiful red-headed krait (Bungarus flaviceps) which we saw in #Borneo last year.

Only managed to click the tail. Look it up online it is a pretty snake

We spotted a 🌚🦭 in our neighborhood 😀 #tyneRiver

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships will open for applications next week on 21 January. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more on our website: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) Sign-up/Contact Form The Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) is a new global initiative (2024) with an overarching goal of increasing both quality and quantity of lizard and snake genomic resources, as well as inc...

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎

🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬

Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful).

Sign up here:
forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

"Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining."

This issue is linked to the erosion of natural history training in general.

⚫️ 🐑 🐏 somewhere between Edinburgh and Abington

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper

When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Beautiful 🐍!