Devin Nunes sued a dragonfly and in so doing. transformed Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 into a dragon. 200,000 followers strong and growing. Well done Devin, you clever dog you. #DevinNunesIsAnIdiot #DevinNunes #DevinNunesCow

More than 20 U.S. diplomats in Cuba suffered injuries in 2017 in a series of attacks that seemed to target the brain. Now scientists are questioning the evidence about the alleged attacks. n.pr/2CztezS

There are over 10,000 species of reptile but no reports of gene editing in any of these species - until now! @arasys2 has successfully made gene knockouts in the brown anole lizard, Anolis sagrei! Check out our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you’re watching the #UCLfinal, are a ⚽️ fan, or are a fan of #polisci research on prejudice reduction, check out our new Immigration Policy Lab working paper showing how Mohamed Salah has reduced Islamophobic attitudes & behaviors with Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى Ala Alrababah علاء الربابعة Will Marble

In our new Proceedings B paper that just came out, we show that skinks living in coastal habitats disperse to new islands ~14x faster than non-coastal skinks, and made it all the way from New Guinea to Africa, Hawaii and Polynesia! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #herps #phylogeography

probably the only time anyone will ever make a meme about my #polisci research (w/ amazing coauthors Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى Ala Alrababah علاء الربابعة Will Marble) #SalahEffect #MoSalah Immigration Policy Lab Check out the paper at: tiny.cc/SalahEffect

I feel obligated to have to comment on the many news stories arguing that the “CRISPR babies will likely die young” as an interpretation of our study (nature.com/articles/s4159…). This interpretation is not valid or responsible. 1/4

Are you thinking about what are the best phylogenomic loci to capture? Just submitted a revision to MBE for a paper describing a new set of loci that we think is the best at resolving difficult nodes... Stay tuned for more on RELEC! (Rapidly Evolving Long Exon Capture) #phylo

Check out the preprint of our new manuscript-Rapidly Evolving Long Exon Capture! @toddrjackman @tony_gamble1 These new phylogenomic loci hold the highest possible phylogenetic information content while still being alignable across deep timescales. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#NewInCopeia 🐸🐜 Ant Morphology Mediates Diet Preference in a Neotropical Toad (Rhinella alata) Matthew T. McElroy & David A. Donoso Read this OPEN ACCESS paper at doi.org/10.1643/CH-18-…

This seems really cool!

Excited to have collaborated on this project on Borneo’s geckos by Hayden Davis. This is just one of the results of a lot of field work to some very remote parts of Borneo!sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

my first (and first first-author) paper with Natasha Stepanova and @MollyCWomack was accepted 🥳! stay tuned for some nifty frog skeleton science 🐸💀

Step 1: obtain all permits to capture live snake and move it around country. Step 2: airline does not want live snake on its plane. no alt ground route exists Step 3: .. convince airline to allow snakes on its plane? #fieldwork Valeria RC will persevere!

Update: snakes did go on the plane, but not in the cabin. everyone is a-ok, including the snakes!

[World Tuna Day]

A majority of the 1,000 cases of “Havana syndrome” reported to the government can be explained by environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions or stress, rather than a sustained global campaign by a foreign power, C.I.A. officials said nyti.ms/3KuYIZi

Rick Shine with best photoshop job of #SSAR2015