Happy to announce that I am officially starting as an U.S. National Science Foundation #PRFB . I'll be at The University of Texas at Arlington with Dr. Todd Castoe doing genomic work on hybrids of the lovely snakes below! Can't wait to expand and incorporate new collaborators, systems, and methods to my ongoing works! 🐍 🧬

If any body is traveling through west Kansas tonight or is a student/affiliate of Fort Hays State University and the Sternberg Museum of Natural History come eat some food and drink some beverages while I talk about the many uses of snakes in jars!

I’d like to take a moment to share a CT scan of my favorite specimen in the entireUMMZ - - a 100 year old mama Massasauga rattlesnake with 12 little pups perfectly coiled inside. I love her. 🐍💜. #umicheeb #ssar2024 #ctscan

I am in my happy place. Follow Project RattleCam for more incredible footage of social rattlesnakes!

Sharing my third dissertation chapter that investigates systematics and biogeography of the Sunda-Papuan Keelbacks, genus Tropidonophis. Thanks to Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society for smooth submission+revision process. Most importantly, thanks to all my amazing coauthors. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Love being able to co-first author this with my good friend Justin Bernstein and team led by Sara Ruane . We present 18 snake genomes, ALL with specimen vouchers. Excited to work more with Iridian Genomes on some Kansas 🐍🧬 in the future at Sternberg Museum of Natural History Fort Hays State University

A+ writing in this abstract "this migration included...4,100m ascent punctuated by upward bursts and pauses, resembling the acclimatization routines of human mountain climbers, and accompanied by surging blood-hemoglobin concentrations" Jessie Williamson pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Interested in 3D printable lab equipment? Check out our designs! Every like, download, and make helps get the word out on these FREE & Open Source designs Printables.com by Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @PeterPietrzyk Trevor Rife and myself printables.com/model/45750-co…

It’s finally here! After years of blood, sweat, and extreme fund-raising, my dream of bringing a rattlesnake mega-den to people has come true. Project RattleCam is now streaming LIVE at RattleCam.org! 1/8

Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀 More about Jonathan: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-fa…

Time for a break. Remember that snakes are better than people, and it isn’t close.

Researchers have discovered a new distinctive and secretive #snake species in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, dubbing it “the missing piece of the puzzle” as it fills a large distribution gap for its genus. 🐍🇸🇦 🔗 Read about it on the Pensoft blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/05/30/sna…

Dear iNaturalist users, don’t change people’s id’s if your only change is switching the record to a subspecies within the species that the entry is already ID. Thanks.

Happy #WorldSnakeDay ! 🐍 Good time to announce that we have a whole day symposium on snakes at the #WCH10 #Borneo. There are lots of exciting talks. I'm looking forward to it. Image: Olive keelback from the east coast of India

We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting. Please help share this ad: toddlab.ucdavis.edu/opportunities.…

Check out our recent paper on the origin/evolution of a diverse snake group called Elapoidea doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… which got excellent press coverage! Live Science: tinyurl.com/zc7etdy9 Science News: tinyurl.com/3em2s5mm #snake #evolution KU Natural History Museum Research at KU American Museum of Natural History

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! mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Ah yes, because if there is anything we know about undecided voters, it's that they are notoriously high information voters who hover over every minute detail when weighing the candidates.

Celebrating the 300,000th herp specimen catalogued (MVZ:Herp:300000) at Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) coffee today ❤️❤️🐸🐸 it was a Rana sierrae collected by Vredenburg Lab