Learn some amazing facts about the Spring Salamander in this video from SEPARC co-chair Robert Hill! #AmphibianWeek Pt. 1 here:

How bad is the California drought and what is it doing to wildlife? A Mojave Desert Tortoise shows the consequences of dry winter & current Extreme Drought (D3). Notice how dark and concentrated its urine is. Handled w/ permits, rehydrated, & number erased before release.

First day of field work! Just scouting sites but feels good to be back outside.

🚨PhD position available in my new lab at Vetmeduni's #KLIVV! 🚨 More info: bibianarojas.co/news/ DL: June 24th Please RT!

Always exciting when a familiar name is in the news and I loved listening to this Short Wave episode with @altizer_sonia Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) npr.org/2021/06/11/100…. Despite being a current student at UF, #GoDawgs 😉🐶🐊

Happy 70th anniversary to the Savannah River Ecology Lab UGA SREL Interesting to see the historical footage and some familiar faces from the more recent years as well! Plus the gopher tortoises made the cut :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJ9tm…

Now available: a Conservation Action Plan (CAP) for the Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus) Species Complex! Check it out via the SEPARC website here: separc.org/products#/cons…

Know a high school student interested in #herpetology? Please direct them to SSAR Pre-College and Founders Fellow programs. Expanded opportunities to explore the field and careers. Please share. Questions can be directed to me.

If #16 UGA can pay a $29,450 minimum, why can't #5 UF? #topfivepay

#SummerofSalamanders2 My lab will be hiring 2-4 summer field technicians studying effects of hemlock management on terrestrial + aquatic salamanders + aquatic macroinvertebrates. Details at link below. Review of applications begins March 23. Please share. ugajobsearch.com/postings/248630

We currently include 85 universities, but are still missing many states! Find out more information here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/BiologyP…

Published the second chapter of my MS thesis on gopher tortoise health following translocation. Good to see that this population in South Carolina appears to be doing well! 🐢track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=K6…

“There’s a ‘whole science behind climbing up the rankings’ that leads to misplaced priorities, Cardona said.”

So glad esri released arc pro. It’s hard to believe but I think it crashes even faster than arc map did.

Looking for a good way to name your drafts instead of "final1", "final2", "finalfinal4"? Consider the goblin to goddess ranking scale, created by our writing group! My dissertation chapters stand at: 1 Athena (in review at a journal), 1 Hestia, 1 Robin and 1 Orc

Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.

PhD student UC Berkeley Gabriel Trujillo was killed while collecting plant samples 🌱 in Mexico. We need the Mexican government to fully investigate and get justice for Gabriel and his family, and for all researchers who are targeted while doing fieldwork. (1/2)

Is there something like a Yelp for wildlife gear? Much of the technical gear I’ve had to buy for fieldwork doesn’t have reviews or is reviewed for a very different purpose. I ask around, but it’s often hard to find someone who has used the item you plan to for the same purpose.

�Sign and share this urgent petition calling for a #CeasefireNow in Gaza and Israel - Sign the Petition! chng.it/yXBFN2vP via Change.org

Hot off the press, the second volume of Islands and Snakes (edited by UF Department of Biology Emeritus Prof Harvey Lillywhite & Marcio Martins) is out, with our chapter on invasive 🐍 on 🏝️ led by the incredible and peerless Dr. Natalie Claunch! UF IFAS Wildlife