Dr Steven Allain
@stevoallain
The Pop Punk Herpetologist 🤘@AngliaRuskin, @imperialcollege, and @DICE_Kent alumni. Lover of all #amphibians and #reptiles. #FirstGeninSTEM #Ophidiomycosis
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It feels so much like nature conservation is saying goodbye to science & natural history & hello to non-science informed, publicity friendly, money-based 'solutions'? We can do so much better #greenwash
Thanks so much to my supervisors Bettine van Vuuren Krystal Tolley and Anthony J Geneva and my collaborator Jody M. Taft for all the help! My first paper from my PhD has been published today in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment peerj.com/articles/17076 #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #EvolutionaryStudies
Newly published in Conservation Letters, Dr. Georgia Ward-Fear et al. unveil a unique conservation strategy: 'teacher toads' helping monitor lizards survive adult toad invasions. A creative twist in wildlife management! 🦎🐸
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An interesting advertising campaign by the RSPCA (England & Wales) that I can get behind, but despite the messaging, every photo is of a mammal. Where is the representation for the animals that are not ‘cute and fluffy’?
The first evidence of scavenging behaviour in the alpine #newt Ichthyosaura alpestris shows the species feeding on a rodent carcass.
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What a treat! Going through the The Linnean Society of London collections to get ready for my talk on this mysterious #thylacine illustration by John Lewin - one of the very first Western depictions of these icons of #extinction . The free online event is on 14th May: members.linnean.org/events/65a368d…
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Well done snake detective Dr Steven Allain ! ARG UK Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Chris Packham Iolo Williams The Oldham Times Snake found under wheelie bin 'is not an adder' expert says theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24275953.…
'Notes on the diet of the Brown Wood Turtle, Rhinoclemmys annulata (Gray 1860), in the humid tropical rainforest of Costa Rica' by Vega (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles #Turtles
'Host-specific ectoparasitic isopod (Nerocila loveni) found on a Little Filesnake (Acrochordus granulatus) on Surwada Beach, Gujarat, India' by Patel et al. (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles #Snakes
'First record of Maskey's Burrowing Frog, Sphaerotheca maskeyi (Schleich and Anders 1998), from Bhutan' by Wangyal et al. (2024) has recently been published in #ReptilesandAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Amphibians #Frogs
'Licuri (Syagrus coronata) consumption by Salvator merianae in the Caatinga seasonally dry forest: nutritional and ecological implications' by Soares-Júnior et al. (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles
'New records of the Yucatecan Dwarf Short-tailed Snake, (Tantillita canula) Cope 1875 (Squamata: Colubridae), in Southern Mexico' by Jesús-Espinosa et al. (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles #Snakes
'Mortality of a Common House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus (Duméril and Bibron1836) due to multiple Asian Honeybee (Apis cerana) stings in Balasore, Odisha, India' by Pandey et al. (2024) has recently been published in #ReptilesandAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology
'Salinity preferences of Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) headstarts: A laboratory study' by Dahl et al. (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles #Terrapins #Turtles