New paper out!📄Using museum specimens, we demonstrate that cool-adapted, high-elevation tropical frogs historically had higher pathogen prevalence in abnormally warm years.🐸🌡️
Kudos to Tamilie História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros, doi.org/10.1016/j.peco… One Health Microbiome Center Penn State Biology CIDD

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Don't have thyme to make your own valentine?

Check out our #PlantHeartArt (we've got four years of amazingly punny plant valentines) to share today!

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Hiring NSF funded #postdoc to work at the intersection of #herpetology #DiseaseEcology #FieldGenetics #phylo #popgen #bioinformatics with a focus on #chytrid and Ecuadorian #amphibians ! Start date flexible, position open until filled. Please share😀🌳🧬🐸
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/35901

Today is the second #AmphibianWeek day and the theme is: The Secret Lives of #Amphibians

Learn more about the secret lives of newts in these beautiful infographics!

Infographics in other languages below! 👇

#AmphibianWeek #FrogCollaborator #AmphibianAlly #AmphibianArt

I've always wanted to make more scientific art. Here's a demo page I did for one of my favorite creatures. #sciart #scicomm

' #Mentorship , #equity , and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic' OA paper by Dr. Mallika Nocco, me, Dr. Caitlin MacKenzie Rebecca Tonietto Dr. Joan Dudney Molly Bletz Talia Young (@FishadelphiaCsf) @SaraKuebbing Smith Fellows #AcademicTwitter #Conservation
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you Phil Bishop – we will miss you so much 🖤

It is with great sadness that we are sharing this message with you. Our friend, colleague and mentor, Professor Phil Bishop, passed away surrounded by family, around noon New Zealand time on Saturday, January 23rd, 2021.

Calling amphibian labs to participate in a round robin – please respond by 9/30 ssarherps.org/2020/09/callin…

(1/8) Every study has a story and this one is good (tl;dr: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…). In 2017, Secretary Ryan Zinke conducted review of 27 US monuments designated since 1996. A plucky group of Smith Fellows wrote an awesome public comment here: conbio.org/images/content…

So excited to read this paper on #PublicComments on Federal policy. Well done! Dr. Caitlin MacKenzie @SaraKuebbing Dr. Mallika Nocco Becky Barak Molly Bletz Smith Fellows

#BlackBotanistsWeek is coming!!
Love plants? Like plants? Grow plants? Study plants? Aspire to any of these? Join us please & share broadly.

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theblackbotanists blackgirlswithgardens… instagram.com/p/CCOiS60D9Wg/…

2021 Smith Fellows Request for Proposals announced! Deadline: 4 September 2020. Proposal guidelines: conbio.org/mini-sites/smi…

'We argue that academia must foster a culture of care, help us refocus on what is most important, and redefine excellence in teaching and research' #AcademicChatter #COVID_19 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Actually, it is also important for those with tenure and increased institutional power (RT pls!) who can lead by example and help settle the most toxic parts of academic and scientific culture during this time. Thanks for your courage in speaking out, Rebecca Tonietto!

In case you are thinking about this - the answer is:

No. You should not be doing field work right now.

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HIIII We’re looking for artists! Every year for Valentine’s Day we like to celebrate with #PlantHeartArt , plant-themed valentines, often with a planty pun. Are you an artist interested in doing an original, commissioned plant-themed valentine? (see examples here!)

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#Herpers ! My Herp class this semester will hone their #scicomm skills by writing a pop sci-style article, based on a herp journal article. We'd love to highlight YOU, so please send recent herp pubs my way, tag me, or tweet the pub with w/ #popsciherps

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