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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Excited to have two weeks of box turtle surveys scheduled for this spring with a bunch of local partners and an incredible wildlife detection dog team! These are turtle shells from just one of my sites last season! All this variation in shell pattern and color from just one site is incredible.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Back from the field! It was so busy I didn't have time to share any anole pictures!! Here are two male Anolis cooki fighting over, I guess, who owns this downed bamboo trunk? They were at this for a minimum of two hours.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

@jhancsalazar.bsky.social and I just created the official Instagram account for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Anoline Lizard Specialist Group! If you're on Instagram, please give it a follow! Username: iucn_anolis www.instagram.com/iucn_anolis?...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This has been a tough year for early career scientists including grad students. If you had a professional success this year, no matter how small, share it with us so we can celebrate with you! 🧪

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A common little cutie in San Diego! Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Does anyone have recommendations for cellular GPS tags (GPS + GSM) for box turtles? I want to be able to have the data sent to me remotely via a cellular network. Needs to weigh 20-30g or less. These would be attached to box turtle shells with epoxy.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The only native anole species in the US, Anolis carolinensis! I haven't actually caught carolinensis since I was a kid visiting the Florida Everglades with my parents, so it's been a minute! 🦎🦎🦎

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Got to assist with my labmate's urban pigeon gut microbiome research yesterday in the Bronx!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yellow-chinned anole (Anolis gundlachi) from Bosque de Carite 🤎

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

On my way to the Puerto Rico Herpetological Symposium! Excited to present some of my work on anoles and urbanization for the first time!! And also to see the talks being given by a bunch of my former students💗🦎☺️

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Had the cool opportunity to talk about lizards and turtles in Central Park for Soapbox Science today!

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Yesterday during wall lizard fieldwork, some very kind NYS Parks employees taught us how to tag monarch butterflies 😊🦋

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A large male wall lizard from today's sampling on the north fork of Long Island! Stopped for hot apple cider and cider donuts post fieldwork🦎😊

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Back to catching Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus) in NY!

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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The NYU lizard colony (@kmwinchell.bsky.social) is now one step closer to being up and running! Today we finished these 56 lizard "condos" which can individually house 224 lizards! This has been a massive effort, and we are so excited to have reached this milestone🦎 We are so close to anoles at NYU!

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Eek so cute!! Garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) near Ithaca, NY 🐍

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

One week ago, we wrapped up another successful field season in Puerto Rico! We completed the 8th season of my mark-recapture surveys for three species of Puerto Rican anole. We also added another 10 sites to our PR anole niche space project, bringing our total to 30 sites. Yay data! Yay anoles! 🦎🦎

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Although totally not important for what I actually work on, I am now very good at snagging baby iguanas out of bushes.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Managed to lasso this stunning Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva (Pholidoscelis wetmorei) yesterday! 🦎💙

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When you return from a day of urban field work to find a young crested anole just about ready to take a snooze on your door handle 🦎

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Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

super proud of lab alum Shira Linsk—featured in this story about NYU undergrads conducting "research that launched their careers". Shira completed TWO publication-worthy projects as an undergrad on #urbanecology & is headed to U Chicago for a PhD in ecology & evolution! www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The anole species I've worked with the most throughout all of my anole work: The yellow-chinned anole (Anolis gundlachi) 🦎💚

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Although this iguana should not be in Puerto Rico, I am happy it matches my nails 🙃🦎

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Find someone you look at like I look at this box turtle

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Can't believe we wrapped up our first year of box turtle surveys a little over a week ago! I miss seeing these beauties already!

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

More Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus) - this time, in the Bronx!

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Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Fun new things starting in the lab this summer as we dive deeper into the intersection of urbanization and invasion! This is an invasive wall lizard from NYC, a project being led by postdocs @annainthefield.bsky.social & @anthonysnead.bsky.social along with our summer REU students and NYU undergrads

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A male Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina). This one in particular had really beautiful yellow coloring all around his head.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We kicked off our Eastern box turtle surveys three days ago! So happy to finally have this project off the ground. Very grateful for the over 50 volunteers signed up to assist with surveys, including NYC Parks rangers, NYU, Stony Brook, Columbia, and Fordham students, and many more 🐢

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This punishes the students who earned those awards more than anything else. Absolutely terrible and corrupt.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At the end of the Angel's Landing West Rim Trail in Zion National Park. Absolutely incredible.

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

On vacation this week doing a Utah national park camping trip! 📍Capitol Reef National Park

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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Nice little dink frog (Diasporus diastema) calling love the sound track of nature at night. #amphibianweek #frog #herpetology 🧪

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Defended my PhD one year ago today 🥹🦎

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Can't wait to see these two excel in their respective careers!! And so lucky to have worked with my favorite bug girly, Shira 🦋

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Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So proud of graduating seniors Emerald Lin & Shira Linsk for both winning undergraduate research awards! @annainthefield.bsky.social did an amazing job mentoring Shira on TWO manuscripts on urban moth biodiversity! Emerald is off to work w/Audubon this summer & Shira to a PhD program this fall! 🔥🔥🔥

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Anna Thonis, PhD 🦎 @annainthefield.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

These pictures are from a few years ago, but I am SO excited to be starting up a whole project on the Italian wall lizards in Queens, Brooklyn, and on Long Island this May with @anthonysnead.bsky.social and @kmwinchell.bsky.social and some awesome undergrads 🦎☺️

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