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Anthony Herrel

@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
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Researcher, anatomist and animal enthusiast

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 05/06/2026
An infraslow physiological rhythm governs the sleep of reptiles. Researchers analysed brain, physiological and behavioural variations during sleep in reptiles, birds, and mammals, in a bid to elucidate the evolution of sleep, and some of its mysteries. 💤🌙
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Sleeping in cold blood
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ISVM @isvmorph.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🍁ICVM2027 Logo Competition🍁 We are excited to launch the logo competition for ICVM2027, 20–24 July 2027, in Halifax, Canada. Members of the ICVM community are invited to submit logo designs inspired by vertebrate morphology and the spirit of Atlantic Canada. 🖌️ Details: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2027
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ICVM-2027 | ISVM
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ISVM @isvmorph.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📢 ICVM2027 Call for Proposals! ICVM2027 (Halifax, Canada; 20–24 July 2027) is now accepting: 🔹 Symposium proposals www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/abstrac... 🔹 Workshop proposals www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/abstrac... 📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
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ICVM 2027 Symposium Submission
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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Paper Alert🚨🦎 Ever wondered how variation in life cycles fosters the feeding musculature in Caudata? Check out the first paper by Morgane Taillades! Many thanks to @morganefo.bsky.social @vivienl.bsky.social @anthony-herrel.bsky.social I.Toussaint-Lardé, M. Mandica academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
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Impact of life cycle variation on feeding system musculature in Caudata
Abstract. Caudata (salamanders and newts) exhibit considerable diversity in terms of ecology, life cycle, morphology, and behavior, ranging from species wi
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
And the local tree frog Hyla arborea sarda
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
And another endemic from Corsica and Sardinia… Podarcis tiliguerta
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Very happy to see this little guy again in Corsica … Algyroides fitzingeri
Picture of an Algyroides fitzingeri
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Antoine Bergel @antbergel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Merci a Sarah-Lou Lepers du podcast Tangram de @psl-univ.bsky.social d'etre venue nous interroger au @mnhn.fr avec @anthony-herrel.bsky.social pour parler de respiration et du sommeil des reptiles🦎 !! Lien vers l'episode: podcast.ausha.co/tangram/ce-q...
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Ce que la respiration révèle de nous | Tangram | Ausha
Respirer, c’est automatique. Mais si le souffle permettait de comprendre le cerveau, la santé… et même d'apprécier l’art ? Dans cet épisode de Tangram, la respiration devient un terrain d’exploration ...
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Had a project meeting in London but had time to quickly visit Dana Fiona Armour’s installation at Somerset house in London.. snakes, climate change and art.
Video of an art installation in London
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Feel privileged to have been working with these amazing animals at Butantan Thanks to Carlos Jared !!
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Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Island Biology 2026 - Registration & Key Information
Registration & Key Information
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Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
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UAntwerp FunMorph @uafunmorph.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
By integrating evidence from #mammals 🦁, #fish 🐟, #amphibians 🐸, #reptiles 🦎, and #birds 🐦, this paper highlights broader evolutionary patterns and provides a clearer comparative framework that facilitates interpretation of future results. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Exciting news! 🚨🎉 On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field! 🐜🐝🐞 📈📉📊
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Are Darwin's finches affected by climate change? Time-series analyses of beak and body traits, precipitation and temperature show finches are a resilient system, responding mainly to short-term weather variation rather than to long-term climate change: Carrión et al. (2025) doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Darwin’s finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system
Abstract. Climate change is known to influence biodiversity worldwide, with changes in organismal traits observed in many populations and species. Such eff
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 15/01/2026
The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newton-inte…
Dr. Alice Gauthey, a Newton International Fellow, standing in a forest, smiling at the camera and holding a leaf. A quote about establishing early-career research independence appears next to her, attributed to her and mentioning The Royal Society: "I wanted to establish greater independence as an early-career researcher. The Newton International Fellowship provided both the time and the resources to develop a strong research portfolio."
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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Please RT to share the word! 🧪
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Catherine Williams @cjaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... doi.org/10.1002/adfm...
A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray  fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.
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Kiisa Nishikawa @kiisa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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Alice Leavey @leaveylab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
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3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring-breeding #amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #climatechange #phenology #frogs @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
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Al Evans @drteethal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
How do we capture fast and furious snake bites? High-speed video with 3D reconstruction, all at 1000 frames per second! @monashbiol.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social
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Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Evolutionary consequences of extreme climate events
Simon Baeckens and Colin Donihue review case studies of rapid evolutionary change in response to extreme climate events and sketch a framework for future studies in the rapidly changing climate of the...
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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
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Des chauves-souris et Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères
Le swarming : quand les chauves-souris femelles choisissent leur partenaire Les brèves du jour  Grande invitée : Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères au Muséum dʹhistoire naturelle
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all) Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687...
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social Check it out!
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Really cool paper by my collaborators!
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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨 Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Deadline for abstracts today
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great paper by Yuri Simone @scorpyuri.bsky.social on trade offs in scorpions.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Vertebrate morphology writ large is welcome for abstracts: anatomy of various body systems: absolutely! biomechanics: yes! development/evo-devo: indeed! palaeontology: please! morphometrics: yes! methods-focused: sure! morphology-related science (genetics, ecology, behaviour, etc.): affirmative!
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Again, we're running the 1st ever virtual international conference on vertebrate morphology (ICVM) this August 7-10: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025 Abstracts are due 26 May (12 days)! Of course you can just register and not submit abstract(s). ~3 days of great talks, posters, keynotes and more!
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Scientific illustrators, palaeo-artists, etc.: you're damn right you're welcome to attend! Palaeo/physical anthology: you'd better believe you're welcome!
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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement. Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg
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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Paper alert 🚨 Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 14/04/2025
Dans un article de #Sciences_et_Avenir paru le 11/04/2025, @audelalis.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et Anthony Herrel @mecadev.bsky.social sont interviewés sur les stratégies adaptatives des organismes vivants. "Survivre dans le désert ...." ▶️ www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo...
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Survivre dans le désert : les étonnantes stratégies d'adaptation des animaux et des plantes en milieu hostile
Les déserts, hostiles à la vie, abritent une richesse d’espèces surprenante. Du froid polaire à la chaleur étouffante des déserts chauds, une quantité de stratégies adaptatives s’est développée chez c...
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#Parasite load, throat colors, and cellular immune response in a high-altitude #gecko endemic to #Morocco zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #coloration
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Two #fox species in NE #Argentina show high dietary overlap despite varied habitats, revealing a noncompetitive coexistence zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Canidae #mesocarnivore #sympatry
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
When I saw this awesome study by @tajbakhshlab.bsky.social, @chrmosimann.bsky.social, & colleagues a few months ago, I just knew I had to write about it for HWTAS! Check out our non-scientist friendly coverage of their work below. 🧪 #scicomm
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Journal of Zoology is now on Bluesky! Follow us to discover what we've published recently in our scientific journal covering all areas of #zoology - and find out more about us at zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1469... @zslscience.bsky.social
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Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Looks like my animals are doing ok.
Pair of Pipa parva in amplexus.
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Marion Segall @marionsegall.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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Maïtena Dumont @maitenadumont.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We are recruiting a PhD (2025-2028) in our laboratory GPM in Rouen (Normandy, France) on study of fish teeth structure, pigmentation and mechanical properties. More infos in the link below. gpm.univ-rouen.fr/fr/node/356
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 02/04/2025
L'exposition "Déserts" ouvre ses portes aujourd'hui au @mnhn.fr Découvrez les milieux les + extrêmes de notre planète et les incroyables stratégies d’adaptation du vivant. @audelalis.bsky.social et Denis Larpin @isyeb.mnhn.fr commissaires scientifiques de cette expo www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMl...
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Exposition "Déserts" - Bande-annonce
YouTube video by Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
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CNRS Écologie & Environnement @cnrsecologie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#RésultatScientifique🔎 Une étude publiée dans l'American Journal of Primatology, menée par l'ISEM et le MECADEV, documente les déplacements nocturnes du kinkajou dans les arbres yayamadou en Guyane, comparés à ceux de deux primates diurnes. ▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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Tropical Ecology @tropicalecology.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Just published ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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