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Ariel Kahrl

@arielkahrl.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Hamilton College studying amphibian reproduction and sperm morphology. Ask me anything about sperm evolution! 〰️⚪

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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone know of a cheap (and quick) way to make mini-treadmills? My physiology class wants to look at the effect of exercise on metabolic rates in cockroaches. So far, our best idea is to 3D print a wheel with a handle that we can turn at a consistent speed. Help me make their dreams come true 😅 🪳
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A reminder that Hamilton is hiring an Evolutionary Ecologist this fall! Deadline is Oct 1! A note: Evolutionary Ecologist is broad, and we are happy to see applications from Evolutionary biologists as well (main teaching course is upper level Evolution lect/lab). Feel free to touch base with Qs!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I feel so lucky to have great students, who are just as into frogs as I am. Check out this highlight featuring the work our lab is doing this summer ❤️🐸❤️ www.hamilton.edu/news/stories...
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News - When the Frogs Start Calling, the Research Begins - Hamilton College
Assistant Professor of Biology Ariel Kahrl and four students, Austin Tubia ’27, Alden Duserick ’27, Andrea Hernandez Ramirez ’27, and Madison Kob ’28, are investigating amphibian fertility by studying...
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SICB DEE @sicb-dee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Welcome to the official Bluesky of the Division of #Ecology & #Evolution in #SICB! 🌎🌊🫆 Follow us for research highlights, division news, opportunities, and conference updates!📢 Anything exciting to share? Send us a DM! 📩 Also join us on Instagram and LinkedIn!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fluorescently stained D. ochropheaus spermatophore! Heads are in red, rest of cell is green.
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Please help us collect data on the experience of working at a PUI for our editorial!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Amazing visit at UF to collect amphibian testes from the Natural History museum and give a seminar. Met amazing people and met some amazing specimen. Lacking pics of people but here are some of my fav critters that I sampled! Special thanks to Dave Blackburn and Coleman Sheehy for all their help! 🐸
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
IOB's #Frog week -Tuesday spotlight on Relationships between Pre- and Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green Frogs (Lithobates clamitans) Girard , Clark , @arielkahrl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/iob/... & read www.hamilton.edu/news/story/k... #morphology #amphibians #science
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Super proud of Andrea! Check out her recent highlight of our lab for world frog day 🐸
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Another beautiful testis specimen on the SEM! This time Leptodactylus boliviana. You can see the broad undulating membranes (the wavy bits) stacked together in the sperm bundles 🤯
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Rhacophorus nigropalmatus testes sections from a museum specimen collected in 1980! The sperm have fantastic structural integrity after almost 50 years 🤯 Also, check out those curly sperm heads!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Nothing is better than a good night of herping! Spotted salamanders, wood frogs, spring peepers, green frogs, eastern spotted newts and redbacks all out and partying while the weather was warm.
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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Boy do I love phase images of salamander sperm 🌈 Pictured: Bolitoglossa peruviana
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Highly recommend the Book of Frogs. It was an excellent read, and is accessible and interesting to folks at all levels! 🐸
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Sunday #book review by IOB author @arielkahrl.bsky.social The Book of Frogs, second edition” by O’Shea & Halliday is a perfect resource for someone who wants an up-to-date, detailed, & engaging introduction to the natural history, #taxonomy, & diversity of #frogs..." iobopen.com/2026/01/25/t...
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Still We Rise @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sperm in spaaaaacccceee 🧑‍🚀 (MitoView green staining some green frog sperm to measure midpiece volume and playing with our confocal).
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It me.
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Some beautiful TEMs of Rhinella marina flagella cross-sections! Axonemes on the left, connected with a membrane to axial fibers on the right (black teardrop shapes).
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 08/01/2026
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
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Steve Ramm @steveramm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Join us in Brittany? One week left to apply for this postdoc position deciphering the mysteries of inbreeding depression...
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Love the photo booth at #SICB2026!
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Thanks so much for sharing this @arielkahrl.bsky.social We are proud for you all🙌 & we hope no one at #SICB2026 missed your own co authored IOB work doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So proud of team frog sperm representing at #SICB2026! 🐸
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Off to #SICB2026! Come check out the work from my lab: Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students! See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Our first TEMs of frog sperm rolling in! This species of Chiromantis has a flagellum with two axonemes surrounded by microtubles. Frogs are so weird! 🐸
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A side quest/future project of mine is to figure out what the axial fiber in amphibian sperm tails is made of. Maybe the same material that makes up the fibrous sheath of mammal sperm? These SEMs show an intact cell and one where the cell membrane is lost revealing the protein structure of the fiber
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
IOB co-author Maxwell Girard is a Masters Student at the University of Helsinki. His research focused on identifying trade offs within the traits involved in sexual selection. He's excited to present his results, along with his co-authors, in IOB: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #biology #amphibians
Maxwell Girard is a Masters Student at the University of Helsinki in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programme. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with honors from Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) in 2024 where he studied amphibian reproduction in the herpetology research lab. His research focused on identifying trade offs within the traits involved in sexual selection. He is very excited to present his results, along with his co-authors, in IOB.
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
IOB "These results suggest that males must make complex investments in suites of sexual traits to maximize fitness in the face of energetic trade-offs..." Relationships between Pre- & Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green #Frogs Girard et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Another highlight of Max and Charlotte's project! 🐸
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is the first paper to originate from my lab and include Hamilton undergraduates! So proud of the hard work they put into this paper 🐸
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Thrilled to be at the @nhm.org collecting testis from frogs this week. We are hopeful that these museum specimens will allow us to look at the ultrastructure of sperm in a diverse set of frogs with different fertilization modes (pictured is a foam nesting flying frog with giant balls!)
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Utica turning up for #NoKings!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New amphibian gifts to add to my menagerie
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The first batch of wall of famers! ⚪〰️
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The male green frogs just started calling tonight. Where did I find the females? Sitting in the grass, avoiding them 😅
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Congratulations seniors! So proud of all of you! 🐸 #hamiltoncollege2025
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 18/05/2025
Celebrating six months 🥳
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/05/2025
Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Developing a new course with a friend in Sociology to combine our knowledge about sex and gender from biological and sociological perspectives. If you teach a course like this I would love to hear from you!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I can't beat @lizardmichele.bsky.social description of this new paper, so I won't try! 😅
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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New paper alert! 🦎 Lizard sperm come in many varieties. Is that due to testicular properties? Only yes, we concluded With phylogeny included Because sperm and testes evolve neutrally. See the full story w @arielkahrl.bsky.social, Hannah Hall, Bela Carson in Biol J Linn Soc: doi.org/10.1093/biol...
Image of an Anolis testis cross-section underneath a 1 mm × 1 mm grid. The callout box highlights a trace of a seminiferous tubule and its lumen, and a closer look at the cell types identified under each grid point (lumen, epithelial, or interstitial space).
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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SICB PUI @sicb-pui.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We had a fabulous turnout for our mentoring villages at @sicb.bsky.social this year! Thanks so much to all of the mentees who came out, and to the mentors who volunteered their time to give insight and advice. It does indeed take a village!
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
ISO advice for video monitoring! I am looking to buy some cameras to monitor salamanders in a dark room without disturbing them. I am considering security cameras with IR, but would potentially like cameras that would allow me to be more flexible (e.g. not need wifi for recording). TIA!
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