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Collin Bos

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Herpetologist & Evolutionary Biologist | MSc. LMU Munich | BSc UC Berkeley | Frog 🐸 research technician at the Hubrecht Institute

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ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peek-a-boo. Variable bush viper photo by Mark Kostich.
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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals
Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap
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Herpetological Society of Singapore @herpsocsg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It was recently announced that several of our Southern Islands would be reclaimed to form a "Western Island"; the consensus amongst academics & civil society is that these habitats are too precious to be lost. If you want to know more about our Southern Islands' herps: file.go.gov.sg/sibs-reptile...
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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
[JOB!] I'm hiring for a really exciting postdoc position. A combination of breeding experiments, conservation genomics, and student mentorship. Room/board at the @amnh.org Southwestern Research Station each summer, 40 months of support, new science building at BSU. Share broadly! ad: bit.ly/4hKaUIL
A human hand holds a medium sized green frog with distinct gray spots and yellow eyes. This is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog, a threatened species native to the southwest US and Mexico.
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
North American racer…such a delight to see.
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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 10/08/2026
Tea and Salamanders The hills of Darjeeling hold more than world-famous tea gardens. They’re also home to ancient Himalayan salamanders — and the people working to prevent them from disappearing. therevelator.org/tea-and-salamanders
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Tea and Salamanders • The Revelator
The hills of Darjeeling hold more than world-famous tea gardens. They’re also home to ancient Himalayan salamanders — and the people working to prevent them from disappearing.
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Randy Klabacka @chico-huico.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Male frogs in agricultural and secondary rainforest in Borneo have higher frequency calls compared to those in primary rainforest, which may be the result of a behavioral shift of females (which usually prefer low-frequency calls). Great talk by Jennifer Sheridan at #SAGE26!
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/07/2026
In 2016, video captured invasive tree snakes in Guam climbing to reach their feathered prey—with a never-before-seen lassolike gripping technique. Learn more on #WorldSnakeDay: scim.ag/4hbb0Zy
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AmphibiaWeb @amphibiaweb.org · 10/07/2026
Attending #JMIH in New Orleans? Come see the AmphibiaWeb poster on Saturday! Say hi to Jim McGuire and team members! Share your love and support with AmphibiaWeb's inaugural tshirt campaign: www.customink.com/fundraising/...
small image of AmphibiaWeb's 2026 poster: celebrating 9,000 amphibians
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today marks one of the most important days in the history of Science. OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace revealed the idea of evolution by natural selection @linneansociety.bsky.social meeting (although any of them was actually present) darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000
Curator of Vertebrates

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History currently has openings for three early-career Research Curators in Vertebrate Zoology, one each from the disciplines of ornithology, herpetology and ichthyology. The Department of Vertebrate Zoology seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise in, and a commitment to, collections-based research centered on systematics and evolution of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. This includes the ability to pursue an original approach to systematics and comparative analyses using, for example, morphology, development, and/or molecular data, and showing evidence of broader impacts or applications in evolutionary biology and/or collections-based ecology, as demonstrated by a record of peer-reviewed publications.

Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to establish an externally funded research program and to contribute to the growth and curation of the collections. Research in the Department is supported by the Museum’s shared laboratories, including the Laboratory of Analytic Biology and the Scientific Imaging facility, among others. The Department’s scientific collections are the largest in the world for fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, and the third largest for birds.

These federal positions will be filled at the GS-12 level, with a starting salary of $102,415, and excellent benefits. The positions are permanent and require a one-year probationary period. 

The official announcement is posted on USAJOBS, where applications must be submitted.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Please be sure to read the announcement and instructions carefully, as the process of applying via USAJOBS is stringent and differs from applying for an academic position. This website offers helpful advice: https://serc.si.edu/careers/tips-applying-federal-jobs

Please contact the Search Committee Chair, Michael McGowen (mcgowenm@si.edu) or the Department Chair, Helen James (jamesh@si.edu) with any questions.
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
18 June 1858 The day Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace that will change everything.. and speed up the presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection, and the publication of "On the origin of species". www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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sylvia hofmann @sh-herptiles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Remote fieldwork and museum collections reveal hidden pit viper diversity in High Asia | Blog
Published in ZooKeys, a recent study revises the Himalayan pit viper group using a combination of fresh and historical DNA, morphology, skeletal anatomy, and ecological observations.
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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Herpetology job! Research Scientist and Curator of Herpetology! Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research 🐍 senckenberg.career.softgarden.de/jobs/6465299...
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Research Scientist and Curator of Herpetology (f/m/d) – Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
We are looking for: Research Scientist and Curator of Herpetology (f/m/d), Full or Part Time, Frankfurt am Main
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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · 03/06/2026
🐢Based on 1,770 records of non-native #terrapins in Germany, drawn from published sources and publicly available #citizenscience #data, researchers have confirmed the presence of 14 wild non-native terrapin species in Germany. ➡️Find out which ones in our #OA journal: doi.org/10.3897/neob...
9 different panels in alphabetical order, showing the distribution map of nine non-native terrapin species in Germany, sorted by taxonomy. Full circles represent precise locations, empty circles are obscured observations. Species are (no. of records in brackets). A. Graptemys ouachitensis (n = 19); B. Graptemys pseudogeographica (n = 106); C. Pseudemys concinna (n = 166); D. Pseudemys nelsoni (n = 31); E. Pseudemys peninsularis (n = 4); F. Trachemys scripta (n = 1237); G. Chrysemys dorsalis (n = 2); H. Chrysemys picta (n = 31); I. Emys orbicularis (n = 150). The map displays the federal states as well as major rivers for orientation purposes (from Natural Earth). Sources of terrapin photos are given in the Suppl. material 1.
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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our Evolutionary Biology graduate program at SDSU is drafting an AI policy that all grad students must adhere to and sign in order to turn in their thesis to the grad college. Does your grad program have an AI policy? I’d love to see examples if you’re willing to share! arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 🎉🎂 youtu.be/ToGZ8ZkUaxY?... #Sylvicanthon #attenboroughi #Attenborosaurus #FossilFriday
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Our David Attenborough specimens: Nature, knowledge and a lasting legacy
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 28/04/2026
I wonder if my two friends whose NEH grants were DOGEd are ever going to get back that $40,000 they were planning to live on for a year.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
Click on the article title to read more.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
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caecilianbiol.bsky.social @caecilianbiol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 #Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality, published in Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
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Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality
The colonization of low-light environments exerts selective pressure to enhance non-visual senses while relaxing selection on vision, often leading to opsi
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Nice job (Prof in Animal Ecology) in a nice (unesco) city, in a great department: www.uni-regensburg.de/fileadmin/us...
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Neferchitty @neferchitty.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi ¿La pintura rupestre más antigua de la humanidad? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature
A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Come celebrate International Darwin Day with us @sandiegostate.bsky.social! Deets in the flyer (designed by the awesome @doc-brock.bsky.social).
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
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Lukas Musher @lukemusher.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 18/11/2025
If any big-name 🧪science or 🎨artist accounts would like to share the SciArt Feed with their followers, I’d be grateful. 👉👈
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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Talentech - Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum Denmark // Leder af Konserveringsenheden ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...
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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 21/10/2025
On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin "let’s hurry, yes, to offer everything and count on nothing, make and break no promises ... Outside trust, what air is there to breathe?" lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
📌 New publication out: Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations TL;DR - We show that the choice of reference genome biases the detection of structural variants and popgen stats. Navigate carefully - 🛳️ 😬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations - Genome Biology
Background Whole-genome sequencing efforts, have during the past decade, unveiled the central role of genomic rearrangements—such as chromosomal inversions—in evolutionary processes, including local a...
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology seeks a Research Collections Manager for reptiles and amphibians. Required: advanced degree, 3+ years experience. Apply by Nov 5, 2025: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/269553… #job
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Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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N. Joris Fleck @njorisfleck.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Second call for joining our server! 🐸 Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers. 💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com Please share!📣
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Nathan needs to put down the phone @feralharp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
As you will gather from the article, it does, in fact, sound like a cartoon villain the size of a piece of string cheese.
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N. Joris Fleck @njorisfleck.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++ Our new server is live! 🐍 A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help. 💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel! Please feel free to share and repost! #Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord
Short profile of the Discord server "Hissscord"
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