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Tucker Heptinstall @hippieherper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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🚨New Brock Lab Paper🚨 Super excited to see our work investigating how urbanization is shifting microclimates and causing physiological responses in lizards come out in Functional Ecology! Maybe urbanization isn’t all bad? 👀 Check it out! @doc-brock.bsky.social @emilytaylorscience.com

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Urban oases relax desiccation risk for an arid‐adapted lizard

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 19/07/2026

The first rainstorm of the summer arrived at the Colorado rattlesnake den last night, and the snakes came out to drink their fill. Watch to the end for amazing close-up live-streamed footage of a snake drinking rainwater off her back. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ty...

Have you seen rattlesnakes drinking rain before?

Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 14/07/2026

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Free registration ahead of time- link is below! l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 14/07/2026

World Snake Day is this Thursday! You are invited to "attend" an online symposium with presentations about snakes from around the world, courtesy of @savethesnakes.org. I will be giving a presentation about Project RattleCam (around 8am Pacific time).

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/07/2026

Contest alert! Guess the date of the first rattlesnake babies for a chance to win a Snakes Have Families, Too T-shirt. Submit your guess at forms.gle/bKPoScxmiWNJ... by Aug 9, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GpW...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/07/2026

Pennsylvania is our newest cam, just starting this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A_h...

Coziest rattlesnake cuddle pile ever?

Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/07/2026

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Colorado is our biggest population. Hundreds of Prairie Rattlesnakes are here waiting to give birth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRIa...

Morning snake pile in Colorado

Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/07/2026

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Friends- if you haven't checked in on your snake family this year, why not now? Check out RattleCam.org for LIVE VIEWS of three rattlesnake dens, in California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. The best times to watch is usually late morning. Here is one clip per cam...

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Project Rattlecam | Explore the Secret LIves of Rattlesnakes | Rattlesnake Cam

Join the collaboration between Project Rattlecam, Cal Poly, and Central Coast Snake Services to study and raise awareness about the importance of rattlesnakes in the ecosystem. Discover our mission...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 01/07/2026

32 years since the US last hosted the cup, I am no longer in the stands cheering on our boys and would rather watch at home with the dogs. Some other things have changed, too... 😂 GO USA! I BELIEVE!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 11/03/2026

But things are changing. That starts with articles like this one in the Texas Observer magazine. Bravo to Asher Elbein for his thoughtful prose and for Clint Guadiana for taking the time to work with this journalist. 3/3 www.texasobserver.org/consider-the...

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Consider the Rattle

In a state that still hosts grisly “rattlesnake roundups,” human Texans should learn to see something of themselves in their ancient, slithering kin.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 11/03/2026

These snakes will be slaughtered this weekend at the annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas while people watch with glee. If it was any other animal, people wouldn't stand for it. It is barbaric and backwards. 2/3

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 11/03/2026

Right now, thousands of terrified rattlesnakes sit in large drums and boxes in people's garages and in warehouses, piled high and deep, some of them squashed, having been ripped from their winter dens, sometimes after people infused them with gasoline to drive them out. 1/3

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 05/03/2026

On Sat at 6pm I am speaking at the Southwestern Herpetologists Society meeting at the Deukmejian Wilderness Ranch House at 3429 Markridge Rd in Glendale. For the love of herps, please share with folks in the area! 2/2

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 05/03/2026

I'm heading to LA this weekend to talk HERPS! On Sat at 10am I will be doing a kid-friendly reptile talk and event with Paisley Ramstead at the Rancho Mirage library as part of Desert Wildlife Center Presents SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival. 1/2

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 27/02/2026

WEBINAR TONIGHT on California Amphibians! 7pm PST Pre-register here: syvnature.org/californias-... Photo of California Tiger Salamander by Spencer Riffle

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 26/02/2026

I'm giving a presentation on CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIANS on Friday night at 7pm PST at the Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Ynez, or you can watch the webinar live- info on how to register ahead of time is below. syvnature.org/californias-...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 25/02/2026

Congratulations to Owen Bachhuber for winning first place in the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2026 Student E-Poster Competition, Science in Society category!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 20/02/2026

Who wore it better?? Congratulations, Alysa Liu!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 13/02/2026

Did you know that the California cam started in 2021? Here's some footage of Drogon the male greeting two pregnant females, including Petunia, who we saw again (and pregnant again) in 2023 and 2025. www.Rattlecam.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibB9...

Big male rattlesnake greets two pregnant females

Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/02/2026

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This is an amazing way to visualize and zoom in on the tree of life! www.onezoom.org

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/02/2026

...and there are some more fun events around California after that, including Pacific Grove on Friday (www.emilytaylorscience.com/events). Please come and see me- I can't bear to shoulder the weight of amphibian cuteness alone! 😂

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Events

2026 Presentations and Events I will be celebrating the publication of my third book, California Amphibians and How to Find Them , with a book tour. Check back for more info as the dates...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 03/02/2026

Today is my book birthday! This book on California amphibians was utter joy to work on from start to finish. I hope it is half as much fun to read as it was to write. Tonight I have my Amphibian Book Launch Party at a local brewery www.facebook.com/events/16251... ...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 27/01/2026

My new book comes out a week from today, and I'm celebrating with a book launch event at Humdinger Brewing in SLO! I hope to see you locals there. Feb 3 at 6pm. www.facebook.com/events/16251...

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 26/01/2026

Throwback to our first introduction to Thor, looking not too happy to get his lips pierced.. by an ant. Thor's lip never completely lost the swelling from this bite, making him easy to identify among piles of other snakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBU4...

Rattlesnake with ant "lip ring"

Madi McIntyre @madimc00.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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Found some gems in Powell’s Bookstore during SICB in Portland!! @emilytaylorscience.com @powells.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 02/01/2026

One of my favorites from my forthcoming book 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦 - a series of images over several weeks showing a Wandering Salamander mama attending her eggs, and eventually, salamanderlings. ❤ Get your signed book here: www.centralcoastsnakeservices.com/shop.html

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Happy 2026 to all. I thought you might enjoy this 1997 photo of me handling my very first rattlesnake, a Prairie Rattlesnake! I much prefer to gaze at them live on the rattlecam. Wishing all of us a very snakey 2026, Emily Taylor Project RattleCam (RattleCam.org) co-founder

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Just pre-ordered! Thank you, Jason, I can't wait!

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My goal with this book series is to help spread know-how, ethics, and the joy of herping. May it bring you pleasure in the new year, in the form of alllll the frogs and salamanders! One of my favorite photos in the book: brothers with Giant Salamander, by herper dad Mike Rochford

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Amphibian Book Launch Party

I have several amphibian love-fest events (aka talks and book signings) planned for Feb and March, including my book launch party at Humdinger Brewing Co. in SLO on Tues, Feb 3 at 6pm: www.facebook.com/events/1625139342166551 For other events, see www.emilytaylorscience.com/events

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Event in San Luis Obispo, CA by Emily Taylor on Tuesday, February 3 2026

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To celebrate this third installment in the California Herping Guide series, I made “I 🖤 California Herps” weatherproof mini field notebooks and pencils. These come free with an order of the new book from me while supplies last, or you can also get them in the online store.

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Ayanna Higgins @yannabear820.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I am excited to share my new book, California Amphibians and How To Find Them, hot off the press from Heyday Books and ready to help guide your wet winter frog and salamander adventures! It is available now from my website or Feb 3 at bookstores. www.centralcoastsnakeservices.com/shop.html

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Took this photo of this gorgeous Southern Pacifc Rattlesnake in the Marina back in March through binoculars. Not an easy thing to do. It was so sureal seeing this creature in the flesh, I was just in aww. When I heard there was a rattler from a cowork, I went running to it @emilytaylorscience.com

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Funded Master's position in Rattlesnake Biology at Cal Poly SLO jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... Please share!

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Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide specific ideas for how they would contribute to Project RattleCam in their statement of research experience and interests.

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Desirable additional qualities include coding, social media expertise, survey design, video editing, and experience with human-wildlife conflict mitigation...

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