Dealing with family in rural Portugal going 4 days with no power or phone due to unprepared gov response to a storm is really bringing it home how many people in the world must already be suffering from climate change that we never hear about because they're in a poor area.

My first (hopefully not last) published photo is for the cover of the latest issue of Cell Genomics! This beautiful 3 year old male Pleurodeles I raised was a nice cooperative model. Excited to show these wonderful interesting animals.The paper is very interesting too 😁

www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Why the fuck did I join another one of these things? Here's an obligatory newt (Triturus marmoratus).