Kinsey Brock
@doc-brock.bsky.social
Artíst 🐸 Asst. Professor 🐊 Curator of Reptiles & Amphibians at San Diego State University 🦎 Wild 4 wallies 🦎 Eco-evo in new and ancient cities 🐍 www.kinseybrock.com 🐢
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν 🧿
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My citrus trees are starting to produce. I love this time of year. 😍
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My citrus trees are starting to produce. I love this time of year. 😍
SWOB2025 was such a great meeting - blown away by the student talks in particular! Thanks @sicb.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social for the support.
Proud of my student @amberlsingh.bsky.social who gave a nice presentation of her first PhD chapter ! 🦎 🌆
Proud of my student @amberlsingh.bsky.social who gave a nice presentation of her first PhD chapter ! 🦎 🌆
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
SWOB2025 was such a great meeting - blown away by the student talks in particular! Thanks @sicb.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social for the support.
Proud of my student @amberlsingh.bsky.social who gave a nice presentation of her first PhD chapter ! 🦎 🌆
Proud of my student @amberlsingh.bsky.social who gave a nice presentation of her first PhD chapter ! 🦎 🌆
A big day for the lab! Feeling very happy for my first MS student, Alyssa Head, who put together a great written proposal and oral presentation of her thesis research. ! 🦎
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
A big day for the lab! Feeling very happy for my first MS student, Alyssa Head, who put together a great written proposal and oral presentation of her thesis research. ! 🦎
Was thinking the Blue Jays have been getting nailed a lot by pitches, went to look up how many times each team has been dinged this series and…
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Was thinking the Blue Jays have been getting nailed a lot by pitches, went to look up how many times each team has been dinged this series and…
Handing out candy and learning what Kpop Demon Hunters are. Happy Halloween ! 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Handing out candy and learning what Kpop Demon Hunters are. Happy Halloween ! 🎃
Happy Halloween from the Brock Lab ! 🎃
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Happy Halloween from the Brock Lab ! 🎃
Chuckie D performing one of the earliest IACUC unapproved experiments on predator naïveté? 🦎 🏝️
![[The Marine Iguana] is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its movements. ... I threw one several times as far as I could, into a deep pool left by the retiring tide; but it invariably returned in a direct line to the spot where I stood... Perhaps this singular piece of apparent stupidity may be accounted for by the circumstance, that this reptile had no enemy whatever on shore. (Darwin, 1845, p. 390).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g66bb64vherdgtgj4wgrdz7h/bafkreichpkqbjt2pfhlicpaurab3hx7xnnfowb2q3noorjdvm5f3c7bgse@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Chuckie D performing one of the earliest IACUC unapproved experiments on predator naïveté? 🦎 🏝️
I keep getting this same paragraph in emails from prospective students asking for positions in my lab:
Like, word for word.
Like, word for word.
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I keep getting this same paragraph in emails from prospective students asking for positions in my lab:
Like, word for word.
Like, word for word.
Paper accepted ! 🎉
More from us about Aegean wallie color ecology. In the eyes of the beholder: lizard color polymorphic throat signals are distinguishable to conspecifics and predators. 🦎👀
More from us about Aegean wallie color ecology. In the eyes of the beholder: lizard color polymorphic throat signals are distinguishable to conspecifics and predators. 🦎👀
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Paper accepted ! 🎉
More from us about Aegean wallie color ecology. In the eyes of the beholder: lizard color polymorphic throat signals are distinguishable to conspecifics and predators. 🦎👀
More from us about Aegean wallie color ecology. In the eyes of the beholder: lizard color polymorphic throat signals are distinguishable to conspecifics and predators. 🦎👀
Look’it what my student @hippieherper.bsky.social found under a rock in Juniper Canyon.
Two Side-blotched lizards he caught with one hand! ✋🏼 #UrbanHerping
Two Side-blotched lizards he caught with one hand! ✋🏼 #UrbanHerping
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Look’it what my student @hippieherper.bsky.social found under a rock in Juniper Canyon.
Two Side-blotched lizards he caught with one hand! ✋🏼 #UrbanHerping
Two Side-blotched lizards he caught with one hand! ✋🏼 #UrbanHerping
Student specimen works in progress ✍🏼
September 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Student specimen works in progress ✍🏼
Touring the reptile & amphibian collection and drawing specimens with the SDSU Biodiversity Club at their first Moonlight Menagerie event! A ton of fun with great students 🐸
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Touring the reptile & amphibian collection and drawing specimens with the SDSU Biodiversity Club at their first Moonlight Menagerie event! A ton of fun with great students 🐸
Hit my 900th iNat observation with this little heliophile 🦎
September 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hit my 900th iNat observation with this little heliophile 🦎
A perfect day in Interlaken 🇨🇭 🦎 🍫
September 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A perfect day in Interlaken 🇨🇭 🦎 🍫
Snakes in Ancient Greek art at the Getty Villa 🐍
August 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Snakes in Ancient Greek art at the Getty Villa 🐍
First big field data paper submitted from the Brock Lab today ! 🦎🌆
Way to go, @hippieherper.bsky.social ! Fingers crossed for kind and constructive reviews.
Shout out to all of the amazing students who collected and analyzed data and wrote the paper. 💙🇬🇷
Way to go, @hippieherper.bsky.social ! Fingers crossed for kind and constructive reviews.
Shout out to all of the amazing students who collected and analyzed data and wrote the paper. 💙🇬🇷
August 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
First big field data paper submitted from the Brock Lab today ! 🦎🌆
Way to go, @hippieherper.bsky.social ! Fingers crossed for kind and constructive reviews.
Shout out to all of the amazing students who collected and analyzed data and wrote the paper. 💙🇬🇷
Way to go, @hippieherper.bsky.social ! Fingers crossed for kind and constructive reviews.
Shout out to all of the amazing students who collected and analyzed data and wrote the paper. 💙🇬🇷
Already finding a lot of joy in this wee bit of service. Passionate students provide a surge of much needed invigoration during these trying times. !
Check out these linocut t-shirts they designed. ! I love it.
Check out these linocut t-shirts they designed. ! I love it.
August 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Already finding a lot of joy in this wee bit of service. Passionate students provide a surge of much needed invigoration during these trying times. !
Check out these linocut t-shirts they designed. ! I love it.
Check out these linocut t-shirts they designed. ! I love it.
A gorgeous wee Japanese five-lined skink (Plestiodon finitimus) from Meiji Jingu, Tokyo 💙
July 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
A gorgeous wee Japanese five-lined skink (Plestiodon finitimus) from Meiji Jingu, Tokyo 💙
A gravid Italian Wall Lizard sunning itself in golden hour. 🇮🇹 🌋
July 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A gravid Italian Wall Lizard sunning itself in golden hour. 🇮🇹 🌋
My reward after a long day of experiments. #FoodMotivated
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My reward after a long day of experiments. #FoodMotivated
We ran experiments all day without issues = celebratory cannoli!
July 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We ran experiments all day without issues = celebratory cannoli!
Thermal biology experiments: sprinting lizards at different temperatures down a racetrack and measuring their preferred temperature in a thermal gradient for 6 hours. My job was Tpref warden (making sure no lizards escape) while Giulia and Alyssa race wallies 🦎 🏎️ Don’t tell our rental host. 🤫
July 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thermal biology experiments: sprinting lizards at different temperatures down a racetrack and measuring their preferred temperature in a thermal gradient for 6 hours. My job was Tpref warden (making sure no lizards escape) while Giulia and Alyssa race wallies 🦎 🏎️ Don’t tell our rental host. 🤫
Catching Italian wallies in Taormina with my grad student Alyssa and Italian postdoc Giulia Simbula!
We are studying how the introduced wallies in LA have adapted to their new environment by comparing them to the exact population they were taken from in Taormina. Ciao ciao 🇮🇹 🦎 🍝
We are studying how the introduced wallies in LA have adapted to their new environment by comparing them to the exact population they were taken from in Taormina. Ciao ciao 🇮🇹 🦎 🍝
July 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Catching Italian wallies in Taormina with my grad student Alyssa and Italian postdoc Giulia Simbula!
We are studying how the introduced wallies in LA have adapted to their new environment by comparing them to the exact population they were taken from in Taormina. Ciao ciao 🇮🇹 🦎 🍝
We are studying how the introduced wallies in LA have adapted to their new environment by comparing them to the exact population they were taken from in Taormina. Ciao ciao 🇮🇹 🦎 🍝
Buonanotte da Taormina 💋 🌝
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Buonanotte da Taormina 💋 🌝