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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4
@jimlabisko.bsky.social
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Devonian tetrapod | Former autonomous human jukebox | FirstGen | DICE Kent alum. | Lecturer in Biodiversity @ UCL | Opinions recycled | He/him

UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64254-jim-labisko
Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/JLabs
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What a fantastic talk from @emmateeling.bsky.social for the @systassn.bsky.social annual Founders Lecture at @linneansociety.bsky.social this evening. Bats: genomes, fossils, phylogenies, and cures 🦇🦇🦇
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Any idea who this is @flygirlnhm.bsky.social? South east Kent, nipping about on my bin 5 minutes ago.
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This just arrived: a review by none other than Slash!
September 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Garden bats innit
August 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Professor Yaffle in my neighbour's garden
August 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Was not expecting to hear Prince, Damien Rice, and Beck in this documentary about black bears
July 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Not sure what it's searching for, or if it needs help, but I couldn't ignore this (I think) rosy footman @mothyblackburn.bsky.social?
July 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Never give up
A five-legged spider, not giving up
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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African wild dogs are very groovy
Three African wild dogs on a sandy track. Two playing and up on their hind legs (closer to the camera but in blurred focus), the third is in focus in the background, looking away to the right. Probably interested in the warthog piglets that were about to be chased into the pack by three spotted hyena. It was a crazy morning!
June 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Very proud: 'The Lives of Frogs' is published today! Hardback and ebook available globally 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity 🐸 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ac.uk 🐸 🧪
Jim Labisko and Richard Griffiths holding copies of their new book 'The Lives of Frogs' at the soft-launch event in May 2025. Frog-themed wine and beer consumed but not shown. Special mention of Richard's tropical forest and frog-themed shirt putting an underdressed Jim to shame Photo by Chloe Wellecomme
June 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Saw this handsome chap yesterday
A very handsome African leopard walking along a track
June 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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It's a stunning photo from Ignacio ❤️🐸😊

*blatant piece of promotion*
April 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Anders from Sjostrand is a thoroughly nice chap. Thanks Anders #coffee
A Sjostrand coffee machine repair note from technician Anders, who is clearly a thoroughly nice chap.
April 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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All kicking off at Ham Street station this morning
A list of birds heard within about a minutes at Ham Street railway station: starling, house sparrow, nightingale, blue tit, robin, chiffchaff, blackbird
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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New #Seychelles #caecilian paper from the awesome Miranda Sherlock: Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian. 𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 pops. connected by palaeo-islands @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪

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(A) Island connectivity with sea level change. Present-day emergent land is coloured for cluster membership inferred with DAPC (see B), and islands unsampled in this study are shown in white. Sampling localities are shown by green dots. Elevation (above sea level) is shown by contour lines (200 m spacing). Smaller islands (Ste. Anne and Curieuse) are circled for clarity. The grey shaded area represents exposed land, with the shade of grey in the key indicating metres below current sea level. Bathymetry data from the GEBCO 2024 repository. Inset map shows position of the Seychelles (indicated with a green loop) relative to Africa. Latitude and longitude given in decimal degrees. (B) DAPC of K = 4, with eight PCs and two eigenvalues. (C) Hypogeophis rostratus, photographed by STM.
April 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Thank FROG it's Friday
Known only from Cusuco National Park, Honduras, this exquisite spike-thumbed frog (Plectrohyla exquisita) is looking decidedly happy that it's Friday, but decidedly unhappy that it's Critically Endangered. Photo by Jim Labisko.
April 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The only socks that matter
February 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The Lives of Frogs — it's real! #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity Available in all good book shops (and probably some bad) from 20th May 🧪 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
The author of a new book on frogs holding a copy, showing the cover which depicts a fantastic poison frog (Ranitomeya fantastica) carrying a tadpole on its back.
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A timeline cleanse...
January 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM