N. Joris Fleck
@njorisfleck.bsky.social
Biology Master's student at #LMU Munich | Herpetologist 🐸🐍| Botanist🌿 | Host of #Hissscord
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N. Joris Fleck
@njorisfleck.bsky.social
· Sep 19
+++ 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
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
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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...
Talentech - Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum Denmark // Leder af Konserveringsenheden ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
candidate.hr-manager.net
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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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"Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant" super happy to have been part of this work with @njorisfleck.bsky.social Prof Gudrun Kadereit, Andreas Fleischmann and Thibaud Messerschmid! I hope it's the first of many at LMU 👏😁🌵🎶
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant" super happy to have been part of this work with @njorisfleck.bsky.social Prof Gudrun Kadereit, Andreas Fleischmann and Thibaud Messerschmid! I hope it's the first of many at LMU 👏😁🌵🎶
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
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Former lab member @njorisfleck.bsky.social and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌱☀️🧪
🌱☀️🧪
Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Former lab member @njorisfleck.bsky.social and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌱☀️🧪
🌱☀️🧪
My first ever lead-author paper got published! 🎉
Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers!
(Also, please note the punny title)
Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers!
(Also, please note the punny title)
CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant
Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts).
Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#PlantSci
Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts).
Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#PlantSci
Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My first ever lead-author paper got published! 🎉
Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers!
(Also, please note the punny title)
Many thanks to my supervisors and co-workers!
(Also, please note the punny title)
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉
That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other.
Wanna join? Send me a message!
(Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)
Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉
That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other.
Wanna join? Send me a message!
(Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)
+++ 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
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
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉
That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other.
Wanna join? Send me a message!
(Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)
Hissscord just reached 100 members! 🎉
That's an international assembly of 100 scientists of various career stages working in herpetology, all joined in one server to network and to support each other.
Wanna join? Send me a message!
(Free, not my attempt to finance my PhD)
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A new post about the three #newspecies of toad we have just described from Tanzania, feat @christianthrane.bsky.social, Simon Loader, @alicepetzold.bsky.social, John Lyakurwa, and Michele Menegon! 🧪🐸🇹🇿
www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
Three new live-bearing toads from Tanzania!
This week we have published an exciting new paper describing three new species of bumpy, bright-coloured, live-bearing, tree-dwelling toads from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! You can read …
www.markscherz.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A new post about the three #newspecies of toad we have just described from Tanzania, feat @christianthrane.bsky.social, Simon Loader, @alicepetzold.bsky.social, John Lyakurwa, and Michele Menegon! 🧪🐸🇹🇿
www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
www.markscherz.com/archives/6208
Happy Halloween!🍂🍬
We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻
We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy Halloween!🍂🍬
We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻
We found this stunning Mossy Leaf-tail Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae Boettger, 1913) shedding its skin in Madagascar, 2024. I waited a whole year to post this photo for Halloween! 👻
Reposted by N. Joris Fleck
Ever hear a snake heartbeat? 🐍 🫀 (Sound UP)
Our vets have noticed some irregular heart activity in Arroyo, the California King snake, so they’re using a doppler ultrasound machine, which allows them to hear the heart rate easily and count the amount of time between heartbeats.
Our vets have noticed some irregular heart activity in Arroyo, the California King snake, so they’re using a doppler ultrasound machine, which allows them to hear the heart rate easily and count the amount of time between heartbeats.
October 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ever hear a snake heartbeat? 🐍 🫀 (Sound UP)
Our vets have noticed some irregular heart activity in Arroyo, the California King snake, so they’re using a doppler ultrasound machine, which allows them to hear the heart rate easily and count the amount of time between heartbeats.
Our vets have noticed some irregular heart activity in Arroyo, the California King snake, so they’re using a doppler ultrasound machine, which allows them to hear the heart rate easily and count the amount of time between heartbeats.
Reposted by N. Joris Fleck
📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
YSF2025 Registration Form
Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form.
This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
tinyurl.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8
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Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
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Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics.
Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc
systass.org/young-system...
Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc
systass.org/young-system...
Young Systematists’ Forum
Young Systematists’ Forum An exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic…
systass.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics.
Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc
systass.org/young-system...
Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!
REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc
systass.org/young-system...
+++ 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!📣
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!📣
+++ 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
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
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
+++ 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!📣
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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Having a diffuse research group means that I rarely get to spend any time with my group in 3D. It was a great delight therefore to be joined by @collinbos.bsky.social @alicepetzold.bsky.social @njorisfleck.bsky.social and @clarakeusgen.bsky.social together in Bonn for the #SEH2025! 🧪🐸🦎🐍🧬
September 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Having a diffuse research group means that I rarely get to spend any time with my group in 3D. It was a great delight therefore to be joined by @collinbos.bsky.social @alicepetzold.bsky.social @njorisfleck.bsky.social and @clarakeusgen.bsky.social together in Bonn for the #SEH2025! 🧪🐸🦎🐍🧬
+++ 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
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
September 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
+++ 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
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
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We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project).
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
February 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project).
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at #SEH2025. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
#herpetology
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at #SEH2025. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
#herpetology
I’ve been spending A LOT of time in scientific collections.
Outside, the weather keeps changing. Inside? Permanent chill.
35°C? I’m freezing my butt off in the collections.
-4°C? Still freezing my butt off in the collections.
The only constant in my life right now is museum-grade air conditioning.
Outside, the weather keeps changing. Inside? Permanent chill.
35°C? I’m freezing my butt off in the collections.
-4°C? Still freezing my butt off in the collections.
The only constant in my life right now is museum-grade air conditioning.
August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’ve been spending A LOT of time in scientific collections.
Outside, the weather keeps changing. Inside? Permanent chill.
35°C? I’m freezing my butt off in the collections.
-4°C? Still freezing my butt off in the collections.
The only constant in my life right now is museum-grade air conditioning.
Outside, the weather keeps changing. Inside? Permanent chill.
35°C? I’m freezing my butt off in the collections.
-4°C? Still freezing my butt off in the collections.
The only constant in my life right now is museum-grade air conditioning.
An Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) found in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
#Herpetology #lizard #herping
#Herpetology #lizard #herping
August 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
An Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) found in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
#Herpetology #lizard #herping
#Herpetology #lizard #herping
The CORPS team has won the 2025 Teaching Award from #LMU ’s Faculty of Biology! 🏆
What began with preparing bird specimens in my living room is now the faculty’s first student-led, -organized, and -taught course. We are incredibly happy!
Thank you all—here’s to CORPS 2025!
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
What began with preparing bird specimens in my living room is now the faculty’s first student-led, -organized, and -taught course. We are incredibly happy!
Thank you all—here’s to CORPS 2025!
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The CORPS team has won the 2025 Teaching Award from #LMU ’s Faculty of Biology! 🏆
What began with preparing bird specimens in my living room is now the faculty’s first student-led, -organized, and -taught course. We are incredibly happy!
Thank you all—here’s to CORPS 2025!
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
What began with preparing bird specimens in my living room is now the faculty’s first student-led, -organized, and -taught course. We are incredibly happy!
Thank you all—here’s to CORPS 2025!
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of visiting the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social and getting an awesome tour of part of their collection from the amazing @michela-johnson.bsky.social — thanks so much, Michela!
📸 Holotype of the extinct crocodyliform Machimosaurus buffetauti Young et al., 2014
#paleontology #FossilFriday
📸 Holotype of the extinct crocodyliform Machimosaurus buffetauti Young et al., 2014
#paleontology #FossilFriday
June 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Had the pleasure of visiting the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social and getting an awesome tour of part of their collection from the amazing @michela-johnson.bsky.social — thanks so much, Michela!
📸 Holotype of the extinct crocodyliform Machimosaurus buffetauti Young et al., 2014
#paleontology #FossilFriday
📸 Holotype of the extinct crocodyliform Machimosaurus buffetauti Young et al., 2014
#paleontology #FossilFriday
Nothing matches the feeling of finishing a manuscript, while an epic movie soundtrack is climaxing in the background.
June 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nothing matches the feeling of finishing a manuscript, while an epic movie soundtrack is climaxing in the background.