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Sophie Draper
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Lab technician @ UC Berkeley | Evolution, museums, herps !!
First poster in the books! #evol2025
June 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Tonight! Toxic flies?! Come to the poster session to chat about flies adapting to nicotine
#Evol2025
Monday evening during the poster session Sophie Draper will share some of the results from our mad scientist project to evolve chemical defense in fruit flies 🤯🪰

Mon June 23 5:45 pm Grand Hall 2-7 D17 (23rd)

5/7 #Evol2025
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I love my job, my research, and my students— and that’s precisely why I’m on strike against UC’s unfair and unlawful labor practices!
February 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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We describe a new species of poison frog from the Pacific coast of Colombia -- Epipedobates currulao. A long time in the making.

Describimos una nueva especie de una rana venenosa para la ciencia de la costa pacífica de colombia
doi.org/10.3897/zook...

Media links below | entrevistas abajo
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests
The number of amphibian species described yearly shows no signs of slowing down, especially in tropical regions, implying that the biodiversity of amphibians remains woefully underestimated. A new spe...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A unique rough-skinned #newt from Sunday’s fieldwork — look at those jowls! She reminds me of Nien Nunb (Niewt Nunb?) from Star Wars
January 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM