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Stuart V Nielsen
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Evolutionary Herpetologist, Assistant Prof at LSUS, Endowed Curator - LSUS Museum of Life Sciences 🦎🐸🧬
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sexchrlab.bsky.social
🚨Preprint🚨

Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Graphical overview of the biological foundations of the proposed approach. Application of SCINKD to identify XY chromosomes in the Christmas island skink Application of SCINKD to identify previously unannotated sex chromosomes in the Lesser electric ray.
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female? - Mashable
January 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#museumselfieday at the Sam Houston State University Museum
January 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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brennian.bsky.social
🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎

🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬

Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful).

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Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) Sign-up/Contact Form
The Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) is a new global initiative (2024) with an overarching goal of increasing both quality and quantity of lizard and snake genomic resources, as well as inc...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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aaronhgriffing.bsky.social
Very stoked to get the most recent cover of @sicbjournals.bsky.social! Here's a glorious, pad-reduced viper #gecko (Hemidactylus imbricatus). Check out our the article below and the rest of this awesome issue!

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#GeckoEvoDevo
The cover of Integrative & Comparative Biology, volume 64, number 5, 2024. The cover features a view from above of a viper gecko (Hemidactylus imbricatus), a brown gecko with large scales and tan speckles. A scanning electron micrograph (greyscale image) of an embryonic viper gecko hand, with a view of the palm. The toe pads and other scales are well-developed.
November 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Had a great time learning about raptors and falconry yesterday with Joe from Walter B. Jacobs Nature Park for #ornithology class in the LSUS Museum of Natural Sciences!
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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prosanta.bsky.social
As the public discourse around sex and gender pops up again - I think about the kid who hears ‘nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution’ - but who doesn’t see themselves represented. I wrote this for them.

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What Evolutionary Biology Can and Can't Tell Us About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Some human social constructs like gender are viewed erroneously in an evolutionary context. It’s time for our understanding of a person’s self-identity to evolve.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
August 6, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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If you see this post, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
Culebra, Puerto Rico
September 2, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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phdbee.bsky.social
#Postdoc #Job Alert! The Cook Lab is hiring! We are excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms of social behavior in a changing environment #academia #academictwitter employment.marquette.edu/postings/21269
Postdoctoral Researcher
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May 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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carodittrich.bsky.social
Together with #AaronComeault #FranzHoelzl @biobiiana.bsky.social and collaborators, we present a high-quality #genome assembly of the dyeing poison #frog 🐸🧬 and investigated the role of transposable elements (TEs) in gene-size variation. Find our paper here doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🧪🧬🖥️👩‍🔬 #evolution
Genome assembly of the dyeing poison frog provides insights into the dynamics of transposable element and genome-size evolution
Abstract. Genome size varies greatly across the tree of life and transposable elements are an important contributor to this variation. Among vertebrates, a
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May 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Welcome to the world! A New Caledonian chameleon gecko (Eurdactylodes) that hatched today.
April 22, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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Excited to announce our new #openaccess paper in press at @anatrecord.bsky.social reporting preovipositional embryonic development in the legless #gecko #Lialis! #GeckoEvoDevo #diceCT

Collab w: @drscanley.bsky.social and Dan Paluh

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 25, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Playing around with some old photos. I like the shape of this Heteronotia.
March 20, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Spring emergence
March 20, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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tonygamble.bsky.social
Sex chromosomes & putative sex-determining gene (Foxl2) in the crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
In press at @sse-evolution.bsky.social
Funded by @morrisanimal.bsky.social
Includes: @sexchrlab.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social
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Photograph of a crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus). The lizard is resting on a branch with the back half of its body submerged in water.
November 28, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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Had a great weekend in Arizona exploring and naturalizing with the man/myth/legend @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social
October 22, 2023 at 10:33 PM
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🚨🍞 Fresh out of the oven! I am so happy yo share this new paper with @anura.bsky.social @drscanley.bsky.social and Jon Bloch! We found 28 Million years old fossils of the “Caribbean Amphinians 🎵🎶” Eleutherodactylus in Florida 🦴🐸 doi.org/10.1093/zool...
October 21, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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sexchrlab.bsky.social
Excited to hear @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social talk about "The sprightly little sphaerodactyl and the dawn of the genomic age across amniotes"
Dr. Brendan Pinto on the right, pointing to a slide showing his scientific trajectory including college in Iowa, PhD in Wisconsin, and now researching at ASU.
October 19, 2023 at 7:08 PM
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I am now "very well endowed" @LSUS (i.e. I now have 2 endowed positions)! Both are w/ our small life science #museum, housing vertebrates (regional, Africa, Mexico), some spiders and crawfish, but also the largest collection of freshwater mussels in the southeast!

www.lsus.edu/nine-lsus-fa...
October 12, 2023 at 11:56 PM