Kinsey Brock

Kinsey Brock

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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 🐢

It's a wallie's world and we're just living in it ! 🏛🦎🏘🦎🌆🦎🏝

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My favorite from the Frye Museum of Art, Seattle 🐍

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People ask me why a species would evolve to live underground. This is one of the main reasons. It’s too hot outside! Usually even at 6 inches underground it can be 20 degrees cooler than the surface. It’s no coincidence Australia is top when it comes to legless lizard diversity.

Anyone have any recommendations for environmental chambers appropriate for small animals like lizards? I'm open to reach-ins or rooms, looking for something that works reliably! I'm not hearing good things about Darwin Chambers... 🧪

Bikeable, lots of public art, and great coffee. I could live in Seattle (in the summer 🌞)!

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This is a nice piece to keep at hand as it deftly lays out the ravages of AI on the environment. Even easier to digest for those of us seeing data centers (almost literally) gobble up our backyards.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

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Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.29.601311v1

Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.29.601311v1 www.biorxiv.org Accumulating evidence is suggesting more frequent tropical-to-temperate transitions than previously

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Anyway I've just discovered (1) postcard stamps are more than 50 cents apiece, which is folding money when you're doing a couple hundred and (2) prices are going up in two weeks! So now's a good time to stock up on "Forever" stamps in nice calming sailboat prints store.usps.com/store/produc...

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

Sailboats Postcard Stamps | USPS.comstore.usps.com “Let’s go sailing!” The U.S. Postal Service celebrates a favorite outdoor activity with two colorful postcard stamps.

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If you're at virtual #Evol2024 come see Laura Alencar present the first representation of this project @evolmtg.bsky.social at 6:15 in Potpourri 3!

🚨New Paper🚨 @evolletters.bsky.social Check out a cool story behind the importance of ecological opportunities in #lizard #macroevolution! Besides exciting 🦎-biology, it's our 1st go at Causal Inference for #diversification models (our related project funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social ). More soon!

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After a delay from some bold archosaurs, I’ve arrived in Ann Arbor for #SSAR2024! So stoked to be at another stand-alone SSAR meeting! SSAR 2015 was my first conference as a grad student.

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Hotspot shelters allow frogs 🐸 to behaviourally increase resistance to chytridiomycosis | doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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It's a cliche but it's true: be the change you want to see. Doing this work within the framework of academic societies can help speed up progress and establish healthier social norms.

"Someone should really work to fix..." Unethical behavior in the field Publishing costs Lack of mentorship Accessibility of meetings Funding for students Decline of taxonomy SSB has worked on all these issues (clearly, none are solved, yet). Join on to work on them and others, too.

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"Someone should really work to fix..." Unethical behavior in the field Publishing costs Lack of mentorship Accessibility of meetings Funding for students Decline of taxonomy SSB has worked on all these issues (clearly, none are solved, yet). Join on to work on them and others, too.

SSB is looking for its next elected Graduate Student Representative! Deadline is June 30th. The only requirement is being a graduate student who is interested in evolution and evolutionary history. Please consider applying! More details here: www.systbio.org

Ready for #SSAR2024 in A2 ! ✌🏼 🌳 🦎

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Okayyyyyy you asked for lots of hard to draw stuff and I made a lot of nightmare fuel from those requests. In the end, we have 3 deep sea creatures that would prefer that we collectively do NOT destroy their homes via deep sea mining. Try recycling maybe, they say.

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And adding this recent @natureportfolio.bsky.social comment on the threats it poses to democracy worldwide and, importantly, proven steps that can mitigate it. As with climate change, we know what to do: we just aren’t doing it.

Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might thinkwww.nature.com In today’s polarized political climate, researchers who combat mistruths have come under attack and been labelled as unelected arbiters of truth. But the fight against misinformation is valid, warrant...

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This is not just one person’s or one research center’s problem. The World Economic Forum lists Misinfo as their #1 risk to global stability over the next 2 years … and climate-fueled weather extremes (a common misinfo target) as #2. This puts us ALL at risk. /🧵 www.weforum.org/publications...

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For context, this project has had a donor for several years who had to back out. They only need a few thousand bucks and every single one will make a difference.

I'm 52 today! If you'd like to get me something, how about you share a few bucks with this exceptional program that provides access to genuine field research for community college students from urban Los Angeles? These folks have been doing it for years and they change lives.

Community College Field Biology Alliance Summer Excursionchuffed.org Over the past six years, the Community College Field Biology Alliance has been dedicated to providing hands-on field biology experiences for community college students. These experiences are invaluabl...

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Frog Lots Illiopolis, IL

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The quadrupeds of North America,. New York, V.G. Audubon, 1851-54. The #Aztec called #armadillos azotochtli, meaning "turtle-rabbit." See them in #bhlib & @eol http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34897257

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Our friend the Batura Glacier Toad lives in the West Himalayan region, including northern Pakistan and the border area between China and northwestern India! They are a triploid species created from interbreeding between three different Green Toad species! (photo by Anastasiia Merkulova)

It was really cool to walk into the lab this morning - lights on and students working and laughing. ! 😌 #NewPI

Funds raised from MWPARC auction items will help support our activities in future years, including student awards, future conferences, and research with herps in our region. #SSAR2024

🦎🐍🐸Final call for donations of items for MWPARC to use in the auctions at the SSAR/PARC conference in Ann Arbor later this week! #SSAR2024 Auction Item Google Form: forms.gle/MY7EMRNg4uHq...

2024 MWPARC Silent Auctionforms.gle

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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’www.nytimes.com Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

🦎🐍🐸Final call for donations of items for MWPARC to use in the auctions at the SSAR/PARC conference in Ann Arbor later this week! #SSAR2024 Auction Item Google Form: forms.gle/MY7EMRNg4uHq...

2024 MWPARC Silent Auctionforms.gle

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I'm 52 today! If you'd like to get me something, how about you share a few bucks with this exceptional program that provides access to genuine field research for community college students from urban Los Angeles? These folks have been doing it for years and they change lives.

Community College Field Biology Alliance Summer Excursionchuffed.org Over the past six years, the Community College Field Biology Alliance has been dedicated to providing hands-on field biology experiences for community college students. These experiences are invaluabl...