can't drink redbull anymore, now I'm medicated 😅

Studying ecology/evolutionary biology, with a focus on bats. Studying with ✨ADHD✨ Aussie🇦🇺. This is my studyblr side-blog, my main is @somethingelsefine My Instagram is @zoologywyfe

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I've made a horrible mistake 😭

While renovating our house, I found a few marbled gecko eggs in the ceiling cavity insulation. They looked old and crunchy, and not much survives in fibreglass insulation. So, I wrapped them in a napkin and put them in a container, with plans to make a little museum-style display later on.

That was a couple of months ago.

Today I opened up that container to find that apparently one of the eggs had been viable when I stored it... And it hatched while wrapped in the napkin. Now I have a mummified baby gecko 😭 I feel so bad for the poor lil guy. It even shed its skin in there before it died. I'm sorry little gecko.

[parakeet]

#MyCoin

[greycatbird]

Ladies get off tiktok we need you over on ebird

[mawofthemagnetar]

No, Word, I do not “want to rewrite this paragraph with copilot”. Similarly, I do not “want to hire a drunk chimp as a chauffeur”, so perhaps you can fuck off?

[all-mammal-creechur]

Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.

img source

[all-mammal-creechur]

I really love how dedicated these guys are to queuing.

[horsesource]

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

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Important tags from @sashayed

[herpsandbirds]

Hi folks! I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed within the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma. If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out.

More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com

Please share widely!!!

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Frogs from the Flinders ranges, south Australia!

So cool! Looks like they're about to share a snack, too.

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Alrightyyyyy round two of applying for the PhD program + scholarships is done ✅ submitted with plenty of time to spare, unlike last time. Now it's a waiting game.

[markscherz]

You've heard about Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature… but have you heard about Zig zag‽

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

A few weeks ago, friends and colleagues of mine (I was not involved) published this incredible new species of legless skink that makes distinctive zig-zag markings in the sand as it 'swims' through it.

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

So they called it Zig zag.

ZIG ZAG, CORAL!

Gosh I love this new era of whimsy-driven taxonomy.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

happy world frog day, 50 frogs to go until we hit 8,000 species described!!

[patheticwheeler]

@markscherz

[markscherz]

There is a small but real chance I will get to Do The Thing. Watch this space.

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Bat on a hat

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I made a Rhinolophus robertsi (greater large eared horseshoe bat) to sit on my graduation cap 🎓 and he turned out so cute! Plus the yellow nose the colour of my academic hood 💛 It was a great morning, I'm so glad I finally got to walk across that stage.

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Congratulations on your graduation! 🎉 Here, take this Myotis nattereri to keep you company at the ceremony

Awe thankyou! What a beautiful little bat 🦇

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Super excited for my graduation ceremony tomorrow 🥳🎓

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*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*