Janne Torkkola
@LizardboyJanne
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Biodiversity, herpetology, evolution. UQ zoology grad, snake catcher, all-round nerdperson. Owner @SnakeOutBris, Host/Co-Producer @WCC_Podcast. He/him ❤️✌️🌈
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined February 2013
Happy Monday & #NewPaper on the phylogenetic position and morphology of Thornton Peak Calyptotis! Having split from its congeners in the early Miocene, we redescribe Calyptotis and erect a new genus, Calorodius, for this high-elevation paleoendemic 🦎👍.
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RT @Keogh_Lab: 'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily
indailysa.com.au
After the SA Museum revealed plans to abolish research positions, academics have voiced concern about the institution's direction.
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Nerd alert! #ScholarshipsAvailable Come study the evolution and history of biotic exchange between Australian and Papuan vertebrate lineages. PhD scholarships available with Dr Paul Oliver at #GriffithUniversity, details in link below 🦎🐸.
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The #AustralianSocietyOfHerpetologists conference is this week! Plenaries by #seasnake morphology specialist Dr Emma Sherratt and wizard of #reptile evolutionary ecology Prof. David Chapple, what's not to love? I'll be posting at 🐍🦎#science #herpetology.
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Amazing list of presenters with Plenary sessions by #seasnake morphology specialist Dr Emma Sherratt and wizard of #reptile evolutionary ecology Prof. David Chapple :) Who's going?? #science #herpe...
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#tenyears #decadeofsnakes 😁🐍🎉.
A decade ago @SnakeOutBris was started, serving wildlife and community in the western suburbs. How time flies! Deepest thanks to all who lent a hand along the way, and to our talented team of snake charmers 😁 Here's to another decade! 🐍.#tenyears #adecadeofsnakes #Brisbane #QLD
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Happy #WorldLizardDay folks, let's play #GuessTheEyeball 🦎👀 This is from one of some 800 plus species in Australia so that should narrow the field a little 😉 Drop your own #LizardEye below to keep the game rolling! .#lizards #reptiles #WildOz #naturelovers
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RT @Scincomancer: Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inne….
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Very cool stuff as always form @PutterT and @Keogh_Lab :).
This paper number 2 from Putter's PhD work - I'm biased but I think this is very cool stuff. And hot stuff too.
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RT @I_Prates: Our new paper is out in Molecular Ecology! "Notes from the taxonomic disaster zone: Evolutionary drivers of intractable speci….
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RT @PutterT: 🧵Our Australian blindsnake phylogenetics paper just got published🐍🧬! @ian_g_brennan, Liz Broady, and Scott @Keogh_Lab. Link….
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Their close relatives, the Coeranoscincus, have recurved teeth for eating earthworms, while Ophios have recurved teeth with flared bicuspid crowns, maybe some dietary differences but I think there's no dietary data on these. Happy to be proven wrong!.#WTFdothesethingseat.
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Weirdly awesome little lizard 😁 Ophioscincus ophioscincus, the Yolk-Bellied Snake Skink, a rainforest specialist and one of many limb-reduced #sphenomorphine skinks. These #wormybois wriggle and push through decomposing leaf-litter and soil on the rainforest floor. #WildOz
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Happy #WorldFrogDay y'all!! Here's a calling Tyler's Treefrog (Litoria tyleri) from Mt Glorious, Brisbane 🐸🐸🐸
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RT @jodirowley: 💚🐸It's World Frog Day!🐸💚. #Frogs & other amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on earth- almost half are….
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RT @michael_s_y_lee: It's #TaxonomistAppreciationDay ! .If you missed this article by Paul Oliver and myself, today is a good day to catch….
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RT @ian_g_brennan: Check out some of our work on Australia’s best animal: the Thorny Devil. And keep us in mind while you road-trip WA. We….
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Citizen scientists are being called upon to help unlock the mysteries of the thorny devil and better understand the desert dweller's evolution.
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RT @april_reside: There's still so much to learn about Australia's biodiversity - especially in the north!. New species of leaf-tailed geck….
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Leaf-tailed geckos are an "ancient group of Australian geckos", once widespread, but constrained as rain forest contracted across the country.
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Food in Canberra was good but dayum I've missed my kitchen/garden, and making breakfast for my girl! Home eggs poached with DIY hollandaise, arugula, basil pesto, on toast with pancetta, grilled Baharat and pepper paste. Sunday, off to a good start! #breakfast #goodtobehome #more
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One small tube, 192 samples, around 105 described sphenomorphine skinks. Up to 5453 genomic loci per sample, each at least 120 base pairs. Call it ~200bp average, that's 209,395,200bp of DNA sequence data in <0.1mL of fluid 😁🦎 @Keogh_Lab.#ANU #griffithuni #qldmuseum #PhDthings
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