Dr. Heather Hallen-Adams

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@Afro_Herper This Meller’s chameleon is communicating his Big-Scariness by raising the flaps on his head, gaping, and displaying black polka dots. (Which are very Scary.)

The side blotched lizards this time of year get beautiful orange coloring on their faces for breeding season. What else do you know about lizards when it comes to communicating with each other. While you think about it, let me know if you #FindThatLizard with #FoundThatLizard!

#FoundThatLizard!

If you see this tweet, quote tweet it with the most recent photo you took of your pet. No cheating.

@spaceandweather I, too, know the joy. I blame my dad, who shared this amiable trait.

@AVNJOfficial Good to know! My search for the Ideal Pocket Catfish continues.

@HallenAdams Do NOT put it in your pocket tho. Most painful sting of all of the madtoms (in my unfortunately experienced opinion)

A fat catfish for #SundayFishSketch . The Tadpole Madtom may be fat (“The Fishes of Nebraska” says “chubby”) but is not large, topping out at about five inches. A good pocket-sized catfish.

I #FoundThatLizard !

@UrsulaV Guess I ordered it twice - which is good, because your books are more likely than some to go wandering when I loan them out.

It’s here! Vultures! Weirdness! All that good stuff!

@wayneriekhof Maybe less paywall-y than the other version: therogersvillereview.com/rogersville/ar…

@HallenAdams YES PLEASE! Are the toxins generated in the root and sent up in xylem?

Sitting here daydreaming about making tomato and pepper hybrids and I had a fleeting thought “Eh, that’s going to be really hard.” Then I remembered I used to make Arabidopsis crosses and I snapped out of my moment of self doubt.

@wayneriekhof newyorker.com/magazine/1965/…

@lab_ogden Corollary: PIs, don’t beat your personnel to the cool data! As part of my postdoc project we had sequenced a genome. The sequence was posted. I looked for our gene of interest IMMEDIATELY, found it, & e-mailed my PI. He already knew. He was on vacation in California…

@KatelynJButler @RebeccaNShay Fusarium species: “I don’t like these culture conditions, so I’ma throw away chromosomes ‘til I’m happy”. S. cerevisiae & multiple yeast species: “Let’s just try a whole genome duplication”. Why? Who knows? But it’s cool!

@KatelynJButler @RebeccaNShay I don’t know, but if you can fit fungi into the discussion, I recommend it! (Candida albicans - almost never does meiosis, 2N mates to yield 4N then decays back down to 2N over time; also C. albicans: “drug resistance? - Let’s copy chromosome 5”)

A Cubist fish for #SundayFishSketch

@CorrodedParadox Please to have a chameleon being a total derp. He offers to do it again if it helps.

#FoundThatLizard!

You could not begin to fathom the drama these seemingly harmless fungi are capable of causing,

@wayneriekhof @hyphaltip @kasson_wvu @TheErinCarr @ScienceIsMetal “Introductory Mycology” 1979 edition (Alexopolous & Mims) gave one definition of “fungi” as “anything traditionally studied by mycologists”…

I’m loving The Last of Us. Fantastic story and excellent performances by all. But why are they using a slime mold in the intro credits? Why?!?! Like I need backup from @hyphaltip and @kasson_wvu and @HallenAdams and @TheErinCarr and @ScienceIsMetal and my other fungal peeps…