Jackson Roberts

Now that papers are signed, I am excited to announce that I will be starting August 2023 at the @SternbergMuseum of @FortHaysState as Zoology Collections Manager. Thanks to everyone at @LSU_MNS and the Sternberg for making this opportunity possible.

@JustBernstein Proud of you man! And also INSANELY JEALOUS!!!

Another successful symposium in the Philippines! Doing these kinds of events between field research expeditions is imperative for local communities and academics to be aware of and understand why we do what we do!

Celebrating the 300,000th herp specimen catalogued (MVZ:Herp:300000) at @MVZUCB coffee today ❤️❤️🐸🐸 it was a Rana sierrae collected by @wavingfrog

A lot of exciting genomic work in my last year, but it's also exciting to get some really fun projects with collaborators done as well! More Mud #Snake research on the rise! mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Check out our recent paper on the origin/evolution of a diverse snake group called Elapoidea doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… which got excellent press coverage! Live Science: tinyurl.com/zc7etdy9 Science News: tinyurl.com/3em2s5mm #snake #evolution @kunhm @ResearchAtKU @AMNH

We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting. Please help share this ad: toddlab.ucdavis.edu/opportunities.…

@MarkyMutchler Holy moly these are stunning! For snake taxonomy I like to do head outlines to show escalation. Do you mind sharing your setup: programs used? iPad pen? These are incredible and on an iPad seems so convenient!

I finally got an ✨iPad✨ and am now no longer drawing on my phone screen with my fingers! Here’s a first look at what I’ve got cookin’, cute water droplet and tiny bird feet included

@JustBernstein You recording/streaming it?

Excited to talk about our rattlesnake transcriptomics research at #Evol2024! Come check my talk out on Saturday the 27th if you're interested in hybrids and genomes!

@ethanblinck @evornithology Where you at?!?!

@evornithology 🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬

just got back from 11 days out of contact in the field! time to take a big gulp of coffee and log on to see if anything noteworthy happened in US politics while we were gone

Dear @inaturalist users, don’t change people’s id’s if your only change is switching the record to a subspecies within the species that the entry is already ID. Thanks.

@ethanblinck Are you headed back?!?!?!?!

a great way to get a hold put on your p-card is to try to buy plane tickets from Air Niugini

Researchers have discovered a new distinctive and secretive #snake species in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, dubbing it “the missing piece of the puzzle” as it fills a large distribution gap for its genus. 🐍🇸🇦 🔗 Read about it on the @Pensoft blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/05/30/sna…

@ashishdurg @LSU @LSU_BioSci @Nick_mas0n @FulbrightPrgrm @USIEF @wii_india You are going to love it!!! Congratulations. @Nick_mas0n and all the @LSU_MNS curators make it a warm and welcoming place for great (and fun) work!

Super thrilled to announce that I have received the Fulbright fellowship to work at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science @LSU @LSU_BioSci @Nick_mas0n @FulbrightPrgrm @USIEF @wii_india

@mtanichthys @CucalonV Great text! And apparently as of this year it will no longer be printed!

Been quiet on social media this last week, but this has been the companion of me and @CucalonV for our trip. We got a lot done, I think.

@AmphibiArik And the tail intact as well! Ophisaurus are fantastic!

This stunning eastern glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis) was basking in my neighbors driveway. Good to know populations are still holding on in the middle of town. ❤️🦎🐍

Time for a break. Remember that snakes are better than people, and it isn’t close.

@FloridaMuseum Congrats Jon! Loving the @LSU_MNS takeover - wassup @glaudelrio

Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀 More about Jonathan: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-fa…

It’s finally here! After years of blood, sweat, and extreme fund-raising, my dream of bringing a rattlesnake mega-den to people has come true. Project RattleCam is now streaming LIVE at RattleCam.org! 1/8

@jl_williamson @cdanielcadena @PNASNews @MSBbirds We were very lucky to see some of this beautiful paper as an @LSU_MNS seminar given by @jl_williamson in person my last year of my PhD. As a taxonomist, I was gobsmacked. You literally CANNOT do it more thoroughly and methodically than this.

@cdanielcadena @PNASNews @MSBbirds Hell yes 🙌!

the coolest paper i have read in quite a while. stay tuned for my take on it @PNASNews 😉 - congrats @jl_williamson @MSBbirds et al.!