Catherine Klein

An international team, including Dr. Catherine Klein from #FAU's @norbayern, suggests all living snakes benefited from the mass extinction brought on by the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago 🐍 fau.eu/2021/09/16/new… @Kleinophis @PalaeoFAU

Many thanks to collaborators and funders for making this possible! @WillsProf @daniel_j_field @FnrLux @UniofBath @MilnerCentre @BristolPalaeo @PalaeoFAU (3/3)

In summary: Snakes seem to have fared quite well through the K-Pg, and thrived post-extinction – diversifying, growing bigger and weirder, and inhabiting a new continent (2/3)

It’s finally out! After many years of work, you can now find out more about the impact of the K-Pg mass extinction on snakes in our new paper in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146… (1/3)

Super glad I could make it to Münich in time for #phybae21! Had a lovely time hearing about everyone's exciting research @SebastianHoehna @rachelwarnock @lauramulvey479

Next weeks seminar will be presented by Catherine Klein from @UniofBath who will be discussing "Macroevolutionary patterns in squamates: what fossil and molecular evidence can (and cannot) tell us" at 18:00BST on Wednesday 20 May. The seminar will not be recorded so don't miss it

@Kleinophis Congratulations!! That’s wonderful news! What’s next on agenda?

With all the chaos of the PhD and coronavirus, I am super happy to have successfully (virtually) defended my PhD this morning! Many thanks to my examiners for making it a pleasant experience 😃

@Kleinophis Huge massive congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉

@Thomas_Clements Thanks!

@Kleinophis So many congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@drkatiedavis Thank you Katie!

@Basidiobolus Thanks!

@Kleinophis Congratulations!

@GilesPalaeoLab @macroevolut @MilnerCentre @UniofBath Thank you Sam!

@macroevolut @Kleinophis @MilnerCentre @UniofBath Congrats Catherine!!

@pdmannion Thank you Phil!

Congratulations @Kleinophis!

Pippin really loves these treats. He'll do anything for them - even venture out of his house while we are around. His favourite vegetable is red pepper.

Pippin (Peregrin) is a 1 y.o. Syrian hamster. He's adorable, inquisitive, gentle, and fiercely independent (alas no cuddling). He really likes it when hands reach down and give him food

Lucky to be stuck at home with this cutie. As he can no longer receive visitors I endeavour to share his cuteness on here

@struhenderson @emmadnn Agreed! My personal experience is that all dietary requirements get lumped together by catering services - I had to eat GF and DF for health reasons, and got served houmous & grated carrot sandwiches for 3 consecutive days at a conference :(

@emmadnn My personal viewpoint is that with the sheer number of alternatives now available it is possible to cater for all dietary requirements while being veggie/vegan, but obviously for events we rely on catering servicesbwho often don't (or can't) use branded alternative products.

I'm all for more sustainable & inclusive conference practices, but only having veggie/vegan food causes problems for people who have allergies (soy, egg, nuts, etc) or specific dietary needs. Let's cater for everyone so that no one is made to feel troublesome 🥪🍉

Heading to Bangor to present at #VenomDay2019 tomorrow - looking forward to learning lots about extant herps and meeting new people!