Janne Torkkola

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 🦎👍 doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12…

@BulewoDudley @QUT @qutdmrc @UrbanStudiesLa1 @Griffith_Uni @qldmuseum @atlaslivingaust @lizard_lab @STEMEd_QUT @UQ_CBCS @UQscience Mostly sandstone crevices apparently, or so I hear from Glenn Shea. Not that I've been looking, but I tend to listen to Glenn on lizardy matters ;)

Pew pew 😜 #findthelizard 🦎 @QUT @qutdmrc @UrbanStudiesLa1 @Griffith_Uni @qldmuseum @BulewoDudley @atlaslivingaust @lizard_lab @STEMEd_QUT @UQ_CBCS @UQscience @janne.torkkola/finding-lizards-in-hostile-territory-queensland-university-of-technologys-bar-sided-skinks-ed01f596b62e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@janne.torkkol…

'Thrown away': More concerns over SA Museum research plan - InDaily indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

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 🦎🐸 griffith.edu.au/research-study…

@Keogh_Lab @PutterT @EcoEvo_ANU Hell yeah, congrats Putter 🐍🐍🐍🐜

Huge congrats to @PutterT on an excellent PhD exit seminar to a full house, culminating in a traditional Thai gift from his fellow students. Who knew studying blind snake evolution could take you this far. @EcoEvo_ANU

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 @janne_torkkola/111515284184094795" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.world/@janne_torkkol… 🐍🦎#science #herpetology

#tenyears #decadeofsnakes 😁🐍🎉

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

Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inner ears of these critters! doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

Very cool stuff as always form @PutterT and @Keogh_Lab :)

Our new paper is out in Molecular Ecology! "Notes from the taxonomic disaster zone: Evolutionary drivers of intractable species boundaries in an Australian lizard clade (Scincidae: Ctenotus)". Fun collaboration with tweep @dan_rabosky. Find PDF copy at ivanprates.org/publications.

#Oysters 10/10

🧵Our Australian blindsnake phylogenetics paper just got published🐍🧬! @ian_g_brennan, Liz Broady, and Scott @Keogh_Lab. Link to paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here's a summary🧵 :

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

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

Happy #WorldFrogDay y'all!! Here's a calling Tyler's Treefrog (Litoria tyleri) from Mt Glorious, Brisbane 🐸🐸🐸

💚🐸It's World Frog Day!🐸💚 #Frogs & other amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on earth- almost half are threatened with extinction. Want to help? Improve local frog habitat, keep cats inside, avoid pesticide use, contribute to @FrogIDAus! #WorldFrogDay

It's #TaxonomistAppreciationDay ! If you missed this article by Paul Oliver and myself, today is a good day to catch up #Taxonomy #Biodiversity tinyurl.com/2fzus9bk

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’re still looking for more samples btwn Geraldton and Shark Bay! abc.net.au/news/2023-03-1…