Vivek Philip Cyriac

Ever wonder what the hemipenes look like in Shieldtail Snakes? Read this new paper by Pyron et al.: DOI: doi.org/10.1643/h20210… 50-day free access: ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbb/zih2021…

Publication alert 🚨🎉 we studied the growth of #herpetology in #India with a focus on genders of participating authors & publication trends! Led by @VivekCyriac & Co-authored by us #HERper a @anujamital @herpomania & yours truly! Published last night in Amphibia-Reptilia. 1/12

Of interest to the #herpetALLogy community: An open letter to @TurtleSurvival from members of the greater herp community was released today discussing #EquityAndInclusion with the org. inclusiveherpetology.wordpress.com

Hot off the press: female authorship over fifty years of papers on #snakes and #lizards is rising fast! Bravo to my team of #HERper students for manually scraping thousands of author names from old papers, especially team leader and @CalPoly undergrad @KatietheeRock!

Thrilled that our new paper "Warning signals promote morphological diversification in fossorial uropeltid snakes" is out online in @ZoolJLinnSoc bit.ly/388QTFP. Happy reading everyone! #colsci #evolution #herpetology

Paper from my PhD! Work done with Anjali Verma and Praveen Karanth in journal of evolutionary biology. We investigated morphological diversification in a gecko radiation from peninsular India. A thread @CES_IISc @herpetALLogy @herphighlights onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

The 2024 World Congress of Herpetology will be held in... MALAYSIA! #wch9 #wch10 #wch2020 #wch2024

I come from a line of RSS believers. My family is Islamophobic. They believe the BJP. They taught me too. But they also educated me & I grew up to reject their ideas. Now I’m bringing my mother around. Revolution starts at home. And I refuse to stop trying till I succeed.

A general feeling among my fellow citizens across elite institutes of India is that we do good science because we stay away from politics. That's only partly true. But there can't be free lunches, right? +

Just how strong are these young women.....

Delighted to see our 1st paper on snakebites in India in @PLOSNTDs! This paper evaluates efficacy of the current Indian antivenoms in treating bites from the 'neglected many'. We highlight why India needs to look beyond the 'big4' snakes @LabVenomics dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Q: How do you prove that there’s no “climate of fear” in India? A: By getting rabid IT cell troll army to attack industrialist who had the courage to point out the climate of fear in India.

ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಗಡಿಯಾರ, ೧೯೬೦ರ ದಶಕದಲ್ಲಿ ತೆಗೆದ ಚಿತ್ರ / Chikka Gadiyara, or the Dufferin Clock Tower (built 1886), Mysore. Photo from the 1960s.

We've named this thread: "How to hide your Indian interests behind American and Russian content"

Student: why monkeys are menace even though we feed them? Prof Mewa Singh: "because in animals only subordinate individuals offer food to others. So when we give them food, they treat us like subordinates." Most convincing explanation I've ever heard! @TrEE_Lab @vinita_gowda

Sadly, grad student @feministbiology & I learned that not everyone knows these basic rules. THREAD: Things NOT to do when you are a senior male at a conference and a junior female trainee gives a talk: 1) Do NOT sit up front shaking your head in disagreement throughout her talk.

“If you look at the conservation icons from Africa, none of them are black. Not one!”, says @m_ogada in his hard-hitting plenary at @sccsbng, with example after example of the deep embedding of prejudice and privilege in the structures and processes of global conservation today.

Want to know why some fossorial snakes have conspicuous colours? Have a look at my article that has been published today in @thePeerJ peerj.com/articles/7508 #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #EvolutionaryStudies #colsci