Did you know Achoque salamanders have 'superpowers'?
www.facebook.com/reel/9090647...
Laboratorio de Biología Acuática (who we support) have made a beautiful video about these astonishing but Critically Endangered amphibians.
Click to watch! The art starts at 35s in. 🌎🦎
Iguanas!
A female scientist next to a laptop showing DNA sequences. There is an Anteater image on the wall behind her.
Working hard on International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Lucky to have the opportunity to study lots of animal species, their DNA, and even their bacteria! #11F 🧬🦎🐜🦠🧪👩🏽🔬
Good morning to you too iguana! 🦎🇲🇽
Feliz día del biólogo y la bióloga! 🧬🦎🦠🦨🕷️🐌🍄🦖🦇🧪👩🏽🔬
An AI generated image showing a frog, a butterfly, plants and a cartoonish DNA molecule, with text in spanish, advertising an opportunity to get a masters degree studying environmental DNA in Mexico
Buscamos personas interesad@s en estudiar la biodiversidad de eucariontes con métodos basados en DNA ambiental #eDNA.
Consulta la convocatoria de maestría en ECOSUR (México): www.ecosur.mx/posgrado/con...
Para más información contacta a Dra. Eugenia Zarza: eugenia.zarza@ecosur.mx 🧪🌎🧬🐟🐜🪲🪱🍄🐭
We´re seeing a similar paradox in Mexico. Green iguanas are native and protected by the environmental law, but there are new populations outside their original range (e.g. Baja California Peninsula). Besides the ecological issues, this confuses the general public. 🦎🌎
I really enjoyed Costa’s book and learning how Wallace had an impact on many scientific fields. Happy birthday Wallace!
Two volcanoes from Central Mexico: left Popocatepetl; right Iztaccihuatl.
I was happy to see my two favourite volcanoes again: Popocatepetl (left, active, 5,393 m, Smoking Mountain in Nahuatl) and Iztaccíhuatl (right, dormant, 5,230 m, White Woman in Nahuatl). However it’s worrying that the glaciers are quickly disappearing 🗻🇲🇽 #climatechange
One of the Xochimilco canals flanked by Chinampas
One of the Xochimilco canals
Merry Christmas from Axolotl lake, Xochimilco 🇲🇽. Sadly very few axolotls are left in the wild. We visited an “ajolotario” and saw these two cute guys. 🌎🐸
A black spiny-tailed iguana next to some plants
Iguana (Ctenosaura similis) going around campus 🦎
His work was published in the journal #eDNA doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
My first PhD student graduated! I’m proud of his work on wastewater viral metagenomics! He detected a wide diversity of plant viruses in our tropical region. 🧪🧬🦠🌱
Went for a run early enough to catch the Tacaná volcano silhouette against the sunrise colours. It is an active volcano but it has been calm for almost 40 years, I hope it continues like that 🌋🇲🇽
🦋Documental | El Retorno de las Ánimas, una producción dirigida por Nicolás Díaz-Magaloni, se adentra en la comunidad mazahua de Crescencio Morales en México, donde la mariposa monarca representa la llegada de las ánimas dozz.es/7p8un4
Who ate the bread?!
Day of the Dead altars in the lab, honouring some of the scientists we lost this and past years. 🇲🇽💀🧪👩🏽🔬
A close up of a Jamaica rock iguana in the head start facility at Kingston Zoo.
Worried about the people in Jamaica. I'm also worried about the only surviving wild population of the critically endangered Jamaica rock iguanas (Cyclura collei), I hope they find a place to hide. 🦎🌎🧪
Estamos organizando la primera Olimpiada Nacional de Zoología en México, dirigida a estudiantes de licenciatura de Biología y carreras afines. Más info: instagram.com/olimpiadas.zoo www.facebook.com/share/p/1KYD... 🧪🦎🐟🦊🦉🦋🪱🐸🐜🐌🪸🦣
Fewer than 150 achoque may survive in the wild, and we need a way to monitor their health and other factors to better protect them.
Good news, though: our scientists have carried out the first ever successful microchipping trial on these salamanders!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzV...
🧪🌎🦇
Posters, pencils magnifier glasses on a table
Kids writing and watching images
4 persons in front of a sign saying ‘Metabarcoding Detectives se Organismos’
4 happy scientists from Mexico
We had a great time yesterday in the main Science outreach event in our institution, “ECOSUR a Puertas abiertas”, 🇲🇽. We received around 1000 people! My students were super enthusiastic sharing info about eDNA! 🧬🧪👩🏽🔬
I was happy to contribute to this interesting genomic and biochemical study on the powers of Glutamicibacter spp! This strain, isolated from a pristine cenote in Yucatán, is halotolerant and can potentially be used in bioremediation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦠🧬
A poster with images of 11 species of iguanas. Created by the International Iguana Foundation
My favourite reptiles: They live in amazing places e.g. Baja California and the Galapagos islands, they’re seed dispersers, some are fragile other very resilient, culturally important but threatened by habitat loss, trafficking, hunting. Today is Iguana awareness day! Photo:IIF 🌎🦎
What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast
Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...
Sharing a video of Catemaco 🇲🇽 for #WorldLakeDay, surrounded by the volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and some patches of the original rainforest. It’s one of the sampling sites in our eDNA project.
Here's a really great global/remote job opportunity at IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. 🌏 #conservation #biodiversity #widlife #nationalparks
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bene! With a bit of FOMO for missing ESEB. Happy to find you here!
Paco, that’s great!
three bats outside my office! 🦇
