Greg Pauly

Herpetologist and community science aficionado. Curator of Herpetology and Co-Director, Urban Nature Research Center @NHMLA. Co-author #WildLA

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Check out our new paper in @Trends_Ecol_Evo suggesting authorship protocols need to change to responsibly credit essential contributions made by #CitizenScientists.
https://t.co/5pC5tht4rD
Co-authored with @g_wardfear, Rick Shine, Jann Vendetti #citsci #CitizenScience @NHMLA

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@CitSci_Geek Send any of the authors an email and you'll have it.

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Back from a 13-month Twitter hiatus to ask colleagues to consider whether the terminology they use, especially if they work with community members, might be excluding potential participants, colleagues, and supporters. Email me if you can't download it. https://t.co/NaphzkvAjZ

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@CitSci_Geek Agree that access is an issue. Also agree that the problem we outline is not global but primarily in countries where people face discrimination due to legal citizenship status (and where this is highly politicized). We discuss that in manuscript.

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@CitSci_Geek You can't explain to potential participants the idea that we are all citizens of the earth if they already feel excluded from your project and/or your institution by your terminology. As described in manuscript, we have first hand experience of this happening.

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@breeput I found my first horned lizard of the season this past Sunday. It was in the Santa Monica Mtns in a location I've biked through 100's of times and never seen one there before. A little glimmer of hope that just maybe these awesome lizards can hold on a bit longer.

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@breeput Darn! I was hoping you had them at your elevation.

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@BenardMF @am_anatiala Yes, a male S. occidentalis trying to warm up fast to defend his territory. Females don't get that dark.

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@LAevolving Poor little alligator lizard. My home freezer tends to only have tissues. But that's only because I keep formalin and a tray around so prep salvaged animals immediately and then freeze tissues.

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@clynfitzpatrick @inaturalist @rioscjuan @clynfitzpatrick I've published research from notes based on a single iNat obs to studies using nearly 60,000 obs. Probably easier to just chat about your situation. Send me an email ([email protected]), and I'd be happy to share my thoughts.

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@ToddClardy We'd eat well!

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@KayceCBell @NHMLA And collected by Academy Award nominated cinematographer Jack Couffer during US military funded fieldwork in support of then top secret plan to have bats fly small incendiary bombs into Japanese buildings.

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@bethpratt @LA_Res_Tourist Any snake expert will comment on the forced perspective; it's so frustratingly common in snake photos. Typically, the snake is a dead rattlesnake on a stick with some exaggerated story about how it was threatening all of humanity. At least this is a beautiful and live kingsnake.

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@bethpratt I promise you it's not the biggest kingsnake you've ever seen. It just looks that way because of forced perspective. The snake is an arm and stick length in front of Mr. Silva, making it look much larger than it is. Good for him for keeping it off a road.

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@MyFrogCroaked @USFWS Of course P. cadaverina is also an amazing frog, named for its grayish-tan coloration-the color of a human cadaver. But really just amazing camouflage as it sits on boulders throughout the day exposed except for its camo.

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@USFWS You're getting your frogs mixed up. The CA Treefrog (P. cadaverina) in your photo doesn't say "ribbit." It is the Pacific Treefrog (P. regilla---or P. hypochondriaca in S. CA) that is abundant, widespread, says "ribbit," and gets dubbed into films.

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@AvidCorvid @NHMLA @ajshultz622 Welcome to @nhmla! Great to have another UCD alum here. I look forward to meeting you this summer.

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@RaynaCBell @calacademy It will be interesting to see how widespread Cyrtopodion scabrum has become on the desert military bases. Could be a great opportunity to look at dietary overlap and habitat use compared to native Coleonyx.

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@ToddClardy This week, confused security guard watched me walk 2 steps out of the museum, look at my phone, then turn around, and return to my office, 3 times in 15 mins. Ick/herp ritual when you have to update gmail password and need signal to receive confirmation codes.