Read on Twitter
I am brimming with pride to share our latest paper, led by undergraduate superstar @KatietheeRock, on women in #herpetology. Thank you @HerpLeague for devoting the cover of this issue to celebrating #HERpetologists from across the globe, at all career stages. 1/
In this paper, we found that while women are still underrepresented as authors on herp papers, things are changing. Even in just the last decade, the numbers rose from about 27% of all authors to about 35%. Check out the paper for differences among taxonomic groups. 2/
We also looked at papers on lizards and snakes for the past 50 years (why only 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦎" title="Eidechse" aria-label="Emoji: Eidechse">&https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐍" title="Schlange" aria-label="Emoji: Schlange">? Because it took FOREVER- read all about it in the paper) and WOW! Authorship by women has risen from about 10% to 35% in just those years. 3/
&https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐍" title="Schlange" aria-label="Emoji: Schlange">? Because it took FOREVER- read all about it in the paper) and WOW! Authorship by women has risen from about 10% to 35% in just those years. 3/" title="We also looked at papers on lizards and snakes for the past 50 years (why only https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦎" title="Eidechse" aria-label="Emoji: Eidechse">&https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐍" title="Schlange" aria-label="Emoji: Schlange">? Because it took FOREVER- read all about it in the paper) and WOW! Authorship by women has risen from about 10% to 35% in just those years. 3/" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Other cool results: Papers with female first authors and with male last authors were cited the most. 4/
My favorite result: papers with female first or last authors had WAY more female co-authors than papers with male authors in these lead roles. #HERpers unite! 5/
This paper is timely because women in herpetology have been talked down to, spoken over, told we can& #39;t do it, harassed, even assaulted for decades. We have seen harassers get the grants, the limelight, even the awards. NO LONGER. Our science speaks for itself. 6/
Want to hear some #HERper stories? Check out this amazing thread and paper by @Herpomania and @crazy_chipkali. 7/ https://twitter.com/Herpomania/status/1377814307090563076">https://twitter.com/Herpomani...
What can you do?? Encourage the #HERpers in your life. (Basically, do what you can do to be like @ToadallyPriya in every way and you& #39;ll be winning.) 8/ https://twitter.com/ToadallyPriya/status/1300607649726246914">https://twitter.com/ToadallyP...
Want to read our paper? Check it out at https://doi.org/10.1655/0018-0831-77.1.1.">https://doi.org/10.1655/0... If you can& #39;t get it, email me at etaylor@calpoly.edu for a copy.
JUST SAW THIS!! More on women in herpetology! #herpetALLogy https://twitter.com/ItzueCS/status/1381018115094540291">https://twitter.com/ItzueCS/s...
