What a great weekend! Another fantastic and successful #VenomDay2022 with lots of great talks and catching up with old friends and making new ones. Followed by a great hike in Snowdonia National Park to blow away the hangover

As well as teaching and research, I (@Simon_Maddock) think it is critical to do #PublicEngagement and I regularly try to participate or organise as many events as possible. For example, I have just got back from a w/e organising #VenomDay2022 (see pic) which I have been organising since 2009 and I can't believe how many awesome #venom connoisseurs there are, including lotsssss of members of the general public! As usual, this year there were so many fascinating talks!
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Interested in attending Venom Day? Ticket sales end at 10pm (GMT) tomorrow. This is the fantastic schedule of talks that we have lined up. To book tickets visit https://bit.ly/3CFE7hJ

#VenomDay2022 #Herpetology #Entomology #SciComm #Venom #Snakebite

Sakthi Vaiyapuri from University of Reading will discuss "Landscape of snakebite envenomation in rural India"

#VenomDay2022 #Snakebite #Snakes #Herpetology #SciComm

Ray Morgan from Asclepius Snakebite Foundation will discuss "Putting snakebite on the map: the geographics of snakebite mortality and morbidity"

#VenomDay2022 #Snakebite #Herpetology #Venom #SciComm

Leah Fitzpatrick from Oxford Brookes University will be talking about
"Venomous Mammals: a special blend of psychology and extreme violence"

#VenomDay2022 #Venom #Mammals #SciComm

Ignazio Avella from University of Porto will talk about "Exploring the venoms of the Iberian vipers Vipera latastei and Vipera seoanei: insights in composition and variation"

#VenomDay2022 #Snakes #Viper #Herpetology #Venom #SciComm

Tom Major from Bangor University will discuss how "Museomics reveal the identity of a mysterious venomous snake from Zimbabwe."

#VenomDay2022 #SciComm #Snakes #Herpetology #Museomics #Genomics

Cassandra Modahl from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will discuss "Investigating The Genetic Basis Of Venom Variation Using Australian Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja spp.) As A Model"

#VenomDay2022 #SciComm #Snakes #Venom #Herpetology

Brandon Collier from University of Galwaay will be discussing "Global, Mobile, Noble: The effect of the Noble false widow spider Steatoda nobilis on native species"

#VenomDay2022 #Venom #Spiders #SciComm #Entomology

Andrea Pozzi from Bangor University will be talking about his research on "Population and conservation genomics of the adder (Vipera berus) in the UK"

#VenomDay2022 #Snakes #PopulationGenetics #Genomics #Herpetology #Conservation #SciComm

Cassandra Modahl from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will discuss "Investigating The Genetic Basis Of Venom Variation Using Australian Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja spp.) As A Model"

#VenomDay2022 #SciComm #Snakes #Venom #Herpetology

Ronald Jenner from the Natural History Museum, London will discuss "12 Years of Fun with Venom: What I (Should) Have Learned"

#VenomDay2022 #SciComm #Centipedes #Entomology #Venom

We have been running a public engagement event relating to venomous animals since 2010 at Bangor University and we are back again this year. The deadline for purchasing tickets is this Friday (11th November) with the event taking place on Saturday 19th November. Tickets can be purchased from https://bit.ly/3CFE7hJ

We have a fantastic range of talks lined up this year on a range of topics and I will give you a snapshot of some of them in this thread.

#VenomDay2022 #Venom #SciComm