WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Today at #ABS2025, I participated in the early career workshop: Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior. We discussed networking, time management, collaborations & research, receiving wisdom from faculty & sharing advice. Highly recommend to other postdocs/early faculty (or SIGNAL for grad students)!

Eco/Evo friends: Where would you recommend submitting a manuscript that is a short article at the intersection of community ecology and animal behavior?

It was a lucky day on the greenway in San Antonio this morning!

I can't beat @lizardmichele.bsky.social description of this new paper, so I won't try! 😅

New paper alert! 🦎 Lizard sperm come in many varieties. Is that due to testicular properties? Only yes, we concluded With phylogeny included Because sperm and testes evolve neutrally. See the full story w @arielkahrl.bsky.social, Hannah Hall, Bela Carson in Biol J Linn Soc: doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Oh, the pain on my timeline. 💔 I'm so very grateful for your service.

Ted Cruz "investigated" NSF and released a database of over 3,400 grants that promoted "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." 110 of the grants listed are funded through IOS or DEB programs. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Universities tend to be in blue cities and towns. Because when you learn about how wonderful and different the world is, it changes you. You have empathy. You have compassion. You understand other points of view and learn from world history.

Until yesterday, I was the Program Director of an HHMI-funded initiative to transform my institution's intro STEM courses so that all students could succeed in those courses. This is shameful.

How am I doing? Well, today I learned that they don't do annual optometry exams at the dentist's office. Oops.

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

Hi, I'm Earyn, and I'm a lizard scientist! I created a game to teach people about lizards and increase the representation of Black women as herpetologists. #findthatlizard is a Where's Waldo-esque game where there is a lizard camouflaged in its environment. Your challenge is to find it. Will you? 🦎

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

I wrote a piece on how cool this new ruff paper is. Total endocrine game-changer! Congrats to the authors on a rad discovery. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Today I asked a student how an interview went, and they said, "I think it was pretty good, but it could have been better, and now I'm really tired." I think that might just sum up almost everything I work on?

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So proud of my amazing undergrads!! #sicb2025 🦎 See you all in Portland?

#SICB is looking for nominees to important society-wide positions: #SICBSecretary #SICBProgramOfficer #SICBMemberAtLarge. As one of this year's #NominationsCommittee I'm interested in your ideas! Please DM, email, or find me in Atlanta #SICB2025

All three of my lab's #SICB25 posters have now been sent for printing, and I'm officially on holiday break. See y'all in Atlanta! 🦎🧠🦷❤️

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

“Women’s attrition rates were also higher at less prestigious school” boy oh boy do I have thoughts on this

San Antonio pinata stores do NOT mess around.

I've been thinking a lot about grading equity and STEM courses, and it's become clear to me: Giving consistently low grades across a course is a faculty power play.

Anole Annals is now on bluesky! Follow us (and check out our blog anoleannals.org) for all anole research, news, and more!

Anole biologist starter pack! 🦎

I'm going to teach my college class under this tree tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that a literal breath of fresh air will give us a chance to think and listen and learn in a different way.

We have TWO new student-authored papers out this fall about Mexican jumping bean (larvae) behavior! Check them out! 🫘 #undergraduateresearch www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

I've wanted to write something about academic accommodations for a while, and in the absence of other inspiration, I'm just going to put it here. I have a few points to make but first a bit of context about me. I'm profoundly deaf in my right ear. Basically can't hear anything in it. 1/

Hi, I'm an evolutionary biologist. My greatest hits include "No, chimps didn't turn into humans; we both have a common ancestor", "Saying that you 'don't believe in evolution' makes as much sense as saying you 'don't believe in gravity'", and "Things do not happen 'for the good of the species'".

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

New life hack I've discovered: if you need to talk to somebody, you can call them on the phone! So far, everybody has answered thinking I must have some kind of emergency (why else would you *call*?), but I've saved myself so many emails this week!!

I had to join the fun! A word cloud of my publications in Google Scholar...looks about right! 🦎

My biggest scholarly challenge as a biologist at a PUI is turning great datasets into manuscripts. I'm trying something new this semester, to get undergrads to change mindset from "I'll finish data collection before I graduate" to "I'll collect data AND write the bulk of a ms before graduation."

It was such a great #SICB2024! And I'm so proud of my students and their amazing presentations!!

If you’re at #SICB2024 , please join me as I give the closing plenary address, “you’re gonna need a bigger engagement strategy: lessons learned from teaching the public about shark science and conservation,” at 4:00. I’m assured the bar doesn’t open until I’m done talking.

The #SICB2024 secretarial triumvirate - the (almost) past, present, and future society secretaries!

Some of my favorite #SICB2024 moments so far...

Hi everyone! We will strive for a post a day to help reveal the hidden curriculum in ecology, evolution, conservation and marine biology. Please share with folks who might be interested in this content 😄

Anybody have a non-gendered term for "grantsmanship"?

That was awesome!! #ringoffire

Beautiful afternoon at Medina River with my Evolution class. Question of the day: how do you determine if similar traits are the result of convergence?

I am excited to announce that SICB 2024 in Seattle will be the largest SICB ever! 2000 presentations on the most exciting topics in organismal biology are coming your way over five days. The full program will be released soon. Check the meeting site for more information.

If you're at Trinity U's Family Weekend tomorrow, come check out my "mini class" at 3pm - "Seeing the world through the (three) eyes of a lizard." I'll bring the lizards!

We're excited to be on Blue Sky! Be sure to follow our EIC @fishguy.bsky.social & stay tuned for spotlights on our excellent papers and authors in ICB & IOB , SICB's premiere journals.

Heading to Seattle for the SICB conference planning meeting. Most important* on the agenda - where to plan the socials? Any suggestions for great bars or other venues, in or near downtown? *Not actually most important, just potentially most fun!

Great seminar today by my new colleague @bteague.bsky.social ! We designed cures for cancer using synthetic biology (yep, really!), and learned how yeast can be models for multicellularity. I'm so excited to have Brian in our department!

I'm still thinking about @balachaudhary.bsky.social 's presentation at Trinity yesterday, on antiracist strategies in STEM. So much action we can take right now! Thanks so much for a wonderful visit, Bala!

Representation is *powerful*. I just saw the trailer for the upcoming film mymomthescientist.com by Thomas Allen Harris, addressing why we have so few Black scientists - and I can't wait to share the documentary with my campus community. Check it out!