Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

how is it 2025 and we still have to remind scientists that science IS POLITICAL scientist are PEOPLE and some of us would really like to keep having rights!!!

Sick and tired of spending time to submit thoughtful cover letters to already filled jobs with postings that only exist for HR reasons

dnd party gets attacked by a pack of wolves that serve the Big Bad tired: kill the wolves wired: befriend the wolves inspired: unionize the wolves to demand better working conditions from the Dark Lord

Excited for this to finally see the light of day - new preprint from my lab, where we present a fast, accurate maximum likelihood tool to estimate population structure, called MULTICLUST. We extend the model of Alexander et al 2009 (ADMIXTURE) to multiallelic data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Was at a really nice department event where they were giving out free t-shirts. Another grad student asked if he could grab a t-shirt for his girlfriend, and the staff happily agreed! I thought it was cute and went up to ask if i could grab a t-shirt for my boyfriend and I got a hard "no"...

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness *Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social 🧵 Photo by Christian Ziegler

I've be struggling to be honest, it's really hard after we have done everything we were supposed to and then we get to the finish line with what feels like nothing. I've been trying to take it day by day. Some days I am ok, some days I am sad (like yesterday).

my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!! *zoom in on the first picture in the second row **together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen

graduating PhDs… anyone has a clue on how to not despair about our job prospects right now? (happy to just vent too!)

Today is international nonbinary peoples day, so I'm gonna share a bit about how I figured out that I'm nonbinary. To start, I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was 35 years old. This was for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I simply never had the words for it 1/8

I'm sadly leaving Hawaii and the USA today. This NYT article, with comment from me, @solilyquy.bsky.social and @leafwax.bsky.social, explains one (of several) reasons why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Excited to have presented our research on geographic differences in auditory properties of Carolina Chickadees at the Animal Behavior Conference! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with colleagues! @animbehsociety.bsky.social #ABS2025 #Bioacoustics #auditory #Chickadees

“high-grading bias is a concern whenever a small subset of markers are first chosen to explain differences among groups based on their degree of difference and are subsequently reused to estimate the degree of difference among those groups.”

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!! We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

just got the nicest email!! an undergrad is remaking a figure from my paper in their programming in R class and asked me for some help 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

some good news in the midst a lot of bad news this week: my second chapter was accepted!!!!!

👉🏼he has a question for u 👈🏼

mullet goals!!!! 💅💅💅

Wasn't sure it was possible for something to compare to my love of corn t-shirts. From www.stempotential.com/mission

I'm looking for some colleagues interested in helping to start an initiative to seek private salary funding for Evolutionary Biology grad students, in collaboration with scientific societies like @asn-amnat.bsky.social . reach out if interested

Hey #evol2025! Interested in marine population genomics, range expanding species, speciation, genome assemblies? Come support my students!! #EvolutionMeeting #marinespecies #populationgenomics

and the biggest insult is that Iranians aren’t even of Arab descent

It's always a good day to celebrate an endemic snail. Meet Nesiohelix swinhoei — found in Taiwan and nowhere else. 📷 naturalist121932 on iNaturalist 📍 Taiwan 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? 🧪 there is not a single, agreed-upon definition of a species, or clear standards for when a (population of a) species evolves into a new species

solidarity from indiana!!! you know shit is bad when this is the turnout in Lafayette, INDIANA

🚨 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY @ CORNELL Join our lab to push the frontier of DNA-based monitoring of aquatic ecosystems! 🔬 Metabarcoding + Metagenomics 🌊 Real-world monitoring impact 📍 Ithaca, NY | Start late summer 2025 (flexible) 📅 Apply by June 27 Full ad & details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html

something about c. elegans swimming forwards and backwards 🫢

For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list by @jjinsing.bsky.social via integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w... List jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/ & be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #LGTBQI #Pride

I found out today that ICE was at the hospital where I trained for residency. I am not ok. In the 3 years I trained there I’ve seen hundreds upon hundreds of undocumented patients, and to think that any one of them could have been picked up today is absolutely devastating.

Because I loved what @inaturalist.bsky.social was doing, I have painstakingly identified almost every single observation of Kellet's whelks (my study species) available on iNat. If they continue down this road, I will delete my account, my observations, and my identifications.

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com

ah yes! let’s use genAI and burn more more fossil fuel to destroy the biodiversity we’re trying to document can’t believe one of my favorite organizations would make a decision like this. truly the worst and dumbest timeline we live in.

i will manually delete all of my observations if i have to…

another example of the 2-body problem in academia: my partner and i have been dating for 4.5 years and we’ve never lived in the same city (let alone the same state or region). he’s actually on a different continent doing fieldwork all summer 😢

summarizing events at purdue last week: -DEI offices being shut down, large number of employees fired -Grounds crew painting over walls and murals remotely related to DEI -Stop distributing the student-run newspaper -Told the above student-run news paper to stop using the name “Purdue”

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home. Free Mahmoud.

i feel like my immune system has been severely compromised by the stress of 1. grad school and 2. being alive in trump’s america

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Watching people interact on here, I see how we collectively have ended up in the nightmare we’re in. We have smart educated people refusing to empathize with people who have less education, time, money, & general resources, expecting them to perform at a high level to move forward/fix problems.

not that i expected better from Purdue… but as an Queer student of color who has gotten harassed countless of times while at Purdue, the spineless ending of DEI efforts is still a stab to the heart

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

I feel really torn about promoting US-based grad/post-doc positions. [2B clear: I don't think my promotion has any value; more of an ethical quandary] I know a lot of these people, & they are brilliant/lovely. But promoting work in a de-funded anti-science climate? Potentially career-ending :/ 🧪

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer but you would be wrong new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....