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Evolutionary biologist Post doc at Oregon State U. Evolution, genomics, immune systems 🐢🧬🌈 she/her
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Hi bluesky! I'm an
#evolutionarybiologist
interested in the forces that shape diversity, from genes to species. I recently defended my PhD on
#seaturtle
#immunogenomics
and disease 🐢🧬 I'm starting a post doc in January with the Everson lab looking at
#lemur
hybridization w WGS data. Nice to be here!
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Dr Alessio Veneziano
about 13 hours ago
Phylogenetic analysis confirmed South Africa speciated from a Canada-like ancestor! 🇨🇦🇿🇦 🧪
#science
#phylo
#biology
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Madeline Eppley
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Although my poster only had space for some of the pop gen results, the rest is available as a preprint! We surveyed wild eastern oyster genomics from 40 pops across thousands of miles of seascape to characterize genetic structure, adaptive loci, structural variants, and human mediated impacts. 🦪🌊
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Range-wide genetic population structure and environmental adaptation in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) provides insight for aquaculture
Selective breeding in aquaculture is necessary to establish food security and meet demand for sustainably produced protein. An informed selective breeding program requires understanding how population...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715280v1.full
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable"
12 days ago
1) They shot up a car with a baby in it 2) I know the "shoplifting" spiel is being challenged but even if that were what was happening & even if it were only adults in the car, "It's fine to kill people for petty theft (if they're Black)" is the police premise here
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Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Recently had a chance to chat about my latest pub 👇 Many thanks to journalist Emily Dougherty for a great write-up and my lab mate
@jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social
for the lab photos! All sea turtle handling and research done as part of permitted research activities 🌊🐢🧬
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UCF Researcher Reveals How Genetic Variation Shapes Sea Turtle Immune System Evolution
New research from a UCF biology researcher shows how genetic variation shapes sea turtles’ immune systems, with implications for disease resilience and conservation strategies.
https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-researcher-reveals-how-genetic-variation-shapes-sea-turtle-immune-system-evolution/
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Your Local Epidemiologist
21 days ago
9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading).
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 1 month ago
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Dr. Sara L Middleton
about 1 month ago
Hello media people there is a whole library of images you can use to report on the current heatwave instead of melting ice creams and deck chairs. See Climate Visuals:
climateoutreach.org/what-we-do/c...
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Petra Korlević
about 1 month ago
a story in three panels of tonight's little garden visitor be sure to leave some water outside for the little bug friends during this heatwave 💧🪰
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public health guy
about 1 month ago
this article does a great job calling out rubio for his bullshit. he knows he's more responsible for this than everyone he's trying to blame
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾
about 1 month ago
I think more of us env scicomm folks need to present our work through old-timey, vaguely-horny Men's Adventures magazine covers like this. Absolutely immaculate vibes from our girl Rachel (who I can only imagine was mortified?)
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404 Media
about 1 month ago
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more:
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Kathleen Bachynski
about 2 months ago
“Before the industrial revolution comment, Caulfield praised Jeff Bezos for his passion and use of Amazon as a “stepping stone” to his real dream: spaceflight. Rattled after the crowd’s reaction, she continued her speech: “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.” The crowd cheered.”
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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Kevin Bird
about 2 months ago
People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now
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Sam
about 2 months ago
You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,
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Miles Zhang | 张远濛
2 months ago
This is now published in G3:
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
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Colin Carlson
3 months ago
Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency
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Colin Carlson
3 months ago
New in
@science.org
‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolution Students
3 months ago
GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026:
forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...
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Aaron Clauset
3 months ago
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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John Wares
3 months ago
Always enjoy reading a dissertation - I try to give it time and respect. We are all so rushed, but somebody worked their f**king ass off for this, and I'm so pleased for the person defending their work this week. So, diving in ahead of time.
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Dave Baltrus 🦦
4 months ago
One biology grant awarded in Feb by NSF
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Katrina Phillips
4 months ago
Awesome intertidal oyster restoration work underway on Dauphin Island thanks to the
@disealab.bsky.social
Studies of Marine Ecology & Evolution lab, with
@leesmee.bsky.social
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missmarinebio.bsky.social
& some muddy volunteers You can check it out at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area 🌊🦪🛶
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Chilling
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
4 months ago
Practicing writing is practicing thinking
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Madeline Eppley
4 months ago
New paper out in ecology letters! with
@andylee.bsky.social
@allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70350
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Second chapter is published :)
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Sabrina Imbler
5 months ago
I wrote about the Olympics
defector.com/which-other-...
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Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector
Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...
https://defector.com/which-other-olympic-mascots-could-italian-stoats-tina-and-milo-slaughter-in-cold-blood
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Colin Carlson
5 months ago
Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer
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Daniel Bolnick
5 months ago
New round of NSF GRFP declines without review. If you were affected: 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at
[email protected]
so we can compile + follow up Details and template at
grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
This is the link to the post:
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Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice
5 months ago
Black History Month spotlight. Dr. Robert D. Bullard wrote 18 books on environmental racism and climate justice. Dumping in Dixie shaped environmental justice 35 years ago. Read more:
https://ow.ly/FTsB50Y8LXS
#BlackHistoryMonth
#EnvironmentalJustice
#ClimateJustice
#EnvironmentalRacism
#HBCUs
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Noam Ross
5 months ago
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at
[email protected]
so we can compile + follow up Details and template at
grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
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Prem Thakker ツ
5 months ago
Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.
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Andrew Lawrence
5 months ago
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
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There is no reforming DHS. There is no educating our way out of the white supremacy, criminality, and cruelty baked into DHS. Abolition of ICE, CBP, and the whole DHS is the only way to keep people safe.
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What is this absolute garbage
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Jeremy Yoder says no war
5 months ago
Counterpoint: immigration enforcement has no fucking business anywhere near higher education, and administrators, faculty, and students should say so
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Alison Anastasio
6 months ago
I first saw the heretical combination of the subheading of "ECOLOGY" and title, "The beauty of slag," and I swooned. Check out this terrific and fun story in UChicago Magazine about the novel ecosystem/slag research we're working on locally!
#WildCalumet
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amanda moore 🐢
5 months ago
In this thread I’m providing you links to the names of photographers who are on the ground with me, who I trust and like, and whose work I admire. If you don’t like Instagram, I don’t really know what to tell you but there’s nothing I can do. Sorry. You’ll have to figure that one out on your own!
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Jedidiah Carlson
5 months ago
One of my neighbors was murdered in the streets today by ICE agents motivated by this sort of race science propaganda.
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Jedidiah Carlson
5 months ago
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I've been stewing on this question all week, and I finally have my answer: you've gotta figure out how you're gonna fight for what you love and what brings you joy. You've gotta be willing to put them on pause & fight to preserve the systems that make those things possible.
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Richard Lenski
5 months ago
Looking for something new to integrate into an
#evolution
or
#microbiology
course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the
#LTEE
. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
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James in Brooklyn
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Gina Baucom
5 months ago
This is a little ancillary but I recently talked with Sam Scheiner (recently retired PO) and he gives good advice for junior scientists etc about maintaining science in the face of uncertainty
www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
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Needed this tonight ngl
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Caroline Hu
6 months ago
Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely.
bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026
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Colin Carlson
5 months ago
many of you are the right person to write this hint hint hint hint hint HINT HINT
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Colin Carlson
5 months ago
at some point, someone needs to write something in lancet about how basic human rights principles and norms are being broken left and right with how ICE is going after and weaponizing health services
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Trung Le Nguyen
6 months ago
I’m kinda laughing to myself about how to email collaborators about this. “Hey can we push this deadline back again? My region is being occupied by violent federal forces, and I’m only a *naturalized* citizen, and it’s been impacting my sleep and executive function for some reason.”
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Trung Le Nguyen
6 months ago
I carry around my passport with me even though I know that doesn’t matter. I have a specific little bag for it, and I think about whether the way I reach for it would be interpreted as a threat.
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