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PhD Student | Freshwater Ecology, Phenotypic Plasticity | University of Arkansas

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"GET THE FISHHH" - Dr. Terry Keiser πŸ˜‚ a core memory from Field Semester.

23.09.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Academics in the U.S.. be honest. If you were graduating with a PhD in the next year, would you pursue an academic career? It's becoming harder & harder to do this work every day.

Specifically interested in hearing from folks at smaller schools, private unis, or community colleges.

26.08.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, reveali...

Had a wonderful time speaking with Ari Daniel alongside Dick Holmes to share how we map bird territories to answer unique scientific questions at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Take a listen!

www.npr.org/transcripts/...

06.08.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The blueprint for survival: the blue dasher dragonfly as a model for urban adaptation - BMC Ecology and Evolution Background Human alteration of natural environments and habitats is a major driver of species decline. However, a handful of species thrive in human altered environments. The biology, distribution, po...

Excited to have this #entomology #dragonfly paper out! Congratulations to @ethantolman.bsky.social Ellie Gamett and team! bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

08.07.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Review on time budgets in life history trade-offs of female reptiles πŸ§ͺ #evolsky

26.06.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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When brood XIV is emerging in your hometown and you convince your recently retired dad to go collecting for you πŸ™ŒπŸ»

21.05.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

16.05.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Mental Health Impacts of Scientific Fieldwork Opinion | Difficult conditions at remote field sites can put researchers under physical, mental, and emotional strain.

An important read for field biologists! @yvoscience.bsky.social undark.org/2025/04/17/o...

22.04.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today seems like a good day to rewrite what wrote yesterday πŸ™ƒ #phdchat #dissertation

10.04.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ+ biologists face hostile work environment Largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at w...

shared a bit of my experiences being trans in STEM a bit ago, excited to see the article out!

and cis folks: the statistics here are from *before* the current dumpster fire, just for context. so just imagine for a second how much worse things are now

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.03.2025 22:14 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Fuck yeah ✊🏻

28.02.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey folks, I’m going to need you to care about what’s happening in states like FL, TX, IA, MO, and TN. These are, in my opinion, the most aggressive states towards trans rights and whatever they’re able to pass, others will try to follow suit.

Fight back and organize with folks within these states

28.02.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screen shot of the letter sent to the American Society of Naturalists membership, page 1

Screen shot of the letter sent to the American Society of Naturalists membership, page 1

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Screen shot of the letter sent to the American Society of Naturalists membership, page 2

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Screen shot of the letter sent to the American Society of Naturalists membership, page 3

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Screen shot of the letter sent to the American Society of Naturalists membership, page 4

Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:

26.02.2025 01:56 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

19.02.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 7644 πŸ” 5059 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 377
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Trans people have always existed and always will

14.02.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

07.02.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 562 πŸ” 426 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 34
Bringing Shadowdragons to light: Neurocordulia systematics β€” Worldwide Dragonfly Association

So excited for our Neurocordulia Shadowdragon #dragonfly paper to be out! #entomology doi.org/10.48156/138...

03.02.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Check out my favorite dissertation chapter πŸ‘‡πŸ» made possible by @adamsiepielski.bsky.social, & former lab mates Tara Lanzer and Taylor Ping, who helped me assay hundreds of bugs when covid restrictions were in place.

03.02.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Instead, ask your trans friends if you can help with legal documents, medications, finances, relocation, community connections, finding affirming healthcare, future planning, etc. Or simply tell us you love us & show us you're committed to the work. ✊🏻🫢🏻

27.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Telling us that we're valid is to assume we don't feel that we are. That assumption comes from one's own insecurities about parts of themselves they've yet to learn to love & accept. πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

27.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Idk, it just feels like a slap in the face when we've known this all along. The problem is cis ppl not doing the work to accept who THEY are, fully.

27.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting to a point where we accept our transness requires us to know ourselves deeply. We know we're valid. Cis ppl rarely do the deep, introspective work that is an inherent part of being trans.

27.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cis friends - instead of telling the trans ppl you know that they're valid, etc, regardless of our political landscape, tell that to other cis ppl.

27.01.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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How to be a trans ally in academia today (opinion) What it means to be an ally has changed, Chelsea Thompto writes.

"How to be a trans ally in academia today"
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

22.01.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

12.01.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 23846 πŸ” 9756 πŸ’¬ 386 πŸ“Œ 679
A screen shot of the front page of an article on Nannothemis dragonflies

A screen shot of the front page of an article on Nannothemis dragonflies

Congratulations to our former #AMNH #REU student Maia Chandler, who along with co-authors Daniel Davis, Aaron Goodman & Lacie Newton, published her work on Nannothemis bella #dragonflies today! #WDA #WorldDragonflyAssociation #IJO #NSF

www.worlddragonfly.org/article/tijo...

06.12.2024 13:34 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender people To read the letter, please click here: Letter as PDF We are presently collecting an initial list of signatories, but intend to modify this form and make it available in the future for additional sig...

Link to sign: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte...

04.12.2024 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Done ;)

04.12.2024 22:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a historic hearing on transgender rights. The findings in this case will likely have great implications for the right to healthcare for all trans people in the U.S. See how you can support our communities below!

04.12.2024 22:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

12/10 adventure pals

11.02.2024 17:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0