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Andy Lee
@andylee.bsky.social
studying the changing seas🐟🐚🧬🌊 | #PopGen, rapid evolution, transcriptomics, range shifts | he/they 🌈

李慕安, GiljeGiljau Makakaruwang, son of the paiwan tribe on the beautiful island 🇹🇼

[hire me to be your postdoc!!]

andymuanlee.com
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feels wild to re-introduce myself after so many years on “science twitter” but i am liking the fresh start!

hey y’all, i’m andy (he/they). i study evolution in the rapidly changing ocean. i like going outside to touch rocks and look at bugs.
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We’re excited to be collaborating with @skypeascientist.bsky.social for their free livestream on December 4th at 1 PM EST featuring researcher Andy Lee! Register here for your chance to talk with Andy about his research on sea snails & climate change: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/les....
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Leading up to the livestream, make sure to read our article, adapted from the work of @andylee.bsky.social & other researchers about how sea snails that have migrated north are adapting to their new habitat: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...
Why are some sea snails moving north? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens
Scientists wanted to find out how sea snails were adapting to new habitats in colder waters. Scientific article for students.
www.sciencejournalforkids.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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coming down to the wires on #LGBTQSTEMDay to share a little starter pack of QPOC EEB scientists!!

help grow this community and nominate your fave QPOC EEBer! CCmment/DM if you'd like to be added, I would love to connect :)

go.bsky.app/S5fpXWm
November 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM
happening this week😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!

lmk if you’d like an invite/link
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
1/8
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!

lmk if you’d like an invite/link
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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For those of you dismayed by a certain Billionaire making statements that seem to not prioritize a habitable planet,

just want ya’ll to know that there’s a whole lot of us non billionaires that are working really hard on a future that prioritizes people, health, and planetary sustainability. 🌏
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
say pspspsps if you need help
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
lecture today was about genetic drift and small populations, and one of the students said “diversity type shii” so i think they’re understanding the material
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why are some sea snails moving north?

My first publication has been translated into a kid's article!!

www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...
Why are some sea snails moving north? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens
Scientists wanted to find out how sea snails were adapting to new habitats in colder waters. Scientific article for students.
www.sciencejournalforkids.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.
Science & Tech Whistleblower | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Why do some postdoc position require you to have your PhD conferred?? Do these schools/PIs expect current grad students to become jobless in order to compete for a postdoc position??
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
what’s everyone’s go-to sources for nature (ocean, shells, fishes) themed button-ups??

i’m in need of a sickening defense outfit!!
October 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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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
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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!!!
How to avoid politics on Bluesky 🦋 [THREAD]
When scientists left X, many hoped for a quieter space. But politics will take over your feeds unless you actively do something about it. This guide will help you if you just want to follow your scientific interest!
mikeyoungacademy.dk/researchers-...
Researchers are (also) stoking politics on Bluesky. Here is how to avoid it
When researchers migrated from X to Bluesky, the hope was for a quieter space. They wanted less outrage, and more science. But reality is biting back. So here are a few tips to avoid the politics anyw...
mikeyoungacademy.dk
September 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sick and tired of spending time to submit thoughtful cover letters to already filled jobs with postings that only exist for HR reasons
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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
September 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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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...
MULTICLUST - Fast multinomial clustering of multiallelic genotypes to infer genetic population structure
Identifying population structure from multilocus genotype data is key to downstream population genetic analyses in a variety of fields, including conservation, evolutionary genetics, Genome-Wide Assoc...
www.biorxiv.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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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...
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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...
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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"...
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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🚨 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
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM