Christina Hansen Wheat
@chansenwheat.bsky.social
Assistant professor @liu.se. I study how behavior develops and evolves, often within a domestication framework and mostly in wolves and dogs. Scientific integrity advocate. Florida Man wrangler, husky enthusiast and occasional butterfly catcher.
Pinned
I evaluate all my relationships, personal and professional, based on the "Two Beers and a Puppy" test.
From Ross McCammon's book "Works Well with Others"
From Ross McCammon's book "Works Well with Others"
Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
www.uni-bielefeld.de
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky
“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite
New study of long-standing problem takes novel approach, asking cited authors to evaluate accuracy
www.science.org
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University
tech.au.dk
July 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Reposted by Christina Hansen Wheat
We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany.
🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
#JobOpportunity! Are you passionate about migratory waterbirds? And do you have managerial skills?
Join and lead the AEWA Secretariat and contribute to species conservation from an international perspective!
Click to apply by 26 April 2025: careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
Join and lead the AEWA Secretariat and contribute to species conservation from an international perspective!
Click to apply by 26 April 2025: careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
April 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany.
🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
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🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
Special consultant with expertise in biodiversity and nature conservation - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Ecoscience - Biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
March 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford
At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
JOB ALERT!
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate professor in animal biology
liu.se
January 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
JOB ALERT!
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED
Excited to share the first paper from our COST Action! 🎉
This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare | Biology Letters
The concept of animal welfare is evolving due to progress in our scientific understanding
of animal biology and changing societal expectations. Animal welfare science has been
primarily concerned with...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED
📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Christina Hansen Wheat
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
January 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
Reposted by Christina Hansen Wheat
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
www.pnas.org
December 22, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #EcoEvoECRcareer
Applications are closing on 8th January for two doctoral research opportunities in wildlife conservation.
Both projects are part of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme which supports conservation of this rare and threatened canid.
👉 bit.ly/4h198zq
@oxfordbiology.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Both projects are part of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme which supports conservation of this rare and threatened canid.
👉 bit.ly/4h198zq
@oxfordbiology.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #EcoEvoECRcareer
Reposted by Christina Hansen Wheat
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
buff.ly
December 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked.
Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6
🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6
🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene
Dogs have the potential to be an exceptional resource for studying ecological, behavioural and evolutionary processes. However, several widespread mis…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked.
Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6
🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6
🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Publishers selling papers to train AIs" was perhaps not the direction I was hoping to see the already questionable scientific publishing scheme take 🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:05 PM
"Publishers selling papers to train AIs" was perhaps not the direction I was hoping to see the already questionable scientific publishing scheme take 🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs.
Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky
Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth
Abstract. The evolutionary history of canids has been shown to be complex, with hybridization and domestication confounding our understanding of speciation
academic.oup.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs.
Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky
Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky
December 10, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Our husky had surgery this week and the body she needs to wear to prevent her from licking her stitches makes her look like Steve Jobs in his iconic turtleneck sweaters.
She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products…
🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog
She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products…
🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog
December 6, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Our husky had surgery this week and the body she needs to wear to prevent her from licking her stitches makes her look like Steve Jobs in his iconic turtleneck sweaters.
She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products…
🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog
She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products…
🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog
Reposted by Christina Hansen Wheat
Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others
I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again
www.science.org/content/arti...
I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews
Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews
www.science.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others
I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again
www.science.org/content/arti...
I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again
www.science.org/content/arti...
I have seen many good, well-argued initiatives by various researchers to rebut this decision and also signed some petitions myself.
Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals.
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky
Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals.
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky
This morning the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention decided to weaken wolf protection.
"This decision undermines European environmental governance and diminishes the credibility of EU environmental policy as one grounded in scientific evidence."
#SaveTheWolf
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"This decision undermines European environmental governance and diminishes the credibility of EU environmental policy as one grounded in scientific evidence."
#SaveTheWolf
eeb.org/nature-under...
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I have seen many good, well-argued initiatives by various researchers to rebut this decision and also signed some petitions myself.
Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals.
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky
Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals.
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky
Harsh! …but here’s to the importance of negative results.
🧪🌍#AcademicSky
🧪🌍#AcademicSky
December 1, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Harsh! …but here’s to the importance of negative results.
🧪🌍#AcademicSky
🧪🌍#AcademicSky