Holly Moeller
@mixotrophe.bsky.social
Jersey girl, rain lover, chalkboard equation addict. Associate professor & eco-evo theoretician (Erdős # = 5) at EEMB, UCSB (#unicornjob🦄). All good bugs photosynthesize. Go Birds! 🦅💚 she/her
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Holly Moeller
@mixotrophe.bsky.social
· Dec 1
I needed to read this chapter from "The Inequality Machine" today. Because here at UCSB, we're done telling students not to bother trying. And the most important mission of my career, "to actually teach them calculus," begins next Fall. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 3.191/n #year3
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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
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Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton–bacteria interactions nature.com/articles/s41564-…
Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton–bacteria interactions - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical representations of overflow metabolism, mixotrophy, exoenzymes and reactive oxygen species detoxification recapitulate dynamics in co-cultures of Prochlorococcus and eight heterotrophic b...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton–bacteria interactions nature.com/articles/s41564-…
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A needlefish launches skyward, Jupiter shining down from above, skipping upright on the surface like an antennae to the heavens 🪡🐟📡🚀🪐🌌✌️👽 #needlefish #coralcityafterdark #skyward #jupiter #underwaterastronomy #dontforgettolookup #skipping #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A needlefish launches skyward, Jupiter shining down from above, skipping upright on the surface like an antennae to the heavens 🪡🐟📡🚀🪐🌌✌️👽 #needlefish #coralcityafterdark #skyward #jupiter #underwaterastronomy #dontforgettolookup #skipping #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Just beautiful, ingenious work to elegantly separate out key theoretical parameters
Just beautiful, ingenious work to elegantly separate out key theoretical parameters
To get into this we set up a genetic conflict: making the gene the plasmid didn’t want to express an antibiotic resistance gene that helped the cell. By independently tuning the promoter and ribosomal binding site (RBS) we were able to tune the both scales of selection. 10/
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Just beautiful, ingenious work to elegantly separate out key theoretical parameters
Just beautiful, ingenious work to elegantly separate out key theoretical parameters
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Weird word of the day: "kleptosquamy." The testate amoeba Awerintzewia cyclostoma steals scales from other amoeboid organisms to build its own shell. This one has robbed Quadrulella, Netzelia, various euglyphids, and even an Acanthocystis. Kleptosquamy! #amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #biology #nature
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Weird word of the day: "kleptosquamy." The testate amoeba Awerintzewia cyclostoma steals scales from other amoeboid organisms to build its own shell. This one has robbed Quadrulella, Netzelia, various euglyphids, and even an Acanthocystis. Kleptosquamy! #amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #biology #nature
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Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Our lab from @HHMINEWS & @UCBerkeley is looking for undergrads to come for an internship!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
They are the bestest 😻
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
They are the bestest 😻
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
An amazing opportunity to join a phenomenal department!
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
An amazing opportunity to join a phenomenal department!
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On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
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sometimes hard to deal with the resident megafauna
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
sometimes hard to deal with the resident megafauna
Hi friends! I'm looking for simple bio-calculus maximization/minimization problems to give our students some practice taking 1st and 2nd derivatives. Any great, single-equation examples come to mind? Thanks! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hi friends! I'm looking for simple bio-calculus maximization/minimization problems to give our students some practice taking 1st and 2nd derivatives. Any great, single-equation examples come to mind? Thanks! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
From the Prof Moeller in St Louis! Around 40°N or higher? Get outside!
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
From the Prof Moeller in St Louis! Around 40°N or higher? Get outside!
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Happy Birthday to the best mom on the planet. Even though I've been missing her for 22+ years, I can still hear her voice giving me a kick in the butt just when I need it. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happy Birthday to the best mom on the planet. Even though I've been missing her for 22+ years, I can still hear her voice giving me a kick in the butt just when I need it. ❤️
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Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
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For most scrappy feisty players you can say "they got that Dog in em", but for Gator players you can say "they got that Herp Dog in em"
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
For most scrappy feisty players you can say "they got that Dog in em", but for Gator players you can say "they got that Herp Dog in em"
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...