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andy 李慕安

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phd candidate studying the changing seas🐟🐚🧬🌊 | #PopGen, rapid evolution, transcriptomics, range shifts | he/they 🌈 GiljeGiljau Makakaruwang, son of the paiwan tribe on the beautiful island 🇹🇼 [hire me to be your postdoc!!] andymuanlee.com

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Nov 7

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.

selfie of andy in front of yellow aspen trees and a mountain range. andy is smiling

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · 4d

what’s everyone’s go-to sources for nature (ocean, shells, fishes) themed button-ups??

i’m in need of a sickening defense outfit!!

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15d

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

Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 15d

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

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · 16d

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!!!

Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social · 21d

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

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · 26d

omg

andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · 27d

Sick and tired of spending time to submit thoughtful cover letters to already filled jobs with postings that only exist for HR reasons

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 24

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...

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Aug 19

still takes me by surprise after 5 years in indiana 💔

andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's probably(?) not homophobia, but when small things like this keeps happening, it's hard to think otherwise

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Aug 19

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"...

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Aug 15

congrats Brian!!!!

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Brian Leavell @bleavell.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨 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

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Photo by Christian Ziegler

Fringe-lipped bat mid-flight, eavesdropping on the calls of male túngara frogs, which it uses to find its prey. Photo by Christian Ziegler.

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you!!! Happy to see the lil snail up on the cover 🐚

andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Jul 25

i feel similarly. i can rationalize why im struggling with finding a job given **everything** but it’s really hard to not take it personally sometimes

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Jul 25

I've be struggling to be honest, it's really hard after we have done everything we were supposed to and then we get to the finish line with what feels like nothing. I've been trying to take it day by day. Some days I am ok, some days I am sad (like yesterday).

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Jul 25

my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!!

*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies

really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen

Special Issue Cover of the journal Molecular Ecology. the cover photo is a collage of various organisms and figures from the issue. The special issue it titled: Ecology of Gene Expression

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andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Jul 16

me!!!

andy 李慕安 @andylee.bsky.social · Jul 16

graduating PhDs… anyone has a clue on how to not despair about our job prospects right now?

(happy to just vent too!)

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Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @aquaticenby.bsky.social · Jul 14

Today is international nonbinary peoples day, so I'm gonna share a bit about how I figured out that I'm nonbinary. To start, I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was 35 years old. This was for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I simply never had the words for it
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A nonbinary flag (horizontal bands of yellow, white, purple, and black) with the text "gender should have error bars" and and image of error bars of various sizes superimposed on it. This came about as a joke made in a nonbinary scientist group I'm part of and someone immortalized it in this image. It struck a chord with every single one of us

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Jul 9

I'm sadly leaving Hawaii and the USA today. This NYT article, with comment from me, @solilyquy.bsky.social and @leafwax.bsky.social, explains one (of several) reasons why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

www.nytimes.com

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Fábio K. Mendes @fabiology.bsky.social · Jul 12

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

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Romina Najarro-Flores @rominanajarro.bsky.social · Jul 12

Excited to have presented our research on geographic differences in auditory properties of Carolina Chickadees at the Animal Behavior Conference! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with colleagues!
@animbehsociety.bsky.social

#ABS2025 #Bioacoustics #auditory #Chickadees

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