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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · 15d

"GET THE FISHHH" - Dr. Terry Keiser 😂 a core memory from Field Semester.

Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · Aug 6

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/...

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...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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...

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · Jun 26

Review on time budgets in life history trade-offs of female reptiles 🧪 #evolsky

Canadian Science Publishing @cdnsciencepub.com · Jun 24

Explore how time and energy shape survival and reproduction in reptiles! Litmer and Carnes-Mason review time budgets in a life history context using two species in @canjzoology.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/0sYhFKk

📸 Maxwell Carnes-Mason

Snake. Photo credit: Maxwell Carnes-Mason

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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · May 21

When brood XIV is emerging in your hometown and you convince your recently retired dad to go collecting for you 🙌🏻

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · May 16

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.

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...

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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

The Mental Health Impacts of Scientific Fieldwork

Opinion | Difficult conditions at remote field sites can put researchers under physical, mental, and emotional strain.

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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · Apr 10

Today seems like a good day to rewrite what wrote yesterday 🙃 #phdchat #dissertation

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

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...

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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · Feb 28

Fuck yeah ✊🏻

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 28

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati?

They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued.

The latest from S. Baum.

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University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to "Biological" Bathroom Signs Reversal

“Deny, delay, fight back.”

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Kolby 🐊🦆🪲 @wildalphabet.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Feb 28

IPC [Feb 27] -- 18 years after Dems passed a law giving transgender Iowans civil rights protections, the state's Reps have passed a law repealing those rights, making it the first state to strip its citizens of such a broad swath of legal rights.
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Iowa Legislature passes bill removing civil rights protections for transgender Iowans

Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate passed a bill Thursday afternoon to remove state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans, sending it to Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk for her signature.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Feb 26

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:

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 19

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/...

Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Feb 14

Trans people have always existed and always will

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

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...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

Bringing Shadowdragons to light: Neurocordulia systematics — Worldwide Dragonfly Association

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Wade Boys @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · Feb 3

Check out my favorite dissertation chapter 👇🏻 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.

Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · Feb 1

awesome paper that measures selection on plasticity itself. nice integration of a mesocosm experiment and a field study by @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social @adamsiepielski.bsky.social 🧪🌍🦑

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Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior

Abstract. Plasticity to reduce activity is a common way prey evade predators. However, by reducing activity prey often experience lower individual growth r

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