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Christina Steinecke

@christeinecke.bsky.social

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Grad student at @HarvardOEB, studying polyploid speciation in Phlox, broadly into evolution, pretty flowers, birds, frogs, and bicycles 🏳️‍🌈 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (@QueensU & @TrentU Alum) she/her

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · 6d

Omg ty

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 6d

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · 7d

omg ty!!

Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · 7d

🙋‍♀️ that's me!!

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 8d

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

🚨Undergraduate research🚨

Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis

Kaitlyn Dawson et al.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience #Botany

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Awesome (allo)polyploid Phlox presentation from @christeinecke.bsky.social … a ton of fieldwork behind it #Botany2025

Christina presenting on Texas polyploid phlox

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Jul 11

Illustration of "passive submission" in dogs.

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Jul 11

Embarrassing

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Jul 10

Awesome. Thanks, @harvard.edu for looking out for your grad student community.

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Jun 21

😇

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Jun 5

SO ANGRY

Trump Issues Proclamation Banning International Students at Harvard From Entering U.S. | News | The Harvard Crimson

United States President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday evening barring foreign students from entering the United States to attend Harvard, citing national security concerns and accusing ...

www.thecrimson.com

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 25

Agreed 🙋‍♀️

Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks Jenn 🥺

Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 22

❤️🥲

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 22

As a Harvard international graduate student… I’m sad. And scared. Really scared.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 22

Harvard has just under 6,800 foreign students enrolled. Every one of them would have to give up their dreams of an education in the US or transfer elsewhere, if Noem's attack on Harvard is upheld.

None of them have done anything wrong, they're just collateral damage to Trump.

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 22

Still have yet to hear anything from the international office @harvard.edu

Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · May 22

Well www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

www.nytimes.com

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · Apr 25

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For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch!

🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Apr 15

That’s of the least egregious demands unfortunately

Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Mar 27

Frightening that something like this can get you abducted by the American government

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Mar 26

the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-authored in the Tufts Daily www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University

www.tuftsdaily.com

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Mar 26

I hope every single Tufts parent out there calls the University and their reps about this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · Feb 27

Finally here on Bluesky! ✌️

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