Jessica Bullock
@jessbullock.bsky.social
All creatures great and small, mostly #TeamFish
PhD student @UofT EEB, evolutionary and behavioural ecology
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PhD student @UofT EEB, evolutionary and behavioural ecology
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An eel donated to a natural history museum in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was only first documented this year, when a tick specialist identified the ticks and reported the case in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
An eel donated to a natural history museum in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was only first documented this year, when a tick specialist identified the ticks and reported the case in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
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For this year's #25DaysOfFishmas we're going to go in roughly chronological order, from the oldest lineages of fish to the present. We're kicking off, then, with a truly ancient and utterly bizarre animal - this is the Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For this year's #25DaysOfFishmas we're going to go in roughly chronological order, from the oldest lineages of fish to the present. We're kicking off, then, with a truly ancient and utterly bizarre animal - this is the Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
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Reason 37518 to not skip lunch when working - everything starts to look delicious, including this egg of a chalcidoid wasp (left)
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reason 37518 to not skip lunch when working - everything starts to look delicious, including this egg of a chalcidoid wasp (left)
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What's that? You didn't know boxfish made sound? Me neither...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What's that? You didn't know boxfish made sound? Me neither...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
It turns out all species (Atlantic & Pacific) do, yet little is known about how this evolved. A novel structure found only in the Atlantic species offered the answer, but it isn't quite what you think...🌍 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
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The story of the Birmingham Darter and the mega data center covered by Lee Hedgepeth and Dennis Pillion that reports on our latest field work in October 2025
insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
A Proposed Alabama Data Center Faces New Hurdles: A ‘Road to Nowhere’ and the Birmingham Darter - Inside Climate News
With the City Council in Bessemer scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacl...
insideclimatenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The story of the Birmingham Darter and the mega data center covered by Lee Hedgepeth and Dennis Pillion that reports on our latest field work in October 2025
insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
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Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/
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Really quite striking how blatantly hereditarian research violates scientific norms. One of the papers under critique was accepted the same day it was submitted
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Really quite striking how blatantly hereditarian research violates scientific norms. One of the papers under critique was accepted the same day it was submitted
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The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology
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Have to say...loved sitting behind two tech bros on the plane to Malta today... "I have increased my testosterone 640 by cutting beer and using cryosleep and only working out for strength on my special $500k machine for 12 minutes a week and no cardio. My testosterone is high." And on it went.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have to say...loved sitting behind two tech bros on the plane to Malta today... "I have increased my testosterone 640 by cutting beer and using cryosleep and only working out for strength on my special $500k machine for 12 minutes a week and no cardio. My testosterone is high." And on it went.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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McMaster university students and faculty banded together to pressure the university to cut ties with what has been called an anti-trans group.
How campus activists got their university to drop an anti-trans research funder | Xtra Magazine
McMaster recently cut ties with the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine in a win for students and faculty
xtramagazine.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
McMaster university students and faculty banded together to pressure the university to cut ties with what has been called an anti-trans group.
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Scathing letter from a UT Austin donor pulling his 6-figure gift over UT's capture by the Republican Party.
From the UTAustin community on Reddit: My email to David Livingston, VP for Development
Explore this post and more from the UTAustin community
www.reddit.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Scathing letter from a UT Austin donor pulling his 6-figure gift over UT's capture by the Republican Party.
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Natalie and I have resubmitted a revised manuscript about the behavioural responses of tropical wrens to simulated predators. Great revising @natingui.bsky.social! Fingers crossed for a positive outcome. Our 3D-printed Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls were made by @lincolnsavi.bsky.social.
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Natalie and I have resubmitted a revised manuscript about the behavioural responses of tropical wrens to simulated predators. Great revising @natingui.bsky.social! Fingers crossed for a positive outcome. Our 3D-printed Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls were made by @lincolnsavi.bsky.social.
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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sloths, for today is their special day!
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sloths, for today is their special day!
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
This woodcut of a sloth* was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
* may it not haunt your nightmares
📷Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
#InternationalSlothDay
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Ever wondered what happens to the trash floating in the @toronto.ca's waterways? We joined the U of T Trash Team at the Harbourfront to see how their trash trapping program keeps plastic out of Lake Ontario. Watch to see how they’re making a difference at #UofT & across the city.
U of T News Now | U of T Trash Team
YouTube video by University of Toronto
youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ever wondered what happens to the trash floating in the @toronto.ca's waterways? We joined the U of T Trash Team at the Harbourfront to see how their trash trapping program keeps plastic out of Lake Ontario. Watch to see how they’re making a difference at #UofT & across the city.
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“Without them, it’s hard to imagine research continuing at anything near the pace and quality we’ve seen in the past.”
Beyond the crucial data they contain, model organism databases have provided an important space for researchers to exchange ideas and resources
go.nature.com/4nVQ7lb
Beyond the crucial data they contain, model organism databases have provided an important space for researchers to exchange ideas and resources
go.nature.com/4nVQ7lb
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.
go.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Without them, it’s hard to imagine research continuing at anything near the pace and quality we’ve seen in the past.”
Beyond the crucial data they contain, model organism databases have provided an important space for researchers to exchange ideas and resources
go.nature.com/4nVQ7lb
Beyond the crucial data they contain, model organism databases have provided an important space for researchers to exchange ideas and resources
go.nature.com/4nVQ7lb
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The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)