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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 1d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 4d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 13d

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 12d

I know I needed to see this today. Maybe you did too

Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 12d

Dress for the job you want

a vetis wearing a giant bird head mask as she hand feeds some baby birds.

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 13d

1 in 6 vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024. This is a shocking statistic. In this post, I give some of the details behind this statistic from a recent paper led by Cory Merow.

Species did nothing to deserve this... we decide what happens next

One in six vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024

predirections.substack.com

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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 21d

It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review.

Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Lipstick on a pig’: how to fight back against a peer-review bully

Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews.

www.nature.com

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · Aug 27

So honored to be honored by a society I value so much

Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · Aug 26

Newly elected ABS Fellow: @rosvall-lab.bsky.social ! Kim studies all things aggression from behavior to neuroendocrine mechanisms to genomic analyses. Working mostly in birds, her group is also exploring how changing environments are shaping behavior & physiology.

rosvall.lab.indiana.edu

Picture shows Kim accepting an award from ABS president Emily Duval. Both stand facing the camera and smiling and holding a pretty shiny plaque between them.

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.

We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain

Sex differences have captivated scientists for a long time, yet the evolutionary rate of change in sex-biased gene expression has not been directly quantified. To address this issue, we leverage brain...

www.biorxiv.org

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Aug 18

Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field.

Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv

#KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Aug 7

Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org‬ for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.

Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu

#neurosky

Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments,' happening Wednesday, August 20, from 12–1 p.m. EDT. Features logos of the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation, with speaker photos and affiliations: Hans Hofmann (UT Austin), Kimberly Rosvall (Indiana University), and Alison Bell (University of Illinois).

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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · Aug 16

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper

Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Aug 7

Join us August 20 at 12pm ET for "Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments," a @sfn.org webinar featuring Hans Hofmann and Kimberly Rosvall. Learn how organisms cope with change and what it reveals about plasticity.

Register: bit.ly/3HeL1kv

#KavliNeuro #NeuroSky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments

<p>Join speakers Hans Hofmann, PhD, and Kimberly Rosvall, PhD, for the third session of a collaborative series by the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation. </p>

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):

Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · Jul 23

Did ceratopsian (horned) & ankylosaur (armored) dinosaurs walk together? Newly discovered dinosaur tracksite in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta CA) suggests they did, similar to modern multi-species herds. News item includes comments by Yours Truly. 🧪🦖🐾

P.S. Quite a day for cool fossil finds!

New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jul 23

A set of 76-million-year-old tracks discovered in Canada might be the first evidence for different species of dinosaur herding together.

Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together

www.newscientist.com

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · Jul 23

My feelings exactly

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 22

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Breeding Behavior Technician - Red Wolf | Natural Resources Job Board

jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · Jul 22

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 National Science Foundation Letter of Dissent Against the Administration's Actions

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧪 YASSSS

Nearly 150 employees of the National Science Foundation signed a letter of dissent and sent to Congress yesterday.

Rep Lofgren, Dem leader of the House Science Committee, held a press conference today about it.

Full letter (names redacted): democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF

Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA

www.science.org

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · Jul 22

Super excited about our first analyses on extra-pair paternity in tree swallows! New results coming soon.

Tree swallows have high extra-pair paternity, with half or more of nestlings having a genetic father that’s different from the social father.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · Jul 13

This. 90% of my job is writing. It's basically almost all I do

Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · Jul 13

And “hard science” careers are also WRITING INTENSIVE jobs! Want to be an astronomer, biologist, or chemist? You’ll spend years writing reports, grants, papers, reviews, reference letters, etc. Writing is never easy, but it’s much *easier* if you’re trained how to outline and structure text.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · Jul 10

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be.

If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...

w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social

#ABS2025

Ungeneralizable generalizations? A meta-meta-analysis of the influence of taxonomic bias on the study of behavior.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · Jul 1

At ABS 2025, join us and @aibsbiology.bsky.social July 9 at 12:15 PM for a workshop on communicating science to non-technical audiences! We'll focus on influencing policy and public understanding—perfect for making your science matter beyond academia.

Sign up here: fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/gdrr...

A white flyer with black text describing the event. To the left is the text and the right is a picture of people at a conference table next to stripes of grey and blue from the top to the bottom of the flyer.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jun 27

SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal.

This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.

Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal

Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.

www.nature.com

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Krish Sanghvi @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social · Jun 27

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients

Abstract. The Bateman gradient is a fundamental metric of sexual selection, often interpreted as the fitness advantage individuals gain by increasing their

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · Jun 22

Good thing I put my senator on speed dial back in January. Already left angry voicemail.

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