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Adam Stuckert

@adamstuckert.bsky.social
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Father, Husband, Scientist, Batrachophile. Ecology, Evolution, and Genomics of frogs.

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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏
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We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...
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Chris Balakrishnan @evolutionpirate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New paper from the lab! In which we, in partnership with Sylvan Heights Bird Park, describe patterns of genetic diversity, pathogen susceptibility, and inbreeding in one of the rarest birds in the world, the white-winged wood duck (not a muscovy duck). A short thread, and link below. (1/4)
Image of three white-winged ducks Asarcornis scutulata. Photo by Katie Lubbock, Sylvan Heights Bird Park
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Adam Stuckert @adamstuckert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I feel this in my neck
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There is a through line from "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases" Trump, Allentown, June 2020 to the ongoing steps by a know-nothing administration to dismantle instruments of measurement, because data poses a threat to its grievance-driven political priorities.
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honeybakedsam.bsky.social @honeybakedsam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Times article has an incredible illustration
Diagram of a skier jumping with the extra crotch material highlighted, and then a diagram below showing that an extra 2cm in suit circumference can help the skier get an extra car length on their jump
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/01/2026
Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Turns out that if you use a broom to scratch yourself everyone thinks you're a weirdo but if a cow does it they end up in the cover of Current Biology
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Adam Stuckert @adamstuckert.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Please check out the very first paper entirely out of my lab. This paper was led by Andrew Rubio in collaboration with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and his lab group. Some really interesting findings about genome evolution and frogs in here 🐸
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Highly important video of the ICE Minnesota shooting. "The driver ... waves for other [vehicles] to go ahead" "The agent is not being run over. In fact, his feet are positioned away from the SUV" "Agents blocked...a physician" from providing medical care. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Today at SICB I listened to a fabulous talk about how Juncos behavioral plasticity in post-wildfire coniferous forests by Yiran "Ryann" Su and I've had this image stuck I'm my head all day inspired by their finding that birds in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of aggression
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Evolutionary diversity and function of odorant receptors in birds www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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John Nguyễn @johnv-nguyen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
One of my grant applications asked for a project graphic so I had to oblige
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/11/2025
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Those of us who worked with USAID and in global health more broadly warned of this- shouting, screaming into the void. The administration- at every level- understood this would happen. It’s unconscionable.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.
A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps:
"NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE"
– US House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One of the most challenging aspects of the climate crisis is that it becomes harder to solve as it proceeds, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. It isn't something that can be put off until tomorrow without serious penalty.
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Adam Stuckert @adamstuckert.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy rapture day everyone! All I know is that if there is a Jesus, he would do the rapture before the evening commute.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2025
The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Evolution (abridged)
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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Steve Pennings @stevenpennings.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
UH is happy to spend $130 million on football, but there is no money to raise graduate student stipends or fix poorly-maintained buildings. www.khou.com/article/mone...
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UH unveils new $130 million Memorial Hermann Football Operations Center
The University of Houston’s newest athletics facility is now open. Our partners at the Houston Business Journal have photos of what the $130M facility looks like.
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John Nguyễn @johnv-nguyen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Excited to share that our new chytrid paper is out in Herpetologica! We find evidence that West Africa may not be the ‘safe haven’ for amphibians it was once thought to be. 🦠🐸
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Historical Prevalence of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in West Africa
Abstract: . The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is implicated in global declines and extinctions of amphibian species. Although Bd is found on all continents where amphibians persis...
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire. 

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
cc academic scientists
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Dr. Jean Fan @jef.works · 20/07/2025
I visualize trends in #ICE #immigration arrests and encounters over time and across select US cities using public data from deportationdata.org/data/ice.html Here is the #RStats #ggplot code so you can visualize the #dataviz trends in your own city: gist.github.com/JEFworks/0c7... #codetutorial
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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
"We name [this gene] Redboy based on its functional role in the programmed body colour transition of orchid mantis, reflecting the demon ‘Red Boy’ who changed his red clothes to white after becoming a fairy in Chinese mythology" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #evodevo #colsci
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The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises - Nature Ecology & Evolution
First-instar orchid mantis nymphs avoid predators by mimicking black-red assassin bugs, whereas those in later instars avoid predators and attract prey by camouflaging themselves as lighter-coloured f...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
thought Kelsey might be doing a bit but no. it brings me no pleasure to report that DOD has hired MechaHitler www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk’s controversial AI Model
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up said its models are now available to federal agencies.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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John Nguyễn @johnv-nguyen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm not procrastinating.... making #Pride caecilian DNA stickers is a requirement of my dissertation. Schistometopum thomense and S. ephele, the iconic duo of my PhD work.
Two caecilians in the shape of a double helix.
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The Defense Department...announced last week it would cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA." This sort of data siloing, often b/c military organizations don't want to share their toys w/ civilian agencies, is a hallmark of authoritarian states. It's also impeding global wildfire response.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...
Plot showing skewed distribution toward comp science and applied physics
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Still struggling with the idea that the President authorized a country, with which we were engaged in armed conflict, to attack a US base with US soldiers in harm's way ("gunners") and it isn't a bigger story. This goes beyond even impeachment and removal from office.
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Adam Stuckert @adamstuckert.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happy to report that the first preprint out of the lab is now out! Postdoc Andrew Rubio led the charge with the @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social lab to examine the evolution of genome size and transposable elements. If you are at #Evol2025 come check out Andrew's poster on this work tonight.
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Anuran genome size evolution is driven by relatively recent retrotransposon activity and by life history
Background: Transposable elements (TEs), often referred to as ‘selfish genetic elements’, hijack their host’s genetic machinery to replicate themselves within the host genome, and are primary contribu...
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Adam Stuckert @adamstuckert.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Expect some cool caecilian work in the future! I'm really impressed with John's success in a challenging new-to-us system!
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🧪 Basic science boosts the economy: "The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger? The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
1. This is just the first of many arrests of Democrats to come 2. It will have a chilling effect on the party, in that 95% of Dems will see this, determine it's not worth going to jail and roll over 3. The remaining 5% need to prepare for the type of politics we don't normally see here
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