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Allie Martin, PhD

@alliemartin.bsky.social
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Antipredator behavior | Thermal physiology | (she/her) | 🦎 🏳️‍🌈

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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Thanks to @somuchpingle.bsky.social for a great podcast on our lab's paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, led by Dr. Allie Martin @alliemartin.bsky.social 🦎💧 *Allie is currently looking for a postdoc to grow her genomics and/or Bayesian stat skills.* If you have or hear of an opening, please reach out!
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Episode 121: Herp Science Sunday: Bubble-breathing Anoles - So Much Pingle
I'm so happy to produce another Herp Science Sunday segment with Dr. Alex Krohn! In this episode we talk with Dr. Alexandra Martin, one of the co-authors of a brand new paper, which lays out some asto...
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My intro is in need of a little update!Hello bluesky! I'm a #behavioralecologist and recently earned my PhD in @lindseyswierk.bsky.social 's lab, studying #antipredator #behavior and #thermal #physiology in #Anolis aquaticus, a species of diving lizard!
Anolis aquaticus, a species of small, semi-aquatic lizard is seen here being held in the hand of Allie Martin, a permitted researcher.
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I had such a great chat on the So Much Pingle podcast with @krohnzone.bsky.social and @somuchpingle.bsky.social about my recent pub in @jexpbiol.bsky.social titled “High dissolved oxygen extends dive duration and suggests physical gill use in a vertebrate”! Check it out!
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I’m very proud to have published the article referenced here, which constituted one of my dissertation chapters. It was certainly a labor of love!
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Read the full research @lindseyswierk.bsky.social @alliemartin.bsky.social at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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High dissolved oxygen extends dive duration and suggests physical gill use in a vertebrate
Highlighted Article: High levels of dissolved oxygen in water extend dive durations in a semi-aquatic Anolis lizard, suggesting that anoles may rebreathe bubbles to uptake oxygen from stream water.
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I have a PhD and can’t afford to pay for my own healthcare. Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Three weeks after my successful PhD defense and I’m having to seriously consider leaving my dream of being academia and science. You not getting that grant as a tenured prof does not mean you understand what I’m going through.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts." Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them. This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
ICYMI, my analysis of how the Trump administration will contribute to the extinction of beloved endangered marine and coastal animals.
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Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals • The Revelator
The waters around the U.S. are home to threatened species who need conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.
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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Cancer research is going to disappear in the US because apparently no one in US leadership ever took a biology class. “DOGE found $8 million grant to make mice transgender. This is real.” - Donald Trump, talking about transgenic mice to the world www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
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Trump baffles with bizarre comment about 'transgender mice' in Congress speech
Donald Trump baffled viewers of his congressional address when he discussed the $8 million he said he and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had found for "making mice transgender"
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Doing an active shooter training module for my yearly university training, feeling like a red blooded American 🇺🇸🦅
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/02/2025
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Data itself neither lies nor tells the truth. Here is some data: !#)(JE@()#@(*)🤬😱🎇 Actually, everything you see right now on your computer is "data". Is it lying? Is it telling the truth? Neither. Data instead is raw stuff. It provides *meaning* when it is PROCESSED by something. 2/
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m defending my dissertation in less than two months and have few prospects for postdocs or other jobs because of the current funding situation. I’m not sure people outside of our field have any idea what a disaster this is.
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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening” www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/02/2025
Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut. This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.
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The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating...
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I sure hope my postdoc dreams aren't thwarted by this federal funding freeze and review 🙃 My heart goes out to those that are going to be even more severely affected by this--people that rely on healthcare research & supply, educational programs, disaster relief, etc. Call your reps.
Call script for members of Congress on the Trump Administration freezing all federal aid

YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE].

YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump’s actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can’t unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid.

YOU: Members of Congress must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed.

YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT]
	E.g. your status as a researcher relying on these funds


Adapted from @CelestePewter
Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/01/2025
When I was a young man there were whispered rumors among the elders that they could remember their own elders talking about a time when getting grants had been a means for doing science, rather than vice versa.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this gender gap varies between disciplines.
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If you're in an evacuation zone in SoCal, please check in with any disabled/aging neighbors you have to see if they need help evacuating.
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I’ll be using this instead of soulless AI generated images in my presentations (but that’s just me)
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’m on the hunt for post docs during #SICB2025! I’d love the opportunity to bring my own expertise to and learn new skills from a lab doing research on #behavior (with a sprinkle of physiology perhaps!). Let me know if you or someone you know is looking to fill a position!
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Emily V Griffith @e-v-griffith.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
@alliemartin.bsky.social Gives an excellent talk on the balance male and female Anolis lizards have to maintain between staying warm, escaping predators, and capturing mating opportunities! #SICB2025
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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Come through for my talk tomorrow to hear all about differential gene expression in two sea turtle species with quite different prevalence and severity of an infectious tumor disease 🐢🧬
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
So excited to be at #SICB2025! Come by International Salon 7 Sunday at 9:45 am if you’re interested in seeing my talk entitled “Diving in semi-aquatic Anolis lizards results in heat loss with sex-specific cooling tolerance”
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...
A figure comparing box plot and showing all data points. 
Group1: normally distributed data.
Group2: bimodal data.
Group3: Data with 3 modes.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Brown University transferred a portion of its land to a trust controlled by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe. The land was the home of the historical tribal leader Metacom or King Philip and is also the site of his violent death in 1676. apnews.com/article/trib...
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Brown University transfers ownership of a portion of its land to Pokanoket Indian Tribe
Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.
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Andrea Echeverry-Alcendra @kachuguita.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Dreams do come true! The reinstatement of the #iucnssc Anoline Lizard Specialist Group is a reality: iucn.org/our-union/co... @annainthefield.bsky.social @jhancsalazar.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social #WeLoveAnoles
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IUCN SSC Anoline Lizard Specialist Group
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
CNN convened a panel of transgender youth to get their thoughts on the Supreme Court and the 2024 election. 10-year-old Violet: "My self is not an opinion. It is a fact."
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Dr Fortunate Mafeta Phaka @dr-mafeta-phaka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It's finally done! This starter pack now has 150 herpetologists and herpetology enthusiast. go.bsky.app/J9rMFXE #herpetology #frogs #reptiles 🐸 🦎🐊🐍🐢
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
An excellent thread on content scraping accounts & why they're lousy. They post uncredited photos of cats or birds or landscapes & rack up followers for nefarious purposes. You can block them all with this great list! (Hit subscribe at the top & choose Mute or Block) bsky.app/profile/cont...
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My favourite Bluesky 🦋 feature is the "Hide reply for everyone" It's like when you're having a nice chat in the pub and an obnoxious drunk butts in. With this, you can make them instantly disappear 💨 (click on the three dots on a reply to see this option)
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Ken Toyama @kenstoyama.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What does sexual size dimorphism (SSD) mean in terms of combat performance differences between the sexes? We explored this question looking at bite force in Anolis lizards in this new @jevbio.bsky.social paper: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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Sexual size dimorphism as a determinant of fighting performance dimorphism in Anolis lizards
Abstract. Rensch’s Rule describes a pattern of interspecific allometry in which sexual size dimorphism (SSD) increases with size among closely related spec
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Miguel @migueldefelipe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
No. What happens in Doñana DOES NOT STAY in Doñana. After more than two years of work, we’ve published an article demonstrating that the poor condition of Doñana negatively affects waterbirds across the ENTIRE continent! Thread below! 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Habitat Changes at the Local Scale Have Major Impacts on Waterfowl Populations Across a Migratory Flyway
Migratory waterbirds are declining worldwide due to habitat loss, but not much is known about how the loss of specific wetlands can affect waterbird populations at the biogeographical scale. To inves...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Authoritative tips for manuscript preparation" #Matter Edward Sargent shares ten tips on writing successful research articles. Open Access www.cell.com/matter/fullt...
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Poor girl should be in retirement but knows her species is counting on her 😩
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Rachel Kruger @rachelkruger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just a few backyard #birbs. They're so expressive. #Birds #Birding
Female house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) standing on a wooden railing in front of an arbor vitae branch, peering down to her side.Dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) standing on a wooden deck with its mouth open, a couple birdseeds scattered around it.A blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) standing on a wooden deck, looking straight ahead with its head slightly cocked to one side. Its pattern makes it look like it's furrowing its brows. A black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) standing on a wooden deck, facing to the right, with its beak slightly lifted
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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology. #🧪
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In an effort to attract followers We share this article and #IndigenousSTEAM #IndigenousSTEM #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian #LatinAmerica #Hawaii #Polynesia #Pasifika #Maori #Australia #Indigenous #FirstNations #IPLCs www.illumina.com/company/news...
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How indigenous scientists are taking control of their data
Next-generation sequencing is helping Native nations with sovereignty and genetic research
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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hello bluesky! I'm a #behavioralecologist and PhD candidate in @lindseyswierk.bsky.social 's lab, currently studying #antipredator #behavior and #thermal #physiology in #Anolis aquaticus, a species of diving lizard!
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