Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/03/2026stay tuned for upcoming/related quantitative genetics manuscript... 050
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/03/2026very fun and integrative study, collab. w Nann Fangue, led by Joanna Griffiths @jogriffiths61.bsky.social, who persevered despite 1st year experiments disrupted by pandemic, record heat wave (while trying to control rearing temperatures), and a direct lightning strike to our experimental facility! 250
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Are you interested in domestication selection and conservation physiology? Newest paper @evolappjournal.bsky.social: Highly and Lowly Domesticated Endangered Fish From a Conservation Hatchery Diverge in Their Thermal Physiology, Transcriptome, and Methylome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1178
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadWayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool. 7395126
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadKat Kerlin @katkerlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Research on the tenacious little killifish sheds light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants impacts later generations. From @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social 051
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Flame-retardant paper #2: shows that exposure in one generation has neurobehavioral impacts on offspring. Even brief exposure during embryo development - their offspring years later inherited altered behavior. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 011
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Flame-retardant paper #1: we show that brief exposures during early life to PBDE flame retardants have neurobehavioral effects that can last a lifetime, but whether exposure is maternal or directly from the environment modulates toxic outcomes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 121
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 27/08/20252 new papers now out in #ES&T on the persistent and multi-generational impacts of flame retardants on behavior and brain biology Press release from @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...ucdavis.eduMaternal Exposure to Crude Oil, Flame Retardants Can Affect Later GenerationsA tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac ... 1206
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadUC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025🚨Research alert 🚨 A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping #UCDavis researchers shed new light on how maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations. #DeepwaterHorizon #PBTE caes.ucdavis.edu/news/materna...caes.ucdavis.eduMaternal Exposure to Crude Oil, Flame Retardants Can Affect Later GenerationsA tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac ... 052
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 23/08/2025My system is very sophisticated. A running list on my Notes app.😬 010
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadMoshi @fishymoshi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Our collaborative study shows that hatchery domestication in Delta smelt elevates thermal tolerance but reduces plasticity, with transcriptome and methylome shifts influencing adaptation. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgHighly and lowly domesticated endangered fish from a conservation hatchery diverge in their thermal physiology, transcriptome, and methylomeConservation hatcheries aim to produce fish for supplementation of wild populations, but hatchery environments may drive phenotypic divergence from wild fish. These diverged traits may have reduced fi... 032
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2025stay tuned for two more papers coming out in the next few weeks on persistent and multi-generational impacts of exposures to ubiquitous flame retardant pollutants... 000
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2025New paper out in #ES&T where we show that killifish exposure to crude oil has impacts (on embryo/larval development and transcriptome) that propagate to their offspring and to their grand-offspring. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @acs.org 177
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadJoana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊 88418
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadSamuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Wish I could be at #Evol2025 this year! I’ll be starting a new lab at NYU this fall, and will be recruiting at all levels. Please spread the word if you know anyone who wants to work on evo. genomics, phylogenies, and comparative development of inverts (like Hawaiian Drosophila!) shchurch.github.io 73817
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadChristopher Wheat @chriswheat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com 06471
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadUC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Anya Brown - @dranyabrown.bsky.social, marine scientist at @ucdavis.bsky.social & Nat Geo Explorer, studies how coral microbes shape reef resilience. “It’s the kind of thing that unites so much of life on Earth,” she says. 🌊🪸🐠 Read more in Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/artic...nationalgeographic.comAnya Brown is investigating microbes’ critical role in coral reefsHer research team’s contributions could hold promise for coral adaptation and conservation. 0127
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 31/05/2025This is a great thread, with some really nice talking points for your letters to your reps, your protest signs, your zines and flyers, and your conversations with neighbors. 15928
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/05/2025"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comCutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care CatastropheThis JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha... 11471290
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadMoi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇 9257103
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Wow. This looks awesome. Lab group will be reading this! 130
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadJon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj 25533508
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Interested in evolution in the Anthropocene? In a paper out today we use a mechanism-guided approach to predict & show that evolved resistance to urban pollutants offers cross-resistance to oil in killifish, via adaptive change in AHR signaling doi.org/10.1111/eva.... @evolappjournal.bsky.socialdoi.orgMultiple Stressors in the Anthropocene: Urban Evolutionary History Modifies Sensitivity to the Toxic Effects of Crude Oil Exposure in KillifishPersistence of wild species in human-altered environments is difficult, in part because challenges to fitness are complex when multiple environmental changes occur simultaneously, which is common in ... 0164
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/04/2025New @science.org Exposomics. We're not doing nearly enough to understand and mitigate our toxic environmental exposures. A very insightful perspective www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 519158
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net 16621488
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Students seemed relieved to hear that faculty recognize the challenges, are concerned for them, invested in their future, & are listening. Though institutes seem afraid to message support for students these days, perhaps support is best communicated in small groups with folks whose faces we know 040
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Main message from faculty: Work hard on the things within your control... - take advantage of out-of-classroom opportunities to build breadth/depth of experience, including work in lab, internships, etc - get to know your professors - engage with professional organizations - build pro network 150
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Hosted listening sessions with undergrad students in our program over the past 2 days. Their main concerns (perhaps unsurprisingly): - students from non-traditional identities worried if institute has their backs - worry about grad school prospects, job prospects, loss of educational opportunities 131
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 30/03/2025New preprint from the lab: Exposure to crude oil in adult killifish has effects (morphology, gene expression) that propagate at least two generations, but effects are different between first and second generation descendants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgAdult killifish exposure to crude oil perturbs embryonic gene expression and larval morphology in first- and second-generation offspringExposures to environmental toxicants can have both immediate and long-term impacts, including those that persist into the next generation. Using Gulf killifish ( Fundulus grandis ), we tested whether ... 051
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 30/03/2025New preprint from the lab, where we describe how evolved resistance to PCBs in urban populations of killifish affords protection from fitness impacts of crude oil - in adults and embryos - because of shared mechanisms of toxicity between PCBs and oil www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 034
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025For folks who are new to single-cell transcriptomics, does anyone have any recommendations for workshops? 000
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadTabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025If you missed it, here’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s, quite sincerely, historic speech. It’s for, and is galvanizing, Canadians but he also speaks very directly to our allies in the US. Please hear us out. I do find myself thinking how much I’d give up, and do, for this imperfect country.youtu.beTrudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goodsYouTube video by CBC News 13389116
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 03/05/2024Love the term "Shitthropocene". I figure we'll use it in our next manuscript title. "Shitthropocene? Fish evolve the gene: The story of aryl hydrocarbon receptor" www.patagonia.com/quality/#shi...patagonia.comQuality Clothing & Gear by PatagoniaOur new film The Shitthropocene explores how we got here and why it’s destroying us all. It’s also a little bit about how we might be able to overcome this. 020
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 05/03/2024A fun conversation with Will Tingle on the Naked Genetics podcast about role of hybridization in conservation. We touched on some controversial topics. What do you think? www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...thenakedscientists.comShould we hybridise endangered species?Is saving some genome better than saving none? 032
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadGina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)dynamicecology.wordpress.comNon-definitive guides on developing a reading habit & generating project ideasNote from Meghan: This is a guest post by my colleague Gina Baucom on a topic that's sure to be of interest to lots of readers! *** I lead a graduate-level professional development seminar* where we r... 27270
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadJo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Wow! The complex genomic and epigenetic variation that builds the tasty diversity of Brassica oleracea (the single species that forms broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts) 🧪🥦🥬nature.comLarge-scale gene expression alterations introduced by structural variation drive morphotype diversification in Brassica oleracea - Nature GeneticsDe novo genome assemblies of 22 Brassica oleracea accessions and pan-genome analyses highlight the effects of structural variations on gene expression and their contributions to morphotype diversifica... 04525
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024kudos to the wonderful group of students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty involved, including co-lead authors Jeff Miller and Bryan Clark @ecotoxdoc.bsky.social, plus Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social and others not on this platform. 000
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024We are currently working to expand on this; more families, more chemicals, and more traits, to expand our understanding of the complexity of genetic adaptation to radically-altered urban estuaries 110
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024Key regulators of the AHR signaling pathway, which is adaptively desensitized in resistant populations, are found within QTL regions. In the discussion we try to wrap our heads around what these data tell us about polygenic adaptation and genetic redundancy. 100
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024Independently evolved pollution resistance in four killifish populations is largely explained by few variants of large effect. But wait there is more... Some QTL for PCB developmental toxicity show signatures of selection in wild populations, other don't. Some adaptive loci are QTL, most are not 110
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024Are you interested in evolution in the Anthropocene?... in evolved resistance to pollution?... in the genetic architecture of rapidly evolving traits?... You are in luck! I have something for you to read... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 12816
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadBrant Faircloth @brantfaircloth.bsky.social · 26/01/2024Reposting here with some edits for brevity... (from @prosanta.bsky.social in the other place): The Museum of Natural Science at LSU is hiring three collections managers!!! Apply at the following links: Mammals: bit.ly/3u5lmUT Birds: bit.ly/3u8x9BE Genetic Resources: bit.ly/3UivQL8 11320
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Maybe. Nice article about rapid adaptation in the Anthropocene by @scibri.bsky.social and featuring interviews with @ryanamartin.bsky.social, Sarah Diamond, Luciano Beheregaray hakaimagazine.com/news/can-ani... via @hakaimagazine.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadJoanna Griffiths @jogriffiths61.bsky.social · 05/01/2024Interested in #conservation #genomics #hatcheries #thermaltolerance #phasing #imputation #GWAS approaches? Come see my talk at #SICB2024 Saturday at 9:15am room 613/613 082
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 05/01/2024Hey SICB gang! If you are interested in conservation genetics and quantitative genetics of thermal resilience then be sure to check out Joanna’s awesome work… #SICB2024 000
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/12/2023If you had the opportunity to launch some philanthropic giving initiatives in your department, what would be your top 2 priorities? 000
Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 20/12/2023I use phenotypic elasticity sometimes. But mainly to distinguish irreversible developmental plasticity from plasticity that can track environmental fluctuations … 010
Reposted by Andrew WhiteheadHolly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 29/11/2023I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjobrecruit.ap.ucsb.eduAssistant Professor of Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now! 2121164