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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D.

@arummel.bsky.social
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Bat enthusiast, thermal and muscle physiologist. Assistant Professor at Rice University: rummellab.com

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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
After studying bats for more than a decade, I finally got to go to Bracken Cave. This is the largest bat colony in the world with an estimated 15-20 million bats. We were able to see both the evening emergences and the bats' return in the morning. Incredible!!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am simply bedeviled with biologists. October will be @arummel.bsky.social, I need like 5 more scientists who are not biologists to balance out my biologist-bias. I wish I didn't have to give 'em the ol razzle dazzle on social media to remind teachers to sign up, but oh, razzle dazzle I will.
Andrea, a brunette with bangs, holds her camera, and smiles brightly. Two bats flap around the words October, Andrea Rummel, bat biologist, Ask andrea how bats regulate their temperature or urban wildlife!
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Princeton Vaughn @princetonvaughn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thrilled to have my first thesis chapter published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We combine genomics, gene editing, and performance experiments to reveal the genetic basis and functional consequences of hurricane-induced trait shifts in island lizards! Check it out: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Genomic targets of hurricane-induced selection on clinging performance in an island lizard
Vaughn et al. show that hurricanes drive parallel genomic selection signatures in island anoles. One candidate locus (hs6st1) is associated with rear toe length. CRISPR disruption reduces hindfoot ele...
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hundreds of thousands of bats emerge from a large Mexican-free tailed colony in East Texas. The bats gave us a spectacular show with plenty of daylight left, emerging about 20 minutes before sunset 🦇
Bats blanket the sky, swarming out of a dark recess in a brick building.Bats get their bearings close to the emergence point, in a dense cloud, seemingly bumping into each other as they fly
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Peregrine falcon hunting bats (very successfully) in Houston tonight!
Bird cocks its head at the camera with a bat dangling in its talons.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My buddy and bat scientist @arummel.bsky.social is studying how bat wings move in flight. Scientists often look at the 2d shapes of bat wings but her work shows it’s critical to consider the 3d shape while in flight. #SICB2026
A doodle of a bat laying down and another doodle of Andrea taking 3d videos of bats flying in a tent outside surrounded by bugs. The words say “Andrea Rummel, rice U bat wings changing shape. How elegant is 2d shapes for what is actually happening in the air? Historically people have used 2d because it’s easy to collect but hoses useful is it really? Conclusion: 2d is a bad readout. Andrea took 3d videos of bats flying in a tent in the field in Belize to understand the wing stroke of different bat species”
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
IOB is gearing up for #BatWeek Oct 24-31st by featuring our co-author @arummel.bsky.social See Rice University's " #Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice #researchers lead #biodiversity study in Tanzania" news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba... & read doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come join us at Rice!
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Alexandria Shockney @ashockney24.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more! #academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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NYAS Publications
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there! news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
A bat is being released back into the night.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Possum in my trash can I REPEAT! Possum in my trash can.
A young possum in Sarah’s trash can sitting on a bag of trash
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts
A swainson's hawk with a bat in its talons flies through the air. A night heron sits on a branch with two bats in its beak. A swarm of bats flies through Houston after leaving their roost at Waugh Dr and Buffalo Bayou
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!
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Alexandria Shockney @ashockney24.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We had a truly spectacular emergence at Waugh Bridge last night! 🦇
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Battle of the wings at Buffalo Bayou (the bat got away 😮‍💨🦇)
Swainson’s hawk attacks a Mexican free tailed bat in front of a building and trees in central Houston
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We got the cover of Nature Eco Evo for our anglerfish study!! Shoutout to our graduate student HoWan Chan for the slick image. Read to study here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of Nature Ecology and Evolution showing a micro-CT scan of an anglerfish  looking generally menacing
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Nice bat emergence in Houston the other night, with a red-shouldered hawk on the hunt.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)
In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Grad student Kate checking out some bats in a local colony. Glamorous fieldwork!
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Last week, a video of a rare black seadevil anglerfish spotted near the ocean surface made headlines because anglerfish typically live in very deep waters. Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.
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Why The Internet Was Captivated By A Hideous Fish
A video of a gloriously creepy anglerfish inspired tears and poetry online. But why was this deep-sea dweller near the surface at all?
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The Rummel Lab is almost ready for move-in! What a view 🥹
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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NSF Award Search: Award # 9153967 - THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS: A CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SCIENCE SERIES Lock
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Helloooo? Horseshoe crab is that you?
A business card sized piece of paper looks like an iPhone. It looks like the screen where someone is calling. A horseshoe crab is on the line for you. 

This is stuck in a street pole
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D. @cabarbieri.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The world is not fun right now. But! we are finally scanning the fishes that we caught in Okinawa last month and added a particularly special one to the dataset today. This is a rainbow runner. Its a common pelagic fish that has eluded us for years somehow. Its really pretty in life and as a scan.
Micro-CT scan of a beautiful rainbow runner that was caught offshore in Okinawa, Japan last month. These species are pelagic generalists that use speed to catch their food. Note that triangular pointy head... thats for speed.Live image of a rainbow runner, photo credit:Reef Fishes of the Indo-Pacific. Book by Matthias Bergbauer and Manuela Kirschner
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Houston showing up to the snow day with the most creative sleds:
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
BONKERS to me that Elon's double nazi salute isn't the leading news story today. What in the fuck kind of world
A billionaire immigrant oligarch standing before an United States inaugural podium doing a Third Reich salute, sporting a white man overbite of triumph and exertion
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.
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Caroline Cummings @carolinecummings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hi! I'm new to blue sky, and I have a new preprint out! 🥳🥳 This work is the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The study was completed with the @viralemergence.org with support from @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, and Amanda Vicente-Santos ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩‍🔬 (1/5)
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Ranjeev Epa PhD @ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Check out this absolutely amazing glittery #brachiopod with structures of the #lophophore preserved
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Super proud of my grad students @ashockney24.bsky.social and Kate Manges Douglas. They gave stellar presentations at #SICB2025 after just one semester of grad school!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Did a low key draw what you learned this week with @arummel.bsky.social. We are too sleepy to go out partying 😅 I learned that lizards assume “skydiving position” when falling. Andrea learned that bats are cool (she already knew that lol). #SICB2025 #DrawWhatYouLearned
A chameleon wears a blue skydiving suit, and falls through the clouds. A small text box in the corner says “when falling lizards assume skydiving position A beautifully drawn hoary bat in colored pencil. Hoary bats are furry as hell with brown and silver fur
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I actually think Houston has LA and NYC beat on affordable ethnic food. Cheap housing and fast permitting means you attract a lot of niche options. (And much more so than LA or NYC, Houston has extremely good regional US cuisine—BBQ, Southern food, TexMex.) bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@arummel.bsky.social learned about parrots have weird tongues that help them drink #SICB2025 #DrawWhatYouLearned
A green parrot drinks a cocktail out of a pineapple
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@princetonvaughn.bsky.social’s awesome research!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hey #SICB2025, join us on that balcony on the atrium level to draw something you learned this week (or whatever you want honestly). I brought art supplies 🫡
Art supplies on a big marble circular table
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Alexandria Shockney @ashockney24.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Are you interested in cute, fluffy mammals? 👀 Me too! Come learn why some bats are fluffier than others at my #SICB2025 oral presentation Monday at 1:45pm in International 5 📸 Traer Scott
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Are you at #SICB2025 and interested in bats? Check out @ashockney24.bsky.social’s talk on how furry bat wings are (Monday at 1:45PM in International 5), and Kate Manges Douglas’s poster on how hot bat wings are (Monday, P3-121)! Sneak peaks below:
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi 👋 I’m a new assistant prof at Rice studying bats and what makes them so cool. Here I am with what quite possibly may be the ugliest bat in the world, my fav Centurio senex (handled with proper permits and experience)
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Do you need a squid fact? The squid facts hotline can help. Simply text "Squid" to 1-833-SCI-TEXT. That's 1-833-724-8398. Over 70,000 people served with fresh hot squid facts so far 🫡
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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Hi folks! I’m Andrea and I’m a postdoc at Princeton studying thermal and muscle physiology in bats and lizards. Bats are my true love - they’re the coolest mammals ever
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