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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This goes for most academics - we would love to help you get access to our research and answer any questions you might have!

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨📣 PhD opportunities with @ccioannou.bsky.social starting September 2027!! Check it out: 🐠 ioannougroup.com #ECBB2026 @asab.org

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🐾 DOG OWNERS WANTED! 🐾 Help us understand how early life experiences impact adult dog behaviour by filling out the survey below...and tell all dog owners you know to do the same. Swedish: survey.liu.se/Survey/13900 English/EU: survey.liu.se/Survey/14070 English/US: survey.liu.se/Survey/14086 🧪🌍🦊🐶

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

David Attenborough turned an impressive 100 years yesterday but could we perhaps also talk about how Janis celebrated her 12th birthday on the very same day and that is worth noting as well? #dogsofBlueSky 🐶🐾

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We want to thank all our dog participants in Arizona who helped further canine science during our first round of testing. Here is a small selection of the fuzzy data points in our slowly growing dataset. Great collaboration btw the Canid Research Group & the Canine Science Collaboratory #datadogs 🧪

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

OMG…😅 What’s your academic band name? 🧪🌍 #AcademicSky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What I did for work this week? I spent HOURS searching the internet for the best realistic stuffed dogs for an experiment on conspecific sociability (without comparison the most profound rabbit hole of my career) and then I purchased a couple of candidates... *to be continued* 🧪 🦊 🌍 🐾 #Academia

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Check out this thoughtful paper and amazing initiative on replication in the field of behavioral ecology. Will definitely incorporate this into my undergrad courses! 🧪 🌍 🦊

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug... #EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University

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ASAB @asab.org · 04/07/2025

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

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Opportunities — ASAB

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany. 🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

JOB ALERT! Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden. Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics. 🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Associate professor in animal biology

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked. Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6 🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene

Dogs have the potential to be an exceptional resource for studying ecological, behavioural and evolutionary processes. However, several widespread mis…

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs. Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... 🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky

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Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth

Abstract. The evolutionary history of canids has been shown to be complex, with hybridization and domestication confounding our understanding of speciation

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Our husky had surgery this week and the body she needs to wear to prevent her from licking her stitches makes her look like Steve Jobs in his iconic turtleneck sweaters. She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products… 🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews

Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I have seen many good, well-argued initiatives by various researchers to rebut this decision and also signed some petitions myself. Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals. 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Harsh! …but here’s to the importance of negative results. 🧪🌍#AcademicSky

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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

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Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel | Royal Society

Are you interested in shaping the future of scientific communication? Apply to join our new ECR Advisory Panel.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 11/11/2024

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

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All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Another job opportunity in Europe! 3+3 year position equivalent of Assistant professor at the Department of Animal Behaviour at Bielefeld University, Germany. Experience with genetic and genomic approaches an advantage. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer #ScienceJobs

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

In the light of recent events you might be looking for positions in say...Europe? Here is one on applied animal population ecology in Switzerland that aims to guide biodiversity conservation. www.unine.ch/files/live/s... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRCareer

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

When you (finally) get a grant after waiting for a decision for 9 months, reread your long forgotten proposal, and realize what you actually have to do now... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Happiness is when you bring out the hiking doggy backpack and your 10-year old husky bounces off the walls from excitement. We put less weight in her backpack these days (don’t tell her), but she’s still our best adventure buddy. Enjoy your dogs while you can ❤️

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