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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 🐶🐾

White dog with a little pink birthday hat

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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 🧪

White dog with black and brown markings/ear and its tongue sticking out

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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

White dog wearing a tight fitting black body

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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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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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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

A series of close-up pictures of a woman reading a computer screen while she is getting a more and more concerned look on her face

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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 ❤️

White dog with a backpack resting on a rock overlooking the ocean

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Great night at Pint of Science in Stockholm, Sweden! Our colleagues from Stockholm University told us about butterflies, mercury pollution and sexual selection. Oh, and we won the quiz 😀 Yay science! 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

Power point presentation saying Pint of Science with an image of a brain in a beer glass

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

The brutality of writing 3 different grant applications in 4 weeks, making all the deadlines (barely alive), being super proud of yourself…and then getting the first rejection the day after your last submission. Academia is tough, be kind to one another. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Me thinking about all the exciting ideas I have for research projects vs me actually having to finish them up 2 days before the grant deadlines (yes, plural)... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

The first photo is a girl looking into the distance with a dreamy look on her face holding a pencil, the second photo is a a girl writing while crying

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

JOB ALERT! What is the cost of making color in butterfly wings? Postdoc opening studying life-history tradeoffs using function genomics (CRISPR, ATACseq, CHIPseq, ssRNAseq) at Stockholm University. t.co/ToErH8ITM5 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

JOB ALERT! The Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum is seeking an associate professor for a position in vertebrate evolutionary genomics. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

It finally happened! Five wolves released in Colorado yesterday as a first step in the efforts to reestablish a viable population in the state. Check out further details and the breathtaking video of the release itself in the link below. Good luck out there! 🧪🌍 cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Page...

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

So, are we gonna talk about how someone thought it was a good idea to see if they could do ResearchGate worse than Elon did Twitter? 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Wolf conservation paper: "Public wolf-hunting schemes did not correlate with livestock depredation levels....The observed failure in reducing livestock losses is expected if predators are non-selectively removed" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

PhD position on dog behaviour and cognition in the Bray Lab at University of Arizona. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position in marcroecology at Copenhagen University. Focus on vertebrates, preferably birds. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Me trying to fit one more important point into a grant proposal with a strict page limit... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

As a behavioural ecologist I am amazed by how consistently cats are just little shits😍 The trait clearly expresses a considerable degree of context independence so it must be subject to selection. Has anyone quantified the heritability of being a little shit? 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #Evobio #evosky #EHBEA

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Position as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Limnology at Uppsala University! www.jobb.uu.se/details/?pos... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Position alert! Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) with specialization in evolution of sex, sexual conflicts and sex-chromosomes at Uppsala University. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

So um, I ordered some bones for Janis thinking they’d be, you know, normal size. Got the package and was like, why the hell is it so big? Apparently there’s a mastodon farm somewhere from which they are sourcing dog snacks. Janis is very excited! #JanisDog #HouseHusky #Dogs @darthbluesky.bsky.social

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

PhD opportunity in wolf ecology at University of Guelph - note that the application deadline has been extended to November 1st! 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

OMG OMG OMG! #FatBearWeek2023 is finally here! I am all Team Grazer this year. Look at this marvelous stuffed-to-the-absolute-max-with-salmon bear 😍 Is that a double chin I spot? 🐻

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

How the hypocrisy in academia never disappoints! Penn trying to credit themselves for Katalin Karikó receiving the Nobel Prize is peak arrogance. Satisfyingly, they've gotten publicly shamed into oblivion. What did they think was gonna happen? 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

What that last stretch of grant writing before the deadline feels like... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Recently we replicated a study and produced contradicting results: #wolves can show attachment to humans. We have now rebutted a response to this study, addressing several misconceptions in the field of #dog #domestication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

...and then there is THIS fine specimen of a #dog. A well-published husky. Some might refer to Janis as a data point, but I like to think of her more like a research assistant. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Check out this super cool paper on the sequencing of the genome of the most famous sled dog in history, Balto! 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

I evaluate all my relationships, personal and professional, based on the "Two Beers and a Puppy" test. From Ross McCammon's book "Works Well with Others"

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