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Leslie Turner

@drlmturner.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist; Mouse geneticist; Scientist administrator. Views are my own.

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John Logsdon @johnlogsdon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Late-stage PhD students: We want to bring you to NYU Biology to meet peers and make connections with potential postdoctoral mentors. Apply to be part of our Emerging Scholars Symposium!
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Emerging Scholars Symposium 2025
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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A genomics learning framework for undergraduates
Genomics is an increasingly important part of biology research. However, educating undergraduates in genomics is not yet a standard part of life sciences curricula. We believe this is, in part, due to...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/08/2024
Our next VP: “Never underestimate a public school teacher." "While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours.” “Even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business."
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Nice benefit of sabbatical - got to see Kamala Harris and Tim Walz tonight in Philly! #HarrisWalz #PhillyForHarrisWalz
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Dr. Megan Fork @aforkintheriver.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
🧪🌎 Calling all Biology postdocs in the Mid-Atlantic! West Chester University would like to invite you to give a seminar in our series highlighting diverse early-career biologists. Register your interest here: forms.gle/WwT5DZJSvHTk... Please share widely!
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Interest Form: WCU Department of Biology Early Career Biology Seminar Series
The goal of this seminar series is to showcase diverse early-career biologists working relatively local to West Chester, PA. Apart from giving our students the chance to learn about cutting-edge scien...
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
I'm recruiting a graduate student this year - please help me spread the word! Research in our lab integrates field work, genomics, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling to test evolutionary theory and to predict species responses to climate change.
A position for a PhD student is available in the Lotterhos Lab starting Fall 2025. Research in the lab integrates field work, genomics, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling to test evolutionary theory and to predict species responses to climate change.
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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
🌎💧🧪Are you a PI in Ecology/Evolution/Marine science and are recruiting grad students for Fall 2025? Help spread the word and enter the details about your positions in this Google Form. The results are being shared around with potential students docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 19/07/2024
Sorry about beating the drum constantly but I’ve got basically everything riding on this thing and I’d greatly appreciate if you can share it around. It’s gonna be a great book I think! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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The Unfamiliars
One day, all the wizards disappear overnight. The only magic-users left are the most bottom-of-the-barrel familiars and it's now up to them to save magic and save the world.
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
My department at U Bath is hiring 6 new posts in Microbiome Research! 2 x Prof; 2 x Asst/Assoc Pof; 2x Prize Fellows www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/jo...
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Join the Department of Life Sciences
We are seeking candidates with an excellent track record of research and teaching to join our highly-rated department.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
"We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."
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Megan Frayer @hybridzones.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
I am so excited to share the advance online version of our new paper "Do genetic loci that cause reproductive isolation in the lab inhibit gene flow in nature?" Bret and I really enjoyed thinking about these ideas and we hope others find the discussion useful! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Do Genetic Loci that Cause Reproductive Isolation in the Lab Inhibit Gene Flow in Nature?
Abstract. The genetic dissection of reproductive barriers between diverging lineages provides enticing clues into the origin of species. One strategy uses linka
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doomsmoker (just memes) @doomsmoker.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Couple of days left to apply for our postdoc position! If you want to chat in person, I will be at #TAGC24 #PEQG24 next week
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I got Helix & CRISPR-Cat9 collars with AirTags, in anticipation of transatlantic travel (to sabbatical in Philly!!!) Looks like they joined some weird cat cult (or modern bow ties?)
A black and white tuxedo cat sits on a white table on the left, with red collar holding AirTag. A grey and white cat sits on a grey table on right, with same collar  with AirTag, but in blue.
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I'm advertising two awesome macroevolution-y PhD projects (at the University of Aberdeen) with upcoming deadlines: 1. On the global vertebrate pet trade, due Jan 17: quadrat.ac.uk/projects/tra... & 2. On parental care in fish, due Jan 30: findaphd.com/phds/project... Join us!
Aberdeen Beach on New Years Day
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...
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Biological Sciences: Research Experience for Undergraduates | AMNH
Approximately eight students gather each summer at the Museum for a ten-week experience working with curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Excited to share this cool paper from the Delmore lab! 🧪 @kdelmore.bsky.social I enjoyed contributing a bit as a coauthor. #birds #ornithology #evosky #evolbiol www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gene regulation and speciation in a migratory divide between songbirds - Nature Communications
Little is known about the genetic basis of many natural behaviours and how they contribute to speciation. Here the authors address this by identifying genes linked to migration of a songbird, investig...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Don’t let money go by. Supplements are one way to support individuals in your lab. www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
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NIH diversity supplements offer a pathway to independence
These funding mechanisms have been underutilized. The ASBMB public affairs staff offers recommendations to change that.
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Xmas decoration in Bath is impressive this year!
View of Bath Abbey from side, lit up it 2 blue tonesBath Abbey lit up in magenta, with large Christmas tree in frontPulteney bridge in Bath, lit in red over pulteney weir lit blueRed-lit building next to Pulteney bridge, with gold stars projected on it
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Current starting point for postdoc salaries at Oxford University is just over £36k - £2.7K under threshold. According to The Royal Society 62% of postdocs are non-UK nationals (5/6 in my lab). Two things: (i) postdocs are underpaid; (ii) UK science is screwed royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Captain Georg von Trapp-crushers everywhere: listen, for the first time in nearly 60 years, to Christopher Plummer's original vocals on "Edelweiss"! He actually has a perfectly nice voice that there was no need to dub. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ta...
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"Edelweiss" ft. Christopher Plummer's Original Vocals | The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition
For the first time ever, hear Christopher Plummer’s original vocals (dubbed by Bill Lee in the 1965 film and original soundtrack), featured on The Sound of M...
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Casapazzo @casapazzo.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
There's a stand-up comedian, Nish Kumar, who has a great bit about how the ideal level of fame is to be the drummer from Coldplay: youtu.be/_4xxbx7ALSA?...
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Nish Coldplay Drummer
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Came across my dad's stash of postcards from other scientists. 50 years ago this is how you had to get a print of any papers you wanted. He saved ones from 14 different countries.🧪
Postcards requesting a print of various scientific papers. all are from th early 1970sPostcards requesting a print of various scientific papers. all are from th early 1970sPostcards requesting a print of various scientific papers. all are from th early 1970sPostcards requesting a print of various scientific papers. all are from th early 1970s
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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Are you of African or African Caribbean heritage, based in the UK, and have an idea that you would like to develop into an academic book but are unsure where to start? Check out the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship: bit.ly/3sPnWxB
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Bloomsbury Fellowship 2023
Bloomsbury is launching the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Are you an early career scientist who wants to pursue a research project in the lab of a Fred Hutch Computational Biologist mentor? If yes, then the Mahan Fellowship is for you. Apply by Dec. 1, 2023! Learn more: bit.ly/3YWS2e8
Image showing building on the Fred Hutch campus, and text reading "Mahan Postdoctoral Fellowship. Deadline for Applications: Friday, December 1"
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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
#evosky #evoeco
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Not enough people know about bioicons.com Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.
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Friedemann Weber @friedemann.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Highly recommended! 4 Young Researcher positions available at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). And there are more to come
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4 Junior Research Group Leaders
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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
This is really cool - using the distribution of cells in a pipette tip for CFU quantification: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes - Nature Microbiology
Using agar media suspended in pipette tips and a standard camera, the geometric viability assay provides a user-friendly and scalable update to standard colony-forming-unit-count approaches.
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
"The Government prepared a secret dossier on an academic’s social media posts supporting transgender rights, Black Lives Matter, lecturer strikes and criticisms of No 10 amid a free speech row with universities, [i paper] can reveal" inews.co.uk/news/governm...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
One person's garbage is another person's treasure. Awesome paper by Dario Galanti from Oliver Bossdorf's lab: unmapped sequencing reads from wild plants allow for mapping parasite resistance genes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Double rainbow!
Double rainbow over street/construction site in Bristol
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Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Man, we needed some good news and this is *really* good news. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/h...
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Panel Says That Innovative Sickle Cell Cure Is Safe Enough for Patients
The decision by an advisory committee may lead to Food and Drug Administration approval of the first treatment for humans that uses the CRISPR gene-editing system.
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Need a visa to register for the Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal, Canada (aka Evolution 2024)? Registration is now available *for those needing a visa*! www.evolutionmeetings.org #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social (1/4)
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
As pointed out in the replies, the whole thing is a total pile of shit…but one things that’s *super*-sketchy about this is the fact that she’s been tipped-off about people’s social media profiles (AND NAMED THEM) and she’s been monitoring UKRI’s EDI efforts over a long period of time. #ToriesOut
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Sam Giles @gilespalaeo.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
It took weeks, or months, or more than a year for UKRI to respond to EDI concerns around lack of funding to Black researchers and bias in how doctoral funding is awarded. But this gets an response within hours - on a Saturday afternoon, no less - and promise of an immediate investigation. Shameful.
Screenshot of UKRI’s tweet promising an immediate investigation after Michelle Donelan wrote to the CEO about tweets by external members of a UKRI EDI advisory board
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Salaries are low and cost of living high in UK - hard for our grads and tougher to recruit international PhD students/postdocs.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 28/10/2023
Hello, BlueSky 👋 Let’s try a thread. We need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 First up: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years
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Tiffany Taylor @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
The field of microbial defence systems is a crazy place to be right now! Competitive #PhD opportunity (SWBioDTP) with me at Life Sciences in Bath in collab with Edze Westra at Exeter ESI (Falmouth): Aiming to explore regulatory control of multiple defence systems. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Maintenance loans are too low! Cost of living makes Unis in expensive Bath, Bristol etc less accessible for working class students, and adds major challenges for those that come. www.theguardian.com/money/2023/o...
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University students in England ‘have 50p a week to live on after rent’
Maintenance loans almost entirely wiped out by accommodation costs, according to research
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McGregor Lab @mcgregorlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
PhD project available to work on spider eye development, evolution and vision with me @laurensr.bsky.social and @viveknityananda.bsky.social iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... Please RP.
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
🚨 Pop up Oxford! 🚨 A (free!) microbial genomics conference, with a focus on ECRs - abstract submissions now open 🦠
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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Leslie Turner @drlmturner.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
It’s been 3 yrs since CRISPR-Cat9 gotcha day! Such a sweet and handsome kitty boy…with pretty good editing skills…and gets much better teaching evaluations than his human.
Grey and white cat with green eyes, in front of teal backgroundGrey and white kitten, sitting in blue mixing bowl, with desk and keyboard background.Large black and white cat sitting next to small grey and white kitten on a desk, looking away in very similar pose.Grey and white kitten with paws on pen, sitting right behind keyboard , on desk.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
A massive thank you to everyone who has donated codes. We need more requests for codes, so we can distribute the codes to anyone who wants them. Please share this request link as widely as possible. Thank you. forms.gle/cfopfrE7igpU...
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
We are offering grants of up to $1,000 for marine science and conservation education! 🧪🦑🐡 Details here: conbio.org/groups/secti...
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Society for Conservation Biology | Education in Science and Conservation Grants
The Society for Conservation Biology is global community of conservation professionals dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity.
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