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Casey terHorst

@ecoevolab.bsky.social
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Biology Prof at Cal State Northridge. Pro- species diversity, genetic diversity, and diversity in STEM #BLM #TransLives he/him🏳️‍🌈 But also into non-academic things (TV and Broadway)

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 20h
Meanwhile, we had to get stairs for the cats to get on the bed…
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 23h
Saw The Outsiders last night and the first act finale is “Run Run Brother”, which is not bad and pretty catchy, but I can’t stop singing it as Rum Tug Tugger
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Relevant note: there WILL indeed be a murder to solve!
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very excited to be going to my first Gordon Conference in January. My only worry is that it will fail to meet the VERY high bar set by previous attendees' hype over decades
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social in an old mansion on Long Island is starting to book up! Registration is open until Nov 1 OR until we hit 200 registrants, so grab your spot before it's gone! www.amnat2027.org
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ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027
Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What? This is incredible
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Lanterns finale had no superhero action and just long stretches of dialogue and had no business being that good
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...
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Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For how long should I expect to feel terrible from the shingles vaccine? Trying to plan ahead
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love that she is going to be our next mayor in LA
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One idea: This Radiolab episode out whether blue is a good signal of fitness in bowerbirds, or whether they just like blue radiolab.org/podcast/beau...
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The Beauty Puzzle
In one corner of the natural world, beauty may be beating brawn.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In lieu of a paper discussion, I'm offering my Ecology class a podcast to discuss instead. Looking for recs of great podcast episodes for a senior-level course!
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
78% of surveyed professional women in marine science experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, in case anyone still wrongly believes this is a matter of just partying too much in college. www.womeninoceanscience.com/sexual-haras...
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Sexual Harassment in Marine Science — WOMEN IN OCEAN SCIENCE
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one is for the undergrads!! Can y'all repost?!? Share in your classes? I'm not sure where the undergrads are these days when it comes to social media! TY!
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super cool scientist interviewed for this story app.publicnewsservice.org/story/report...?
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Report details strategies to speed up California wetland restoration
California has lost more than 90% of its historical wetlands on the coast and in the delta, and a new report lays out the biggest obstacles to progress.The publication, titled
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "Back the Blue" people are now all about policing yourself
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/09/2026
I turned up at Waterstones in Worthing to sign some new stock of QUEER ORIGINS and was absolutely bowled over to be greeted by this in prime position in the shop window! It's so uplifting when booksellers get behind one's book. 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️ #book #books #booksky #authors #reading #histsci #queerhistory
Photo taken from outside a shop window. There's a copy of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks displayed upright. Next to it is some text about the book in a wooden frame. It reads: 'Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life' 'Dr Ross Brooks' 'What did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In this iconoclastic history, Brooks shows how queerness was at the heart of evolutionists’ thinking about the natural world. From hermaphroditic slugs and sex-changing birds to male pigeon lactation, pregnant male seahorses, and bisexual pigs, Darwin and his fellow naturalists were privately in awe of nature’s sexual diversity. These encounters fundamentally shaped their understanding of plants, animals, and humans, even if they were never fully acknowledged in their published writings. Brooks radically exposes us to the hidden queerness of Georgian and Victorian science—and shows how nature has always been more sexually diverse than we’ve been told.'
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Somebody tried to placate me today by saying they know how much I care about this university and I thought: I sit right on the cusp of being willing to die for this place and wanting to burn it down
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On an early morning walk, the dog and I saw a bobcat up close, who then ran into our yard. Very exciting day for me but indescribable excitement for the dog
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps?
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our campus president has made it her brand to wear red Converse 24/7 for reasons passing understanding, but I hope that finally comes to an end now
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listen, i may not be a football girlie but game theory-wise i will say this: the way Robert Kraft collaborated with other NFL owners to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour speaks to why Colin Kaepernick was never given another shot after taking a knee for racial justice.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Saw Sutton Foster perform tonight and having Hugh Jackman as a surprise guest was zero percent surprising but one hundred percent great
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Plus, Program Officers are often still members of their universities, so this seems impossible to accomplish in practice?
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yahoo Mail (shut up, I only keep it for spam) trying to give out awards for how well you check your email...
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Adam Levine's Shy Reaction
ALT: Adam Levine's Shy Reaction
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The new default in Zoom seems to be Video Off, Audio On when folks join a meeting?...which very much should not be the default
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're coming to #WSN2026 and want to be part of the Drag Show (drag as your fave species?), please help us make this event great! Email students@wsn-online.org
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mike Rogers left his home in Florida to try to get to Michigan and somehow ended up in Dallas...let's help him out!
comehomemike.com
Come Home, Mike
Help Mike Rogers find his way from Florida back to Michigan. He hasn't managed it yet.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Uni wants students to sign a separate waiver for each field trip. For a class of 25 students, I'm meant to go to class with 175 pieces of paper, get them signed, then scan and submit them electronically. Nope!
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ohhhh, it’s an asexual reproduction thing???
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ok, plant people…the flowering stalk on this orchid, after flowering, blebbed out a leaf. I didn’t think there’d be a meristem there??
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Somebody destroyed our Nithya Raman for Mayor sign in front of the house, I assume by driving into it, which also ruined two native plants on either side. If you don't like democracy, go live somewhere else, but also don't take it out on the plants, man!
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Curious office thing: If somebody walks into my office while I'm eating, they often say "oh sorry, I can come back". But never for anything else they might be interrupting... (not a problem, but just odd)
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The US government lying to hide the fact they couldn’t actually intervene to protect some D-tier race scientist is like a Veep episode I would write.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
God bless the students who understand the tech in my classroom better than I do
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes…at least! I looked at our uni stats and they say 1%, which is refuted by opening your eyes in class
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Debating when to pivot from the Dolly playlist to Rocky Horror. It's not fair to mourn multiple icons together
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Top 10 podcasts of all time
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Travandboo @travandboo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Her website is crashing from donations. If that isn’t the most beautiful thing, I don’t know.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No words 😭
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mentioned DDT in class today and a student asked what it is. Me: oh I am thrilled that enough time has passed that you wouldn't know!
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Public comments about a proposal that would make science funding decisions open to political influence are removed from the record, but not by the submitters. A number mentioned that OMB Director Russell Vought's family has benefited from federally funded research. www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I know it's full of anxiety and chaos and crowds, but there's still something really lovely about the first day of classes in the Fall
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/08/2026
Oh this is going right in my first-day-of-class slides dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI a¤ects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Spent 3.5 hours making a mail merge happen in google today, only to find out that the free version will only send 12 emails per day. Pretty sure I could copy-paste-send 12 emails in slightly less time. #SunkenCosts But at least tomorrow I can save 3-5 minutes sending another 12!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
huge design flaw in adulthood: no one claps when you do the right thing.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
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