Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 188111811873
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiDaniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing. 8597153017
Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowskisamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/07/2026the current NZ govt is so anti-science that they've changed eligibility for the Prime Minister's Science Prizes to rule out awards to people doing basic science eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand" #nzpol 1217576
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto... 210014
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Also hard to catch via TV. I mostly recognize them only if I’ve known someone from there 000
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026She does but they all think it’s an English accent 😭 200
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In 10 yo’s recent class presentation on New Zealand, I showed her how to use animation to introduce text slowly. She still heaps praise on me for my slide skills 😎 110
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/20261. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.academic.oup.comGeneralization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learningAbstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e 9402118
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026NZ science funding is starting to feel like some sort of shell game. Scramble things so many times, no one notices science being robbed b2bnews.co.nz/news/marsden...b2bnews.co.nzMarsden Fund cut 29% as NZ kills blue-sky research fundingNew Zealand's flagship discovery research fund is running its final round before being absorbed into a government-directed system. The 29% funding cut lands on a country that already spends half the O... 020
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Doesn’t sound like a full-throated repudiation 🤷♀️. But as you just pointed out, Kiwis are a bit, um, understated 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I’m curious to know whether any of this will be tabled or reversed if a different party were to win the election. Honestly not sure. 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Man, it seemed so awful I had assumed I must be missing something. Apparently not 😢 000
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Yeah, that’s unfortunate. It’s the ONE place where you’d want basic scientists to be well-represented. 011
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Right? The national broadcast part threw me. How do you think it relates to NZ science funding? 110
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14/03/2026I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods 683903812
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Have you come across the On the Farm broadcast on RNZ? Found myself listening to it in the car one evening. Slice of NZ life I had not experienced before! 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Is this the same type of tree? I’ve always loved the bark. (Taken in Cornwall Park, Auckland) 040
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiElizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I am looking for wide-ranging mammalian DNA samples for a class I am developing. Especially sought-after would be parent-offspring paired samples. Please retweet (re-skeet?), thank you! 0210
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I am looking for wide-ranging mammalian DNA samples for a class I am developing. Especially sought-after would be parent-offspring paired samples. Please retweet (re-skeet?), thank you! 0210
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I tried to avoid providing keys for exactly this reason — but I’ve given in to student demand. How do you get buy-in for this policy? 220
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Rookie mistake, returning to the US: signed up for an FSA and forgot about it. In other (not unrelated) news, I am the proud new owner of a fancy foot massager 🙃 020
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiTom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025In our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it! 2177
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Here is a video that I think might be the best I’ve seen to give students an idea of what is involved in transfers and competitions. I’d like something less detailed/ specific to LTEE, though, while still covering logistics www.jove.com/v/65342/dail...jove.comVideo: Daily Transfers, Archiving Populations, and Measuring Fitness in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli4.1K Views. The University of Texas at Austin. In 1988, Richard Lenski began an evolution experiment. He filled 12 Erlenmeyer flasks with a glucose-limited defined growth medium known as DM25. He ino... 041
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiHypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 11/12/20254/ #DYK during pregnancy🤰, cells are exchanged between mothers + offspring, & even twins? Awardee @elizostrow.bsky.social will study how microchimerism mediates genetic conflict and drive resource competition. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Ostrowski! @uwbothell.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @paulturnerlab.bsky.social 0116
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiHypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 11/12/20253/ Awardee @mixotrophe.bsky.social aims to uncover how mixotrophs (marine microbes that harness energy from the 🌞 & organic matter) strategize their metabolisms. Her project may be key to understanding our changing ocean. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Moeller! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout Ginger Armbrust 1104
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiHypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 11/12/20252/ Awardee @megbehri.bsky.social will study how chaotic dynamics arise in microbial🦠 populations. Her research could transform how we predict microbiome dysbiosis across human health and beyond. 🥳 Congrats Dr. Behringer! @vuartsci.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @paulturnerlab.bsky.social 164
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiHypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 11/12/2025✨Announcing our newest awardees, who are taking scientific leaps to uncover new knowledge across microbial ecology, marine microbiology, and mammalian genetics. Learn about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees Meet our awardees and hear from their #HFScouts in our 🧵/1 2115
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiMark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I’m watching this! I could use the resources too. 011
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried 191462305
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiAsher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Amazing example of influenza cheat/cooperator cycles in this recent paper - the repeatability of the oscillatory cycles is so striking Congrats to @alnajifg.bsky.social , @christopherbrooke.bsky.social , @vignuzzilab.bsky.social & friends www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 #socialviruses 12410
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Does anyone have a favorite experimental evolution overview for undergraduates? Ideally one that goes into the details of fitness assays, marking strains, etc. Everything I’ve found doesn’t dig into the details sufficiently. 133
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 24/11/2025Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptationbuff.lyQuantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traitsMicrobiomes, the complex communities of microorganisms associated with multicellular hosts, play a vital role in shaping host traits and fitness. But how d 0286
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiTe Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 06/11/2025David became a freelance bioinformatician due to the situation he describes 👇. Freelance workers are typically looking for the next contract. That's how it is. Maybe we could boost this signal so that people who appreciate David's experience and principles can find him? 167
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiFrank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2025These are the beautiful spore-producing structures of plasmodial slime molds. Which is your favourite colour? Originally considered Fungi, they are now classed as Ameobozoans - single celled organisms with thousands of nuclei... not animals or fungi but something else entirely! #SoilBiodiversity 🧪 26810
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I dunno - I mean, this person is cool, they think just like me is going to result in hires of people reflecting the current dominant phenotype 210
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Eg your earlier example of a faculty interview as being a vibe check 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I would urge a lot of caution on using vibes if you’re in a position of power making these decisions. 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 31/10/2025That sounds very sensible. I don’t know why my subconscious brain pulls this scenario out over and over 🤷♀️ 100
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Oh no! I’m surprised that’s not my dream, actually 010
Reposted by Elizabeth OstrowskiJames McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Here in the uk, the government has found that £1 of spending on R&D results in £8 of benefit: www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukThe value of public R&D 0146
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Will I ever stop having that dream where I’ve forgotten that I signed up for a class, and today is the final? 😰 240
Reposted by Elizabeth Ostrowskisamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/10/2025I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...newsroom.co.nzWinner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drainDr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest. 1120765
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025🎯🎯🎯 But surely Kiwis are having heart palpitations from how direct this is 🤣🤣 010
Elizabeth Ostrowski @elizostrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Ooh that’s awesome. I missed an opportunity with UW. It’s shorter but not eliz 100