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Jessie Williamson

@jlwilliamson.bsky.social
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Bird migration, ecology, evolution & eco-physiology 🦜 + mountains, museums | Assistant Professor @ University of Wyoming www.jessiewilliamson.com

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Emily V Griffith @e-v-griffith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8
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Have you seen this petition yet?
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!
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Daniele (Dani) Wiley @dlfwiley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today marks a special day. 💚 We started this project nearly a decade ago when I was just a wee undergrad with a burning curiosity. Now to see it published in Oecologia as a PhD candidate is surreal... & on the one-year anniversary of my father's passing, no less. So grateful. doi.org/10.1007/s004...
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Parallel elevational replacement of hosts and parasites in a highly susceptible songbird genus - Oecologia
Elevational replacement distribution patterns underpin montane diversity and reflect the interaction of both biotic and abiotic pressures, but the degree to which parasites exhibit elevational zonatio...
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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New paper! @dlfwiley.bsky.social et al. investigated elevational replacement patterns in haemosporidian🩸infections in 🐦 3 vireo species—out now in Oecologia! Excellent to finally see it published after yrs in the works! @barrowevobio.bsky.social @jlwilliamson.bsky.social @msbbirds.bsky.social
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
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Maria Stager @mstager.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy #EcoEvo #evolution
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Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! 🎶 In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearly—making sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field.
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Wyoming Game & Fish Dept. is hiring two Black Rosy-Finch technicians to conduct alpine surveys in Wyoming's high elevation mountains during June 1st to Aug 31st 2026: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wyom.... Spread the word!
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just out in Systematic Biology, we explore the role of gene flow in island phylogeography of the Solomons Black-and-white Monarch complex. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... Up first, strong genetic structure between islands groups and weak (but present!) structure between Pleistocene-connected islands (🧵)
Figure with a photo of a member of then Solomons Monarch complex, a map of the Solomon Islands (divided into four island groups, Makira being the most isolated), and a principal component analysis highlighting the distinct between-island-group structure, with moderate structure within the New Georgia Group and weaker structure within the Bukida group (highlighted in an inset).
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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It’s been a long wait for this fantastic @bou.org.uk event: “A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world” #BOUasm25
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
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Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...
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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨
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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
THRILLED to announce that my NSF "Closing the gap: The history of river connections with the formation of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on the evolution of plants in rivers" in collab w/Carlos Jaramillo at STRI and Caroline Strömberg at UW was awarded! Add for a PhD student+a postdoc to come🧵
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Natalie Wright, Ph.D. @coereba.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
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Kenyon College - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track)
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Applications now open for the SSE GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 to expand your dissertation work. Submit your proposal by September 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
the ad is up! applications due 7/15: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//MontanaStateU.SwiftFoxGenomics
MSc Assistantship ¨C Genetics and Movement Ecology of Swift Fox Following Establishment of a Translocated Population. Department of Ecology, Montana State University Smithsonian Institution National...
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...
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ASN Presidential Address - EVOLUTION 2025
YouTube video by Evolution Meetings
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists. This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Science is pure awesome. I hope we can all keep doing it.
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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪
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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 28/04/2025
The diversity of the avian lung mycobiome is largely driven by diet and sampling year, reflecting birds’ exposure to environmental fungi. www.nature.com/articles/s42... @jlwilliamson.bsky.social @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social
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Phylogenetic and ecological drivers of the avian lung mycobiome and its potentially pathogenic component - Communications Biology
“The diversity of the avian lung mycobiome is largely driven by diet and sampling year, reflecting birds’ exposure to environmental fungi. While host phylogeny and geography contribute to differences,...
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
Flyer for the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium (including QR code in top right corner). This symposium highlights the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, and community engagement. These early career scientists are preparing to launch a faculty search. Applications are due May 30th, 2025.
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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Some species had an outsized role in shaping evolutionary theory. The Fiji Whistlers featured heavily in Ernst Mayr's development of the biological species concept and its application to allopatric taxa. In our new paper, we revisited this system with genomic data 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Love this stunning plate showing variation in Oreocereus leucotrichus flower characters from Eggli & Giorgetta 2025, Haseltonia: doi.org/10.2985/026.... 😍
Figure 6, Eggli & Giorgetta 2025, Haseltonia
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Hey folks, its time to celebrate some outstanding scientists & science. The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social gives out a variety of awards each year. It is my great privilege to announce this year’s slate of awards. These will also be announced in the next ASN newsletter. 1/N
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
AMAZING 🎉🎉🎉
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.
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No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding
How Endowments Actually Work
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"I don't know what NSF is going to be now, but it's not more efficient. It's just a mess." My story on today's firings and their impact. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is absolutely devastating www.wired.com/story/nation...
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This brutal attack on science and scientists is nauseating.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs
We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…
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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
OK folks this is my first announcement of a lab publication on Bluesky: Congrats to PhD Candidate Rashika Ranasinghe on today's publication of her paper "Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three-Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island." Happy holidays! doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three‐Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island
This study explores population divergence and hybridization dynamics across the golden-backed (Dinopium benghalense) and red-backed (D. psarodes) flameback woodpecker hybrid zone in Sri Lanka. The ge...
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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Pushing this out again for anyone interested in a postdoctoral position in the realm of avian evolutionary genomics with our group 🧪🦉 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Text of an advertisement for a postdoctoral position in the Toews Lab
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Earlier this year, we published gatoRs - an R package to streamline occurrence record downloading from iDigBio and GBIF: doi.org/10.1002/aps3... This work was led by undergrad Natalie Patten - so proud of her and what this paper turned out to be (1/n)
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Geographic And Taxonomic Occurrence R‐based Scrubbing (gatoRs): An R package and workflow for processing biodiversity data
Premise Digitized biodiversity data offer extensive information; however, obtaining and processing biodiversity data can be daunting. Complexities arise during data cleaning, such as identifying and...
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Paulina Arancibia @pauliarancibia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A starter pack of natural history museum-related Bluesky accounts. I'm happy to add suggestions for improvement.🏛️ go.bsky.app/DwoR4rN
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I love working at a museum! #amnh #entomology
A woman is smiling while holding a box of cicadas
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
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