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Katie Martin, PhD

@katiemartinevo.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist Post doc at Oregon State U. Evolution, genomics, immune systems 🐢🧬🌈 she/her

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As a child who grew up on Fern Gully, Hexxus is Tim Curry’s most iconic role to me.
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest - BEHIND THE VOICE: TOXIC LOVE
YouTube video by FernGully: The Last Rainforest
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
[JOB!] I'm hiring for a really exciting postdoc position. A combination of breeding experiments, conservation genomics, and student mentorship. Room/board at the @amnh.org Southwestern Research Station each summer, 40 months of support, new science building at BSU. Share broadly! ad: bit.ly/4hKaUIL
A human hand holds a medium sized green frog with distinct gray spots and yellow eyes. This is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog, a threatened species native to the southwest US and Mexico.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
one year ago @colincarlson.bsky.social and i wrote this. we were right
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The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dream job tbh
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In which I vent about the foolishness we display when we say "Our budgets have been cut? We'll just have to do more with less". That's a losing strategy, every time. Why do we teach toddlers, but not governments, that choices have consequences?
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The foolishness of “doing more with less”
I got a little bit riled up the other day, and I realized that it might be worth sharing because the thing that riled me is a longstanding pattern in academia (at least in Canada, anyway). It’s a w…
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!
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Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Balancing selection and TSP, my beloveds 🥑
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The policy take-home of our new study, in 15 words: 🏭 Fossil fuels kill children 🔋 Decarbonization will slow malaria expansion 🦟 Malaria eradication will save lives everywhere 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa - Nature
Climate and econometric modelling reveal that human-induced climate change is shifting the burden of childhood malaria in Africa.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Graphical abstract for "The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa"
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It sounds like they’re stuck in the first half of a horror movie trailer, you know, that high pitched whine that builds and builds to a jump scare. Simply horrifying conditions.
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hi Bluesky. I’m officially asking my network for help. It’s been a tough 10 months on the job market, and I am actively seeking policy and policy-adjacent roles in agricultural emissions, greenhouse gas mitigation, air quality, and biotechnology regulation. 🧵
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/07/2026
Delete and repost to clarify degree of uncertainty: Today there is substantial uncertainty racing through academic channels about how this atrocious rule will be interpreted and enforced. Apparently some current visa holders have received notice, so it may pertain to existing visas as well.
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Trump Administration Issues Final Rule to End Foreign Student Visa Abuse | Homeland Security
DHS announced the publication of a final rule that officially eliminates the “duration of status” loophole that allowed foreign students, exchange visitors, and media representatives to remain in the ...
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Loukas Theodosiou @bioinformatician.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“So next time someone tells you Canada’s fires can be solved by raking the forests, you can point out that the thing filling their sky with smoke is a lightning-struck, drought-primed boreal forest doing what a warming climate is making it do more and more often.”
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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management
Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 16/07/2026
I see we are back to debating the humanity of people who live in red states and rural areas. My friends. This is not the path to justice. Doing a reverse fascism for our reasons is still a fascism. The people you are punishing are not the people making decisions. We take care of each other.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The natural history collections at the University of Texas, holding maybe 5 million specimens, is partly closed down because our buildings are falling apart and UT is doing the bare minimum of life support. We could fix it for 1/5th the price of a vanity purchase of a single dinosaur specimen.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
you still can't murder someone even if they have a warrant
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Solbakken et al. compared lanternfish genomes, finding great flexibility in their immune systems, challenging perceptions of vertebrate immunity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Loss of Major Histocompatibility Complex I and II Function in the Genome of Glacier Lanternfish Provides Insight Into Evolution of Vertebrate Immune Systems
Abstract. Lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are one of the most abundant and species diverse orders inhabiting the mesopelagic zone. Exploitation of marine resou
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.
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Katie Abson @katieabson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS
The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
more images from DC on getty that caught my eye
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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m excited to share a new paper from my lab, by former PhD student Ben Schultz! It’s a genome paper for the northern redbelly dace, a small freshwater fish with fascinating biology - stay tuned for more cool work enabled by this resource. doi.org/10.1139/gen-...
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The first chromosome-level annotated reference genome for Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace
Hybridization amongst teleost fish species is an ongoing phenomenon with unclear implications Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace, is a species with an especially complex and fascinating history...
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Phylogenetic analysis confirmed South Africa speciated from a Canada-like ancestor! 🇨🇦🇿🇦 🧪 #science #phylo #biology
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Madeline G. Eppley, PhD @madeline-eppley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Although my poster only had space for some of the pop gen results, the rest is available as a preprint! We surveyed wild eastern oyster genomics from 40 pops across thousands of miles of seascape to characterize genetic structure, adaptive loci, structural variants, and human mediated impacts. 🦪🌊
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Range-wide genetic population structure and environmental adaptation in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) provides insight for aquaculture
Selective breeding in aquaculture is necessary to establish food security and meet demand for sustainably produced protein. An informed selective breeding program requires understanding how population...
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
1) They shot up a car with a baby in it 2) I know the "shoplifting" spiel is being challenged but even if that were what was happening & even if it were only adults in the car, "It's fine to kill people for petty theft (if they're Black)" is the police premise here
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Katie Martin, PhD @katiemartinevo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Recently had a chance to chat about my latest pub 👇 Many thanks to journalist Emily Dougherty for a great write-up and my lab mate @jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social for the lab photos! All sea turtle handling and research done as part of permitted research activities 🌊🐢🧬
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UCF Researcher Reveals How Genetic Variation Shapes Sea Turtle Immune System Evolution
New research from a UCF biology researcher shows how genetic variation shapes sea turtles’ immune systems, with implications for disease resilience and conservation strategies.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Hello media people there is a whole library of images you can use to report on the current heatwave instead of melting ice creams and deck chairs. See Climate Visuals: climateoutreach.org/what-we-do/c...
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Climate Visuals - Climate Outreach
We're looking for new & exciting opportunities to partner, consult & further our goal of improving climate change imagery, get in touch here
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
a story in three panels of tonight's little garden visitor be sure to leave some water outside for the little bug friends during this heatwave 💧🪰
a silly #SciArt digital comic in three panels in black and orange ink on white. 
first panel is a stickfigure melting from the heat holding a watering can and watering some very dry soil, a little orange fly is appearing from the right
second panel is the same figure looking down in interest with an exclamation mark by them looking at the little fly now on the soil
third panel is a zoom in on the fly, a marmelade hoverfly in orange and black lines like a tiger, sipping out of a puddle of water on the dry soil
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this article does a great job calling out rubio for his bullshit. he knows he's more responsible for this than everyone he's trying to blame
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I think more of us env scicomm folks need to present our work through old-timey, vaguely-horny Men's Adventures magazine covers like this. Absolutely immaculate vibes from our girl Rachel (who I can only imagine was mortified?)
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“Before the industrial revolution comment, Caulfield praised Jeff Bezos for his passion and use of Amazon as a “stepping stone” to his real dream: spaceflight. Rattled after the crowd’s reaction, she continued her speech: “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.” The crowd cheered.”
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,
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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is now published in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... 🧪
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the Erythrina Gall Wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Abstract. The erythrina gall wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae, is an invasive gall-inducing chalcidoid wasp and a major pest of the endemic wiliwili tree (Er
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Always enjoy reading a dissertation - I try to give it time and respect. We are all so rushed, but somebody worked their f**king ass off for this, and I'm so pleased for the person defending their work this week. So, diving in ahead of time.
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