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Karolina Heyduk

@kheyduk.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof UConn EEB | CAM photosynthesis keeps me up at night | made of cookies | She/her. Views my own.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am always incredibly impressed with myself when I manage to beat egg whites correctly. 👩‍🍳
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faculty curator position in vertebrate paleontology! Great opportunity to work with outstanding colleagues at LSUMNS: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
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Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508
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Indiana University Academic Positions
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chonk
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New penguin dropped
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is rad (both the science and the animation)
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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are crowdfunding for a bench in a peaceful spot at Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in memory of Philippa Borrill. Please share widely. Please email me or @drelunadiez.bsky.social for more details. 💚🌾🌿🌳 If you would like to contribute, the link is below ⬇️.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep my deepest weirdness in slack DMs with myself. Just pure unhinged behavior in there.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Ben Long @botbml.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora
Using LOPIT-DC-based spatial proteomics, Cadena et al. map the sub-organellar protein landscape of Paulinella chromatophora, a cercozoan with evolutionary-early-stage photosynthetic organelles. They f...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cool new work from @thanvisrikant.bsky.social & @kbomblies.bsky.social: Chromosomes in #Arabidopsis thaliana neo-polyploids break preferentially at fragile sites that correspond to ancient genome rearrangements #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Detection and analyses of aneuploidies in neo-tetraploid A. thaliana. (A) Schematic
representation of how neo-tetraploid F1 were generated through reciprocal crossing of Col-0 and
Ler neo-tetraploid inbreds. See Figure S1A for more details. (B-D) Examples of aneuploidy
detection using sequencing coverage data from three F1 individuals, “Cross_3_Plant_32”,
“Cross_3_Plant_25” and “Cross_38_Plant_01”, respectively (Figure S2, S3). The upper panels
show aneuploidy detection using a read-coverage approach and the lower panels show a
variant-calling based approach. The Ler chromosomes are indicated as L1-L5 (orange) and Col-
0 chromosomes are indicated as C1-C5 (blue). In both panels, every data point represents a
mean value (normalised read coverage / allele frequency) in a 100kb window of the genome.
For the upper panels, sequencing data are mapped to an in-silico hybrid genome that combines
TAIR10.1 (Col-0) and Ler. For the lower panels, the sequencing data are mapped to a Ler
reference genome. (B) Data from a euploid individual with normalised coverage consistent with
two copies of each maternally and paternally inherited chromosome (upper panel), and allele
frequencies clustering around 0.5 when mapped to a Ler reference genome (lower panel). (C)
Data from an individual affected by a full-length aneuploidy – a loss of one Chromosome 2 copy
from Col-0, resulting in a drop in coverage (upper panel) and sharp changes in allele frequency
(lower chromosome) for Chr2. (D) Data from an individual affected by a segmental loss of part
of Chromosome 4 from the Ler parent.
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're submitting a reference letter for a PRFB, I was surprised to not see any option for deleting and reuploading, which contradicts the info provided in the email requesting it. In fact, as soon as you select the file it is uploaded and you can't change it. Was fine for me, but beware.
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, but because my dad is a tech geek, I think we had it with Windows 95
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fundamentally the end of U.S. dominance in science.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DID YOU KNOW that redlining policies in the early and mid 20th century shaped our cities and towns and federally institutionalized housing inequality? Hopefully you did. This site has maps you can explore: dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
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Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Teaching environmental science class this semester is a turbo bummer. Quick, give me your favorite hopeful stories (links would be great) of environmental protection!
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is fucking exhausting.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
TIL that google docs can actually get hung up/laggy if there are too many edits/comments on a doc. 🙃
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Heckuva timeline we’re on.
What to Cook
Spaghetti With Garlicky Bread Crumbs and, of Course, Anchovies
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Breaking News
President Trump said his D.C. arch would house drones and snipers, citing national security to justify the project.
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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🌼 The 2nd season of the BSA's podcast—A Botanical Podcast!—is now available! 🌼 In this episode, BSA President Chris Martine discusses his love of plants & the people who study them—and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2446995/epis... #botany #plantscience #PlantPeopleFTW @martinebotany.bsky.social
Promotional thumbnail for A Botanical Podcast by the Botanical Society of America, featuring guest Chris Martine. Text reads: "A Botanical Podcast. Plant People for the Win! with Chris Martine. A Botanical Podcast: Season 2, Episode 2."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date! Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please reach out if you have any questions!
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The Smith Lab — Mississippi State University
The Smith Lab at Mississippi State University studies diversification using genomic data, with a focus on terrestrial snails and slugs.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Advancing the helox compensation method to estimate intercellular humidity in leaves of diverse species nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1 Illustration of changes in gas exchange parameters during a series of successive changes of the carrier gas back and forth between nitox (unshaded regions) and nitox (yellow-shaded regions), in a leaf of Helianthus annuus.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I want you all to note the unions that stepped up to the plate to protect international students when universities wouldn't:
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Judge Blocks Controversial International Student Restrictions
A Massachusetts judge issued the injunction hours before the regulation was set to take effect. Institutions worried it would harm international students.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
some days I have to think about actual chemistry and those are not my favorite days
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ayyyyyeeeee @jenncoughlan.bsky.social !!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great use of time.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🧪🌏😡👇 As a former EPA scientist I can’t tell you how horrible this feels. Scientists spent decades getting these regulations in place. Political appointees can overturn all of the science in days.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026
This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller. geni.us/Ywmh #NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
haha what da fuck nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Statem...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey, it's @wickellomics.bsky.social's paper!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Penultimate? FY26 NSF grantmaking update One month ago (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg. Now (9/7) New grants: 6,144/10,857 — 67% of avg.* Obligations: 5.97/7.49 billion — 80% of avg. *avg. from 21–24 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
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Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Jenn @ Charge To The Parks 🔌🔋🛻 @chargetotheparks.com · 30/08/2026
Put your map over Lake Ontario (you might need to clear the app cache). Open the menu. Select "help and feedback". Report this as an error. It lets you highlight what's wrong.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book
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Applied Biostatistics
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everybody needs direct anger towards their reps. A "partnership" is the most insane spin on "we are gonna take the funds appropriated for medical research so we can blow some things up."
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New commentary by me and PhD student Monika Kelley: "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves" in @jxbotany.bsky.social . The new tool should make it easier to extract interesting parameters from C4 plants that make them easier to understand and model academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves
This article comments on:Woodford R, Ermakova M, Furbank RT, von Caemmerer S. 2026. Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide and irradiance response curves fo
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
Right. Vought and Bhattacharya tried to gut NIH in 2025 via stopping spending (Fed Reg bans) and rescission. That failed. Now in 2026, they’re still using bureaucracy inside the agency to try to slow spending. But they need a new way to get the leftover money (meant for science!) out of NIH. 1/
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