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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Today at #ABS2025, I participated in the early career workshop: Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior. We discussed networking, time management, collaborations & research, receiving wisdom from faculty & sharing advice. Highly recommend to other postdocs/early faculty (or SIGNAL for grad students)!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Eco/Evo friends: Where would you recommend submitting a manuscript that is a short article at the intersection of community ecology and animal behavior?

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It was a lucky day on the greenway in San Antonio this morning!

Coral snake in leaf litter beside a paved trail

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

And we don't think the sizes of sperm or testes are influencing the phylogeny, but rather the reverse - that phylogeny is influencing testis structures and sperm size in anoles.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thanks for checking it out! And not a dumb question. But, I don't think testes' structures could "define" a phylogeny as you suggest - they aren't directly involved in the evolution of isolation the way genital structures often can be.

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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I can't beat @lizardmichele.bsky.social description of this new paper, so I won't try! 😅

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

New paper alert! 🦎 Lizard sperm come in many varieties. Is that due to testicular properties? Only yes, we concluded With phylogeny included Because sperm and testes evolve neutrally. See the full story w @arielkahrl.bsky.social, Hannah Hall, Bela Carson in Biol J Linn Soc: doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Image of an Anolis testis cross-section underneath a 1 mm × 1 mm grid. The callout box highlights a trace of a seminiferous tubule and its lumen, and a closer look at the cell types identified under each grid point (lumen, epithelial, or interstitial space).

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Oh, the pain on my timeline. 💔 I'm so very grateful for your service.

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ted Cruz "investigated" NSF and released a database of over 3,400 grants that promoted "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." 110 of the grants listed are funded through IOS or DEB programs. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/02/2025

Universities tend to be in blue cities and towns. Because when you learn about how wonderful and different the world is, it changes you. You have empathy. You have compassion. You understand other points of view and learn from world history.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Until yesterday, I was the Program Director of an HHMI-funded initiative to transform my institution's intro STEM courses so that all students could succeed in those courses. This is shameful.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How am I doing? Well, today I learned that they don't do annual optometry exams at the dentist's office. Oops.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hi, I'm Earyn, and I'm a lizard scientist! I created a game to teach people about lizards and increase the representation of Black women as herpetologists. #findthatlizard is a Where's Waldo-esque game where there is a lizard camouflaged in its environment. Your challenge is to find it. Will you? 🦎

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I wrote a piece on how cool this new ruff paper is. Total endocrine game-changer! Congrats to the authors on a rad discovery. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Adaptations in surprising places

Testosterone is controlled while it circulates in the bloodstream

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today I asked a student how an interview went, and they said, "I think it was pretty good, but it could have been better, and now I'm really tired." I think that might just sum up almost everything I work on?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant

Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It's so true!! And brilliant coauthors make the work more fun. 😊

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So proud of my amazing undergrads!! #sicb2025 🦎 See you all in Portland?

Sophie with her poster on lizard brain evolution

Sofia with her poster on lizard tooth damage

Florie with her poster on gene expression in lizards as a function of artificial light at night.

Four smiling scientists at the end of a very successful conference

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Dave Angelini @aphanotus.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#SICB is looking for nominees to important society-wide positions: #SICBSecretary #SICBProgramOfficer #SICBMemberAtLarge. As one of this year's #NominationsCommittee I'm interested in your ideas! Please DM, email, or find me in Atlanta #SICB2025

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

All three of my lab's #SICB25 posters have now been sent for printing, and I'm officially on holiday break. See y'all in Atlanta! 🦎🧠🦷❤️

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 17/12/2024

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Women’s attrition rates were also higher at less prestigious school” boy oh boy do I have thoughts on this

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

San Antonio pinata stores do NOT mess around.

Pinatas of every color and size and shape, filling a large room.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've been thinking a lot about grading equity and STEM courses, and it's become clear to me: Giving consistently low grades across a course is a faculty power play.

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Anole Annals @anoleannals.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Anole Annals is now on bluesky! Follow us (and check out our blog anoleannals.org) for all anole research, news, and more!

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Anole Annals

Your source for the latest on Anolis lizards.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'll be there, with a few students from my lab!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm going to teach my college class under this tree tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that a literal breath of fresh air will give us a chance to think and listen and learn in a different way.

Sprawling oak tree on a green lawn, with red brick buildings and blue sky in the background.

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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

We have TWO new student-authored papers out this fall about Mexican jumping bean (larvae) behavior! Check them out! 🫘 #undergraduateresearch www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I've wanted to write something about academic accommodations for a while, and in the absence of other inspiration, I'm just going to put it here. I have a few points to make but first a bit of context about me. I'm profoundly deaf in my right ear. Basically can't hear anything in it. 1/

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Hi, I'm an evolutionary biologist. My greatest hits include "No, chimps didn't turn into humans; we both have a common ancestor", "Saying that you 'don't believe in evolution' makes as much sense as saying you 'don't believe in gravity'", and "Things do not happen 'for the good of the species'".

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/04/2024

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

New life hack I've discovered: if you need to talk to somebody, you can call them on the phone! So far, everybody has answered thinking I must have some kind of emergency (why else would you *call*?), but I've saved myself so many emails this week!!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Big congrats, Sandy!! How exciting!!!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I had to join the fun! A word cloud of my publications in Google Scholar...looks about right! 🦎

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Week 4 of my lab Writing Team experiment is the next paragraph of Methods. For most, it's about how we measured lizard behavior in the lab. Students are incorporating my feedback each week, and we're inching toward more precise writing. They're seeing how this is different from writing for class!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

In week 3, they're working on the 2nd Methods paragraph - for us, the housing and care of lizards in captivity. So far, this is GREAT. I'm trying to take the mystery out of writing a ms for my students, and we're making concrete progress on writing every week. I'll keep you posted with what's next!

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

We study lizard behavior and physiology in my lab. In week 2, students were tasked with writing the first Methods paragraph - including lizard species, where and how they were captured.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

This semester, my 4 senior-most students are the lab "writing team." We meet for 30 min/week and talk about their writing goal for the next week. The first week? Their task was to make a title page for each of their developing manuscripts. We made these documents LOOK like a manuscript.

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

My biggest scholarly challenge as a biologist at a PUI is turning great datasets into manuscripts. I'm trying something new this semester, to get undergrads to change mindset from "I'll finish data collection before I graduate" to "I'll collect data AND write the bulk of a ms before graduation."

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

It was such a great #SICB2024! And I'm so proud of my students and their amazing presentations!!

Akshaya and her poster on where lizards eat.

Grace and Michele with Grace's poster on light exposure and detection in lizards

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

If you’re at #SICB2024 , please join me as I give the closing plenary address, “you’re gonna need a bigger engagement strategy: lessons learned from teaching the public about shark science and conservation,” at 4:00. I’m assured the bar doesn’t open until I’m done talking.

Me in a shark costume speaking at a museum

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Michele Johnson 🦎 @lizardmichele.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

The #SICB2024 secretarial triumvirate - the (almost) past, present, and future society secretaries!

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