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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This was fun, quick and really nice to look at and think about forests for a while! Worth a few minutes of your time! 👇🏻 🌿🌳🦑🪶🐦🌍🌎🌏

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Very happy to share that I get to continue working as a researcher at the Swedish Veterinary Agency for the foreseeable future, studying the impact of climate change on animals & humans in a One Health perspective, including vector surveillance & work towards safe food & water in a changing world.

Photo collage of representative activities I've done at SVA this past year including microscoping, radio interviews, a sheep at the agriculture fair, a tick, flagging ticks in the forest and work with drones to disperse reindeer lichen.

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ESA Connectivity and Secure Communications @esaconnectivity.esa.int · 04/11/2025

🤔Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a part of ESA's Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communications? ESA Student Internships are now open and there are a few internships in our field! 🤩 jobs.esa.int/search/?crea... #ESA #internship #satellites

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Very interesting few days in Berlin meeting and training with colleagues of veterinary, food and public health agencies in Sweden and other Northern European countries!

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The postdoctoral experience is in need of reform. Here the authors outline concrete steps that institutions, postdocs and mentors can take to improve the landscape.

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Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The deadline for these two fully-funded phd projects is fast approaching (5th May). Do share far and wide.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

An Easter Monday treat...Puffins pitter patter into our #SpringArrivalSpotlight today! 😍 Arriving in April from the North Atlantic, their unmistakable colourful bills are the heralds of spring on our cliffs. Look out for these adorable seabirds returning to nesting sites.

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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I got to speak at a political rally (video below). Today, I stood up for science in Michigan at the Hands Off Day of action in Lansing. Inspired talks and one hell of a crowd!! @50501mi.bsky.social

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Standing up for science in Lansing

YouTube video by Jason Gallant

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy to answer any questions you may have about working with the flycatcher project! 🪶

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One week left to apply for a postdoc position in beautiful Edinburgh! Fully funded, 3 years, visa sponsorship. Explore interactions between host genomes and microbiomes during population declines using #museum collections ( #aDNA #popgen #hologenomics )!

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Might save a life.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I made a Spotify playlist of @bwjones.bsky.social's absolute 🔥 set of female-led rock songs, plus a few that he got in the comments and a few that I thought belonged as well. A couple live performances weren't available so I substituted as best I could. open.spotify.com/playlist/7gu...

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BWJ's Friday Night Girl Rock

Playlist · doc_becca · 40 items

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In a remarkable show of unity, today 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 members call on Congress to protect the future of science. Our elected officials must act now so we have a hope of avoiding long-term damage to the US science enterprise. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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William Jones @jacanajones.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.

A male Collared Flycatcher caught at one of the field sites. A small black and white bird being held in a hand. There is an open woodland background.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 17/02/2025

More than 25,000 people from 200 communities have restored nearly 5,000 hectares of the high-altitude Polylepis forests and protected more than 11,250 hectares of woodland. Acción Andina (Andean Action) is an initiative that has launched 23 projects in Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador.

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In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a government research institute stumbled upon a small, unusual mouse. The expedition’...

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Rector of UNamur Annick Castiaux opened the conference strongly condemning recent attacks to science & diversity in the USA & highlighting the necessity for freedom in science & in teaching. Her comment on*that*executive order: "as if women needed to be protected by someone like Trump"👩‍🔬🧪💪 Thank you!

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Really looking forward to today's "Women and Girls in Science" conference at Université de Namur 🇧🇪 , where I'll give the first plenary. Can't wait to hear about all the cool science done by #ECR in #STEM ! 🧪👩‍🔬

Program of the women and girls in science day at University of Namur on February 13th, 2025

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

fin. Once we pivot into the world of humans, the biology of sex in stickleback (and how I simplify it slightly in my work) is irrelevant to the ethical standards by which we treat each other.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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Kamil Slowikowski @slowkow.com · 06/02/2025

"These commitments — to reliable support for science, free scientific discourse, and inclusive opportunities to ensure that diverse people can participate in science — are not separate from our scientific mission but essential to its success."

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 06/02/2025

“We will emphasize the crucial role of science in addressing society's most pressing challenges, including the reality of global climate change, importance of conservation, or the complex nature of sex and gender.” Proud to be part of ASN — thank you, Dan, and thanks to the whole Executive Council

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🧪🪶🐦‍⬛🎶🧠📊 New paper in G3 by David Wheatcroft, Niclas Backström, Ludovic Dutoit, S. Eryn McFarlane @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social, Carina F Mugal, Mi Wang, Murielle Ålund @muriellealund.bsky.social , Hans Ellegren & Anna Qvarnström @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social #evolution #speciation

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New paper led by D. Wheatcroft: song learning varies between the closely related collared & pied flycatchers: why is 1 species more flexible than the other? We compare gene expression in relevant brain regions in males of the 2 species & their hybrids. 🪶🧪#evolution academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

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Divergence in expression of a singing-related neuroplasticity gene in the brains of 2 Ficedula flycatchers and their hybrids

Abstract. Species-specific sexual traits facilitate species-assortative mating by reducing mating across species and reducing hybrid sexual attractiveness.

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

@qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is giving a talk on inheritance of material wealth in flycatchers! The manuscript came out just recently: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Open Access work with @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social Arild Husby, Jonas Knape, Tomas Pärt, @paivisirkia.bsky.social , Franz J. Weissing, David Wheatcroft , Yishu Zhu and Anna Qvarnström @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🌍🧪🪶

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ever thought of inheritance of wealth in animals that aren't social breeders AND are migratory? Read about inheritance of material wealth in collared flycatchers, in the special issue "Ecological and Evolutionary Insights from Very Long-Term Studies" in Ecology Letters🪶🧪🌍 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social

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Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Amazing supervisor and really cool topic, check it out!

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Michael J. Gundale @michael-gundale.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you are a handling editor, it is clearly important to verify email addresses of suggested reviewers to avoid fake reviewers. This is a crazy story of a colleague of mine at SLU, who was impersonated 22 times. www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews

Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

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Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

What a pleasure to host @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social for the first IEG seminar of the semester @animecol-uu.bsky.social , telling us about her lab's theoretical and empirical work on the replicability of hybrid zones and their outcomes.

Eryn McFarlane in front of her title slide that reads: replicate hybrid zones: the promise, the pitfalls and the path forward

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Congratulations to Jing Jonavan Leong on defending his master thesis looking at effects of environmental factors on early and late growth rate in nestling collared, pied and hybrid flycatchers!!! It was fun working with you on this project! @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪🪶🌍

Jonavan in front of the title slide of his master presentation, that reads "environmental heterogeneity and development in Ficedula nestlings: difference in strategies across early to late growth"

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Qvarnström Lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

And the 2024 field crew is now complete and ready to measure a few hundred flycatcher pairs and their nestlings! The woods are beautiful and full of birds who are currently very busy building nests and laying eggs! #olandflycatcheryear23 @muriellealund.bsky.social @jacanajones.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐦🪶

Students and researchers from the 2024 flycatcher monitoring field season sit around a table for dinner .

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Qvarnström Lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Yishu Zhu presents her PhD's half time seminar @animecol-uu.bsky.social, summarizing her research questions, results & plans for the end of her thesis.Let's dive into high resolution metabolic measurements, evolution of mito-nuclear incompatibilities & divergent climate adaptation in flycatchers🪶🧪🌍

Yishu Zhu in front of a slide with a map of breeding ranges of pied and collared flycatchers and pictures of males of both species as well as an F1 hybrid

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

ICYMI, I've spent many years thinking about grad student experiences with long-term ecological research projects. The formation of LTR-CSEE gave me the motivation to gather these experiences. Coauthors Dr. Mel Boudreau and Dr. Ally Menzies helped transform survey answers to insights and actions.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Starting off our week with a smile! 😄 Were you serenaded by nature this weekend? Share your snaps and stories below 👇 Comic: They Can Talk (Jimmy Craig)

This comic features four panels. In the first panel, a large bird sits on a branch, saying "spring is upon us." In the second panel, the bird, facing the viewer with a serious look, declares "we must let everyone know." The third panel reveals several small birds on a branch below, listening intently, as one of the little birds says, "but they're all asleep." The fourth panel shows the large bird's face up close, with its eyes narrowed determinedly, stating "then wake them." The artwork is simple with soft colours, and humorously refers to the loud dawn chorus heard during springtime, that might disturb the peaceful slumber of humans.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/05/2023

In which I post a daily shark fact on Bluesky every day unless I forget in which case they’ll be more like daily-ish: Because of their beautiful spots, which are unique to each individual, a group of whale sharks is called a constellation.

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

"This would be equivalent to a chimpanzee producing fertile offspring with a kangaroo, a whale with a wombat, or an ostrich with a blackbird!" ~Chase Brownstein 🧪🐟 www.iflscience.com/what-is-a-li...

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What Is A Living Fossil? First Evidence Of A Biological Mechanism Reveals All

Why are these fish living fossils? Because they GAR.

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William Jones @jacanajones.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

I've had a second paper published this week! Here is a thread about the latest one: "Sympatry in a nightingale contact zone has no effect on host-specific blood parasite prevalence and lineage diversity" in the International Journal for Parasitology. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 1/14 🧪🦉

Graphical abstract for the paper. There are two panels, the first shows a map of the sampling locations with the ranges of both nightingale species plotted on a map of Europe. The second panel shows a graph of malaria prevalence in the two species, split up by their distance from the zone of sympatry.

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Frontiers Young Minds is such a cool concept! It's been on my wishlist for a while to take the time to write one of those. This one about tree swallows sounds amazing! 👇 🧪🪶

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Murielle Ålund (she/her) @muriellealund.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Go follow Loke for cool research on insect thermal biology and evolution! 🧪🌍🌡️📈

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