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Sean Keogh

@phishbiologist.bsky.social
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Evolutionary ecologist | Malacology | find me at NMNH 🌊🐚 🧬 seanmkeogh.github.io

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12h
Oh hey. It’s October now. Did you get an advent calendar that educates you about snails while helping us educate people in Philly about our local biodiversity? Not yet?? Well what are you waiting for? It’s time for snail facts! SquidFacts.net
An 11 x 14” poster that is titled snail facts and advent calendar with 24 snail shells that you can scratch off featured a bunch of cutie patootie snails, like the candy, cane, snail and fire, snail and banana, slug and sea slugs and even
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking for life sciences 🧪 faculty/staff/trainers who want science communication to be more valued w/in academia We built an NSF-funded coaching program to help you w/ #SciComm in job & award apps, promotion materials, curriculum proposals, etc. We want to help you get more respect, credit, & pay
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This administration has separated more than 200,000 children from their parents www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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How many children are affected by parental immigrant detention? | Brookings
Explore an interactive tool examining how many children are affected by parental immigrant detention and what the data reveals about separated families.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vought's goals are a) to reduce scientific funding generally, and b) especially to universities. Political appointees within agencies can already block spending. This would centralize this power in the White House. By requiring unanimity, it would ensure far less money will be spent on science.
The proposed board would include Bhattacharya and Vought and would be required to reach unanimous decisions on grant awards, the officials said.

The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how the nation’s largest biomedical research agency distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another big potential #FishJob Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
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Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...
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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) is now accepting applications, with a deadline of 15 October. This includes the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
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Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Sean Keogh @phishbiologist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ANSP in trouble - Museum Known for Its T. Rex Faces Extinction www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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A Nearly 200-Year-Old Museum Known for Its T. Rex Faces Extinction
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which is affiliated with Drexel University, cited attendance struggles and higher costs in its decision to close.
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Michigan State University Department of Entomology @msu-entomology.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Applications are now open for the fully funded Tatter Family Entomology Graduate Fellowship! If someone in your academic circle is considering graduate study in entomology, this opportunity is worth a look. Applications close Nov. 27. Apply today: www.canr.msu.edu/ent/graduate... #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁
Tatter Family Entomology Graduate Fellowship

applications open. apply now!
Applications close: November 27, 2026

$35,000 annual stipend  •  Tuition  •  Benefits  •  $5,000 research & travel support
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Colleague John Pfeiffer talks about the importance of oyster specimens and their unusual attachments to understanding the health of the Chesapeake! #molluscmonday www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...
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An Oyster With Teeth Reveals When Mollusks Covered the Chesapeake Bay
Celebrate National Oyster Day by learning about the most bizarre oyster specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs
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Cassidy Hettesheimer @cassidyhett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
screenshot of public abstract of NSF award, linked in post
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...
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Miller Research Fellowship | Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/07/2026
Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD
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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There’s still time to apply!!
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Work with us! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About us: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Aug. 21, 2026
Museum storage room filled with shelves of jars containing preserved specimens, with two women examining them.Person photographing a fish in a tank with white reflector boards, outdoors near a vehicle.Two people examine a large tank containing preserved specimens, possibly fish, in a research setting.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026
The Smithsonian museums that line the National Mall in Washington have come under attack from the Trump administration. They were also some of the only spaces that afforded crowds relief from the scorching temperatures and severe weather on July 4.
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On America’s 250th, Smithsonian Museums Offer Respite and Reflection
An institution under attack from the Trump administration provided relief from the weather on July 4 — and a chance to ponder what it means to be American.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/06/2026
Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49
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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research
Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.
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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I recently found a tick on my body and didn't know what to do. I went into journalist mode to find out. Here's what I learned about how to manage tick bites, with illustrations of the tick species that cause diseases in humans by Diogo Guerra and maps of where they occur by @jenchristiansen.com 🧪
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Bitten by a tick? Don’t panic—do this
Knowing what kind of tick bit you and where you got it can help inform next steps
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Ben Maas @masbenmaas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Spoiler alert, they had too much nitrate in their new drinking water well... which they drilled to replace their old well that had too much nitrate. The culprit? Too much nitrogen fertilizer and manure spread on the land. insideclimatenews.org/news/0306202...
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An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 On a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water. - Inside Climate News
After shuttering two wells for recurring nitrate contamination, the riverside community of Princeton may face yet another costly fix.
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am obviously a biased source, but there's a reason why Evolution still has a substantial virtual component to the conference. And the combination of very low fees plus some headline events is a whole lot of that.
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Latest from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Systematics Lab, comparing whole genome resequencing and RADseq data for phylogenetic inference in oaks. Punchlines: High confidence in the backbone oak phylogeny; variance in RADseq bootstraps reveals historic gene flow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"
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First footage ever of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota
YouTube video by Voyageurs Wolf Project
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math
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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Our review on adaptive introgression in the context of climate adaptation is now published in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In a nutshell: often invoked theoretically, rarely unambiguously demonstrated empirically! Many thanks to everyone who shared feedback on earlier versions
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Adaptive Introgression in the Context of Climate Adaptation
As the biosphere faces accelerating environmental disruption including climate change and the prospect of an anthropogenically-driven mass extinction, understanding the mechanisms that enable species...
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!
NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology
LIGHTNING TALKS: 9:15 - 10:30 AM EDT

Focus on the collective: what can our community do in a time of uncertainty?

PROTHAMA MANNA, CLEMSON UNIV.
MOHAMED NOOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY
RUTH SHAW, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA JOSEPH GRAVES, NC A&T STATE UNIV.
SCOTT EDWARDS, HARVARD UNIV.
EMILY JOSEPHS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV.
ALISON DAVIS RABOSKY, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN

WORKSHOP & BREAKOUTS: 11 - 12:30 PM EDT
Focus on the individual: how scientists can respond constructively, creatively, and sustainably in the face of instability
NELIA VIVEIROS, UNIV. OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS
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Dr. Sarah Z. Gibson, PhD @gombessagirl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
More exciting press for @scsualumni.bsky.social Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social and @stcloudstate.bsky.social professor Matt Davis’ work on deep-sea fishes! #teamfish
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Why do anglerfish have glowing lures? It might be sex
Species proliferated after evolving bioluminescence, possibly because mates could find each other more easily
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Man touching grass saying, 'I'm touching it. When does it kick in?'
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is especially concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and one of the *strongest* predictors of long-term learning. AI conditions you to expect immediate answers, removing the productive struggle that builds real competence.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“first drafts of Results, Discussion, and Introduction should be the trainee’s own work. AI can help with grammar…tightening prose…critiquing the logic of an argument you’ve already made. But the hard part of forming the argument needs to be yours.’ blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...
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You need to make AI guidelines for your lab
Here's why you should, and how to start
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." Executive Order 9981. July 26, 1948.
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇
Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Ben Tumolo @bbtumolo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper out led by Sam Fritz Using meta-analysis we quantify evidence for positive interactions between invasive species in freshwaters and identify key knowledge gaps for the study of freshwater invasion meltdowns. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Identifying knowledge gaps about context dependency in freshwater species invasions
The abiotic template of freshwater ecosystems is being altered by human activity on a global scale, often promoting the establishment of new invasive taxa and increasing the likelihood of facilitatio...
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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Devastating news as the victims of the fatal house fire in White Bear Lake have been identified as sports media personality Jessi Pierce and her three children. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/s…
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Denver is too damn high 🚲 @yodelinghippie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.
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Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Talk about a headache! (especially from your partner fusing to you!) This is a Ghostly Seadevil (Haplophryne mollis) from the University of Washington Burke Museum!
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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's 3/19 in Belgium already, so @marinespecies.bsky.social has dropped the Top Ten marine species of 2025! These incredible animals represent effort and expertise from a whole crew of taxonomists. Thank you to these and all other taxonomists on #WorldTaxonomyDay🎉
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Some people should never have access to students. “AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”
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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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Jerry Husak @jerry-husak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Simon Lailvaux and I have a new podcast! We talk to big-name biologists about how science has changed over their careers. Here’s the first episode - look for more every couple of weeks!
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 10/03/2026
We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10. stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Psychosocial Wellbeing and Parenting Responses during Intensified ICE in Minnesota
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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