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Karin Nordström

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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026
A devastating and mysterious algal bloom that hit the coast of South Australia last year, killing more than 600 different kinds of marine life, inflicted such severe damage that a famed population of the giant Australian cuttlefish might not recover. Learn more: scim.ag/4rrVhbz
One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish
An algal bloom has almost wiped out a unique population of giant cuttlefish—and their stunning mating swarms
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 21/09/2026
🚨Last day to vote 🚨 Dear #ISN members, until TOMORROW you have the chance to have a say in the future leadership of our society and you can choose you favourite site for #ISN2030 - Vienna 🇦🇹 or Los Angeles 🇺🇲? Please vote 🗳 if you have not alredy done so and share widely 🤗 #Neuroethology 🧠🧪
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lovely write-up on Aika Young in JEB, together with an amazing study that she led. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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ECR Spotlight – Aika Young
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career res...
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Drummond Lab @drummondlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu
A picture of the University of Chicago campus, with downtown Chicago in the distance and Lake Michigan on the horizon. The campus's central quad is pictured, a classical collegiate quad with paths and old trees and stone architecture. It's really pretty and I love it.
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are very excited to be hosting the 2027 ASSAB conference at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch. This will be held from the 7th to the 9th of July, 2027. Please save the date. Haere Mai from Aotearoa New Zealand. We look forward to seeing you next year!
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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There seemed to be a lot of public panic (at least on X) over the recent simulation of a fruit fly being controlled by the virtual connectome - this was by far the funniest response
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.
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Jessica Abbott @jessicakabbott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Are you a mathematical modeller in ecology and evolution looking for a job? My department has an opening! Please spread the word! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology
Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We calculated the effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population every year since its founding from the entire pedigree. Why? Because we could. But also because this population is vulnerable, and policy keeps pushing for lower and lower conservation targets 1/ #consgen
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The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation - Heredity
Heredity - The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lots of support, chocolates and hugs may be needed tomorrow. Look after your peers.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ARC says they'll announce outcomes of Future Fellowships (FT26) tomorrow (Tue 8 Sep). In recent times, these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time, though certainly with some variation. My bot will automatically post within a minute after the announcement.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nature fact: If you encounter a bear, make yourself look big From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1621, April 2024.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/08/2026
Tonight I dug this script out of my visualization archives from four years ago. Sadly, I had to further extend the y-axis scale as rapid warming continues, with a new record this year. No surprise to many experiencing the extreme summer heat... Data from GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not frustrating at all...
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David Hutchinson @dkhutch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Can anybody spot the subtle change in FT26 announcement date @arc-tracker.bsky.social ?
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pauline is the BEST. Highly recommend.
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 23/08/2026
I think the class of school administrators (not just in higher ed) who act fast to insulate core pedagogical functions from AI will reap major rewards for their trouble. In a few years, there will be an extremely stark difference between people who used AI in school and people who are competent
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We love that @theguardian.com crowns an Invertebrate of the Year and 2026's winner is the leaf sheep, Costasiella kuroshimae, a green solar-powered slug tinyurl.com/556zwt9a Find out about another solar powered sea slug that takes cues from its chloroplasts doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice
The leaf sheep, a neon green solar-powered slug, has inspired at least one Pokémon character and triumphs in global ballot
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am very serious about citing resources (ZFIN, Flybase, Wormbase, yeast, mouse, rat, human, etc) and asking authors to cite them precisely for this reason: the more we talk about them and cite them in our papers, the better chance we have at justifying why we should increase the budget 🧪
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Some substantial changes announced by ARC for next (supposedly final) rounds of some schemes, esp. Discovery Projects👇 🔹CIs can only be on one DP28 app 🔹CIs on successful DP26 or DP27 apps cannot apply 🔹Rejoinder process “has been removed and replaced with more detailed feedback to applicants” ⁉️
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This project was led by the very talented Aika Young and Jaxon Mitchell, before even starting their PhDs! Keep you eyes on both of them, as they are bound to be very successful.
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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience 🧠 @yaleneuro.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have 2 searches, one cell/molecular/systems neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190736) and one computational neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190740). Got questions about the searches, the department, or the process? Please ask, happy to chat!
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mostly this chart proves stereotypes to be accurate. I love love love where statistics sit on this chart: in the middle.
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Tatiana Engel @engeltatiana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Difficult decisions take time, but can we keep all accumulated evidence in mind long enough to make better choices? We find that working-memory limitations constrain decision-making, and these effects are modulated by dopamine. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bioRxiv out with Cina Aghamohammadi et al.
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Working memory limitations and dopamine modulation in probabilistic reasoning
Difficult decisions require gathering evidence over extended periods, placing demands on working memory. Yet, how working memory limitations affect decision-making remains largely unknown. We trained ...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
More evidence from ancient DNA for matriliny, this time from northeast England www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age Britain
Kinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis for socially sanctioned reproductive unions, residence patterns and the inheritance of rights and property[1][1],[2][2]. Althoug...
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is great.
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yet numbers is what everyone measures
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Will definitely have to read this book! www.publishersweekly.com/978080702340...
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The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes by Ari Berkowitz
Berkowitz (Governing Behavior), a biology professor at the University of Oklahoma, delivers an accessible rebuttal to claims tha...
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Karin Nordström @puh23.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You have definitely arrived!
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My Emmy Noether funding got funded via the Global Minds Initiative Germany. More info here: www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
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Global Minds Initiative Germany
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the latest map of Australia showing the distribution of major non-renewable energy resources by geological basin or deposit. When asked to rank top priorities during high economic pressure, climate change falls down the ranks. Source: buff.ly/nSMZARu
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The animal is the same. The stimulus is identical. Yet the behaviour varies. Why? In our new study, @ashritocyte.bsky.social explores the sources of this behavioural variability under fully controlled conditions in larval zebrafish doing optomotor response. (1/7) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Opposing influences of sensory and response history in larval zebrafish
Variability is a prominent feature of animal behavior across species. Despite highly controlled experimental conditions, the same individual often responds differently to repeated identical stimulatio...
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking for a trusted home for your research? At JEB, we know how much work has gone into each paper so we treat every manuscript with respect We pride ourselves on making your paper shine, from our committed peer review process to professional in-house text and figure editing 🔁
Looking for a trusted community journal with research-active Editors and a wide audience?
Publish with JEB - the journal that works for you
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/08/2026
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hombrecerebro.bsky.social @hombrecerebro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Harvard Neurobiology + Kempner are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience. The search is broad; researchers combining computational and experimental work (including nonhuman-primate research) should apply! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16615
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University invite applications for a tenure tra...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A major advice I try to pass on: science is only worth it if you can delight in the discoveries of others. It’s great to make your own discoveries but they are too few to sustain you over the long haul.
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