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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/02/2026

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Anyone near Buffalo, NY in April?? Come learn about the Galapagos and our research! I have a Nat Geo Live show on April 21st in Buffalo NY at the Kleinhans Music Hall. If we've only interacted here or on Twitter, I'd love to meet IRL! kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/galapa...

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Discovering the Galápagos: Sarah Knutie | National Geographic Live - Kleinhans Music Hall

The Galápagos sparked our understanding of evolution and adaptation 175 years ago. Now, with National Geographic Explorer Sarah Knutie as an expert guide, d ...

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

If the link below doesn't work for OA, try this one! It should be available until December and then goes behind a paywall. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lwve5Eb1x...

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I haven’t been on social media much but I wanted to share the limited OS link to our new review in Trends in Parasitology. Net positive effects of early-life parasitism on wild animal host fitness @ashley-love.bsky.social The link will work until Decembet! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Net positive effects of early-life parasitism on wild animal host fitness

Early-life parasitism can negatively impact the health of wild animal hosts. However, parasitism can also positively influence host physiology, behavi…

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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me for an oped I'm working on.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”. I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My 2026 opening National Geographic Live show has been announced! 🎫 On 03/13/2026, find me at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO, where I'll be talking about one of my favorite places in the world, Galapagos Islands! 💚🐢🐧🦎🏝️🪹 www.lctix.com/shows-ticket...

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National Geographic Live: Discovering the Galapagos - The Lincoln Center

The Galapagos sparked our understanding of evolution and adaptation 175 years ago. Now, with disease ecologist and National Geographic

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Anyone heard anything new about NSF PRFB? 👀

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26/03/2025

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

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Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says

Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Interested in other approaches to measuring selection on gene expression? The incomparable John Kelly and I have written a perspective piece describing why one might want to measure selection on gene expression, and exploring a few ways one might use to do it.

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I was offered the opportunity by 🚨 Nat Geo Live 🚨 to help them create a film about the Galapagos Islands! 🇪🇨 I've created a TikTok account to take you on the journey with me! Check out my first video + learn how to pronounce my name 😜 www.tiktok.com/@knutie_taki...

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Hello from Professor Nuttie! 😜 #Galapagos #GalapagosIslands #Professor #UConn #Evolution #PhD #Darwin #NatGeo #NatGeoLive #NuttyProfessor #Birds #Notthatkindofdoctor #Nature

TikTok video by knutie_taking_flight

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It's #NeurodivergentCelebrationWeek ! SICB is eagerly anticipating 2026's #Disabled & #Neurodivergent Perception, Community, & Identity in the #Biosciences with @taorminalepore.bsky.social @sarahknutie.bsky.social Brooke Fitzwater (@)oceanfilly & read @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/17/building-a-neuro-inclusive-workplace/?informz=1&nbd=2c3ba725-522d-483c-adde-f4c077e7412c&nbd_source=informz

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

SICB journals helps celebrate #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek ! See ICB co author @sarahknutie.bsky.social 's blog #Neurodiversity in #Academia integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/n... & ICB publication doi.org/10.1093/icb/... & be sure to follow Sarah 👍

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF. Goddamn it.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Peaceful morning vibes in the field. 🥰

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Darwin's cotton (Gossypium darwinii) is only found in the Galapagos Islands (in other words, it's endemic!) The flowers are in full bloom right now on San Cristobal 💚

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Beautiful first day at our natural site! It’s still too dry for much breeding but we did find some nest builds! 🪺 Below👇 are two amazing Galapagueñas: Elizabeth Tituaña (field tech; left) and Isabela Vargas (Grad student; right) after we found our first nest!

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Back in the Galapagos for my 16th year of research! 💚 Fingers crossed for a great finch nesting season! 🐣

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Kelly C. Ballantyne @kellycballantyne.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Taking a page from @seanhollowell.bsky.social ‘s book, I’m also posting something blue for my first Bluesky post. Swallow-tailed Gulls in a Starlit Sky. Watercolor on cold-pressed paper.

A watercolor painting lays on a wooden surface with two tubes of watercolor paints and brushes to the left. The painting features Swallowtailed gulls soaring above the viewer through a starlit sky.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I need cis people to understand that I have a persistent fear that a student or (more likely) the parent of a student will decide that a trans person teaching a required course for their major violates their religious liberty or whatever. This is what being visibly trans in education is rn.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New Research Highlight: citizen science observations shed light on how anthropogenic food sources influence wildlife disease - buff.ly/48C9ucE 🦠 🧪 🌏

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Congrats to @uconneeb.bsky.social student ✨✨ Lorraine Pérez-Beauchamp ✨✨ who received a Sigma Xi GIAR & UConn El Instituto grant for her work on the role of parental behavior in the relationship between Darwin's finches & their invasive parasites! 🪰🐦 @sigmaxi.bsky.social

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

🚨SICB people🚨 My lab is doing a raffle for one of our tan Nest Parasite Community Science 🪰 shirts. All you have to do is go to one of my students' talks at SICB & post a 📸🦋 here of them presenting! Once you post the picture, DM me the link & whether you prefer a M/XL shirt! Talk details below👇

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’m the outgoing secretary so please get in touch if you’re interested! 😋 I loved participating but I especially had fun creating features for early career researchers in the newsletters #sicb2025

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Finally (and please definitely RT this one) the Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology seeks nominees for the roles of Secretary and Program Officer Elect. If you're interested reach out to me or another member of our nominating committee (Emily Le Sage & @sarahknutie.bsky.social) #sicb2025

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

For those interested, my lecture for the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute “The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza” is available here on YouTube. It is from May 2024, but is still pertinent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD...

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The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza - Prof Thijs Kuiken

YouTube video by Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Illinois Natural History Survey is hiring a new Director (my boss!) illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Come lead an amazing organization that has a really powerful applied mission, and some excellent scientists :)

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Director, Illinois Natural History Survey

Duties & ResponsibilitiesResearch ◦ Independently coordinate and develop a significant research/investigations program, secure associated fun...

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm so happy when engineering students decide to take my Animal Behavior class. They never disappoint when I ask them to produce a creative project on a bizarre animal behavior. Check out River Granniss's video on electric eel Do not try this at home.... 👀 youtube.com/shorts/cGDwr...

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That Animal Does WHAT?! - Sources in pinned comment

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Students from my @uconn.bsky.social Animal Behavior class were tasked with producing a creative project on a bizarre animal behavior. Assessment titled: "That Animal Does What!?" They did not disappoint. Check out this pufferfish mating ritual diorama from Brisa Lopez-Zaragoza.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sound about right.

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Super fun to see all the 6th grade students from last year as 7th graders this year!! 😭 How do these humans change so much in 6 months?!?! 😱 So thankful for the amazing Hartford teachers who invite us into their worlds each year ❤️

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I was absolutely inspired by >120 Hartford 6th graders over the past two days. Thank you to the amazing teachers for allowing us into their classrooms and collaborating with us! Most K-12 teachers are SERIOUSLY underpaid for what they do and our educational system WILL suffer in the future.

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’m feeling inspired to get back to my online science community 🐦 …but I’ve fully moved to 🦋! I’ve missed ya’ll! It’s been way too long 🫶

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Ooooh, all sorts of good knowledge nuggets in this, including work from @sarahknutie.bsky.social!

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

The struggle is for real... [Picture by my lovely, nerdy lab]

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

I am SO proud of my two senior undergrads who placed 1st & tied for 3rd in the SICB DEDE best poster competition. Both exceptional scientists & communicators! I am so lucky to work with them! Lorraine Pérez-Beauchamp (left) & Sila Inanoglu (right)

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Sarah Knutie @sarahknutie.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Disentangling Elements of Human Activities and Invasive Parasites on the Health of Darwin’s Finches UConn researchers are studying how humans impact wildlife, inside and out today.uconn.edu/2023/11/dise...

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Disentangling Elements of Human Activities and Invasive Parasites on the Health of Darwin’s Finche...

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

@peterlconlin.bsky.social with some spookily nice streaks

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