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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Having your paper retracted and taken down on a notable website for cellular division and reproductive science because of your usage of AI is so embarrassing. Yikes…

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Because of that, I decided to start a Slack channel to center critical conversations around domestic ecology and conservation efforts. If you are interested in being a part of this discussion and study domestic cats yourself or are invested in this topic, let me know! 2/

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

After having multiple productive conversations regarding free roaming domestic cat ecology at a conference in Italy, I realized that there should probably be a larger network for us as researchers to come together to discuss these things together and potentially facilitate collaboration 1/

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Oh and did you know MOUNTAIN LIONS can purr? In fact, they're the largest cats on earth capable of doing so. You can thank Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social for that little fun fact. Now wait until you learn how the presence of mountain lions ripples through an ecosystem!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Aye, Silas, so nice to hear from you. Let me know if you have any questions.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This led me to interrogate more deeply how domestic cats, which are inextricably tied to complex social-ecological elements, are influenced behaviorally in ways that might function beyond explicit ecological components. This is, after all, a highly popular companion animal tied to human society!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Cats are interesting though as a non-native species, in that we not only facilitate their behavior and welfare in many ways unseen in other invasive organisms, but also because they are not influenced by anthropogenic variables in the same way native wildlife is around us, which piqued my curiosity.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

However, things can become complicated when you introduce anthropogenic stressors (e.g., human presence) that can disrupt the diel activity of wildlife forcing them to augment their behavior in strategic ways to avoid conflict while simultaneously increasing interspecific interactions. Yikes!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Within ecology, the realm of time is a fascinating axis where behavior can occur in discrete and novel manners. Animals will access this niche by adjusting their temporal patterns to maintain community stability, thereby reducing collisions with competitors and facilitating coexistence.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...

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Housing proximity and vegetation cover affect diel activity patterns of domestic cats (Felis catus) in regionally protected shorelines

Abstract. Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are among the most impactful non-native species globally, causing the extinction of 63 endemic vertebrat

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I do plan on removing my platform there. I hear you and appreciate you.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

With a dark sense of humor, it is both alarming and funny the way people continually use the foreboding future tense of entering fascism in this country when it’s literally already here people are like “it’s coming” or “I fear we are entering fascism”. I’m like NAH DUDE WAKE UP IT’S ALREADY HERE!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I think people forget that you’re allowed to have an emotional response to something that bothers you even if it’s warranted, but you’re not allowed to abuse systems of power to suppress the voices of others simply because you don’t like the things they say. That’s called fascism.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Trey Reed being found hanging on his college campus several days after an alt-right political figure was killed shouldn’t go over anyone’s head without at least a morsel of reasonable suspicion. In this current political climate? In this country? That’s not a coincidence it’s pattern recognition.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

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Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For folks pissed off at Disney-ABC for firing Jimmy Kimmel I do believe we can put pressure and win which we need any win right now. We have friends everywhere pass it around! bit.ly/boycottdisne...

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TELL DISNEY-ABC to STOP BENDING TO THE ADMIN

DISNEY-ABC: STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE. A few hours ago, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC threatened the company over K...

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I find it insulting to the competence of humanity at large for any national power to claim they are great if their success was based on the backs of exploiting and destabilizing other nations around them. It’s hypocritical to an extent that should insult many, but it doesn’t sadly.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It’s been a while since I posted on here so here are some updates. Got back revisions on my first chapter manuscript I submitted, which is awesome. Crushed my presentation at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I received a continuing fellowship to cover my Fall semester. Things are going well!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Massive late response to this, but had so much fun at the conference and sharing some of my insights from the manuscript I’m developing from my research. This is probably one of the coolest insights that I’ve gathered from my research so far. Excited to share more!

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Fish biologists are the physicists of the vertebrate biology world. Just because you know every extant and prehistoric vertebrate extends from jawed fish doesn’t mean you always have to remind us. We get it, you guys came first! Lol

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Yeah it’s frustrating, I feel like the DNC as a whole has been alienating so many people who are vulnerable.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m continually unsurprised when straight white male politicians sit in a room and expose themselves for not having the moral foundations that they portrayed themselves to have when it comes to their political affiliation. This is so ridiculous. Why would you platform Charlie Kirk?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/03/2025

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast

The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Establishment Democrats think that by alienating trans people they can appeal to a more moderate voter basis they tend to miss during elections, but all it does is secure that they’ll lose votes from their progressive basis, which is why they always lose. This is a dumb losing strategy.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I think the most frustrating part about the situation we’re all dealing with is if the DNC had actually stood on progressive values they claim to have they would’ve endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016 and maybe we could’ve avoided all this to begin with. Yet, here we are dealing with Trump once again.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is your reminder that boycotting and economic pressure against someone who has corrupt interests towards our democracy works. In the end capitalists will always turn on each other.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Nice. Love this.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Wtf is this headline?! Thrashing? Zelenksy stood up for himself and his people unapologetically to a political leader who makes a mockery of “diplomacy” that JD Vance dares to interrogate Zelensky over. This is headline is embarrassing and horribly misleading. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump's Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies' ability to sway US leader

President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid bare the limits of a full-court press by America’s allies aimed at reshaping Trump’s determination to end Russi...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

JD Vance reminds me of bullies in high school that only feel bold enough to antagonize someone else when they have their squad around them but buckle under pressure when they experience pushback. The audacity to speak of diplomacy while aiding fascism in our current administration.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

To make those who dared to defy him suffer regardless of their occupation so people will be too terrified to protest against him again. His actions are an attempt to bend people’s will and a test to see who will comply and assimilate without refusal. This is how dictators operate without restraint.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The depressing yet somewhat laughable reality of this admin is if Trump or Musk were filmed kicking a dog in 4k the public response in protest and uproar would be so violently aggressive it would be one of the most historic events we’ve witnessed in terms of public reaction. Think about that…

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I’ve been saying for the past couple of weeks that the US will probably go into an epidemic in the next couple of years and the evidence is looking quite compelling.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Fetterman sucks so much. I remember when people were calling him rebellious because he would wear hoodies and sweatpants on the job and I was like ffs the bar can’t be this low.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Oh yeah for sure, chimpanzees are a strong example of intrasocial politics where a troop will implement a mutiny against their leader often times killing them in the process. Primate socialization is incredibly political.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You can literally feel the misanthropy around you with everything going on in our current political climate. I don’t blame people either.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Democrats acquiescing under this current administration claiming there’s nothing they can do would be the equivalent of the Union surrendering during the first skirmish of the Civil War the moment confederates charge them. Do you see how that doesn’t make any sense? Things are just getting started!

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

BREAKING: Josh Shapiro just sued Donald Trump and won, unfreezing $2.1 billion in funds the administration tried to freeze. Another win for Democrats in the courts. Don’t let anyone tell you Donald Trump is unstoppable.

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

You can make the argument that the apes would select for human food subsidies, but in the same way chimpanzees opportunistically prey on red colobus monkeys because they spatially overlap in habitat you have to imagine that some primates would exploit the opportunity of nibbling on people. 2/

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The reality of Planet of the Apes as a film could’ve been more grisly when you consider how some primates can be opportunistic omnivores like chimps, the film would probably be rated R if you know that some of those apes would have taken advantage of eating people if they could which is scary. 1/

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It’s giving McCarthyism and gestapo.

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