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Prof. Sharlene Santana

@sesantana.bsky.social
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Professor at UW Biology| Mammal Curator at the Burke Museum | Fulbright alumna | Living at the intersections | 🇻🇪🇺🇸 | She/her; Ella | 🦇 Lab: faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor…

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Chris Law @chrislaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New pre-print testing if bats, carnivorans, & primates occupying equivalent dietary niches evolved convergent mandible shapes & shared adaptive zones! Short answer: no. With @mberthaume.bsky.social, @savannahecobb.bsky.social, & @sesantana.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A week ago, two massive #earthquakes hit my beloved birth country, #Venezuela. Despite heroic efforts by civilians and international rescue teams, the dead toll is rising, >40,000 people are still missing, and thousands were injured and/or lost their homes. 1/2> youtu.be/3LhZ6Xf10CI?...
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Drone video shows collapsed buildings in Venezuela after earthquakes
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨New 🌱🦇 paper🚨 - We explore how fruit traits influence the diversity of interacting #frugivores across habitats and which traits relate to consumption by #bats in pepper plants (Piper spp). #OA in @funecology.bsky.social: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
From plants to small mammals, we will have a diverse lineup of talks and posters at #SICB2026. See you there!!
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Applications for the (final) 2026 Ranges Imaging Mini Awards are due on Jan. 7! This is a great funding opportunity for trait-based projects that rely on high resolution imaging. Focus on Western North American #mammals Learn More/apply: ranges-network.org/awards/
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The Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
Bats are one of the most widespread, species-rich, ecologically and morphologically diverse mammal lineages, and the only mammals capable of powered flight. Due to their evolution within the constrain...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
🚨Call for proposals for Collection Study Grants at the @burkemuseum.bsky.social!! Open to grad students and postdocs for collections-based research, including cross-disciplinary projects. Applications are due December 15, 2025. More information: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
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Collections Study Grants
Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Probably more than you ever wanted to know about #bat turbinals, in our most recent paper – check it out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Functional microanatomy of nasal turbinals in bats
Iodine-enhanced micro-CT (diceCT) scanning allows visualization of whole bat heads (a, showing Anoura geoffroyi) as well as internal structures such as nasal turbinals, including their mucosal coveri...
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Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology @alfpaleo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The #DireWolf is the talk of the town right now! But what exactly were these Ice Age predators? Alf Museum curator and dire wolf researcher explains! #FossilFriday
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.
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Humberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts
The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.
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Lauren Buckley @lbuckley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Devastating to hear from disappointed undergrads about all the summer programs being cut. NSF, NIH, and the complete cancelation of Mosaics in Science national park internship program focused on broadening participation. NSF REUs were crucial to my start in science www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/02/2025
Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)
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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers today. The NSF was established by Congress to promote science, advance public health and contribute to the national defense. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers on Trump’s Order
The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the US government as the Trump administration se...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025
Welcome, Dr. Jones, to the University of Washington as our 34rd President.
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Robert J. Jones named 34th president of the University of Washington
The University of Washington Board of Regents on Monday announced that Robert J. Jones, who is currently concluding a nine-year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has...
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Z. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New, NSF-supported research: Emergent network properties link phenotypic modules to ecomorphological divergence in carnivoran mammals doi.org/10.1016/j.is... Also, check out the beautiful original artwork made by one of the co-authors for this study:
A grayscale illustration of a hyena skull on turquoise background, overlaid by letters and a network of circles that represent the complex interconnections of skull bones produced by macroevolutionary change.
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
IOB now in issue ! The Carnivoran #Adaptive Landscape Reveals Trade-offs among Functional Traits in the Skull, Appendicular, and Axial #Skeleton Chris J Law, L J Hlusko, Z J Tseng doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #fossils #analysis #carnivores #ecology #topology #locomotor #mammalian
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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
One of the most important things you can do today is your science. Knowing calculus/physics/genetics/chemistry etc. makes you rare and the world will need you to rebuild tomorrow. Practice your skills and pass them on. Keep the flame alive. 💚🌱🧪
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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The NIH Is literally prohibited by law from commenting on the new NIH restrictions. The NIH can't fight this fight for you. Scientists who want to help people, this has to be your fight.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/01/2025
Morning session, Coal Oil Point. (If anyone knows who was out there on the morning of Saturday 18th, it would be cool to get it to them.)
Two surfers wait on a near-flat ocean, illuminated by sunbeams through a hole in the clouds.
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New paper! A long-ignored type of cartilage cells characterized by large lipid vacuoles is found in several mammalian structures (including #bat 🦇 ears) and may impart them with functional biomechanical properties: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Superstable lipid vacuoles endow cartilage with its shape and biomechanics
Conventionally, the size, shape, and biomechanics of cartilages are determined by their voluminous extracellular matrix. By contrast, we found that multiple murine cartilages consist of lipid-filled c...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New 🌱🦇 paper!!👇
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia
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Disability in ecology and evolution
In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled or having a chronic condition an...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost
A photo of Kory Evans, winner of the 2025 Carl Gans Award
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Check out our new #bat #skull evolutionary #biomechanics paper, led by @fountainscholar.bsky.social and her Masters student Delaney Gilley! 🤩👇
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Check out our new #OA paper, part of EJLS' special issue "A Global Perspective on Adaptive Radiation"! With @aigverte.bsky.social & Marco Mello, we review the intrinsic & extrinsic factors potentially underlying the phyllostomid adaptive radiation 🦇https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae032
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The ecomorphological radiation of phyllostomid bats
Abstract. Neotropical leaf-nosed bats (family Phyllostomidae) underwent an impressive adaptive radiation characterized primarily by the diversification of
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Applications for the 2025 Ranges Imaging Mini Awards are due on Jan. 8th! This is a great funding opportunity for trait-based projects that rely on high resolution imaging. Focus on Western North American #mammals Learn More: ranges-network.org/awards/ 2024 recipients: ranges-network.org/2024awards/
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The Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I started a "Bat Network" starter pack - please let me know if you want to be added. I've tried to find the "bat people" on Bluesky but I think I'm missing some! Or they need to migrate over here! (maybe they are hibernating). DM for adds or subtractions. go.bsky.app/2t1aJW2
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Sandy Kawano, PhD @sandyk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Are you interested in learning about how engineering and physics can be applied to study the motions of #plants, #invertebrates, and #animals? Here's a non-exhaustive list of Comparative Biomechanists to get started! 🦋 🐟 🦎 🌿 🧪 go.bsky.app/HvHFgvB Apologies for any that I may have been missed.
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture @burkemuseum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We sat down with Mammalogy Curator @sesantana.bsky.social to ask her about the cutest bats we’ve ever seen.
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you're unsure you could ever like #bats, just watch the clip below 😉 (& learn more about these winged cotton balls here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hondura...)
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Our special exhibit RARE AIR tells the stories of endangered species of flight. We sat down with our bat expert Dr. Sharlene Santana to talk about one of the cutest flighted species hidden in the jung...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Job alert! Two Full-time Assistant Teaching Professor positions in our Department (UW Biology). Come join us! Please share: apply.interfolio.com/147513
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Gloriana Chaverri @morceglo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I wanted to share our most recent paper looking at the emission, and potential function, of vocalizarions associted with food in disc-winged bats. Such a great collaboration with the awesome Rachel Page, from the Smithsonian Bat Lab.
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Food-associated calls in disc-winged bats - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract Animals that engage in social foraging can produce food-associated calls (hereafter “food calls”) that elicit two main responses in receivers: the recruitment of other individuals to a foragi...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm currently importing posts from the other place. Please bear with me if they are showing up on your feed 😅
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I’m thrilled to see the science community growing and thriving here! My intro: I’m an Integrative Biology Prof and Mammal Curator who studies the phenotypic evolution, ecomorphology, biomechanics and behavioral ecology of mammals, particularly #bats 🦇, to understand their diversification 🧪
Professor Santana standing next to a drawer with bat museum specimens
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Ranges is pleased to announce the second call for the Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards! The goal of these awards is to support imaging of Western North American #mammal specimens for research. Deadline is 01/08/2015. More info 👇 ranges-network.org/awards
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The Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
In the past ~20 years, #microCT scanning has truly revolutionized the way we study #bat morphology and biomechanics. Check out what our lab has been up to recently in this interview @vaibhchhaya and I did for...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
A celebration of bat research, academic connections, cultural experiences, good food, and sunshine — what more could you ask for? NASBR2024 🦇Guadalajara🇲🇽 was such a blast! See you next time!
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
PSA re:@ScienceMagazine's author demographic form: Hispanic/Latino is not a race. You can do better. www.latinoisnotarace.info/resources…
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Combining the race and ethnicity question is actually goi...
By Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University As an imposed and e...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
🚨New 🦇🌱 paper in early view @iobopen – We characterize ecological interactions between short-tailed fruit #bats and Piper plants across habitats, and report variation in bat foraging that could be associated with differences in fruit scent composition:...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
🚨New 🦇 paper!🚨. We report that island size and dietary niche breadth strongly influence patterns of species richness and the prevalence of #bat species across the San Juan islands in WA State @Mammalogists. tinyurl.com/349sv5hh
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Happy end of the academic year and congratulations to all the grads! Our lab had a potluck featuring dishes from each of our cultures and/or nationalities 🇻🇪 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇳🇬 🇨🇴 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 🇨🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿➕ — the most delicious lab tradition yet!
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