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Victoria Farrar

@vsfarrar.bsky.social
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NSF postdoctoral fellow @ UIUC • studying the parental brain in 🕊️ & 🐟 • UC Davis alum • toddler wrangler 🤠• very into books and bikes (she/her)

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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Came here to say this! 🤯 And to think I complain about Illustrator!
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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Today Feb 1st is #NationalAxolotlDay 🎉💙 Critically Endangered, #Axolotls once inhabited interconnected wetlands and lakes in the Mexican highlands. Spanish settlers drained the waterways destroying their habitat which is now Mexico City. #AnimalDayCal #SciArt #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt
Traditional sketch drawing on Strathmore gray toned paper of Mexian Axolotls. There are some graphical elements added to the image for composition and interest. Sketch with Pen and Ink, Posca fine line white paint pen for highlights. 2017 Cass Womack Artist.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Kidneys make more than pee- in stickleback fish, they make sticky glue! Dads use glue to build nests and protect eggs from microbes.(And look like dogs scooting doing it 🤣) But some stickles have lost parental care, do they still need glue? 🐟 Come to my #SICB2026 poster (P024) today to find out!
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Big Biology | A Science Podcast @bigbiology.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Are you interested in SciComm and attending the SICB meetings in Portland? Check out the Multi-Media Science Communication Workshop! #SICB2026 Hosts Marty and Cam will be there to talk about the podcast and will have some Big Biology merch to give away! 🌟🎧
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
For anyone attending #SICB2026, I'll be giving my talk, "Punk Rock Scicomm" tomorrow morning at 9:15 in Oregon 203. I'll have plenty of MILF zines for anyone looking for inspiration on how to connect people with actionable information in unconventional ways 😈
a black and white MILFs for Mother Earth zine, with a fat assed earth stomping on the words mother earth in thigh high fishnets and stripper heels
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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
Sonoran Desert landscape looking west across Avra Valley from Tucson Mountain Park. In the foreground, a desert trail winds through cholla cacti, saguaros, ocotillo, and native shrubs. The valley stretches to distant mountain ranges on the horizon under a dramatic sky of blue patches and white cumulus clouds with rays of light breaking through.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
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Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
That's me! Join us on Friday with your own fluid to imbibe (coffee or tea, crop milk NOT recommended 🤢)
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Wait I fully assumed that was part of the postdoc job description 😂😭
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Neuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We are looking for a new postdoc to join our team! Details below. Please reach out if interested. share widely—Thanks!
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
ISN members, check out my labmate (Usan)'s cool ✨ spatial transcriptomics ✨ work at today's webinar!
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Oh hey ours does! (To be fair though, it’s on a college campus)
A daycare playground behind a fence with a bike path and trees in front
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It will never cease to amaze me that there is a night river of birds flowing over the Midwest every spring and fall
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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Those are sooo good! They’re my go-to gift for all my labmates too 🐟
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I saw my first one this weekend too! They’re so big! I got close to ID it, didn’t realize they had gnarly bites… 😬
A blurry photo of a large brown wheel bug perched on a small sapling
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Congratulations, Mark!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/07/2025
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
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Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/07/2025
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Cowbird research highlighted in The NY Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/s... How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are - The New York Times
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How a Parasitic Bird With No Parents Learns What Species It Is
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Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 05/07/2025
I wanted to try my hand at the fairly classic koi tattoo but with a personal twist. This one depicts a coelacanth which are lobe-finned fish known as "living fossils". They're relatives of our own fish ancestors prior to our lineage leaving the water. #art #coelacanth #tattoo #tetrapod #paleontology
A black and white coelacanth swimming slightly forward and down in a tight C curve. The style is strongly reminiscent of Japanese style koi tattoos.
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Tonight is #WorldFireflyDay! 🌌Visit a firefly-sighting site & get inspired by the light show! 💡Help your local fireflies by providing pesticide-free habitat & turning off outdoor lights at night! 🔎Join Firefly Atlas & track the species around you! ➡ fireflyatlas.org Learn more ➡ xerces.org/fireflies
“World Firefly Day: Celebrate Nature’s Light Show” A time lapse photo, showing all of the countless firefly flashes over 20 minutes, in a forest clearing.
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I truly adore the chaotic energy of this graphical abstract. The MS Paint of it all! The tattooed buff ant pushing a buggy! In the era of Biorender/AI everything, this stands out more than ever. Bonus that the science looks cool too 😉
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Big beautiful fish!
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 24/06/2025
The good news: The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against the sell-off, meaning it's been removed from the budget bill. The bad news: Sen. Mike Lee is vowing to continue his efforts to sell off vast tracts of America’s public lands. We have to keep the pressure up. ➡️ biodiv.us/handsoffpubl...
Image shows a barren landscape with dark, undulating hills under a stormy sky. Overlay text criticizes Sen. Lee's stance on public lands, quoting LaikeN Jordahl from the Center for Biological Diversity. The organization's logo is seen at the bottom left.
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Perfectly descriptive name, no notes!
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Central IL wildlife represented today #NoKings
A poster with outline of Illinois and photos of a belted kingfisher, prairie king snake and king rail reading “The only ‘kings’ ‘round here”)
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Have so much fun, wish I was still in Davis to be able to go!
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Those are both such interesting points! I do think there’s something to online discussions now that make the misunderstandings public and recorded in a way they wouldn’t have been before
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fully aware this makes me sound like the Ivory Tower hater you just mentioned - but I just listened to an NPR episode on this yesterday! www.npr.org/2025/05/29/1...
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Pop culture has a 'bean soup problem' : Pop Culture Happy Hour
Online discourse has become a fun part of enjoying and dissecting big pop culture events. But after seeing all the commentary around Ryan Coogler's Sinners, our pal Brittany Luse has one question: are...
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
😱!
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Pint of Science US @pintofscience.us · 18/03/2025
Urbana-Champaign, it's time to celebrate science! 🔬🎓 Where curiosity meets innovation—#pint25 is coming on May 19-20-21! 🚀✨ Meet the team making it happen 👉 pintofscience.us/team/Urbana-...
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
May 20 is World Bee Day. There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. 🧪🧵🐝 Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, 🧵
As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects. 
 Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre:  eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 11/05/2025
Happy Mothers day 🧡❤️🩷🌟
Drawing of a pigeon in their typically lackluster nest with the caption "Happy Mothers day to parents doing their loving best"
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵
Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Congratulations all, great to see it out! Looking forward to reading it!
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression in cavity-nesting songbirds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors performed phylogenetically controlled behavioural assays and analysed brain transcriptomes across five avian families, identifying convergent patterns of gene expression associated with aggression and nesting behaviour in obligate cavity-nesting birds.
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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Excited to announce a webinar hosted by R4E @repro4everyone.bsky.social on data visualization with Helena Jambor (@helenajambor.bsky.social) !!! Details here: www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-hos...
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R4E hosts a Data Visualiztion webinar with Helena Jambor! — R4E
This webinar will be lead by Dr. Helen Jambor . She is an Associate Professor for Data Visualization.  The webinar will be held on Thursday June 5, 2025 at 11am ET (USA) and 5pm CEST (Europe). A...
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So cool! I’ve always wanted an excuse to see how these things work
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Truly the best of academia right there!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In much better news: after our fury, HHS says “We are now working to fully restore funding to” the Women's Health Initiative. Sharing the gift article. Reminding us all that we're in 'announcements about announcements' territory, but let's keep close eye on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
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Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative (Gift Article)
The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
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Research.gov - Homepage
Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon...
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Victoria Farrar @vsfarrar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I remember this note 🥲 needed on many a long PhD day!
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