Alexa Duchesneau
@alexa63709.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Yale University
Nutritional Ecology of white-faced capuchin monkeys
Searching for post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃
Nutritional Ecology of white-faced capuchin monkeys
Searching for post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃
Fleagle, in describing Australopithecus, "As a genus, it is unquestionably a paraphyletic wastebasket taxon."
January 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Fleagle, in describing Australopithecus, "As a genus, it is unquestionably a paraphyletic wastebasket taxon."
This is the sound a tomato plant makes when it does not have enough water, i.e., is "thirsty" static.nytimes.com/podcasts/202...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is the sound a tomato plant makes when it does not have enough water, i.e., is "thirsty" static.nytimes.com/podcasts/202...
The discovery that Nanotyrannus is a distinct species from the T-rex indicates complex food web and interspecies interactions in the Dinosaur world. This research was funded by NSF post-doc grants, which were just archived, i.e., they're no longer available.
news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/t...
news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/t...
‘Teen’ rex no more: New study agrees Nanotyrannus is a separate species
A new study, based in part on samples from the Yale Peabody Museum, shows that a small dinosaur thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex was actually a distinct species.
news.yale.edu
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The discovery that Nanotyrannus is a distinct species from the T-rex indicates complex food web and interspecies interactions in the Dinosaur world. This research was funded by NSF post-doc grants, which were just archived, i.e., they're no longer available.
news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/t...
news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/t...
Yale Undergraduates: great opportunities for fully funded summer research opportunities, including one with owl monkeys! yibs.yale.edu/sures-projects
2026 SURES Fellowship Projects
Mark Bradford, Improving forest regeneration from the belowground up: testing how whole-soil inocula influence oak seedling performance
yibs.yale.edu
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yale Undergraduates: great opportunities for fully funded summer research opportunities, including one with owl monkeys! yibs.yale.edu/sures-projects
"The American public is not satisfied with old things, however good they may be." - A.W. Livingston, the man attributed with bringing the first tomato domesticates to the US consumer market, en masse.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The American public is not satisfied with old things, however good they may be." - A.W. Livingston, the man attributed with bringing the first tomato domesticates to the US consumer market, en masse.
Reposted by Alexa Duchesneau
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
Reposted by Alexa Duchesneau
Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Chompsgiving!
In the past four decades, the term heirloom has evolved from an icon of the local-food movement to a designation for tomatoes with distinctive features that command premium prices. - Bryant, 2022
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In the past four decades, the term heirloom has evolved from an icon of the local-food movement to a designation for tomatoes with distinctive features that command premium prices. - Bryant, 2022
All NSF DDRG programs have been "archived," meaning that they are not accepting solicitations. This grant funded all of my laboratory work, and I would not have been able to conduct my dissertation without it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
All NSF DDRG programs have been "archived," meaning that they are not accepting solicitations. This grant funded all of my laboratory work, and I would not have been able to conduct my dissertation without it.
Reposted by Alexa Duchesneau
sister told me to set up a storygraph account
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
sister told me to set up a storygraph account
Do you think anyone in my "Endangered Foods" class will notice that the rubric adds up to 101 total points 🙃
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Do you think anyone in my "Endangered Foods" class will notice that the rubric adds up to 101 total points 🙃
Post-doc position with James Higham at NYU looking at the effects that hurricanes have on aging and how sociality may mitigate these effects.
bioanth.org/jobs/post-do...
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Post-Doctoral Associate - AABA
Note - while the position is available immediately, the start date is flexible. Interested applicants should just apply as soon as possible - we will evaluate applications on a rolling basis. Descri...
bioanth.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Post-doc position with James Higham at NYU looking at the effects that hurricanes have on aging and how sociality may mitigate these effects.
bioanth.org/jobs/post-do...
bioanth.org/jobs/post-do...
This paper just came out in Folia, and it shows that there is more variation in invertebrate nutrition than we previously thought. Important for nutritional ecologists out there.
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brill.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This paper just came out in Folia, and it shows that there is more variation in invertebrate nutrition than we previously thought. Important for nutritional ecologists out there.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
Reposted by Alexa Duchesneau
Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
I've been on a twitter break since the Elon takeover, but it's time to reenter the conversation 💕 I'm wrapping up my PhD, "Wild white-faced capuchin nutritional goals and fitness in a changing climate" and looking for a post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I've been on a twitter break since the Elon takeover, but it's time to reenter the conversation 💕 I'm wrapping up my PhD, "Wild white-faced capuchin nutritional goals and fitness in a changing climate" and looking for a post doc focused on nutritional ecology/botany/plant-primate interactions 🍃