Dr. Bryan H. Juarez (He/They)
bhjuarez.bsky.social
Dr. Bryan H. Juarez (He/They)
@bhjuarez.bsky.social
Postdoc | Chicano | Bilingual Ciencia | Health, Equity, Happiness | Physiological Ecology | Stats Connoisseur | 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽. Gangloff Lab at Ohio Wesleyan University.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-596X
Hispanic Heritage Month is over, but I am still Chicano. I've finally managed to put into words why I do not use accents in my name.

I offer you a very personal story in the form of an excerpt from the Teaching Statement I am using on faculty applications.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Teaching Statement Excerpt
Teaching Statement Excerpt My name is Bryan Hernandez Juarez (he/they) and I am an underrepresented minority in STEM. I present myself in this way for two reasons. First, my written name is a celebra...
docs.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.
DNA Pioneer James Watson Loses Honorary Titles Over Racist Comments
The renowned scientist has a long history of controversial commentary on not only race, but issues spanning gender, religion and sexuality
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Anyone know if any good apps for estimating surface area? (Or maybe manual/imageJ are the best alternatives?)

We're measuring surface area of bird wings tomorrow with grid paper but I'm hoping to improve the class in the future!
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Who wore it better?

FANGED FROG 🧛🏻🐸!! Limnonectes, from SE Asia, use their fangs to defend their territories! 😬🦷
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.

gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/

Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable

dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My niece Natalie is fundraising for her school's orchestra/band 🎼🎺🎷

Natalie is a talented violinist 🎻who has been recognized as one of the county's stars. She also lives in the biggest county in the USA (San Bernardino)!!

Please consider donating 🎉
Message me for the link so I can thank you 🙏🏽
October 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
October 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
👋🏽 it's Latino Heritage Month,

Mis first-gen college grads hermanos y hermanas. First of all, y'all are badass. Second, how old were you when you realized you could attend college?

For me, I don't think the idea really settled until I was about 14 in 10th grade.
October 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
Join the lab
The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....
caetanods.weebly.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I genuinely do not mean to be controversial but please we don't need taxonomic authorities in the TITLES of papers that aren't about systematics
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁

#SciArt #invertebrates
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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An official website of the United States government.
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New postdocs, if you haven't already, consider investing in a pair of noise cancelling headphones. They are a game changer!!

Some labs might have funds for this.
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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GRFP call is out: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Deadlines pushed back to Nov.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Do you expect minorities to reframe their struggles as strengths to give the impression of resilience or adaptability? That is bias.

We are inherently resilient and adaptable, we did not struggle out of choice and we did not live through our struggles to impress anyone.
September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I feel silly writing the tired lines "i am low income" "i am a minority" "i am first gen". It's like that is all we are to academics and if we do not make those facts perfectly explicit, we will be deemed as lesser than.
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We should stop using metrics based solely on publications in English to evaluate the performance of researchers. Instead we should focus on *what* is published, not just *where*, as advocated by DORA: sfdora.org
4/5
Home | DORA
The Declaration on Research Assessment recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
sfdora.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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For those interested to see the productivity gap for men, here are the figures using the same # years in research as female counterparts. Based on English papers:
-50% for English non-native
-58% for English non-native from low-income countries
compared to English native from a high-income country.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7
November 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM