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Claudia Crowther
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Postdoc in evolutionary biology at Kellogg Biological Station, MSU. Plasticity, maternal effects, and climate adaptation. She/her
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gauravathreya.bsky.social
i will be giving a talk on some recently published work on the 4th of December. Come by (zoom link below) if you want to think and learn about the evolution of mutual dependence and synchronised reproduction in endosymbioses!
lucasgenoma.bsky.social Lucas Santana Souza @lucasgenoma.bsky.social · Nov 14
Our Guest: Gaurav S. Athreya.
Title: The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses.
When: 🌟Thursday, 4th December, at 3 PM (Stockholm time zone).
Zoom link: umu.zoom.us/j/68775661118
Webinar schedule: endosymbiosiswebinar.github.io
#Endosymbiosis
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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kokkonut.bsky.social
A while ago @caritalindstedt.bsky.social asked me “would you puke to save the group?” Well not me personally, there's real science about the evolution of cooperation here. With the help of talented student @abhay-gupta.bsky.social, we now have answers! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Sex-biased cooperation among immature peers: it matters who helps whom
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November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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psudmant.bsky.social
The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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thewasplady.bsky.social
Get your CVs updated. Zoology Department, University of Otago is hiring a Lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology!

@zoologyotago.bsky.social

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Lecturer/Pūkenga - Evolutionary Ecology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
otago.taleo.net
May 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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morganichemistry.bsky.social
Excited to share my latest publication- Here, we demonstrate that wild painted turtles show behavioral syndromes, and boldness predicts nest site choice. Thanks sm to @ccrowther.bsky.social for her help with this project 🐢🦝 authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-tHmjMA3pk
Rocky the taxidermy raccoon- used as a mock predator in turtle behavioral assessments
April 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
ccrowther.bsky.social
New research from our lab exploring the ecological consequences of behavioral syndromes! @morganichemistry.bsky.social shows that antipredator behavior in painted turtles is repeatable and associated with ecologically significant variation in nest site choice.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k-tHmjMA3pk
Scatter plot showing a negative relationship between tree canopy cover over painted turtle nest sites and head emergence latency (a measure of boldness) in a novel arena behavior assay.
April 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ccrowther.bsky.social
This is a long shot, but are there any registered Australian voters in the vicinity of Clinton, Iowa, who could witness my vote for the federal election?
April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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mafaldaferreira.bsky.social
Postdoc position with @milocco.bsky.social at @scilifelab.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social in predictive modeling in evolution and development.

#Evolution #Popgen #Modeling #Postdoc
milocco.bsky.social Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · Apr 11
🚨 We're hiring!
Fully funded Postdoc(s) in Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab — focus on predictive modeling in evolution and development.
📍 Stockholm
🕒 2+1 years
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Prediction
The Department of Zoology is one of the departments within the Faculty of Science and has approximately 80 employees including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and educati
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April 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.

One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted
What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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geuatmsu.org
Of extra importance given MSU's confirmation that some of our international students have had their visas revoked as @statenews.com reports, statenews.com/article/2025...
International students’ visas have been revoked, MSU says - The State News
At least some international students at MSU have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a university spokesperson confirmed Monday.
statenews.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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wbur.org
A number of international students at private universities across Greater Boston and in the University of Massachusetts system have had their visas revoked in recent days.
Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more
It is not immediately clear why students’ visas were terminated. Some schools said the federal government had not notified them of their students’ change of status, but rather learned about it when re...
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April 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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nicholaswu.bsky.social
🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position @waikatouniversity.bsky.social. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats.

📍 Hamilton, NZ
Closes: 4th May 2025
🔗 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care
Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.
www.motherjones.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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bnzlter.bsky.social
Bonanza Creek LTER is seeking a post-doctoral fellow! The position focuses on synthesizing long-term ecological data to study alternate successional trajectories in the boreal forest and explore their implications in a changing climate. Find out more and apply at careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...
A researcher stands in a forest and writes data on a clipboard.
March 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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marwimber.bsky.social
We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience!
Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep!
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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March 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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jvhooff.bsky.social
Only a few more days to apply for this exciting postdoc position (deadline: 6th of April)!
jvhooff.bsky.social Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social · Mar 5
Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Postdoc Comparative genomics and genome architecture in early-diverging fungi and their protist relatives (3-year position)
www.wur.nl
March 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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kbschalkboard.bsky.social
Excited to host Dr. Laura Melissa Guzman for this Friday’s seminar! Tune in to learn more about using occupancy models to understand trends in bee biodiversity
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March 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ccrowther.bsky.social
More than 300 international students in the US have had their visas revoked in the last three weeks. DHS are targeting students who publicly express support for Palestine, despite visa holders having the same rights to free speech and protests as US citizens. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges
The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.
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March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Protest called against taking of Tufts student ‘ambushed’ outside apartment in Somerville
An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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expecocons.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring!🚨

Looking for someone interested in modelling biodiversity trends to work on the interface between academia and policy.

careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Dat...
Data Analyst - Ecological Modelling | 02 April, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority
Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint on a fixed term basis (until September 2026) a data analyst/scient...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
ccrowther.bsky.social
It is extremely frightening how quickly the illegal deportation of international scholars and students has escalated, with little resistance from uni admins.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Mar 23
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
Visit the post for more.
www.normanfinkelstein.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers. Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM