Amanda Moehring
@flybehaviour.bsky.social
Behavior genetics, speciation, neuroscience. Prof @WesternU. Interested in social justice, painting, nature. Pro offspring wrangler. Canerican she/her
Go get it now!!
Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Go get it now!!
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
Even if highly qualified, nobody wants an insufferable jerk for a colleague. Getting a job isn’t just qualifications, it’s also being someone other people want to work with.
Another incredible case of white racial grievance about the academic job market.
He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!
He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Even if highly qualified, nobody wants an insufferable jerk for a colleague. Getting a job isn’t just qualifications, it’s also being someone other people want to work with.
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I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly):
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly):
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
My dog is hilariously pathetic when she wants love. Sound on.
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My dog is hilariously pathetic when she wants love. Sound on.
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Show of hands, how many of us are ready for this madness to end — and for Congress to do their job?🙋
Sign on to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. 👉 standupforscience.net/impeac...
📲Tag your representative below. Let them know that they need to step up and meet the moment!
Sign on to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. 👉 standupforscience.net/impeac...
📲Tag your representative below. Let them know that they need to step up and meet the moment!
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Show of hands, how many of us are ready for this madness to end — and for Congress to do their job?🙋
Sign on to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. 👉 standupforscience.net/impeac...
📲Tag your representative below. Let them know that they need to step up and meet the moment!
Sign on to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. 👉 standupforscience.net/impeac...
📲Tag your representative below. Let them know that they need to step up and meet the moment!
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Amazing work from the folks in my lab on the impact of making the wrong proteins (mistranslation) and how it INCREASES female lifespan, even when combined with reproduction! Of note, the lead author, Luana Branco, did this work as an undergrad (!!). Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Mistranslation protects against lifespan reduction due to mating in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Accurate translation of genes into proteins is critical to organism fitness, and errors in this process are usually detrimental and cause proteotoxic stress. Mistranslation occurs when the amino acid ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Amazing work from the folks in my lab on the impact of making the wrong proteins (mistranslation) and how it INCREASES female lifespan, even when combined with reproduction! Of note, the lead author, Luana Branco, did this work as an undergrad (!!). Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Schooling! One of those strangely fascinating fish behaviours that I love watching
What is that hairy creature in the sea? 😱
Oh, it's just a bunch of fish going to school together 😸😋
#marinelife #fish #nature
Oh, it's just a bunch of fish going to school together 😸😋
#marinelife #fish #nature
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Schooling! One of those strangely fascinating fish behaviours that I love watching
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TODAY! CSEE Members: Check your email for the Zoom link. See you soon!
🍃📣Upcoming CSEE Event! Join us online on Nov. 26th for a panel discussion Q&A on faculty positions. CSEE members will receive the link in their mailbox. (Event in English) #CSEE #online #paneldiscussion #eeb
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
TODAY! CSEE Members: Check your email for the Zoom link. See you soon!
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"Hormone Therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"Hormone Therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Republicans just passed a bill in the House that bans federal funding of anyone collaborating or co-authoring with Chinese scientists, and it’s retroactive to ban funding for anyone who has had collaborations in the past 5 years. This is insane. Call your reps.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Republicans just passed a bill in the House that bans federal funding of anyone collaborating or co-authoring with Chinese scientists, and it’s retroactive to ban funding for anyone who has had collaborations in the past 5 years. This is insane. Call your reps.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
A really good thread on adjusting your bsky filter settings, which you might not know are set to be fully on by default!
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A really good thread on adjusting your bsky filter settings, which you might not know are set to be fully on by default!
With my first kid, in the US, I was entitled to zero days of maternity leave. Zero. Because I hadn’t been in my current postdoc position for a full year yet. When I had a kid in Canada I took a 6 month leave, and the only ‘feedback’ I got from my colleagues was “oh, you’re taking a short leave!”
A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
With my first kid, in the US, I was entitled to zero days of maternity leave. Zero. Because I hadn’t been in my current postdoc position for a full year yet. When I had a kid in Canada I took a 6 month leave, and the only ‘feedback’ I got from my colleagues was “oh, you’re taking a short leave!”
Are you f*ing kidding me @nytimes.com??
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are you f*ing kidding me @nytimes.com??
Good job everyone - the 🇨🇦 Trucouncil data will stay aggregated and anonymized.
The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Good job everyone - the 🇨🇦 Trucouncil data will stay aggregated and anonymized.
There’s a (now retired) prof who I discovered had students in their genetics lab class sequence three ‘mystery genes’ from the STUDENTS OWN CHEEK SWAB and the three genes were all for SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MENTAL DISORDERS. I reported it, bc wtaf that’s wrong on so many levels.
Just for an example in my field- we generally don't have students do Punnett squares for traits they have these days. First off, not all students will know that info for their birth parents, and secondly, it's not going to be infrequent that someone looks at the data and says...
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There’s a (now retired) prof who I discovered had students in their genetics lab class sequence three ‘mystery genes’ from the STUDENTS OWN CHEEK SWAB and the three genes were all for SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MENTAL DISORDERS. I reported it, bc wtaf that’s wrong on so many levels.
This is the prettiest cupcake I’ve ever had 😍
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is the prettiest cupcake I’ve ever had 😍
This would be a huge breach of privacy. Contact your MPs, and/or sign the petition, linked in the thread.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This would be a huge breach of privacy. Contact your MPs, and/or sign the petition, linked in the thread.
There are two types of people. Those who are mad if some people are on SNAP and not working, and those who are mad because working people still have to be on SNAP to afford food.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There are two types of people. Those who are mad if some people are on SNAP and not working, and those who are mad because working people still have to be on SNAP to afford food.
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE