Morgan Kelly
@invertevoeco.bsky.social
Associate professor @LSU | Molecular ecology, evolutionary physiology of marine inverts, climate change | Views my own | Black Lives Matter | She/her 🏳️🌈
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i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
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Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
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New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming - Nature Climate Change
The authors obtained large-volume individuals of diatom cultures under thermal stress. These polyploids (having more than two sets of chromosomes) are shown to rapidly adapt to high temperatures, high...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
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A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology | PNAS
Temperature has strong impacts on all biological and ecological processes, and thermal
performance curves (TPCs) have been employed recurrently to ...
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October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
New from Drs. Isabelle Neylanm & Ana Salgado, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social, & rockstar @lsuscience.bsky.social undergraduate Cullen Guillory:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Context matters: A meta‐analysis of the variable impact of transgenerational and developmental plasticity on responses to stress
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New from Drs. Isabelle Neylanm & Ana Salgado, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social, & rockstar @lsuscience.bsky.social undergraduate Cullen Guillory:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We're excited to kick off another year of LAGNiAppE! 🎉
Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals.
Stay tuned as their journey unfolds!
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social
#postbacc #RaMP #training
Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals.
Stay tuned as their journey unfolds!
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social
#postbacc #RaMP #training
July 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We're excited to kick off another year of LAGNiAppE! 🎉
Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals.
Stay tuned as their journey unfolds!
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social
#postbacc #RaMP #training
Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals.
Stay tuned as their journey unfolds!
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social
#postbacc #RaMP #training
Highly recommend meeting Finn, who is here with his person @ecarlen.bsky.social and is a very good boy.
#evol2025 #evol25
#evol2025 #evol25
June 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Highly recommend meeting Finn, who is here with his person @ecarlen.bsky.social and is a very good boy.
#evol2025 #evol25
#evol2025 #evol25
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The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...
A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary
The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …
lab.jbyoder.org
June 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...
From @rujutavaidya.bsky.social some categories of genes respond to heat stress through differential expression while others respond through differential exon usage. Only a small fraction do both. We miss an important part of the story when we focus only on DEGs! #Evo2025 #Evo25
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From @rujutavaidya.bsky.social some categories of genes respond to heat stress through differential expression while others respond through differential exon usage. Only a small fraction do both. We miss an important part of the story when we focus only on DEGs! #Evo2025 #Evo25
June 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
May 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
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NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
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🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
www.nature.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.
"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"
What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
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“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow!
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow!
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist.
Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social.
Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Live view of my students today, as I took them from salmon and white throated sparrows (gender and the expression of sex-associated traits are not binary!) to the Jan20 White House order on gender, to the closing of the Institute for Sexual Research in Nazi Germany.
a group of cartoon characters are sitting in red seats with south park written on the bottom right
ALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting in red seats with south park written on the bottom right
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March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Live view of my students today, as I took them from salmon and white throated sparrows (gender and the expression of sex-associated traits are not binary!) to the Jan20 White House order on gender, to the closing of the Institute for Sexual Research in Nazi Germany.
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Love this! @standupforscience.bsky.social Austin is making posters and taking our message to the TX Capitol tomorrow!
Folks from my department took time out to make posters for @standupforscience.bsky.social tomorrow! (And I totally forgot to take a photo of my own…)
Hope to see you tomorrow Baton Rouge 😘.
Hope to see you tomorrow Baton Rouge 😘.
March 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Love this! @standupforscience.bsky.social Austin is making posters and taking our message to the TX Capitol tomorrow!
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In Nature Climate Change @natclimchange.bsky.social, we show that Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) have strong but different effects on plant and insect phenology, as individuals respond to immediate environmental cues such as EWES, likely more rapidly so than to gradual climate change. rdcu.be/eaLMu
Extreme weather events have strong but different impacts on plant and insect phenology
Nature Climate Change - Using community data of 581 angiosperm and 172 Lepidoptera species, the authors consider the impacts of extreme weather events (EWE) on the timing of life events...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In Nature Climate Change @natclimchange.bsky.social, we show that Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) have strong but different effects on plant and insect phenology, as individuals respond to immediate environmental cues such as EWES, likely more rapidly so than to gradual climate change. rdcu.be/eaLMu
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If you've been calling Congress, keep calling & if not, start-we're getting their attention. We had a good visit to a Congressional office yesterday to discuss science funding & the staffer told us how busy they've been-usually the Senate shwitchboard gets 64 calls/minute-now they're getting 1600 🧪
March 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you've been calling Congress, keep calling & if not, start-we're getting their attention. We had a good visit to a Congressional office yesterday to discuss science funding & the staffer told us how busy they've been-usually the Senate shwitchboard gets 64 calls/minute-now they're getting 1600 🧪
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Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
Research Assistant II
Loyola University Chicago (LUC), College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time laboratory technician with experience in ecological and/or molecular genetics,...
www.careers.luc.edu
February 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037
A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River.
@danielbolnick.bsky.social
@ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social
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🚨Three weeks left for applying to perform independent research @lsubiosci.bsky.social. Join us to learn skills for careers in STEM.
🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe
#NSF #Postbacc #RaMP
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social
🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe
#NSF #Postbacc #RaMP
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🚨Three weeks left for applying to perform independent research @lsubiosci.bsky.social. Join us to learn skills for careers in STEM.
🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe
#NSF #Postbacc #RaMP
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social
🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe
#NSF #Postbacc #RaMP
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social
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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is HR@opm.gov, so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit
February 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is HR@opm.gov, so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit
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I know somebody will tell me this can’t work but what about $0 registration for our agency colleagues who want to attend @evolmtg.bsky.social or other conferences so they can talk about their work? Network for jobs?
February 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I know somebody will tell me this can’t work but what about $0 registration for our agency colleagues who want to attend @evolmtg.bsky.social or other conferences so they can talk about their work? Network for jobs?