Katie Martin, PhD
@katiemartinevo.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist
Post doc at Oregon State U.
Evolution, genomics, immune systems
🐢🧬🌈
she/her
Post doc at Oregon State U.
Evolution, genomics, immune systems
🐢🧬🌈
she/her
Pinned
Hi bluesky! I'm an #evolutionarybiologist interested in the forces that shape diversity, from genes to species. I recently defended my PhD on #seaturtle #immunogenomics and disease 🐢🧬 I'm starting a post doc in January with the Everson lab looking at #lemur hybridization w WGS data. Nice to be here!
Fall 2024 grad here. Have to say, it doesn't feel great
The people I feel worst for are the Fall 2024 PhD cohorts. I know of people who had to leave in June, probably more will within the next couple years, and they had no reason to expect this was coming.
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fall 2024 grad here. Have to say, it doesn't feel great
So proud of the work @alliemartin.bsky.social did leading this study!
Rebreathing Semi-aquatic Anoles: Just a Scuba Tank… or Something More? www.anoleannals.org/2025/10/15/r...
Rebreathing Semi-aquatic Anoles: Just a Scuba Tank… or Something More?
Over the past several years, semi-aquatic anoles experienced a bit of viral fame for “scuba diving,” a nickname for their ability to rebreathe a bubble of air over their nostrils while diving…
www.anoleannals.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So proud of the work @alliemartin.bsky.social did leading this study!
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+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.
💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com
Please share!📣
Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.
💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com
Please share!📣
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Our new server is live! 🐍
A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help.
💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel!
Please feel free to share and repost!
#Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord
Our new server is live! 🐍
A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help.
💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel!
Please feel free to share and repost!
#Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.
💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com
Please share!📣
Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.
💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com
Please share!📣
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NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes
1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.
2. "alignment with Administration priorities"
3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.
a brief 🧵 w/receipts
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.
2. "alignment with Administration priorities"
3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.
a brief 🧵 w/receipts
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes
1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.
2. "alignment with Administration priorities"
3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.
a brief 🧵 w/receipts
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.
2. "alignment with Administration priorities"
3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.
a brief 🧵 w/receipts
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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While I'm sad our cover submission wasn't selected for our recent human duplication paper, check out the super cool illustration created with @lazaroillustration.bsky.social ! Certainly, you will be seeing Dennis lab members running around with "fishman" t-shirts at future meetings, inspired by Ohno
"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
While I'm sad our cover submission wasn't selected for our recent human duplication paper, check out the super cool illustration created with @lazaroillustration.bsky.social ! Certainly, you will be seeing Dennis lab members running around with "fishman" t-shirts at future meetings, inspired by Ohno
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Yesterday's Tylenol press conference was at "inject bleach" levels of insanity, but it also revealed the plan for cancelling the MMR. Here's how I think this is going to go down.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
The Poison Pill to End the MMR is Tylenol
If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yesterday's Tylenol press conference was at "inject bleach" levels of insanity, but it also revealed the plan for cancelling the MMR. Here's how I think this is going to go down.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at #SEH2025. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
#herpetology
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m setting up a Discord server for young herpetologists, derived from an idea at #SEH2025. The goal is to create a space for quick help, collaboration, and networking. If you’d like to give input or get involved, let me know!
#herpetology
#herpetology
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i'm livid we live in a world where this isn't about people with passionate opinions about herpetology
I hate to say, but there are more than one kind of frog guy.
September 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
i'm livid we live in a world where this isn't about people with passionate opinions about herpetology
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Demand some fucking resignations
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Demand some fucking resignations
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Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due.
Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.
Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.
Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due.
Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.
Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.
Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
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saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today
August 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today
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We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.
August 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.
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🐍 Florida has 500+ invasive species!
We're studying public views on 13 of these "iconic" wildlife species ranging from herps, fish, birds, and mammals— covering your knowledge, opinions & support for management.
⏳️8–10 min confidential survey (IRB #ET00022350).
Open to all not just FL residents
We're studying public views on 13 of these "iconic" wildlife species ranging from herps, fish, birds, and mammals— covering your knowledge, opinions & support for management.
⏳️8–10 min confidential survey (IRB #ET00022350).
Open to all not just FL residents
August 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🐍 Florida has 500+ invasive species!
We're studying public views on 13 of these "iconic" wildlife species ranging from herps, fish, birds, and mammals— covering your knowledge, opinions & support for management.
⏳️8–10 min confidential survey (IRB #ET00022350).
Open to all not just FL residents
We're studying public views on 13 of these "iconic" wildlife species ranging from herps, fish, birds, and mammals— covering your knowledge, opinions & support for management.
⏳️8–10 min confidential survey (IRB #ET00022350).
Open to all not just FL residents
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Real talk: our lab is at the cutting edge of tracking climate change-related deaths, and we have exactly $0 of external funding to do it. We're getting $0 from NIH and NSF for the next few years. If you're able to materially support our work, it keeps projects like HAL alive.
We maintain the only living database of studies that measure the present-day health impacts of climate change. Please share, and support our work if you can - elbow grease and cash both go a long way for climate-health labs right now. (8/?) www.healthattribution.org/database
Database — The Health Attribution Library
www.healthattribution.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Real talk: our lab is at the cutting edge of tracking climate change-related deaths, and we have exactly $0 of external funding to do it. We're getting $0 from NIH and NSF for the next few years. If you're able to materially support our work, it keeps projects like HAL alive.
Reposted by Katie Martin, PhD
We maintain the only living database of studies that measure the present-day health impacts of climate change. Please share, and support our work if you can - elbow grease and cash both go a long way for climate-health labs right now. (8/?) www.healthattribution.org/database
Database — The Health Attribution Library
www.healthattribution.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We maintain the only living database of studies that measure the present-day health impacts of climate change. Please share, and support our work if you can - elbow grease and cash both go a long way for climate-health labs right now. (8/?) www.healthattribution.org/database
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CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
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I have a PhD and can’t afford to pay for my own healthcare.
Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?
Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?
June 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have a PhD and can’t afford to pay for my own healthcare.
Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?
Since graduating/no longer working as a TA, I have lost my health insurance. Because I made/make/will make so little, I qualify for Medicaid. I’m hoping to be employed again soon but who knows with the current state of federal funding?
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I don’t know if this will happen but if it does, I see it as an extension of this super flawed but pervasive idea that our PRIMARY (only?) identity is being a scientist and that we should do anything, go anywhere, in service of THAT identity, over all others. For many of us, that simply isn’t true
A prediction I have is that in 1-2 years, European scientists will start treating staying in the U.S. right now as evidence you didn’t care what was going on, as opposed to “you care about the country and wanted to try to save what’s left,” and I think when that starts I’m going to go insane
June 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I don’t know if this will happen but if it does, I see it as an extension of this super flawed but pervasive idea that our PRIMARY (only?) identity is being a scientist and that we should do anything, go anywhere, in service of THAT identity, over all others. For many of us, that simply isn’t true
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
