Aimee Dunlap
@msaimeesue.bsky.social
Prof at University of Missouri- St. Louis. Studying the ecology and evolution of cognition in bees, flies, and other critters. Biophile. Urban gardener. Trekkie. Sciencing while chronically ill. #DisabledinSTEM
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Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
At #EntSoc2025 and really the highlight has been meeting awesome students. If you run into me, tell me about your super cool research!
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
At #EntSoc2025 and really the highlight has been meeting awesome students. If you run into me, tell me about your super cool research!
My lab mostly works on the cognitive ecology of insects, but Becky has introduced our lab to tarantulas and its been a fun 4 years (so far) getting to know them better. Fascinating animals, with better cognitive skills than most people realize. blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/10...
Doctoral candidate Becky Hansis-O’Neill’s research helps build understanding of tarantulas - UMSL Daily
The Saint Louis Zoo and Missouri Department of Conservation have taken an interest in her work.
blogs.umsl.edu
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My lab mostly works on the cognitive ecology of insects, but Becky has introduced our lab to tarantulas and its been a fun 4 years (so far) getting to know them better. Fascinating animals, with better cognitive skills than most people realize. blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/10...
This is really great! Both are books that really stick with you for a long while. Looking forward to his next projects.
Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts.
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#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange
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#macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange
Wandering Stars Align: Tommy Orange Named A 2025 MacArthur Fellow
When the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 Fellows, one name carried through Native communities like a spark. Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author from Oakland, was named one of this ye...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is really great! Both are books that really stick with you for a long while. Looking forward to his next projects.
The biggest downside of a partial administrative appointment is the sheer amount of time spent (wasted) on various products of bureaucracy. Everything seems to be getting more difficult by the week. Extra hoops. Hoops with flames. Hoops that seem to involve interdimensional travel...
August 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The biggest downside of a partial administrative appointment is the sheer amount of time spent (wasted) on various products of bureaucracy. Everything seems to be getting more difficult by the week. Extra hoops. Hoops with flames. Hoops that seem to involve interdimensional travel...
This was the coolest part of my summer. Its also very cool to have teaching, mentoring, and outreach appreciated. So much of the pressures of our jobs are all about grants and papers but its validating to have the other ways in which we choose to spend our time and energy be noticed and appreciated.
Congrats to @msaimeesue.bsky.social on being elected a new ABS Fellow! Aimee researches the evolution of cognition & the role of environmental change in shaping how individuals evaluate & value social information. That's not all! She's a supportive mentor and gifted teacher!
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August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This was the coolest part of my summer. Its also very cool to have teaching, mentoring, and outreach appreciated. So much of the pressures of our jobs are all about grants and papers but its validating to have the other ways in which we choose to spend our time and energy be noticed and appreciated.
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Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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August 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
Teaching a class this fall that I haven't taught in a while and I'm thanking past me for already making the syllabus digitally accessible. Now I have to add all my AI guidelines to it and the required new syllabus sections on stuff that's already in there but not under the newly required headers.
August 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Teaching a class this fall that I haven't taught in a while and I'm thanking past me for already making the syllabus digitally accessible. Now I have to add all my AI guidelines to it and the required new syllabus sections on stuff that's already in there but not under the newly required headers.
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Holy fricking A.
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Holy fricking A.
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.
2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?
3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!
Excited about our new College of Engineering. Moving to a new office because of renovations and shifting rooms sucked but worked out super well for me. Having our Biology faculty working multiple days to clean a bunch of junk out of old teaching labs and random storage rooms is just super crummy.
August 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Excited about our new College of Engineering. Moving to a new office because of renovations and shifting rooms sucked but worked out super well for me. Having our Biology faculty working multiple days to clean a bunch of junk out of old teaching labs and random storage rooms is just super crummy.
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To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
I’m putting this poem in my fall syllabus.
August 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I’m putting this poem in my fall syllabus.
I’m got to help feed 195 very young tarantulas in the lab today and let me tell you it was way more fun than staring at a computer monitor and doing endless meetings on Zoom. I definitely need more lab time going forward.
July 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I’m got to help feed 195 very young tarantulas in the lab today and let me tell you it was way more fun than staring at a computer monitor and doing endless meetings on Zoom. I definitely need more lab time going forward.
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🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged.
📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia
James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.
We now have an opportunity a...
careers.jcu.edu.au
July 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged.
📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
This is VERY cool work.
🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators
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Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors
Abstract. Bees are palynivorous insects that vary widely in the number of plant families from which they collect pollen. Their evolutionary history has bee
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July 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is VERY cool work.
I definitely do not feel fine.
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I definitely do not feel fine.
Super excited that my very first Nature Notes column is in the very first issue of the Near Northsider newspaper! It’s a hyperlocal quarterly publication for Old North St. Louis along with St Louis Place and Hyde Park. Big effort from
a scrappy committee of neighbors. Now for the next issue…
a scrappy committee of neighbors. Now for the next issue…
February 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Super excited that my very first Nature Notes column is in the very first issue of the Near Northsider newspaper! It’s a hyperlocal quarterly publication for Old North St. Louis along with St Louis Place and Hyde Park. Big effort from
a scrappy committee of neighbors. Now for the next issue…
a scrappy committee of neighbors. Now for the next issue…
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The Urban Wildlife Working Group is excited to announce a FREE workshop on Wildlife Field Worker Safety in Urban Spaces taking place on Zoom on February 24th from 1-3 pm Eastern Time. See you there! 🦺 #UrbanEcology #FieldWork
Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Urban Wildlife Working Group is excited to announce a FREE workshop on Wildlife Field Worker Safety in Urban Spaces taking place on Zoom on February 24th from 1-3 pm Eastern Time. See you there! 🦺 #UrbanEcology #FieldWork
Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is seeking a Scientist to join our Latin America Program!
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
December 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM
The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is seeking a Scientist to join our Latin America Program!
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
I’m in a pretty big exacerbation of my multiple sclerosis. It’s like all the symptoms from the past 18.5 years are back all at once. As always, it’s a reassessing of how I’m working, living, and moving around in the world. I’m happy to have awesome physical and speech therapists this time around.
January 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I’m in a pretty big exacerbation of my multiple sclerosis. It’s like all the symptoms from the past 18.5 years are back all at once. As always, it’s a reassessing of how I’m working, living, and moving around in the world. I’m happy to have awesome physical and speech therapists this time around.
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Scientific discovery and advance is not, and never has been, “efficient”.
January 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Scientific discovery and advance is not, and never has been, “efficient”.
Today has been a lot. First day of classes, freezing rooms everywhere, and getting two new TAs ready for the next week. But MS student Benjamin passed his thesis proposal defense this morning a
& got lots of great feedback from his committee. I think we all enjoyed the process! Ideal outcome!
& got lots of great feedback from his committee. I think we all enjoyed the process! Ideal outcome!
January 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Today has been a lot. First day of classes, freezing rooms everywhere, and getting two new TAs ready for the next week. But MS student Benjamin passed his thesis proposal defense this morning a
& got lots of great feedback from his committee. I think we all enjoyed the process! Ideal outcome!
& got lots of great feedback from his committee. I think we all enjoyed the process! Ideal outcome!
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Are you interested in the social dimensions of human-wolf interactions? Come work with me at Oregon State University!
The Doney Lab is recruiting a PhD Research/Teaching Assistant to study Human Dimensions of Wolves and Wolf Management in Oregon at Oregon State University.
📍View posting here: tinyurl.com/ye5zmzre
🗓️ Apply by end of day February 3, 2025.
#ConSocSci #HumanDimensions
📍View posting here: tinyurl.com/ye5zmzre
🗓️ Apply by end of day February 3, 2025.
#ConSocSci #HumanDimensions
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January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Are you interested in the social dimensions of human-wolf interactions? Come work with me at Oregon State University!
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PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us