Sandra Winters
@sandrawinters.bsky.social
behavioral/evolutionary ecology, animal coloration, evolution of diversity
Postdoc at the University of Helsinki
(she/her)
Postdoc at the University of Helsinki
(she/her)
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Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
August 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
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🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠
🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology
🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology
Antagonistic effects of predator color morph abundance and saliency on prey anti-predator responses
Predators can have different color morphs, but whether morph abundance or saliency is more influential in shaping antipredator behavior in prey remains unc
tinyurl.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠
🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology
🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology
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"I don't know why people have such a hard time getting papers accepted. Back in my day I published in Nature all the time."
Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
July 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"I don't know why people have such a hard time getting papers accepted. Back in my day I published in Nature all the time."
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🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
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Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG
“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG
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📢 Meet the speakers: Johanna Mappes 📢
@JohannaMappes is an evolutionary ecologist from the University of Helsinki (@helsinkiuni), Finland.
Read more about her here: eseb2025.com/team/johanna-mappes
@JohannaMappes is an evolutionary ecologist from the University of Helsinki (@helsinkiuni), Finland.
Read more about her here: eseb2025.com/team/johanna-mappes
January 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📢 Meet the speakers: Johanna Mappes 📢
@JohannaMappes is an evolutionary ecologist from the University of Helsinki (@helsinkiuni), Finland.
Read more about her here: eseb2025.com/team/johanna-mappes
@JohannaMappes is an evolutionary ecologist from the University of Helsinki (@helsinkiuni), Finland.
Read more about her here: eseb2025.com/team/johanna-mappes
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It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
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I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.
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Great kick-off by my team @aplantaginis.bsky.social at #OIKOSFin25! 🎉 @zowioudendijk.bsky.social shared fascinating insights on the evolution of reflex bleeding in Arctiinae, and @theobrown.bsky.social made a compelling case for 'why to pay to be lazy'(—if you’re a toxic butterfly!) 🦋🔥
March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Great kick-off by my team @aplantaginis.bsky.social at #OIKOSFin25! 🎉 @zowioudendijk.bsky.social shared fascinating insights on the evolution of reflex bleeding in Arctiinae, and @theobrown.bsky.social made a compelling case for 'why to pay to be lazy'(—if you’re a toxic butterfly!) 🦋🔥
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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
February 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak
@evoldir.bsky.social
@evoldir.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
PLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak
@evoldir.bsky.social
@evoldir.bsky.social
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*POSTDOC JOB* If you are excited about animal sociality/cognition, are computationally-inclined, and are looking for a postdoc, I'll be hiring soon! Please come talk to me today or tomorrow at #SICB2025, or reach out over email. Official ad coming soon!
January 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
*POSTDOC JOB* If you are excited about animal sociality/cognition, are computationally-inclined, and are looking for a postdoc, I'll be hiring soon! Please come talk to me today or tomorrow at #SICB2025, or reach out over email. Official ad coming soon!
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Fully-funded PhD: Comparative analysis of collective behaviour in natural and artificial systems.
Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia).
Come fly in the swaRmverse!
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia).
Come fly in the swaRmverse!
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
December 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Fully-funded PhD: Comparative analysis of collective behaviour in natural and artificial systems.
Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia).
Come fly in the swaRmverse!
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia).
Come fly in the swaRmverse!
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
December 1, 2024 at 8:49 PM
If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
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Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
jobs.helsinki.fi
November 8, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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There's still a couple of days before the deadline for TWO not one postdoc positions! One is on avian life histories, the other one is on general life history theory, with much flexibility on what precisely.
Do you know which bird I tried to draw here? If you do, apply for one of the postdoc positions we are offering... and if you don't, perhaps apply for the other one! We are looking for life history/theory-ecoevo expertise in birds and "in general". evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
October 13, 2024 at 1:18 AM
There's still a couple of days before the deadline for TWO not one postdoc positions! One is on avian life histories, the other one is on general life history theory, with much flexibility on what precisely.
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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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We are hiring! Two RA positions at NHM London and a postdoc at University of Sheffield as part of a grant on convergent evolution. We strongly encourage diverse applicants to apply. Feel free to email me or Gavin Thomas for more details or if you have any questions 1/3
July 1, 2024 at 9:12 AM
We are hiring! Two RA positions at NHM London and a postdoc at University of Sheffield as part of a grant on convergent evolution. We strongly encourage diverse applicants to apply. Feel free to email me or Gavin Thomas for more details or if you have any questions 1/3
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Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵
To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything
To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything
February 12, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵
To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything
To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything
US Citizens living abroad: remember to request an absentee ballot for the upcoming elections! This usually must be done in advance. Do it now!
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Federal Voting Assistance Program
Ensuring Service members, their eligible family members and overseas citizens can vote -- from anywhere in the world.
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January 26, 2024 at 12:51 PM
US Citizens living abroad: remember to request an absentee ballot for the upcoming elections! This usually must be done in advance. Do it now!
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Check out the second chapter of @crisottocento.bsky.social's PhD thesis, published now in J Exp Biol journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Shout out to coauthors E. Burdfield-Steel, J. Mappes, O. Nokelainen, M. Furlanetto & @sandrawinters.bsky.social
Shout out to coauthors E. Burdfield-Steel, J. Mappes, O. Nokelainen, M. Furlanetto & @sandrawinters.bsky.social
January 17, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Check out the second chapter of @crisottocento.bsky.social's PhD thesis, published now in J Exp Biol journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Shout out to coauthors E. Burdfield-Steel, J. Mappes, O. Nokelainen, M. Furlanetto & @sandrawinters.bsky.social
Shout out to coauthors E. Burdfield-Steel, J. Mappes, O. Nokelainen, M. Furlanetto & @sandrawinters.bsky.social