Trey Scott
@treyjscott.bsky.social
Postdoc studying interactions between caterpillars and ants.
treyjscott.gitlab.io
treyjscott.gitlab.io
New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions!
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
The evolutionary potential of symbiosis
Abstract. Symbiosis is considered a source of evolutionary innovation. Example innovations that have evolved in symbioses include new organs, morphological
academic.oup.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions!
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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PERSPECTIVE: The evolutionary potential of symbiosis
Is symbiosis is a source of innovation? Which evolutionary mechanisms could explain how symbiosis drives or hinders innovation?
@treyjscott.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Is symbiosis is a source of innovation? Which evolutionary mechanisms could explain how symbiosis drives or hinders innovation?
@treyjscott.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
The evolutionary potential of symbiosis
Abstract. Symbiosis is considered a source of evolutionary innovation. Example innovations that have evolved in symbioses include new organs, morphological
doi.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
PERSPECTIVE: The evolutionary potential of symbiosis
Is symbiosis is a source of innovation? Which evolutionary mechanisms could explain how symbiosis drives or hinders innovation?
@treyjscott.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Is symbiosis is a source of innovation? Which evolutionary mechanisms could explain how symbiosis drives or hinders innovation?
@treyjscott.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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NEW PAPER with @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten on evolutionary reversions in individuality now out (as an advance article) at @jevbio.bsky.social (see academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...). Thread below! [1/8]
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Evolutionary transitions and reversions in individuality
Abstract. Biological individuality exists in different forms—unicellular, multicellular, colonial, etc.—which have arisen through evolutionary transitions
academic.oup.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
NEW PAPER with @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten on evolutionary reversions in individuality now out (as an advance article) at @jevbio.bsky.social (see academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...). Thread below! [1/8]
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He’s primarying one of the 7 who voted to fund ICE today
We have a real Democrat running to replace her in WA District 3! He needs our support! brenthennrich.com
Home - Brent Hennrich
Brent Hennrich is a candidate for Washington's third congressional district for the 2026 midterm elections. Brent Hennrich is focused on the affordability crisis and the threat Trump poses.
brenthennrich.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:35 AM
He’s primarying one of the 7 who voted to fund ICE today
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
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Fact check: false.
Eciton burchellii is the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere.
Eciton burchellii is the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Fact check: false.
Eciton burchellii is the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere.
Eciton burchellii is the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere.
Nice to actually do some reading around the holidays.
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Nice to actually do some reading around the holidays.
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I spy with my little eye, a brand new...butterfly?
Found hiding from Panama to Colombia, whole-genome sequencing uncovered this new species as part of the tribe Phocidini!
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Found hiding from Panama to Colombia, whole-genome sequencing uncovered this new species as part of the tribe Phocidini!
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I spy with my little eye, a brand new...butterfly?
Found hiding from Panama to Colombia, whole-genome sequencing uncovered this new species as part of the tribe Phocidini!
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Found hiding from Panama to Colombia, whole-genome sequencing uncovered this new species as part of the tribe Phocidini!
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
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A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females
Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark
scim.ag
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3
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Disinformation presaging a coup: a metaphor from ants.
This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony.
This parasitic ant tricks workers into committing matricide
Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.
www.sciencenews.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Disinformation presaging a coup: a metaphor from ants.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
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ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Just an absolutely horrific self own, depleting the US of amazing students from all over the world who contributed to what used to make America great: its diversity, its openness, and its leadership in education.
The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
nyti.ms
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just an absolutely horrific self own, depleting the US of amazing students from all over the world who contributed to what used to make America great: its diversity, its openness, and its leadership in education.
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I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact
The White House asked nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Califor...
www.latimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
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This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.
The paper has helpful diagrams and it's WILD. They clone the other species so they can produce sterile hybrid workers. It's like if a horse could occasionally give birth to a donkey deliberately so they can make mules to serve them while they sit on their... horse throne... as horse queens do.
September 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.
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It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking.
All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.
Yay for us!
All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.
Yay for us!
August 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking.
All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.
Yay for us!
All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.
Yay for us!
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This EO is literally banning the scientific consensus that sex is, in fact, not binary since intersex people have always existed and there is even a biological explanation for it
“Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate … denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic”
TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people
TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This EO is literally banning the scientific consensus that sex is, in fact, not binary since intersex people have always existed and there is even a biological explanation for it
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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So Science retracted the arsenic life paper because it was wrong? If that's the new standard for retraction, I think they've got a lot of work ahead of them
July 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So Science retracted the arsenic life paper because it was wrong? If that's the new standard for retraction, I think they've got a lot of work ahead of them
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New pooter technology for all you aspirator-heads out that that are totally litter critter-pilled!
Behold the Falcon-pooter, the greatest advancement in aspirating technology since the in-line filter!
For years I’ve wanted a screw top aspirator that fit the falcon tubes I use to collect. You have to be the change you want to see.
Based on the design of spongymesophyll
For years I’ve wanted a screw top aspirator that fit the falcon tubes I use to collect. You have to be the change you want to see.
Based on the design of spongymesophyll
July 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New pooter technology for all you aspirator-heads out that that are totally litter critter-pilled!
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Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd
talking a lot about race-science shit, like IQ or “human biodiversity” or how bad affirmative action is, *should* be totally discrediting, a sign of lazy and shallow thinking that undermines anything else someone says
but there’s so much internalized racism among American elites that it’s not
but there’s so much internalized racism among American elites that it’s not
internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain
July 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd