Alexa Fredston
@afredston.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Ocean Sciences at UCSC. Modeling ecological and biogeographical dynamics in past, current, and future seas.
Pinned
A century of invertebrate range extensions in the eastern North Pacific
doi.org
the first paper from my lab at UCSC is on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
Reposted by Alexa Fredston
WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
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We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
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November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
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There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
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I'm looking for 1-2 PhD/Master's students to start in my lab in the fall of 2026.
Are you interested in studying plant interactions, species coexistence or community recovery after disturbance in arid environments? Details below!
Email me with questions and please share widely!!
🌱🌾🌵🏜️
Are you interested in studying plant interactions, species coexistence or community recovery after disturbance in arid environments? Details below!
Email me with questions and please share widely!!
🌱🌾🌵🏜️
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm looking for 1-2 PhD/Master's students to start in my lab in the fall of 2026.
Are you interested in studying plant interactions, species coexistence or community recovery after disturbance in arid environments? Details below!
Email me with questions and please share widely!!
🌱🌾🌵🏜️
Are you interested in studying plant interactions, species coexistence or community recovery after disturbance in arid environments? Details below!
Email me with questions and please share widely!!
🌱🌾🌵🏜️
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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Join us! Reviews begin 12/15. DM me with questions.
IBES is hiring! We seek a Visiting Asst Professor for the 2026-27 & 2027-28 academic years with the possibility of renewal. Scholars with expertise in energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or environmental justice are particularly encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176395
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Join us! Reviews begin 12/15. DM me with questions.
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Do you have a research team working on ambitious research at the interface between mathematics/theory/computation and biology?
Apply for an NITMB Focused Research Group Award to continue your work at NITMB!
Learn more and apply at www.nitmb.org/research/foc...
Apply for an NITMB Focused Research Group Award to continue your work at NITMB!
Learn more and apply at www.nitmb.org/research/foc...
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Do you have a research team working on ambitious research at the interface between mathematics/theory/computation and biology?
Apply for an NITMB Focused Research Group Award to continue your work at NITMB!
Learn more and apply at www.nitmb.org/research/foc...
Apply for an NITMB Focused Research Group Award to continue your work at NITMB!
Learn more and apply at www.nitmb.org/research/foc...
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
Niche tweet but does anyone have a Nespresso Vertuo and if so what do you think? We use a manual espresso machine right now but want to add an automatic option
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Niche tweet but does anyone have a Nespresso Vertuo and if so what do you think? We use a manual espresso machine right now but want to add an automatic option
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
the first paper from my lab at UCSC is on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
A century of invertebrate range extensions in the eastern North Pacific
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
the first paper from my lab at UCSC is on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
led by the brilliant Jordana Sevigny we assembled a >100 year timeseries of invert range extensions in the NE Pacific
huge range fluctuations are common; extensions are overwhelmingly associated with El Niño
doi.org/10.32942/X2T...
Reposted by Alexa Fredston
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to manage a team to evaluate peatland restoration projects that benefit #waders in #NorthernIreland: buff.ly/GyPhtQ5
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to manage a team to evaluate peatland restoration projects that benefit #waders in #NorthernIreland: buff.ly/GyPhtQ5
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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
five days left to submit an abstract for #speciesonthemove in Taiwan in April!
SOTM is my favorite conference—a small, ECR-friendly meeting that gathers international scientists working on every aspect of climate change + range and phenological shifts.
www.speciesonthemove.com
SOTM is my favorite conference—a small, ECR-friendly meeting that gathers international scientists working on every aspect of climate change + range and phenological shifts.
www.speciesonthemove.com
Home - Species on the Move 2026
www.speciesonthemove.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
five days left to submit an abstract for #speciesonthemove in Taiwan in April!
SOTM is my favorite conference—a small, ECR-friendly meeting that gathers international scientists working on every aspect of climate change + range and phenological shifts.
www.speciesonthemove.com
SOTM is my favorite conference—a small, ECR-friendly meeting that gathers international scientists working on every aspect of climate change + range and phenological shifts.
www.speciesonthemove.com
I need to redo my garbage hugo academic theme github pages website from 2018
how are we building nice and flexible websites now? assume I understand nothing about websites whatsoever
old repo: github.com/afredston/pe... hopefully new one will be easier to add new content (photos, icons)
how are we building nice and flexible websites now? assume I understand nothing about websites whatsoever
old repo: github.com/afredston/pe... hopefully new one will be easier to add new content (photos, icons)
GitHub - afredston/personalwebsite
Contribute to afredston/personalwebsite development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I need to redo my garbage hugo academic theme github pages website from 2018
how are we building nice and flexible websites now? assume I understand nothing about websites whatsoever
old repo: github.com/afredston/pe... hopefully new one will be easier to add new content (photos, icons)
how are we building nice and flexible websites now? assume I understand nothing about websites whatsoever
old repo: github.com/afredston/pe... hopefully new one will be easier to add new content (photos, icons)
has anyone seen Ocean with David Attenborough? thoughts on its accuracy re science / fishing?
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
has anyone seen Ocean with David Attenborough? thoughts on its accuracy re science / fishing?
I need GRFP help for a mentee...
what advice are we giving folks who have overcome significant adversity in their educational paths re: this administration and updated NSF Broader Impacts priorities? how should students talk about DEI in personal statements this year?
what advice are we giving folks who have overcome significant adversity in their educational paths re: this administration and updated NSF Broader Impacts priorities? how should students talk about DEI in personal statements this year?
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I need GRFP help for a mentee...
what advice are we giving folks who have overcome significant adversity in their educational paths re: this administration and updated NSF Broader Impacts priorities? how should students talk about DEI in personal statements this year?
what advice are we giving folks who have overcome significant adversity in their educational paths re: this administration and updated NSF Broader Impacts priorities? how should students talk about DEI in personal statements this year?
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Postdoc fitting Bayesian spatial models to various streams of data on humpback whales with @afredston.bsky.social at Santa Cruz, CA
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Postdoc fitting Bayesian spatial models to various streams of data on humpback whales with @afredston.bsky.social at Santa Cruz, CA
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
could not have said it better myself 🐳
Whales. Quant. Hooten. Such a great opportunity!
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
could not have said it better myself 🐳
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
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PhD or ECR in env/social sciences interested in systematic review/mapping?
Join our 5-day Evidence Synthesis School – bring a real question, leave with a draft protocol.
💬 “The template document is INVALUABLE!” – past participant
🔗 evidencesynthesisschool.github.io
#SystematicReview #ECR #PhD
Join our 5-day Evidence Synthesis School – bring a real question, leave with a draft protocol.
💬 “The template document is INVALUABLE!” – past participant
🔗 evidencesynthesisschool.github.io
#SystematicReview #ECR #PhD
Systematic Review and Mapping International School
Join us from the 10-15/11/25 for a 5-day workshop focusing on systematic review and mapping methodology training in social and environmental science
evidencesynthesisschool.github.io
July 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
PhD or ECR in env/social sciences interested in systematic review/mapping?
Join our 5-day Evidence Synthesis School – bring a real question, leave with a draft protocol.
💬 “The template document is INVALUABLE!” – past participant
🔗 evidencesynthesisschool.github.io
#SystematicReview #ECR #PhD
Join our 5-day Evidence Synthesis School – bring a real question, leave with a draft protocol.
💬 “The template document is INVALUABLE!” – past participant
🔗 evidencesynthesisschool.github.io
#SystematicReview #ECR #PhD
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Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
🚨🚨We’re hiring graduate students!🚨🚨
We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!
Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!
Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!
Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!
Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem
opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab
tinyurl.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)
Reposted by Alexa Fredston
Cal Poly is hiring! We are looking for multiple tenure-track colleagues, including animal physiology, cell biology, and microbiology! Please spread the word. Links in thread. bio.calpoly.edu
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Cal Poly is hiring! We are looking for multiple tenure-track colleagues, including animal physiology, cell biology, and microbiology! Please spread the word. Links in thread. bio.calpoly.edu