Amy Russell 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦
@amyrussell.bsky.social
Bat biologist, molecular ecologist, knitter, baker
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🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on:
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
Available studentships| University of Surrey
18 fully funded studentships for October 2026 start: interdisciplinary infection bioscience training to address disease threats to human and animal health.
www.surrey.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on:
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
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Just discovered #TautonymTuesday and thought it would be remiss to not mention this cutie, Mops mops, the Malayan free-tailed bat.
#MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips
#MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just discovered #TautonymTuesday and thought it would be remiss to not mention this cutie, Mops mops, the Malayan free-tailed bat.
#MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips
#MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips
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🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew - BMC Biology
Background Almost all mammals rely on the thymus and bone marrow to generate and differentiate B and T cells essential for adaptive immunity. A few members of the family Soricidae, or true shrews with...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
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🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems:
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
Bats are one of the most widespread, species-rich, ecologically and morphologically diverse mammal lineages, and the only mammals capable of powered flight. Due to their evolution within the constrain...
www.annualreviews.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems:
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I really miss when my job was just doing science. I went to a really interesting seminar today and successfully troubleshot an analysis and it was so nice to not be running off to multiple dumb meetings all day!
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I really miss when my job was just doing science. I went to a really interesting seminar today and successfully troubleshot an analysis and it was so nice to not be running off to multiple dumb meetings all day!
Huzzah! My paper is accepted!
September 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Huzzah! My paper is accepted!
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Earlybird registrations for IBRC 2025 are now open until 8 June 2025 (11.59pm AEST; 9.59am EDT)
Register here:
whova.com/portal/regis...
#ibrc2025 #bats
Register here:
whova.com/portal/regis...
#ibrc2025 #bats
May 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Earlybird registrations for IBRC 2025 are now open until 8 June 2025 (11.59pm AEST; 9.59am EDT)
Register here:
whova.com/portal/regis...
#ibrc2025 #bats
Register here:
whova.com/portal/regis...
#ibrc2025 #bats
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Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦 elbows up!
April 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦 elbows up!
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These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats
Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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There’s this deeply-held belief that public virtue is so self-evidently the natural state of things, that once the fog dissipates, wayward people will organically return to communitarianism like water seeking its own level.
Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.
Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.
When liberals overestimate public virtue they underestimate the need for their own propaganda machine. They keep thinking rightwingers will snap out of the spell on their own. They won’t no matter much much pain they feel.
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There’s this deeply-held belief that public virtue is so self-evidently the natural state of things, that once the fog dissipates, wayward people will organically return to communitarianism like water seeking its own level.
Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.
Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.
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Why does every administrative office at my university feel the need to send out regular campus-wide emails about what they’re up to? When did this become a thing?
March 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Why does every administrative office at my university feel the need to send out regular campus-wide emails about what they’re up to? When did this become a thing?
Blocking Jady’s new sweater, with help from Marcy. Very proud of those sleeves!
January 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Blocking Jady’s new sweater, with help from Marcy. Very proud of those sleeves!
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New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com
Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!
Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!
January 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com
Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!
Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!
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Tank Girl for the New Year. We can be magnificent: we can turn this shit around.
Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.
Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.
January 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Tank Girl for the New Year. We can be magnificent: we can turn this shit around.
Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.
Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
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🚨 Out today in eLife! 🚨 @HFSP-funded postdoc Bill Thomas & #shrewcrew reveal how common shrews shrink their brains in winter! 🧠 Seasonal RNA changes in the hypothalamus hint at parallels in mammalian aging. 📖 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @DinaDechmann @dechmannlab @aspcorthals @RichardGHunter1
November 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
🚨 Out today in eLife! 🚨 @HFSP-funded postdoc Bill Thomas & #shrewcrew reveal how common shrews shrink their brains in winter! 🧠 Seasonal RNA changes in the hypothalamus hint at parallels in mammalian aging. 📖 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @DinaDechmann @dechmannlab @aspcorthals @RichardGHunter1
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They are counting on you to feel helpless, exhausted, scared, alone, too old or young. We have people worldwide who even at 90 years old went out and resisted. In Ukraine the grandmothers grabbed rifles, the children flew drones. You can hold a sign, organize, we know it’s scary but don’t give up.
November 17, 2024 at 4:50 PM
They are counting on you to feel helpless, exhausted, scared, alone, too old or young. We have people worldwide who even at 90 years old went out and resisted. In Ukraine the grandmothers grabbed rifles, the children flew drones. You can hold a sign, organize, we know it’s scary but don’t give up.
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Trans rights are human rights
chat what do you think the odds are we can get a senator on bluesky to say trans rights
Hello (again) Bluesky! I’m going to start posting here again, because that other app has become a disaster.
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
November 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Trans rights are human rights
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New paper with @gerrycarter.bsky.social just in time for Halloween! Vampire bats' first impressions of each other don't predict the formation of long-term relationships doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
October 29, 2024 at 2:25 PM
New paper with @gerrycarter.bsky.social just in time for Halloween! Vampire bats' first impressions of each other don't predict the formation of long-term relationships doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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1/ CW Holocaust
I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it:
If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what.
I will tell you why.
I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it:
If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what.
I will tell you why.
October 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM
1/ CW Holocaust
I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it:
If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what.
I will tell you why.
I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it:
If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what.
I will tell you why.