Drew Anderson
@andersonevolve.bsky.social
🧪 🐟 🐠 🧬 PhD in Evolution and Sexual Selection. Study fishes, behavior, genetics, genomics, and hormones. Own views. He/him. Handle is shared across social media
Webpage: andersonevolve.com
Webpage: andersonevolve.com
One guy really was wanting to sing out
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
One guy really was wanting to sing out
After some training. This 🐟🐠 guy is ready to collect some some 🦗 songs on his own🧪
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After some training. This 🐟🐠 guy is ready to collect some some 🦗 songs on his own🧪
Guys! We got to keep all his support and keep him included!
If anyone has special needs kids, keep pushing, keep fighting, keep advocating.
If anyone has special needs kids, keep pushing, keep fighting, keep advocating.
Incredibly angry right now.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Guys! We got to keep all his support and keep him included!
If anyone has special needs kids, keep pushing, keep fighting, keep advocating.
If anyone has special needs kids, keep pushing, keep fighting, keep advocating.
Incredibly angry right now.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Incredibly angry right now.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress.
A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.
I have done a lot in life, but nothing as challenging, high stakes, or nerve-wracking as an IEP meeting.
We do them 1-3x annually and just now since we moved.
With all the evidence on inclusion, it is surprising how hard we have to push to get it (every time it seems).
We do them 1-3x annually and just now since we moved.
With all the evidence on inclusion, it is surprising how hard we have to push to get it (every time it seems).
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I have done a lot in life, but nothing as challenging, high stakes, or nerve-wracking as an IEP meeting.
We do them 1-3x annually and just now since we moved.
With all the evidence on inclusion, it is surprising how hard we have to push to get it (every time it seems).
We do them 1-3x annually and just now since we moved.
With all the evidence on inclusion, it is surprising how hard we have to push to get it (every time it seems).
Moving to Minnesota has resulted in me hearing waaaay more Nickleback than I'm accustomed to.
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Moving to Minnesota has resulted in me hearing waaaay more Nickleback than I'm accustomed to.
2nd day at new job. Here's what's next to my parking spot. Taking me back to my PhD days. Definitely at a land grant institution. 🙂
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2nd day at new job. Here's what's next to my parking spot. Taking me back to my PhD days. Definitely at a land grant institution. 🙂
Gotta love the post-doc life. I am literally packing for the move for my next post-doc while completing job applications.
September 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Gotta love the post-doc life. I am literally packing for the move for my next post-doc while completing job applications.
Reposted by Drew Anderson
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
Reposted by Drew Anderson
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Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in steroid hormone levels based on a plastic behavioral role in two biparental cichlids, Julidochromis transcriptus and Julidochromis marlieri: A test of the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis
Cross-sexual transfer describes the situation when one sex takes on the phenotypic values of the other sex, either plastically or over evolutionary ti…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🐟🐠🧪
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐟🐠🧪
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in steroid hormone levels based on a plastic behavioral role in two biparental cichlids, Julidochromis transcriptus and Julidochromis marlieri: A test of the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis
Cross-sexual transfer describes the situation when one sex takes on the phenotypic values of the other sex, either plastically or over evolutionary ti…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🐟🐠🧪
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis.
🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nothing screams good place to rent than the listing saying a stipulation to stay on the property is "no crime"
August 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Nothing screams good place to rent than the listing saying a stipulation to stay on the property is "no crime"
🧪🐟🦗 Excited to share I'll be taking a postdoc position with Dr. Mingzi Xu in the EEB program at U Minnesota.
I'll be moving out of fishes and into crickets (for now).
Ready for new challenges and applying what I've done in sex bias to inverts
I'll be moving out of fishes and into crickets (for now).
Ready for new challenges and applying what I've done in sex bias to inverts
August 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🧪🐟🦗 Excited to share I'll be taking a postdoc position with Dr. Mingzi Xu in the EEB program at U Minnesota.
I'll be moving out of fishes and into crickets (for now).
Ready for new challenges and applying what I've done in sex bias to inverts
I'll be moving out of fishes and into crickets (for now).
Ready for new challenges and applying what I've done in sex bias to inverts
Reposted by Drew Anderson
Undergrad students often forget about genetic drift as an evolutionary process/ force. If you've also experienced this, we might have a solution for you! Our RIE2 (resources for inclusive evolution education) working group just published a week-length drift module: qubeshub.org/publications...
Teaching genetic drift: new approaches to encourage non-deterministic thinking about evolution
This teaching module is designed to help undergraduate students dismantle preconceived notions about evolution and deepen their understanding of genetic drift as a non-deterministic evolutionary proce...
qubeshub.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Undergrad students often forget about genetic drift as an evolutionary process/ force. If you've also experienced this, we might have a solution for you! Our RIE2 (resources for inclusive evolution education) working group just published a week-length drift module: qubeshub.org/publications...
This is an awesome finding.
Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is an awesome finding.
Reposted by Drew Anderson
Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!
Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.
(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...
Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.
(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...
Postdoctoral Researcher
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!
Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.
(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...
Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.
(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...
Debate rages in my house. Is this a spork?
August 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Debate rages in my house. Is this a spork?
🧪 That terrifying, yet healthy, feeling when you run a new statistical approach/package and the results "make sense".
August 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧪 That terrifying, yet healthy, feeling when you run a new statistical approach/package and the results "make sense".
My son just got his blackout tent.
I love it in there and also love his weighted blanket. I'm seriously questioning my own neurotypical designation.
I love it in there and also love his weighted blanket. I'm seriously questioning my own neurotypical designation.
June 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My son just got his blackout tent.
I love it in there and also love his weighted blanket. I'm seriously questioning my own neurotypical designation.
I love it in there and also love his weighted blanket. I'm seriously questioning my own neurotypical designation.
Got full results. Nailed evo eco. Worst sections were bio chem and history (though still >70%).
Really wish I could go Q by Q though.
Really wish I could go Q by Q though.
Took state educational bio competency test with no prep since I needed to cert quickly. Figured PhD would mean I could handle it.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
June 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Got full results. Nailed evo eco. Worst sections were bio chem and history (though still >70%).
Really wish I could go Q by Q though.
Really wish I could go Q by Q though.
Reposted by Drew Anderson
For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/
& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#LGTBQI #Pride
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/
& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#LGTBQI #Pride
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/
& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#LGTBQI #Pride
by @jjinsing.bsky.social
via
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w...
List
jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/
& be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work
Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#LGTBQI #Pride
Took state educational bio competency test with no prep since I needed to cert quickly. Figured PhD would mean I could handle it.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Took state educational bio competency test with no prep since I needed to cert quickly. Figured PhD would mean I could handle it.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
Amazing how focused we get in our fields yet how much we can recall basic info by indirect exposure.
Passed with a high score BTW... I get to keep my diploma.
Our 10yr old kitty cut back eating and got hepatic lipidosis and lost half her weight.
We're getting her to eat again. The secret? Pets and cuddles with the food.
We're getting her to eat again. The secret? Pets and cuddles with the food.
June 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Our 10yr old kitty cut back eating and got hepatic lipidosis and lost half her weight.
We're getting her to eat again. The secret? Pets and cuddles with the food.
We're getting her to eat again. The secret? Pets and cuddles with the food.
Twice today I got confirmation that my work is of interest to other people.
With my tenuous place in academia right now, it's a nice ego boost.
A pleasant reminder that kind words can really make someone's day.
With my tenuous place in academia right now, it's a nice ego boost.
A pleasant reminder that kind words can really make someone's day.
May 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Twice today I got confirmation that my work is of interest to other people.
With my tenuous place in academia right now, it's a nice ego boost.
A pleasant reminder that kind words can really make someone's day.
With my tenuous place in academia right now, it's a nice ego boost.
A pleasant reminder that kind words can really make someone's day.
I always forget...
Is it the best yacht given the recovery or the other way around?
Is it the best yacht given the recovery or the other way around?
I for one am going to try to recover the Maximum Likelihood yacht, but that might be just me www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/e...
Operation to recover sunken Bayesian superyacht begins off coast of Italy | CNN
Marine salvage experts on Sunday began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coast the British-flagged superyacht “Bayesian,” which sank last summer, killing U.K. tech magnate Mik...
www.cnn.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I always forget...
Is it the best yacht given the recovery or the other way around?
Is it the best yacht given the recovery or the other way around?