Andrea Rummel, Ph.D.
@arummel.bsky.social
Bat enthusiast, thermal and muscle physiologist. Assistant Professor at Rice University
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IOB is gearing up for #BatWeek Oct 24-31st by featuring our co-author @arummel.bsky.social
See Rice University's
" #Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice #researchers lead #biodiversity study in Tanzania"
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See Rice University's
" #Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice #researchers lead #biodiversity study in Tanzania"
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
& read
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
IOB is gearing up for #BatWeek Oct 24-31st by featuring our co-author @arummel.bsky.social
See Rice University's
" #Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice #researchers lead #biodiversity study in Tanzania"
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
& read
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science
See Rice University's
" #Bats, poaching and the pulse of the forest: Rice #researchers lead #biodiversity study in Tanzania"
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
& read
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science
Come join us at Rice!
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
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October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Come join us at Rice!
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Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more!
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more!
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there!
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
July 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there!
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
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Possum in my trash can I REPEAT! Possum in my trash can.
July 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Possum in my trash can I REPEAT! Possum in my trash can.
Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts
July 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts
Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!
Project Gotham is making news! I was first introduced to the excitement (and challenges!) of independent research in community college and now I’m a part of a program with @arummel.bsky.social and Tyler Olivier that provides that same opportunity to other students. A fulfilling, full-circle moment.
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!
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We had a truly spectacular emergence at Waugh Bridge last night! 🦇
March 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We had a truly spectacular emergence at Waugh Bridge last night! 🦇
Battle of the wings at Buffalo Bayou (the bat got away 😮💨🦇)
March 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Battle of the wings at Buffalo Bayou (the bat got away 😮💨🦇)
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We got the cover of Nature Eco Evo for our anglerfish study!! Shoutout to our graduate student HoWan Chan for the slick image. Read to study here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We got the cover of Nature Eco Evo for our anglerfish study!! Shoutout to our graduate student HoWan Chan for the slick image. Read to study here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice bat emergence in Houston the other night, with a red-shouldered hawk on the hunt.
March 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Nice bat emergence in Houston the other night, with a red-shouldered hawk on the hunt.
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“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)
In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.
www.insidehighered.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Grad student Kate checking out some bats in a local colony. Glamorous fieldwork!
March 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Grad student Kate checking out some bats in a local colony. Glamorous fieldwork!
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Last week, a video of a rare black seadevil anglerfish spotted near the ocean surface made headlines because anglerfish typically live in very deep waters.
Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.
Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.
Why The Internet Was Captivated By A Hideous Fish
A video of a gloriously creepy anglerfish inspired tears and poetry online. But why was this deep-sea dweller near the surface at all?
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Last week, a video of a rare black seadevil anglerfish spotted near the ocean surface made headlines because anglerfish typically live in very deep waters.
Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.
Dr. @sternarchella.bsky.social joins us to discuss the video and recent research on anglerfish evolution.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
The Rummel Lab is almost ready for move-in! What a view 🥹
January 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Rummel Lab is almost ready for move-in! What a view 🥹
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Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI
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This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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Helloooo? Horseshoe crab is that you?
January 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Helloooo? Horseshoe crab is that you?
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NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
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Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
new.nsf.gov
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived':
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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The world is not fun right now. But! we are finally scanning the fishes that we caught in Okinawa last month and added a particularly special one to the dataset today. This is a rainbow runner. Its a common pelagic fish that has eluded us for years somehow. Its really pretty in life and as a scan.
January 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The world is not fun right now. But! we are finally scanning the fishes that we caught in Okinawa last month and added a particularly special one to the dataset today. This is a rainbow runner. Its a common pelagic fish that has eluded us for years somehow. Its really pretty in life and as a scan.
Houston showing up to the snow day with the most creative sleds:
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Houston showing up to the snow day with the most creative sleds: