Cienciastre
@cienciastre.bsky.social
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My reach here isn't great yet, so maybe people can help spread the word.
We're hiring a postdoctoral scholar as part of an NSF planning grant to support a bioinformatics research center in global change ecology at TXST.
Details here: fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/
Apply by 9/15!
We're hiring a postdoctoral scholar as part of an NSF planning grant to support a bioinformatics research center in global change ecology at TXST.
Details here: fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/
Apply by 9/15!
opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab
fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu
August 30, 2023 at 6:36 PM
My reach here isn't great yet, so maybe people can help spread the word.
We're hiring a postdoctoral scholar as part of an NSF planning grant to support a bioinformatics research center in global change ecology at TXST.
Details here: fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/
Apply by 9/15!
We're hiring a postdoctoral scholar as part of an NSF planning grant to support a bioinformatics research center in global change ecology at TXST.
Details here: fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/
Apply by 9/15!
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In the latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct, we're talking about FREE SPEECH.
Tech leaders love to cite Orwell's 1984. But while they yell about freedom, they're pushing us towards authoritarianism. What could be more Orwellian than that?
ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/episode-135-...
Tech leaders love to cite Orwell's 1984. But while they yell about freedom, they're pushing us towards authoritarianism. What could be more Orwellian than that?
ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/episode-135-...
August 24, 2023 at 6:13 PM
In the latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct, we're talking about FREE SPEECH.
Tech leaders love to cite Orwell's 1984. But while they yell about freedom, they're pushing us towards authoritarianism. What could be more Orwellian than that?
ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/episode-135-...
Tech leaders love to cite Orwell's 1984. But while they yell about freedom, they're pushing us towards authoritarianism. What could be more Orwellian than that?
ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/episode-135-...
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New episode of the podcast in which I find out what ancient Romans really, really loved. 🧪
Bacon. The answer is Bacon. www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/we-...
Bacon. The answer is Bacon. www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/we-...
August 28, 2023 at 4:46 PM
New episode of the podcast in which I find out what ancient Romans really, really loved. 🧪
Bacon. The answer is Bacon. www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/we-...
Bacon. The answer is Bacon. www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/we-...
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Also hello Skeeties! I keep looking away and then I come back and there are a few more of you. Hi. Welcome. There's a lot of science here. 🧪
And I wrote a book about the animals we HATE. And why we hate them. And why we love some animals when probably we shouldn't www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
And I wrote a book about the animals we HATE. And why we hate them. And why we love some animals when probably we shouldn't www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
August 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Also hello Skeeties! I keep looking away and then I come back and there are a few more of you. Hi. Welcome. There's a lot of science here. 🧪
And I wrote a book about the animals we HATE. And why we hate them. And why we love some animals when probably we shouldn't www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
And I wrote a book about the animals we HATE. And why we hate them. And why we love some animals when probably we shouldn't www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
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Also, and not for nothing, but it's also ok to be paid, to insist on being paid, & to actively promote your work. You are not a renewable resource, & you need to eat.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but sacrificing your mental health for the pursuit of your art at all costs isn't it.
It's okay to take breaks. It's okay to set it aside. It's okay to live and focus on yourself and not the work.
You are not a renewable resource.
It's okay to take breaks. It's okay to set it aside. It's okay to live and focus on yourself and not the work.
You are not a renewable resource.
August 30, 2023 at 1:28 PM
Also, and not for nothing, but it's also ok to be paid, to insist on being paid, & to actively promote your work. You are not a renewable resource, & you need to eat.
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New preprint up on herptile
Microbiomes exploring bacteria and fungal relationships across a diversity of amphibian and reptile hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🍄🦎💩🧬
Some pictures of mushrooms and lizards not actually part of this study.
Microbiomes exploring bacteria and fungal relationships across a diversity of amphibian and reptile hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🍄🦎💩🧬
Some pictures of mushrooms and lizards not actually part of this study.
August 28, 2023 at 2:24 AM
New preprint up on herptile
Microbiomes exploring bacteria and fungal relationships across a diversity of amphibian and reptile hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🍄🦎💩🧬
Some pictures of mushrooms and lizards not actually part of this study.
Microbiomes exploring bacteria and fungal relationships across a diversity of amphibian and reptile hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🍄🦎💩🧬
Some pictures of mushrooms and lizards not actually part of this study.
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Sunday Funday!
🧪Using this meme to Introduce a new feed "Skyentific Jokes" for all scientists with a sense of humor.🌌 Your new go-to spot for the most cosmic science jokes
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tags: #ScienceJokes #lab&fun
Feedback welcome to refine the feeds & tags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🧪Using this meme to Introduce a new feed "Skyentific Jokes" for all scientists with a sense of humor.🌌 Your new go-to spot for the most cosmic science jokes
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tags: #ScienceJokes #lab&fun
Feedback welcome to refine the feeds & tags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
August 27, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Sunday Funday!
🧪Using this meme to Introduce a new feed "Skyentific Jokes" for all scientists with a sense of humor.🌌 Your new go-to spot for the most cosmic science jokes
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tags: #ScienceJokes #lab&fun
Feedback welcome to refine the feeds & tags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🧪Using this meme to Introduce a new feed "Skyentific Jokes" for all scientists with a sense of humor.🌌 Your new go-to spot for the most cosmic science jokes
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Tags: #ScienceJokes #lab&fun
Feedback welcome to refine the feeds & tags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
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Bluesky, meet the Ultimate Palaeontology Cake ™️ (which came second in our department baking contest 😒): a geological time spiral starring a white chocolate cooling earth, stromatolites, trilobites, placoderms, giant insects, cycads, archaeocetes, chalicotheres, and a chocolate crispie bolide 🧪 ⚒️
August 24, 2023 at 7:09 PM
Bluesky, meet the Ultimate Palaeontology Cake ™️ (which came second in our department baking contest 😒): a geological time spiral starring a white chocolate cooling earth, stromatolites, trilobites, placoderms, giant insects, cycads, archaeocetes, chalicotheres, and a chocolate crispie bolide 🧪 ⚒️
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Random hello to my friend @beebrookshire.bsky.social, and a reminder that she's written a really fascinating book on why we treat some animals as pests and others not! www.harpercollins.com/products/pes...
Pests
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and a...
www.harpercollins.com
August 25, 2023 at 2:24 AM
Random hello to my friend @beebrookshire.bsky.social, and a reminder that she's written a really fascinating book on why we treat some animals as pests and others not! www.harpercollins.com/products/pes...
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Union College's Biology Department is hiring an Environmental Physiologist (Asst. Prof. ) this fall. Review will begin September 19.
We are a highly selective liberal arts college in NY's Capital Region. 🧪 🌎
https://jobs.union.edu/en-us/job/493320/assistant-professor-of-ecophysiology
We are a highly selective liberal arts college in NY's Capital Region. 🧪 🌎
https://jobs.union.edu/en-us/job/493320/assistant-professor-of-ecophysiology
August 14, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Union College's Biology Department is hiring an Environmental Physiologist (Asst. Prof. ) this fall. Review will begin September 19.
We are a highly selective liberal arts college in NY's Capital Region. 🧪 🌎
https://jobs.union.edu/en-us/job/493320/assistant-professor-of-ecophysiology
We are a highly selective liberal arts college in NY's Capital Region. 🧪 🌎
https://jobs.union.edu/en-us/job/493320/assistant-professor-of-ecophysiology
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Skeets! I'm giving a book talk online at Greenhouse Books in NORWAY! On Tuesday. 🧪
But it's ONLINE which means you can come see it! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Come nerd with me.
But it's ONLINE which means you can come see it! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Come nerd with me.
Online book talk: Brookshire, Pests – The Greenhouse
newnatures.org
August 23, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Skeets! I'm giving a book talk online at Greenhouse Books in NORWAY! On Tuesday. 🧪
But it's ONLINE which means you can come see it! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Come nerd with me.
But it's ONLINE which means you can come see it! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Come nerd with me.
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BUG ALERT: Someone put together a huge photographic list of commonly observed moth eggs for visual identification and it's glorious. 🧪
Commonly Observed Moth Eggs
The eggs of many moth species look alike, and it's difficult to ID eggs just based on morphological similarity. Eggs may also change shape & color as the embryo develops inside, so a freshly l...
www.inaturalist.org
August 18, 2023 at 6:38 AM
BUG ALERT: Someone put together a huge photographic list of commonly observed moth eggs for visual identification and it's glorious. 🧪
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This is so fascinating: climate change changes the COLORS of the natural world. Autumn leaves duller, ocean waters murky, yellow, and strange. By Sujata Gupta @sciencenews.bsky.social https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nature-color-climate-change-visible 🧪
Nature’s changing colors makes climate change visible
The world’s color palette is shifting in response to climate change. Seeing these changes in nature firsthand is a powerful communication tool.
www.sciencenews.org
August 16, 2023 at 2:40 PM
This is so fascinating: climate change changes the COLORS of the natural world. Autumn leaves duller, ocean waters murky, yellow, and strange. By Sujata Gupta @sciencenews.bsky.social https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nature-color-climate-change-visible 🧪
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I interviewed a bird researcher once, and he said, cats aren't giving birds a chance. Glass skyscrapers also don't help.
I asked him what are bird ppl doing, as a community?
Fighting against large windows, he said.
Why not cats?
Coz you get death threats if you speak against free-roaming cats 😳
I asked him what are bird ppl doing, as a community?
Fighting against large windows, he said.
Why not cats?
Coz you get death threats if you speak against free-roaming cats 😳
August 16, 2023 at 2:00 PM
I interviewed a bird researcher once, and he said, cats aren't giving birds a chance. Glass skyscrapers also don't help.
I asked him what are bird ppl doing, as a community?
Fighting against large windows, he said.
Why not cats?
Coz you get death threats if you speak against free-roaming cats 😳
I asked him what are bird ppl doing, as a community?
Fighting against large windows, he said.
Why not cats?
Coz you get death threats if you speak against free-roaming cats 😳
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I'm gathering that Bluesky is less interested in long science threads 🧪, but I need you all to know the majesty that is the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum:
It can 'feed' on sunlight;
gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies;
needs to be bacterially infected to survive.
Photo by Shipher Wu.
It can 'feed' on sunlight;
gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies;
needs to be bacterially infected to survive.
Photo by Shipher Wu.
August 15, 2023 at 1:08 PM
I'm gathering that Bluesky is less interested in long science threads 🧪, but I need you all to know the majesty that is the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum:
It can 'feed' on sunlight;
gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies;
needs to be bacterially infected to survive.
Photo by Shipher Wu.
It can 'feed' on sunlight;
gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies;
needs to be bacterially infected to survive.
Photo by Shipher Wu.
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How about as the early adopters of academic bluesky, we set the standard for newcomers by saying NO to all kinds of assholery and assholes in science? Just zero tolerance for hostile, aggressive, condescending, patronizing behavior, insults, or bigotry no matter who does it. How about that??!! 🧪
July 25, 2023 at 2:45 AM
How about as the early adopters of academic bluesky, we set the standard for newcomers by saying NO to all kinds of assholery and assholes in science? Just zero tolerance for hostile, aggressive, condescending, patronizing behavior, insults, or bigotry no matter who does it. How about that??!! 🧪
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🧪 Science writers! The NASW meeting is coming up and Sarah Zielinski and I are going to again run the most AWESOME writer/editor meet and greet, where the editors wear funny hats so you CANNOT be scared of them.
Virtual AND in person! https://sciencewriters2023.org/session
Virtual AND in person! https://sciencewriters2023.org/session
August 7, 2023 at 2:48 PM
🧪 Science writers! The NASW meeting is coming up and Sarah Zielinski and I are going to again run the most AWESOME writer/editor meet and greet, where the editors wear funny hats so you CANNOT be scared of them.
Virtual AND in person! https://sciencewriters2023.org/session
Virtual AND in person! https://sciencewriters2023.org/session
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🧪 Ok Y'all this week I'm talking about the Mütter Museum, and why I think it's important to learn about pathology and death. https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/disease-death-and-personhood
Disease, Death, and Personhood
On the Mütter Museum
teamtrash.substack.com
August 7, 2023 at 2:50 PM
🧪 Ok Y'all this week I'm talking about the Mütter Museum, and why I think it's important to learn about pathology and death. https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/disease-death-and-personhood
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I also find this interesting. I think some of it that people are sharing the bad science because they identify with it. They want to believe their dopamine fast works and it makes them somehow smarter than other people. You’ve attacked something that made them feel smart.
Whenever I debunk pseudoscientific nonsense, some jabroni replies “you must be a lot of fun at parties”
First of all, fuck you, I am a lot of fun at parties.
And why is no one ever mad at the person who lied to you? You’re only mad at the people who pointed out you were lied to.
First of all, fuck you, I am a lot of fun at parties.
And why is no one ever mad at the person who lied to you? You’re only mad at the people who pointed out you were lied to.
August 4, 2023 at 1:52 PM
I also find this interesting. I think some of it that people are sharing the bad science because they identify with it. They want to believe their dopamine fast works and it makes them somehow smarter than other people. You’ve attacked something that made them feel smart.
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It's that time of year!!
Time to help @skypeascientist.bsky.social by telling every teacher, librarian, troop leader, etc you know that Fall enrollment is OPEN!
Get matched with a scientist for a Q&A! http://bit.ly/EnrollFall2023
We rely on word of mouth, so this action is critical for us!
Time to help @skypeascientist.bsky.social by telling every teacher, librarian, troop leader, etc you know that Fall enrollment is OPEN!
Get matched with a scientist for a Q&A! http://bit.ly/EnrollFall2023
We rely on word of mouth, so this action is critical for us!
August 2, 2023 at 3:20 PM
It's that time of year!!
Time to help @skypeascientist.bsky.social by telling every teacher, librarian, troop leader, etc you know that Fall enrollment is OPEN!
Get matched with a scientist for a Q&A! http://bit.ly/EnrollFall2023
We rely on word of mouth, so this action is critical for us!
Time to help @skypeascientist.bsky.social by telling every teacher, librarian, troop leader, etc you know that Fall enrollment is OPEN!
Get matched with a scientist for a Q&A! http://bit.ly/EnrollFall2023
We rely on word of mouth, so this action is critical for us!
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For #FungiFriday, a fantastic rosecomb on Lactarius volemus (group). I love rosecombs! Best one I've ever found. #Mushrooms #Fungi #Nature
July 29, 2023 at 12:29 AM
For #FungiFriday, a fantastic rosecomb on Lactarius volemus (group). I love rosecombs! Best one I've ever found. #Mushrooms #Fungi #Nature