Erin Louise Cole, Ph.D.
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Erin Louise Cole, Ph.D.
@erinlcole.bsky.social
Former MSCA postdoc fellow ➡️ research funding consultant | Termite social immunity & evolution |Nature lover | cat mom | 🇺🇸 -> 🇩🇰
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinlouisecole207
It's been awhile but newly finished hand knit! Used the #lucyblouse by Louisa Rehkopf to get started with the neckline but the rest is my own #sofiescarf inspired pattern. Used @kaosyarn merino and alpaca, on 3.5 mm needles. #diy #knitting #handknit #knitcardigan #grandmacore #finishedproject
April 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Moving my social media usage to blue sky but will be inactive in July during travel to visit family.
April 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Termites became the dominant decomposers of the tropics after two diversification pulses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645184v1
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Saw the cutest little bank vole (rødmus; Clethrionomys glareolus) on Saturday! There were actually 2, fighting over territory close to some European vipers.

#bankvole #rødmus #vole #wildlife #denmark #nature #cuteanimal #clethrionomysglareolus #danishwildlife
March 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#BiologyLetters in @the-independent.com | Turning the tables: a tiny bird uses alarm calls and mimicry to deceive its nest predator: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Tiny bird found using fake ‘hawk’ calls to scare away threats
Alarm calls create illusion of hawk's presence and scare away predator, researchers say
www.independent.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Breaking news: NASA announced today it will eliminate its Office of the Chief Scientist, along with offices advising the agency on technology, strategy, and coordinating its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts. scim.ag/3Ft8Xza
NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction
scim.ag
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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In today's episode, the repercussions of dismantling USAID and withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

Listen here 🎧:
buff.ly/novsqHH
March 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Northern hawk owl 😍 plus photos with its prey in my Instagram posts (@zootastic_zoots)

#northernhawkowl #owl #birding #nature #wildlife #Denmark
March 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The stakes are just too high.
March 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science.

This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/3DrGAkg
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
scim.ag
March 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A U.S. military base on the Galápagos Islands could harm fragile species and ecosystems, argue the authors of a new #LetterToScience.
Military base threatens Galápagos Islands
In December 2024, the Ecuadorian government, led by President Daniel Noboa, authorized the establishment of a US military base on the Galápagos Islands, a Natural World Heritage Site.
scim.ag
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Are you an Inspiring Woman in Science, or do you know one? Entries are now open for the 2025 Inspiring Women in Science Awards, which celebrate excellence in Scientific Achievement and Science Outreach, with $50,000 prizes. https://go.nature.com/IWISCFA25BSKY #WomeninStem
February 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Jeg er spændt på at dele, at jeg har bestået den danske modul 3 eksamen (A2/B1 på CEFR-niveauer).

I am excited to share that I have passed the Danish Module 3 exam. It is equivalent to A2/B1 (CEFR) #languageproficiency #careerdevelopment
December 20, 2024 at 9:15 AM