Moisés A. Bernal
@evofish.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Climate Change Biology at Auburn University. Interested in all things fish. Music enthusiast, vinyl collector, cook and traveler!
Research website: https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/home
Research website: https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/home
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You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother | CNN
Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
You're a parasitic ant queen eyeing the colony of another species. You have a simple plan:
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
1. Hide your scent by rubbing workers on your body
2. Infiltrate the nest
3. Spray the queen with chemicals that goad her daughters into tearing her to bits
4. All hail the usurper!
(my latest for CNN) 🧪
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The number of international college students enrolling in their American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall, according to data published on Monday.
New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds
The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The number of international college students enrolling in their American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall, according to data published on Monday.
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Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
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Two new post-doc positions in our team here at Lancaster! 👇
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Two new post-doc positions in our team here at Lancaster! 👇
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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
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Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us!
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
Decoding Nature’s Networks
The Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin
integrativebio.utexas.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us!
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
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During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a marble statue of Louis Agassiz fell from 2nd floor of Stanford's Zoology building into main quad.
Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped:
"Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete."
The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...
Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped:
"Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete."
The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...
April 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a marble statue of Louis Agassiz fell from 2nd floor of Stanford's Zoology building into main quad.
Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped:
"Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete."
The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...
Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped:
"Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete."
The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...
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Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Ocean Giants Through Time: Evolution and Ecology Intertwined
Throughout geological time, an intertwined relationship between ecology and evolution has enabled distant clades to attain gigantism. By synthesizing fossil and modern data, we identify key tipping po...
www.annualreviews.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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Look at these itty bitty little beauties--microscopic snails and other species that scientists say may be uniquely associated with cold, inactive deep sea hydrothermal vents
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Look at these itty bitty little beauties--microscopic snails and other species that scientists say may be uniquely associated with cold, inactive deep sea hydrothermal vents
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Extinction threatens to cause morphological and ecological homogenization in sharks www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Extinction threatens to cause morphological and ecological homogenization in sharks
The selective extinction of threatened shark species is poised to drive substantial morphological and ecological homogenization.
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Extinction threatens to cause morphological and ecological homogenization in sharks www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Phish bassist Mike Gordon loves the transcendent experience of his band syncing up in an improvised jam—so much that he’s funding research to better understand these moments. 🎶
Investigating 'Flow State' With The Bassist From Phish
Phish bassist Mike Gordon is teaming up with neuroscientists to try to understand the transcendent experience of musical flow state.
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Phish bassist Mike Gordon loves the transcendent experience of his band syncing up in an improvised jam—so much that he’s funding research to better understand these moments. 🎶
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Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me).
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me).
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
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When scientists compared what California #sealions eat in the US and Mexico, they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in California but shrinking in Mexico. Instead, they found something more complicated. @ubcmarinemammal ecomagazine.com/news/researc...
Diet Alone Does Not Explain Divergent Health of California Sea Lions in the US and Mexico - environment coastal & offshore
Instead of asking whether sea lions are eating the right food, this study asked how a changing ocean is shaping the food that’s available, and how adaptable sea lions can be in response.
ecomagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
When scientists compared what California #sealions eat in the US and Mexico, they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in California but shrinking in Mexico. Instead, they found something more complicated. @ubcmarinemammal ecomagazine.com/news/researc...
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One week left for applications!
Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One week left for applications!
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
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And listen to this great interview on @npr.org NPR's All Things Considered with @nickantonson.bsky.social talking about his research in JEB on how woodpeckers hold themselves rigid like hammers and grunt like tennis stars when drilling wood
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike
Scientists have investigated how woodpeckers use their muscles and their breathing to prepare to strike wood -- and they liken it to the way tennis players prepare to smack a ball.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And listen to this great interview on @npr.org NPR's All Things Considered with @nickantonson.bsky.social talking about his research in JEB on how woodpeckers hold themselves rigid like hammers and grunt like tennis stars when drilling wood
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
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My lab is performing a TBI biomarker study and needs local participants! Recruiting female athletes or non athletes between 18-35, bonus if you suspect you've had a concussion before. Get in touch! 🧠
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My lab is performing a TBI biomarker study and needs local participants! Recruiting female athletes or non athletes between 18-35, bonus if you suspect you've had a concussion before. Get in touch! 🧠
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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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...
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The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
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Rogan claimed that climate models have been wrong and thus global warming predictions can’t be believed. It’s easy to set the Impossible expectation that models must be perfect, but in reality, climate models have been remarkably accurate, unlike predictions from contrarians like Lindzen (7/11)
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Rogan claimed that climate models have been wrong and thus global warming predictions can’t be believed. It’s easy to set the Impossible expectation that models must be perfect, but in reality, climate models have been remarkably accurate, unlike predictions from contrarians like Lindzen (7/11)
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The full list of instructors is available here:
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The full list of instructors is available here:
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
Biology and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Lecturer (Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex ), Non-Tenure track
Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Biology and the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) Program in the College of Arts and Scie...
www.careers.luc.edu
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131