Lindsey Broadus
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Lindsey Broadus
@ljobro.bsky.social
🌈👩🏼‍🔬postdoc at Aarhus University studying the importance of seamounts for seabirds • she/her
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I was taught that animals can coexist because they all have slightly different specialized diets (different niches, not competing directly).

For years now fecal DNA work has shown that's not the case. Here's new data for warblers— same food among species, but different ways to get that food!
And a nice press release
🧪🦉
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...
April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Reminder: If you want to read a fun book about science and birds that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with current events (okay, there is one BRIEF mention of the war in Ukraine), my book comes out in paperback on March 18! 🪶
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
bookshop.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM