Amanda MacDonald, PhD
@mannamacdonald.bsky.social
Wildlife disease, growing things I can eat, seeing things that make me feel.
Trick or treat?
November 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trick or treat?
Two fighter jets just flew over!!!! 💘 🛩️
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Two fighter jets just flew over!!!! 💘 🛩️
When my Dad eats an apple, he eats the whole apple, core and all.
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
When my Dad eats an apple, he eats the whole apple, core and all.
Is it Caturday yet…
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Is it Caturday yet…
Out picking peppers by flashlight because of frost warnings 😭
October 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Out picking peppers by flashlight because of frost warnings 😭
Red pepper jelly!
September 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Red pepper jelly!
The smell of dehydrating hot peppers is one of my favorite smells. 🌶️
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The smell of dehydrating hot peppers is one of my favorite smells. 🌶️
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Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more
This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Paper accepted klaxon! A small one, but a fun one, led by @mannamacdonald.bsky.social: "First detection of the mosquito Uranotaenia sapphirina (Diptera: Culicidae) in New Brunswick, Canada."
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Paper accepted klaxon! A small one, but a fun one, led by @mannamacdonald.bsky.social: "First detection of the mosquito Uranotaenia sapphirina (Diptera: Culicidae) in New Brunswick, Canada."
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All
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful
March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
All
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful
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Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Postdoc Comparative genomics and genome architecture in early-diverging fungi and their protist relatives (3-year position)
www.wur.nl
March 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Any QGIS fluent people here?
March 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Any QGIS fluent people here?
Proud of Zelensky
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Proud of Zelensky
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I can teach Scientific Writing at your institution! I can offer a one-week intensive course for grad students and other early-career scientists. I'm (more than) fully booked for 2025, but have open slots in 2026. Contact me to discuss; more info here: scientistseessquirre...
Writing Course
I can help your students write! I can offer a one-week, in-person writing course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at your institution. Class sizes of 8-25 work well; we can discuss la…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I can teach Scientific Writing at your institution! I can offer a one-week intensive course for grad students and other early-career scientists. I'm (more than) fully booked for 2025, but have open slots in 2026. Contact me to discuss; more info here: scientistseessquirre...
It's been over a year, but today SHE came back ❤️ 🦊
February 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It's been over a year, but today SHE came back ❤️ 🦊
Pepper starting
February 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pepper starting
Ten minutes into my QGIS For Beginners and I want to cry.
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Ten minutes into my QGIS For Beginners and I want to cry.
Finally deleted the old twitter.
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Finally deleted the old twitter.
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Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
Spread the word that I have a postdoc opening right now, and am also open to PhD applications evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi.... We have lots of follow up ideas! 15/15
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//UArizona.AminoAcidSubstitutionModels
Postdoc position: amino acid substitution models
A postdoc position is available with PI Joanna Masel
(https://www.masellab.org/) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tucson
is a vibrant city of n...
evol.mcmaster.ca
February 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.
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Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants.
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Leaked emails show the nation’s leading wildlife agency has halted critical funding for conservation
Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.
www.vox.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants.
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...