Maria Rodgers
@mariarodgers.bsky.social
Environmental toxicology. Immunology. Marine biology. Dogs.
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
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March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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Love this rebuttal of one aspect of the Coyne blog. If you see other threads explaining how that blog post is wrong, feel free to drop them below. Also, thanks Dan for helping explain some stuff we see in our dissections wrt eggs/testes. 🧪🐟
Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N
February 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Love this rebuttal of one aspect of the Coyne blog. If you see other threads explaining how that blog post is wrong, feel free to drop them below. Also, thanks Dan for helping explain some stuff we see in our dissections wrt eggs/testes. 🧪🐟
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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
February 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
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🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks:
✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀
Deadline: Feb 21st
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Please share widely.
✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀
Deadline: Feb 21st
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Please share widely.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks:
✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀
Deadline: Feb 21st
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Please share widely.
✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀
Deadline: Feb 21st
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Please share widely.
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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Are gene expression responses to an immune challenge conserved over macroevolutionary time? Not so much... in a new preprint we measure & compare differential expression in response to an immune adjuvant, in 14 fishes sampled from across Actinopterygii
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread
December 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Are gene expression responses to an immune challenge conserved over macroevolutionary time? Not so much... in a new preprint we measure & compare differential expression in response to an immune adjuvant, in 14 fishes sampled from across Actinopterygii
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread
Very excited to have this preprint out in the world! Let us know what you think!
We know that immune genes often show stronger signatures of selection than the genomic average. But what about immune cell types?
In a new preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we merge single-cell RNAseq (defining stickleback cell types) and population genomic measures of selection...
In a new preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we merge single-cell RNAseq (defining stickleback cell types) and population genomic measures of selection...
December 10, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Very excited to have this preprint out in the world! Let us know what you think!
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Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
December 5, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
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Hey, ecotoxicologists! Check out this new starter pack for us to unite to chat about #ecotoxicology. Please message me to add you to this list. go.bsky.app/Sj5Dc3F
November 25, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Hey, ecotoxicologists! Check out this new starter pack for us to unite to chat about #ecotoxicology. Please message me to add you to this list. go.bsky.app/Sj5Dc3F
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Hello again! I’m looking for oysters from VA, GA, and FL still!!! Please get in touch if you can help me!
Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!
September 28, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Hello again! I’m looking for oysters from VA, GA, and FL still!!! Please get in touch if you can help me!
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Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!
September 13, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Hello my #marinescience friends on the East Coast! Do you work with oysters? Do you collect and eat your own oysters? Would you like to get your oysters tested for Hg for free? If so, DM me!! I’m working on a massive project and need all the love and help I can get! Please repost!!
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Reposting because this story is so wild:
A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s.
Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s.
Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
May 26, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Reposting because this story is so wild:
A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s.
Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s.
Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret
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I can’t get enough of these studies about how amazingly effective the HPV vaccine is at preventing cancer. What an extraordinary public health intervention. Also thank you to the editors who are rightly illustrating stories about vaccines not with needles, but with people who are smiling and happy.
This is great news. The HPV vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by 90%.
HPV vaccine stops 90% of cervical cancer cases
England began vaccinating teenage girls in 2008 and results show it is paying off.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I can’t get enough of these studies about how amazingly effective the HPV vaccine is at preventing cancer. What an extraordinary public health intervention. Also thank you to the editors who are rightly illustrating stories about vaccines not with needles, but with people who are smiling and happy.