Michel Ohmer
@michelohmer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ University of Mississippi | Amphibian ecophysiology, climate change, and disease #HERper | she/her
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We measure ecological resilience in terms of a few variables at a time with widely differing choices of variables for different investigators, with conflicting outcomes. We need strategies to navigate diverse and conflicting resilience variables.
Preprint:
10.22541/au.176219659.90163271/v1
Preprint:
10.22541/au.176219659.90163271/v1
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We measure ecological resilience in terms of a few variables at a time with widely differing choices of variables for different investigators, with conflicting outcomes. We need strategies to navigate diverse and conflicting resilience variables.
Preprint:
10.22541/au.176219659.90163271/v1
Preprint:
10.22541/au.176219659.90163271/v1
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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New look, same mission! 🌿🦋🌎
We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.
We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.
September 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New look, same mission! 🌿🦋🌎
We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.
We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.
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🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?
My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙
Apply by Nov 1!
Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙
Apply by Nov 1!
Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad
The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...
docs.google.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?
My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙
Apply by Nov 1!
Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙
Apply by Nov 1!
Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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OPINION: "Anyone who has used GPS, read a weather forecast, received a vaccine, or eaten U.S.-grown produce has experienced the long-lasting benefits of federally funded scientific research and development," Logan G. Havard writes.
Opinion | Why Scientists Need Your Tax Dollars
Logan G. Havard writes about how federal funding cuts affect scientific research that could otherwise benefit people at the local and national levels.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
OPINION: "Anyone who has used GPS, read a weather forecast, received a vaccine, or eaten U.S.-grown produce has experienced the long-lasting benefits of federally funded scientific research and development," Logan G. Havard writes.
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"In our study, we find that urbanization speeds up tadpole development and increased behavioral plasticity. However, exposure to urban conditions also decreased tadpole size, which may cause adult frogs to become smaller and less attractive for mates"
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"In our study, we find that urbanization speeds up tadpole development and increased behavioral plasticity. However, exposure to urban conditions also decreased tadpole size, which may cause adult frogs to become smaller and less attractive for mates"
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD
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🚨 Fall Internship Alert! 🚨
The @stlzoo.bsky.social Endocrinology Lab is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 internship! 🧪🦁🧬
Apply today
🔗 Info: livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/items/saint-...
#scienceinternships #endocrinology #SaintLouisZoo #globalconservationfutures #conservationcareers
The @stlzoo.bsky.social Endocrinology Lab is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 internship! 🧪🦁🧬
Apply today
🔗 Info: livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/items/saint-...
#scienceinternships #endocrinology #SaintLouisZoo #globalconservationfutures #conservationcareers
July 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨 Fall Internship Alert! 🚨
The @stlzoo.bsky.social Endocrinology Lab is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 internship! 🧪🦁🧬
Apply today
🔗 Info: livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/items/saint-...
#scienceinternships #endocrinology #SaintLouisZoo #globalconservationfutures #conservationcareers
The @stlzoo.bsky.social Endocrinology Lab is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 internship! 🧪🦁🧬
Apply today
🔗 Info: livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/items/saint-...
#scienceinternships #endocrinology #SaintLouisZoo #globalconservationfutures #conservationcareers
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I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
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NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
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🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Research.gov :: GRFP
www.research.gov
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush
📰Published📰 Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change🌡️
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Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change
Daniel W.A. Noble, Fonti Kar, Alex Bush, Frank Seebacher, & Shinichi Nakagawa. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology article which can be found here. Climate change causes wa…
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April 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help?
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Transgender Inclusion | Linktree
Resources for transgender inclusion in STEM and beyond.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...
Join Us! | King Lab
Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!
www.zoology.ubc.ca
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
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New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Devastating to hear from disappointed undergrads about all the summer programs being cut. NSF, NIH, and the complete cancelation of Mosaics in Science national park internship program focused on broadening participation. NSF REUs were crucial to my start in science www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Devastating to hear from disappointed undergrads about all the summer programs being cut. NSF, NIH, and the complete cancelation of Mosaics in Science national park internship program focused on broadening participation. NSF REUs were crucial to my start in science www.science.org/content/arti...
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Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists:
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists:
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
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Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907.
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
This Pioneering Black Zoologist's Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time
Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907.
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...