Holly Moeller
@mixotrophe.bsky.social
Jersey girl, rain lover, chalkboard equation addict. Associate professor & eco-evo theoretician (Erdős # = 5) at EEMB, UCSB (#unicornjob🦄). All good bugs photosynthesize. Go Birds! 🦅💚 she/her
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Holly Moeller
@mixotrophe.bsky.social
· Dec 1
I needed to read this chapter from "The Inequality Machine" today. Because here at UCSB, we're done telling students not to bother trying. And the most important mission of my career, "to actually teach them calculus," begins next Fall. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 3.191/n #year3
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sometimes hard to deal with the resident megafauna
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
sometimes hard to deal with the resident megafauna
Hi friends! I'm looking for simple bio-calculus maximization/minimization problems to give our students some practice taking 1st and 2nd derivatives. Any great, single-equation examples come to mind? Thanks! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hi friends! I'm looking for simple bio-calculus maximization/minimization problems to give our students some practice taking 1st and 2nd derivatives. Any great, single-equation examples come to mind? Thanks! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
From the Prof Moeller in St Louis! Around 40°N or higher? Get outside!
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
From the Prof Moeller in St Louis! Around 40°N or higher? Get outside!
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Happy Birthday to the best mom on the planet. Even though I've been missing her for 22+ years, I can still hear her voice giving me a kick in the butt just when I need it. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happy Birthday to the best mom on the planet. Even though I've been missing her for 22+ years, I can still hear her voice giving me a kick in the butt just when I need it. ❤️
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Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
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For most scrappy feisty players you can say "they got that Dog in em", but for Gator players you can say "they got that Herp Dog in em"
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
For most scrappy feisty players you can say "they got that Dog in em", but for Gator players you can say "they got that Herp Dog in em"
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.
www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
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White grunts got into another face-to-face face-off 😮😮 #whitegrunt #faceoff #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #facetoface #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
White grunts got into another face-to-face face-off 😮😮 #whitegrunt #faceoff #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #facetoface #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Yes - isometric scaling as a way to understand the benefits and costs of being small versus large. Haldane's Harpers article from 1926 is an amazing example of popular science writing.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yes - isometric scaling as a way to understand the benefits and costs of being small versus large. Haldane's Harpers article from 1926 is an amazing example of popular science writing.
Love this!!! Idea for next year?!?
I’m giving out books tonight in addition to candy.
It’s funny. Some kids are like ‘no book’ and some are like ‘oh wow, I got a book!’
It’s funny. Some kids are like ‘no book’ and some are like ‘oh wow, I got a book!’
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Love this!!! Idea for next year?!?
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📅 Next week our seminar speaker will be Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📅 Next week our seminar speaker will be Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
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Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
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It’s been a rough day. Have a bog.
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s been a rough day. Have a bog.
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Just posting because everyone needs to see a walking moai. 😝
📰 Experimental archaeology confirms the theory that Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s moai could have been 'walked' using ropes and as few as 15 people!
#ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
#ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Just posting because everyone needs to see a walking moai. 😝
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For population genetics and evolutionary biology folks in the Bay Area: the next BAPG will be hosted by Stanford CEHG and the Petrov lab at Stanford on 12/6.
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
For population genetics and evolutionary biology folks in the Bay Area: the next BAPG will be hosted by Stanford CEHG and the Petrov lab at Stanford on 12/6.
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.
📣Tomorrow our next series of online seminars restarts: Chris Klausmeier (MSU) will present:
⭐Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐
Free and open to all:
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
⭐Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐
Free and open to all:
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.
Truly an amazing moment in the debate 🤣🤣🤣
Q: New Yorkers love parades. You’ve all said you will be the mayor to all New Yorkers. Will you boycott any parades?
Sliwa: the duty of mayor to march in parades. I march in the Pulaski parade
Cuomo: I will march in every parade.
Mamdani: that’s a lot of parades I think I would be busy working
Sliwa: the duty of mayor to march in parades. I march in the Pulaski parade
Cuomo: I will march in every parade.
Mamdani: that’s a lot of parades I think I would be busy working
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Truly an amazing moment in the debate 🤣🤣🤣
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We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!
Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
hofstra.peopleadmin.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!
Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542