Stuart McDaniel
@stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social
Professor of Biology at UF; evolutionary genetics, mostly of bryophytes, with a side of tundra ecology
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time is marked by moments of passage.
with stunning regularity we confront the realities of pasts that have led to our present.
with stunning regularity we confront the realities of pasts that have led to our present.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
time is marked by moments of passage.
with stunning regularity we confront the realities of pasts that have led to our present.
with stunning regularity we confront the realities of pasts that have led to our present.
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#Florida attraction/scientific lab Selby Botanical Gardens breaking ground on Phase 2 of its $60M expansion. www.heraldtribune.com/story/entert...
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#Florida attraction/scientific lab Selby Botanical Gardens breaking ground on Phase 2 of its $60M expansion. www.heraldtribune.com/story/entert...
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ORLANDO! Care about building transit, affordable housing, reducing traffic, and protecting the environment? Then listen up. We have an election coming up in City Council District 3 and I've endorsed Mira Tanna. Vote on or before December 9th.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
ORLANDO! Care about building transit, affordable housing, reducing traffic, and protecting the environment? Then listen up. We have an election coming up in City Council District 3 and I've endorsed Mira Tanna. Vote on or before December 9th.
I think a lacewing laid eggs on my (very dirty) office window
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I think a lacewing laid eggs on my (very dirty) office window
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NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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I hate Open Enrollment. It's such a scam. And stressful. every year I finish and then get paranoid that I messed something up and won't have health insurance.
We don't have to live like this
We don't have to live like this
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I hate Open Enrollment. It's such a scam. And stressful. every year I finish and then get paranoid that I messed something up and won't have health insurance.
We don't have to live like this
We don't have to live like this
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As one of those federal employees, I couldn’t agree more.
“Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.”
“Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.”
Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
As one of those federal employees, I couldn’t agree more.
“Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.”
“Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.”
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It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
This is a great visualization of temperature change over the past 60 years that makes both the right shift and increased variance clear
Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is a great visualization of temperature change over the past 60 years that makes both the right shift and increased variance clear
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
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The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
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Associate Professor & Director of NCBG Herbarium
This is a research, teaching, and public service position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving jointly as Herbarium Director at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) and as...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n
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An Antarctica story.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
An Antarctica story.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
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UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
Assistant Professor in Genetics - Athens, Georgia (US) job with The University of Georgia Department of Genetics | 675651
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Genetics
jobs.sciencecareers.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
First time seeing one of these guys in the yard
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
First time seeing one of these guys in the yard
This could have been written by any one of dozens of colleagues or collaborators that have come to the US to join in the scientific enterprise
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This could have been written by any one of dozens of colleagues or collaborators that have come to the US to join in the scientific enterprise
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I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this:
Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
grist.org/climate/clim...
Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
grist.org/climate/clim...
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this:
Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
grist.org/climate/clim...
Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?
It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.
grist.org/climate/clim...
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Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
We have an excellent track record w former senators
I understand he's an unconventional hire, but I think Marco Rubio will do a great job as the new head coach of the Florida Gators
October 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We have an excellent track record w former senators
This is how I found out
I understand he's an unconventional hire, but I think Marco Rubio will do a great job as the new head coach of the Florida Gators
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is how I found out
I don’t know this literature but this was a very interesting read
First causal evidence: #EconomicBooms, like #MilitaryBuildups, significantly reduce #biodiversity (species abundance, richness) across the US 🇺🇸
#AirPollution key culprit, explaining \approx 1/3 of the impact.
#CleanAirAct offers big ecological co-benefits 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AirPollution key culprit, explaining \approx 1/3 of the impact.
#CleanAirAct offers big ecological co-benefits 🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Economic activity and biodiversity in the United States
The environmental impacts of economic activities extend beyond those directly affecting humans. This paper provides new evidence on the link between e…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I don’t know this literature but this was a very interesting read
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"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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The UGA Plant Biology Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!
October 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The UGA Plant Biology Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!
Lingua wanka is a hilarious moniker for scientific writing
Fantastic editorial on #ScientificWriting. 👇
I wished I could have written something like this. Rude, fun and meaningful.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Lingua wanka is a hilarious moniker for scientific writing