Taylor E. Fossett
@tayyfossett13.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ VT👩🔬🦢🦃🕊🦩🐓Interested in how the environment influences bird behavior & brain function.💖✨🌻 she/her
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🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
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July 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
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As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3
July 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3
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A new study comparing five different fish species shows that their larval hunting strategies diverged during the course of evolution. Read more: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-07...
Fish species evolved different hunting strategies using distinct visual cues
Researchers have described how fish larvae rely on species-specific combinations of vision and movement to detect and capture prey.
www.bi.mpg.de
July 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A new study comparing five different fish species shows that their larval hunting strategies diverged during the course of evolution. Read more: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-07...
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The #foraging #gene coordinates #brain and #heart networks to modulate socially cued interval #timing in #Drosophila
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The foraging gene coordinates brain and heart networks to modulate socially cued interval timing in Drosophila
Author summary This study reveals that the foraging gene, traditionally associated with behaviors such as foraging and learning, plays a critical role in interval timing (e.g., regulation of mating du...
journals.plos.org
July 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The #foraging #gene coordinates #brain and #heart networks to modulate socially cued interval #timing in #Drosophila
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journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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This is currently exactly what I’m facing. Leave the country or leave science. And leaving the country is not as easy as everyone thinks it is.
Other countries mostly only want post-docs and other scientists who are much farther along in their career 🫠
Other countries mostly only want post-docs and other scientists who are much farther along in their career 🫠
A stupid, self-inflicted (or, rather, Trump-inflicted) injury:
"For young researchers, 'there is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.…I’m looking at these people who…are extremely accomplished, some of the top in their field…and the door is closing on them.'"
"For young researchers, 'there is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.…I’m looking at these people who…are extremely accomplished, some of the top in their field…and the door is closing on them.'"
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is currently exactly what I’m facing. Leave the country or leave science. And leaving the country is not as easy as everyone thinks it is.
Other countries mostly only want post-docs and other scientists who are much farther along in their career 🫠
Other countries mostly only want post-docs and other scientists who are much farther along in their career 🫠
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Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
July 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
Yesterday was our last day of the 2025 field season!! We’re trying to understand the complex behavioral & physiological relationship between a brood-parasite: the brown-headed cowbird, and their host: the song sparrow.
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yesterday was our last day of the 2025 field season!! We’re trying to understand the complex behavioral & physiological relationship between a brood-parasite: the brown-headed cowbird, and their host: the song sparrow.
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Our esteemed past prez, @tinosaurs.bsky.social, introducing the Margaret Morse Nice Plenary with a biography of Nice. Check out this incredible quote from Ernst Mayr! #WOS2025
June 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our esteemed past prez, @tinosaurs.bsky.social, introducing the Margaret Morse Nice Plenary with a biography of Nice. Check out this incredible quote from Ernst Mayr! #WOS2025
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"Aren’t researchers supposed to be perfectly objective, unemotional, and neutral about the world we study? I can’t be. I need to declare a conflict of interest regarding Earth:
Everyone I love lives here."
In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:
Everyone I love lives here."
In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:
The Emotional Whiplash of a Climate Scientist | Atmos
Dr. Kate Marvel explores the grief, anger, wonder, and love she feels studying climate change in an excerpt from her new book, Human Nature.
atmos.earth
June 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Aren’t researchers supposed to be perfectly objective, unemotional, and neutral about the world we study? I can’t be. I need to declare a conflict of interest regarding Earth:
Everyone I love lives here."
In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:
Everyone I love lives here."
In her new book, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explores what it means to be a climate scientist:
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spread the word! Turn off the lights (unless you're trapping!), leave the leaves, plant all the native plants in every gap, make a pond, stop using chemicals in the garden. I know I am preaching to the converted but insects are important!
#insect #teammoth #bugs
Spread the word! Turn off the lights (unless you're trapping!), leave the leaves, plant all the native plants in every gap, make a pond, stop using chemicals in the garden. I know I am preaching to the converted but insects are important!
#insect #teammoth #bugs
Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them
From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spread the word! Turn off the lights (unless you're trapping!), leave the leaves, plant all the native plants in every gap, make a pond, stop using chemicals in the garden. I know I am preaching to the converted but insects are important!
#insect #teammoth #bugs
Spread the word! Turn off the lights (unless you're trapping!), leave the leaves, plant all the native plants in every gap, make a pond, stop using chemicals in the garden. I know I am preaching to the converted but insects are important!
#insect #teammoth #bugs
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Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS!
therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...
therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...
Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator
Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.
therevelator.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS!
therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...
therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...