Tom Radomski
@tomradomski.bsky.social
Adjunct instructor floating around academia. Mostly here because academia has migrated this way.
Research interests in Salamanders, Mosquitoes, Biogeography, and Urban EcoEvo.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nas8a-AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Research interests in Salamanders, Mosquitoes, Biogeography, and Urban EcoEvo.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nas8a-AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
When Gov Kehoe appointed Hanaway as AG, there was a promise to return to more normal work, following 3 bizarre predecessors. In particular, she said she was going to use her office to combat texting scams, which disproportionately impact seniors.
But:
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/21/l...
But:
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Lawsuit details alleged scheme to sabotage referendum on Missouri congressional map • Missouri Independent
A federal lawsuit accuses opponents of a referendum on Missouri's gerrymandered congressional map are poaching signature gatherers.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
When Gov Kehoe appointed Hanaway as AG, there was a promise to return to more normal work, following 3 bizarre predecessors. In particular, she said she was going to use her office to combat texting scams, which disproportionately impact seniors.
But:
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/21/l...
But:
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/21/l...
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Wanna be my colleague? We've got TT positions open!
1 in genetics/genomics jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638.
1 in biology education / open jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639.
1 in freshwater fisheries biology jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637
Date of first consideration is Jan 4 2026
1 in genetics/genomics jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638.
1 in biology education / open jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639.
1 in freshwater fisheries biology jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637
Date of first consideration is Jan 4 2026
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Wanna be my colleague? We've got TT positions open!
1 in genetics/genomics jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638.
1 in biology education / open jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639.
1 in freshwater fisheries biology jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637
Date of first consideration is Jan 4 2026
1 in genetics/genomics jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83638.
1 in biology education / open jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83639.
1 in freshwater fisheries biology jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/83637
Date of first consideration is Jan 4 2026
The sort of fundamental curiosity in this article is one of the reasons ecology makes me so happy.
After years of being curious but lazy, I finally got around to documenting what's inside the black walnuts in my yard. In the process I became obsessed with the strange wasp that hunts down the pupae of the resident flies. 🌿 #wasps #diapriidae #nature #diptera colinpurrington.com/2025/11/life...
Life inside rotting walnut husks » Colin Purrington's blog
There’s an eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra) on my neighbor’s property that rains down fruit every fall, and I finally got curious about what species might be inside. So far I’ve found four flies, ...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The sort of fundamental curiosity in this article is one of the reasons ecology makes me so happy.
One million percent this.
Yes. This is another reason why public funding is what we want - why the government should support science with democratic mechanisms of oversight.
Public support means not having to beg toxic billionaires for money.
Public support means not having to beg toxic billionaires for money.
the professors in the emails being all chummy with epstein is pathetic and enraging.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
One million percent this.
Eagerly awaiting the scary article in Science informing us that a shocking number of peer reviewers are really just using AI to generate nonsense reviews to save time.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Eagerly awaiting the scary article in Science informing us that a shocking number of peer reviewers are really just using AI to generate nonsense reviews to save time.
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right now on their homepage there are 17 headlines about mamdani and DSA (some repeated two or three times) and zero on NJ, VA or CA. entirely a blog about elite anxiety
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
right now on their homepage there are 17 headlines about mamdani and DSA (some repeated two or three times) and zero on NJ, VA or CA. entirely a blog about elite anxiety
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Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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October 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Tenure track assistant professor of biology position in my department just posted!
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October 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Tenure track assistant professor of biology position in my department just posted!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
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Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!
tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology
Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!
tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
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🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
I can only guess that @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social was ecstatic that he got to explain Air Bud in a very serious political article.
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Missouri’s new congressional map may rest on whether lines can be redrawn mid-decade
If redistricting opponents can convince the courts that the constitution doesn’t authorize mid-decade redistricting, then the map passed earlier this month likely won’t go into effect.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I can only guess that @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social was ecstatic that he got to explain Air Bud in a very serious political article.
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Cool and important field study on the environments that terrestrial forest-dwelling salamanders experience.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Fine‐scale measurements reveal microclimate heterogeneity for plethodontid salamanders
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September 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cool and important field study on the environments that terrestrial forest-dwelling salamanders experience.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Excited to have this paper out!
Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The ecology of geographic range limits
Identifying processes underlying species' geographic range limits is currently at the forefront of ecological research, in part due to increasing attention to climate change effects on the distributi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Excited to have this paper out!
Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hiring editor at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Amazing place!
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August 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hiring editor at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Amazing place!
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
Doctoral work of Lauren Johnson (PhD candidate, WashU); I learned a lot from her during this project!
Light pollution allows Tiger Mosquitoes to shift blood-feeding to later hours when daytime temperatures would be too hot.
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Light pollution allows Tiger Mosquitoes to shift blood-feeding to later hours when daytime temperatures would be too hot.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nighttime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
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August 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Doctoral work of Lauren Johnson (PhD candidate, WashU); I learned a lot from her during this project!
Light pollution allows Tiger Mosquitoes to shift blood-feeding to later hours when daytime temperatures would be too hot.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Light pollution allows Tiger Mosquitoes to shift blood-feeding to later hours when daytime temperatures would be too hot.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Local journalism is so important, but the specter of having them snatched up by billionaires is terrifying.
www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...
www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...
www.bizjournals.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Local journalism is so important, but the specter of having them snatched up by billionaires is terrifying.
www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...
www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news...
Heat tolerance is less variable across populations than cold tolerance...kind of!
Cool nuanced take here that modifies a long-held "rule" in ecophysiology.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cool nuanced take here that modifies a long-held "rule" in ecophysiology.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
High thermal variation in maximum temperatures invert Brett's heat‐invariant rule at fine spatial scales
Discovering how species' thermal limits evolve and vary spatially is crucial for predicting their vulnerability to ongoing environmental warming. Current evidence indicates that heat tolerance is les...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Heat tolerance is less variable across populations than cold tolerance...kind of!
Cool nuanced take here that modifies a long-held "rule" in ecophysiology.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cool nuanced take here that modifies a long-held "rule" in ecophysiology.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Looking like I was wrong.
Putting this prediction out there now -
In 2025, Alan Dershowitz will come out of the woodwork to defend Elon Musk and/or DOGE.
In 2025, Alan Dershowitz will come out of the woodwork to defend Elon Musk and/or DOGE.
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Looking like I was wrong.
Glad to have this review published! Worked on it on-and-off for roughly 10 years.
Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Revisiting Rapoport’s Rule: The History of an Idea and Alternative Explanations for Latitudinal Variation in Geographic Range Size | The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 100, No 2
Abstract In 1989, George Stevens described a frequently observed positive relationship between range size and latitude, which he dubbed “Rapoport’s Rule.” To varying levels of success, Stevens linked ...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Glad to have this review published! Worked on it on-and-off for roughly 10 years.
Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Genuine MO politics question -
If a voter-approved amendment was required to give St. Louis local control of police in 2012, why is voter-approval not required to lose local control in 2025?
@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social can you help me here?
If a voter-approved amendment was required to give St. Louis local control of police in 2012, why is voter-approval not required to lose local control in 2025?
@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social can you help me here?
May 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Genuine MO politics question -
If a voter-approved amendment was required to give St. Louis local control of police in 2012, why is voter-approval not required to lose local control in 2025?
@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social can you help me here?
If a voter-approved amendment was required to give St. Louis local control of police in 2012, why is voter-approval not required to lose local control in 2025?
@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social can you help me here?
When people talk about Democrats being incapable of getting anything done, this is a perfect example -
Sen. Durbin (D) allowed Josh Hawley to block Biden administration judge nominations. Now there are four federal socially conservative judges in this district 🤦♂️
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
Sen. Durbin (D) allowed Josh Hawley to block Biden administration judge nominations. Now there are four federal socially conservative judges in this district 🤦♂️
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
May 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When people talk about Democrats being incapable of getting anything done, this is a perfect example -
Sen. Durbin (D) allowed Josh Hawley to block Biden administration judge nominations. Now there are four federal socially conservative judges in this district 🤦♂️
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
Sen. Durbin (D) allowed Josh Hawley to block Biden administration judge nominations. Now there are four federal socially conservative judges in this district 🤦♂️
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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Good morning, Bluesky.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.