@katelaskowski.bsky.social
UC Davis. Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects. Hard no to autocrats
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
09.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 88 🔁 114 💬 5 📌 3
Logo featuring bright pink background with red lips and the words "I Came for Science"
Are you an early career ABS member with diverse lived experiences that also studies sex &/or reproduction? Do you want to be interviewed for the "I Came For Science" podcast by fellow ABS member Laura Sirot? I bet you do!
(Contact info on their webpage)
www.icameforscience.org
Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
05.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 124 🔁 73 💬 6 📌 24congratulations to everyone who did not email regularly with jeffrey epstein
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Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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I hope to see some of you in Bielefeld for this upcoming workshop on measuring and modeling plasticity. ECRs in and around Germany with a penchant for statistics should consider applying while spots remain available!
05.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 13 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Does human disturbance disrupt predator-prey temporal niche partitioning? Today in @natcomms.nature.com
we show that while there is no overall effect, the larger species of the dyad "loses" the temporal response race to humans.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of repository of science education and outreach resources
Looking to make your science accessible and meaningful? Need help developing science education & outreach materials or ideas?
Well then do we have the resource for you! The ABS Communications Committee developed this excellent repository of resources, so check it out!
tinyurl.com/4evx8wyx
Epic correction
02.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 51 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
For my Davis folks - there's one happening in Winters on Saturday (Jan 31). Meet at 1pm in Rotary Park!
29.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Uppsala in late autumn
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
28.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 146 🔁 174 💬 1 📌 4They're so ANGRY that we take care of each other, and not just angry.
So CONFUSED by it.
And that is why we will win
The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020
Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
27.01.2026 13:03 — 👍 4705 🔁 1725 💬 76 📌 155Job alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...
27.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 14 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0Sorry not sorry.
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.
We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.
⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!
Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
13.01.2026 14:42 — 👍 54 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 2Hello dream project! Who doesn't want to work on social dynamics in the cutest birds with the incredible Liz Hobson?!?! (No one, thats who)
13.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot listing the available career awards from the Animal Behavior Society: Distinguished Animal Behaviorist, Exemplar Award, Outstanding New Investigator, Quest Award, Exceptional Service Award, Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award and the Richard Buchholz Conservation Behavior Award
If you need something positive in your life right now, then how about nominating one of your favorite researchers for an award??
The Animal Behavior Society's Career Award nominations are due January 15th! Find more info here:
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...
one thing i remember from 2020 that i'm feeling even more so today- the immense bravery of everyone out in the streets rn, doing so knowing in a very visceral and direct way that the people they are fighting could kill them for doing so.
08.01.2026 17:53 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share.
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...
Woowhoo! Congrats!
05.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ecologist position at Iowa State University - isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
02.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 15 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know there are 2 types of avocado varieties? A-types switch from female to male, B-types male to female, within a single day. This reciprocal sex alternation promotes cross-pollination and has a simple genetic basis. Read more in this recent preprint from the final chapter of my PhD thesis 🥑
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