@chansenwheat.bsky.social
Assistant professor in animal behavior. I study how behavior develops and evolves, often within a domestication framework and mostly in wolves and dogs. Scientific integrity advocate. Florida Man wrangler, husky enthusiast and occasional butterfly catcher.
What I did for work this week? I spent HOURS searching the internet for the best realistic stuffed dogs for an experiment on conspecific sociability (without comparison the most profound rabbit hole of my career) and then I purchased a couple of candidates... *to be continued*
🧪 🦊 🌍 🐾 #Academia
What it looks like when one shouts #EffinBirds and really means it
18.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this thoughtful paper and amazing initiative on replication in the field of behavioral ecology.
Will definitely incorporate this into my undergrad courses!
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🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds
11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online
Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...
#EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
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Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution?
Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social!
Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/
This is so awesome and well-deserved. Huge congrats, Danai!
06.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is such amazing news! Big congrats, Maria 🥳
22.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fluffy brown puppy scratching itself
Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶
17.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky
27.07.2025 06:54 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Living in Stockholm, Sweden, and...same!
12.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Lot of marmot body shaming in that article. There is nothing wrong with being ready for winter year round, especially in these unpredictable weather times. He is magnificent 😍
11.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
Thanks for the fix!
27.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany.
🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The bookmark function is what I miss the most. I used that a lot on Twitter.
28.01.2025 20:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
JOB ALERT!
Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.
Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.
🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED
23.01.2025 15:54 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Merlin is only one small evolutionary step away from making that a reality: Opposable thumbs. Once cats have that one figured out we are in real trouble.
21.01.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
20.01.2025 18:40 — 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
More of this, please!
20.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One shouldn't underestimate how important preprints are for ECRs in applying for grants & jobs. However, it's very problematic that journalists report on preprints. When I declined to comment on a preprint of mine, as it had not been peer-reviewed, they said they were still going to write about it 🤷♀️
11.01.2025 11:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe do a starter pack and post it with broadly applicable hashtags for visibility?
10.01.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...