Claudia Crowther

Common Tern Museum at the Bantersee

Common Tern Museum at the Bantersee

View of the ice-bound Waddensee

Profs Miriam Liedvogel & Prof Sandra Bouwhuis - brilliant leaders of the Institute of Avian Research (with some old German ornithological leaders in the background)

A richly rewarding two days reviewing @ifv-whv.bsky.social: thriving under the brilliant leadership of Sandra Bouwhuis & Miriam Liedvogel. An exciting programme of research into avian migration & life histories with many future stars. Outstanding @commonternproject.bsky.social museum by frozen sea!

i will be giving a talk on some recently published work on the 4th of December. Come by (zoom link below) if you want to think and learn about the evolution of mutual dependence and synchronised reproduction in endosymbioses!

A while ago @caritalindstedt.bsky.social asked me “would you puke to save the group?” Well not me personally, there's real science about the evolution of cooperation here. With the help of talented student @abhay-gupta.bsky.social, we now have answers! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

When life gives you lemons, use them all up in one big j*a*m!

Get your CVs updated. Zoology Department, University of Otago is hiring a Lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology!

@zoologyotago.bsky.social

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Rocky the taxidermy raccoon- used as a mock predator in turtle behavioral assessments

Excited to share my latest publication- Here, we demonstrate that wild painted turtles show behavioral syndromes, and boldness predicts nest site choice. Thanks sm to @ccrowther.bsky.social for her help with this project 🐢🦝 authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-tHmjMA3pk

Scatter plot showing a negative relationship between tree canopy cover over painted turtle nest sites and head emergence latency (a measure of boldness) in a novel arena behavior assay.

New research from our lab exploring the ecological consequences of behavioral syndromes! @morganichemistry.bsky.social shows that antipredator behavior in painted turtles is repeatable and associated with ecologically significant variation in nest site choice.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k-tHmjMA3pk

This is a long shot, but are there any registered Australian voters in the vicinity of Clinton, Iowa, who could witness my vote for the federal election?

Postdoc position with @milocco.bsky.social at @scilifelab.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social in predictive modeling in evolution and development.

#Evolution #Popgen #Modeling #Postdoc

Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.

One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

International students’ visas have been revoked, MSU says - The State News At least some international students at MSU have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a university spokesperson confirmed Monday.

Of extra importance given MSU's confirmation that some of our international students have had their visas revoked as @statenews.com reports, statenews.com/article/2025...

Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more It is not immediately clear why students’ visas were terminated. Some schools said the federal government had not notified them of their students’ change of status, but rather learned about it when re...

A number of international students at private universities across Greater Boston and in the University of Massachusetts system have had their visas revoked in recent days.

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position @waikatouniversity.bsky.social. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats.

📍 Hamilton, NZ
Closes: 4th May 2025
🔗 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A researcher stands in a forest and writes data on a clipboard.

Bonanza Creek LTER is seeking a post-doctoral fellow! The position focuses on synthesizing long-term ecological data to study alternate successional trajectories in the boreal forest and explore their implications in a changing climate. Find out more and apply at careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283 University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience!
Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep!
tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56
Please repost!

Only a few more days to apply for this exciting postdoc position (deadline: 6th of April)!

Excited to host Dr. Laura Melissa Guzman for this Friday’s seminar! Tune in to learn more about using occupancy models to understand trends in bee biodiversity
🐝🌷📊💻

Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.

More than 300 international students in the US have had their visas revoked in the last three weeks. DHS are targeting students who publicly express support for Palestine, despite visa holders having the same rights to free speech and protests as US citizens. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

Data Analyst - Ecological Modelling | 02 April, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint on a fixed term basis (until September 2026) a data analyst/scient...

🚨 We're hiring!🚨

Looking for someone interested in modelling biodiversity trends to work on the interface between academia and policy.

careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Dat...

It is extremely frightening how quickly the illegal deportation of international scholars and students has escalated, with little resistance from uni admins.

Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.

Rubio says that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

A Georgetown University researcher, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, has been detained by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists whom the government accuses of opposing American foreign policy, according to court papers. Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Sex reversal triggers the rapid transition from genetic to temperature-dependent sex - Nature The first report of reptile sex reversal in the wild and rapid transition between genetic and environmental sex determination in the Australian bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps)

It's definitely one of my favorites! Maybe one of the graphics from these papers would be useful? doi.org/10.1038/natu..., doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Very excited to publish this work from my thesis in @jevbio.bsky.social
Give it a read if you are interested in how species that are sensitive to developmental temperatures could adapt to climate change.