Kerri Lynn Ackerly, PhD

The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice Abstract. In the field of conservation physiology, there is often a trade off between conducting research in controlled laboratory settings or in inherentl

lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Lab animals deserve enriching environments, but what if our efforts to help unintentionally cause harm? In our ES&T perspective, we explore how leaching plastics and plastic additives may impact fish health, and your experiments...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo

Grad Admission Impacts Survey It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.

If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Check out our new study looking at how white sturgeon deal with warming and low oxygen! 🌡️🫧 Interestingly, the order in which these stressors are experienced and whether exposures are acute or chronic may have important effects on their responses

41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week

Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded)

You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️
www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

yeah cruz and cornyn offices in dc go straight to voicemail always - but their local offices don’t 😈

in my (oh so many) experiences calling rep’s offices, you’re most likely to get a human being calling their in-state offices! i live to bother ted cruz right now and always get a human at his houston office (who have always been lovely)!

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage and lawsuit Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs.

See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v

"Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions. In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity" www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

Biologists Rip Trump’s 'Non-Sensical' Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes “Clearly, this order is not fully informed by current biological science,” said Dr. Richard Bribiescas, president of the Human Biology Association.

Biologists rip Trump’s ‘Nonsensical’ Executive Order declaring only 2 sexes

hello! i ran fast and furiously from the hellscape over there to here ✨ let’s be friends and talk about cute things like science and dogs!

Meet Kathleen Roark from the Nielsen lab! As a PhD candidate, Kate studies the interactive effects of environmental stress and contamination on the survival and development of early life stage red drum🧪🐟

Fun fact: Kate is also an entomologist at heart 🦋🐜 and was the first student in the lab!

Meet Tamara Rivera, a 2nd year PhD student in our lab! Tamara is studying climate-driven changes in mercury cycling and export in the Alaskan ecosystem.

Fun fact: During her spare time, she volunteers at the Amos Rehabilitation Keep and the Patton Center Aquarium! 🐟🐢 #IntroductionFridays

Meet our marine science technician, Danny Fraser! Danny helps facilitate the research projects of the lab, from small boat operations and scuba diving in TX and AK, to helping process samples in the lab!

Fun fact: Danny did his master’s research on marine worm ecology🪱🌊 #LabIntroductions

Meet Dr. Kerri Ackerly from the Nielsen lab! @kerriackerlyphd.bsky.social studies the impacts of contaminants on fish morphology, development, and physiology 🐟

Fun fact: She studied electric fishes for her PhD and even has a tattoo of her favorite one!

join us today to talk about contaminants along the texas coast! if you want the link, let me know! noon (cst)!

The Nielsen lab presented at the South-Central SETAC Meeting and did amazing! Special congratulations to our student Tamara for winning 2nd place in the student poster competition on her work with Mercury in Alaska!🏅👩🏽‍🔬 We will be posting on here more often with updates so stay tuned 🙌🏽

Research Associate Job Posting Title: Research Associate ---- Hiring Department: Department of Marine Science ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt ---- Earliest ...

we are looking for a research associate with experience in environmental chemistry or toxicology! feel free to reach out if you have any questions!!

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another SETAC in the books!! love to talk research but mostly love to see all my friends 🥹

if you want to talk more about my phototox work (from my talk) or my pfas work (from my poster) - let’s do it!!

We're having a bit of a tough quarter over at Skype a Scientist. I'm writing grants nonstop over here but won't know if it's working for a couple months.

The collapse of social media has made our business model of many small donors beak. In the meantime, your support is VERY appreciated.

more like tired chicken 😂

submitted my first grant as lead pi yesterday … and now i am ready for a day off!

jk i have a thousand other things to catch up on today that i just casually pretended didn’t exist for two weeks …

hello friends 🌌! i’m a research associate at ut marine science institute. i am interested in how environmental stressors impact fishes.

right now, i am particularly interested in how pfas affect fishes and how they occur / bioaccumulate in marine ecosystems. i work often with redfish and minnows!