Wade Boys
@boyswillbebugs.bsky.social
PhD Student | Freshwater Ecology, Phenotypic Plasticity | University of Arkansas
Academics in the U.S.. be honest. If you were graduating with a PhD in the next year, would you pursue an academic career? It's becoming harder & harder to do this work every day. Specifically interested in hearing from folks at smaller schools, private unis, or community colleges.
Had a wonderful time speaking with Ari Daniel alongside Dick Holmes to share how we map bird territories to answer unique scientific questions at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Take a listen! www.npr.org/transcripts/...
Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home
In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, reveali...
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Excited to have this #entomology #dragonfly paper out! Congratulations to @ethantolman.bsky.social Ellie Gamett and team! bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The blueprint for survival: the blue dasher dragonfly as a model for urban adaptation - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Human alteration of natural environments and habitats is a major driver of species decline. However, a handful of species thrive in human altered environments. The biology, distribution, po...
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Review on time budgets in life history trade-offs of female reptiles 🧪 #evolsky
Canadian Science Publishing@cdnsciencepub.com · last yr.Explore how time and energy shape survival and reproduction in reptiles! Litmer and Carnes-Mason review time budgets in a life history context using two species in @canjzoology.bsky.social ▶️ buff.ly/0sYhFKk 📸 Maxwell Carnes-Mason
When brood XIV is emerging in your hometown and you convince your recently retired dad to go collecting for you 🙌🏻
Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...
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Today seems like a good day to rewrite what wrote yesterday 🙃 #phdchat #dissertation
shared a bit of my experiences being trans in STEM a bit ago, excited to see the article out! and cis folks: the statistics here are from *before* the current dumpster fire, just for context. so just imagine for a second how much worse things are now www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ+ biologists face hostile work environment
Largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at w...
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Fuck yeah ✊🏻
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati? They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...
Hey folks, I’m going to need you to care about what’s happening in states like FL, TX, IA, MO, and TN. These are, in my opinion, the most aggressive states towards trans rights and whatever they’re able to pass, others will try to follow suit. Fight back and organize with folks within these states
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.IPC [Feb 27] -- 18 years after Dems passed a law giving transgender Iowans civil rights protections, the state's Reps have passed a law repealing those rights, making it the first state to strip its citizens of such a broad swath of legal rights. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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Trans people have always existed and always will
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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
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So excited for our Neurocordulia Shadowdragon #dragonfly paper to be out! #entomology doi.org/10.48156/138...
Bringing Shadowdragons to light: Neurocordulia systematics — Worldwide Dragonfly Association
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Check out my favorite dissertation chapter 👇🏻 made possible by @adamsiepielski.bsky.social, & former lab mates Tara Lanzer and Taylor Ping, who helped me assay hundreds of bugs when covid restrictions were in place.
Mike Moore@moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 2y agoawesome paper that measures selection on plasticity itself. nice integration of a mesocosm experiment and a field study by @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social @adamsiepielski.bsky.social 🧪🌍🦑 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Cis friends - instead of telling the trans ppl you know that they're valid, etc, regardless of our political landscape, tell that to other cis ppl.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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Congratulations to our former #AMNH #REU student Maia Chandler, who along with co-authors Daniel Davis, Aaron Goodman & Lacie Newton, published her work on Nannothemis bella #dragonflies today! #WDA #WorldDragonflyAssociation #IJO #NSF www.worlddragonfly.org/article/tijo...
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a historic hearing on transgender rights. The findings in this case will likely have great implications for the right to healthcare for all trans people in the U.S. See how you can support our communities below!
Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2y agoAround this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...
When you find out the stonefly on your door was a rare endemic and then spend the evening collecting more off your duplex in the dark, on a ladder, with a headlamp on. My poor neighbors 😂
Wade Boys@boyswillbebugs.bsky.social · 3y agoWhen you come home and find a stonefly on your front door it's a good day ☺️ easy collecting!
Turned in my writtens. Nervous system hasn't been this nervous in awhile 😬
When you come home and find a stonefly on your front door it's a good day ☺️ easy collecting!
Allocapnia (winter stonefly) ☺️ little bug hunting break from writing.
