Hope @read-theroom.bsky.social gets there someday. Love Wikipedia 💜

Wikipedia@wikipedia.org · 9mo ago

The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25 Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org

The full app is finally out! Please check it out if you're interested and rate and review if you like it 😊

> read(the_room)@read-theroom.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After months of testing, the chameleons are loose 🦎🎉 Read the Room is fully released on iOS + Android! Now’s the most important step: download, rate & review. It’s the #1 way we can grow this community together!

Check out this new project I'm working on! Pre-register now if you are interested in either being a Workin' Grad or hiring one.

@workingrad.bsky.social · last yr.

Why did we build Workin' Grad? Because we were once broke Workin’ Grads too. We believe grad students deserve better. This platform is our way of fighting back, with flexible, paid work designed for your weird schedule. 📚💸

Be a part of the chameleon crew! Join our alpha testing: readtheroom.site

Read the Room

Read the Room, know the world. An anonymous sentiment mapping platform.

readtheroom.site

> read(the_room)@read-theroom.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 Alpha stats update There are now 55 of us in this weird little app! That’s 55 people lurking, voting, and asking unhinged questions. #chameleongang #betaSoon #softlaunchvibes

I am excited to announce that the last paper from my PhD is now out! In this paper, we tested how early-life predation stress shapes adult behaviour in Trinidadian guppies and whether DNA methylation in the brain plays a role. Read all about it here: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Exciting things coming on RTR!

> read(the_room)@read-theroom.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s me, Karma the chameleon🦎, aka the only member of the team who’s been working on this app (besides Soud, who may be doing all the real work). The other team members are very busy providing moral support. Anyways, we’re building something cool. Stay tuned! #newapp #appdev #mobileapp #appdesign

How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress? We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females. New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟 doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Rapid Neural DNA Methylation Responses to Predation Stress in Trinidadian Guppies

DNA methylation (DNAm) is a well-studied epigenetic mechanism implicated in environmentally induced phenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. However, few studies investigate the timescale of DNAm shifts...

doi.org

Congratulations to @janayf.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize from @gensocuk.bsky.social and for delivering an amazing talk.

I was incredibly grateful to receive recognition for my work and for the opportunity to present at this very exciting conference! Thank you!

Genetics Society UK@gensocuk.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Congratulations @janayf.bsky.social on winning our 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize! Janay's talk is on the epigenetic plasticity in response to environmental stress: insights from an evolutionary fish model #Epigenetics2025

Check out this awesome work that just came out!

Alexis Heckley@alexisheckley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out our new review, 'Pathogens and Planetary Change', in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social! The paper is nicely summarized in this thread by @ctrlalttim.bsky.social (and another thread I've also re-posted by @colincarlson.bsky.social). Very excited to have been part of this fantastic collaboration!

Working on this cool project with some friends @soudk.bsky.social @chrispyross.bsky.social. Give our account a follow to watch our journey!

> read(the_room)@read-theroom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello Bluesky! We’re Read the Room, a new website that lets you ask questions anonymously and see how answers vary globally. Dive in and explore diverse opinions with us!

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback

Factors that affect dispersal can have important eco-evolutionary implications. Here, we show that an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—does not influence threespine stickle...

dx.doi.org

Please join our discord so we can make it a vibrant community! Dm me if you want to join 😊

Clare Venney@clarevenney.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you interested in evolutionary epigenetics? After Evolution 2024 in Montréal, we created an Evolutionary Epigenetics Discord server for all things epigenetics - data analysis, events, job opportunities, etc. Interested? Message me for the link! 😄

🦠🦟Please check out our review on the landscape of disgust (with @qwebber.bsky.social @allegralove.bsky.social ): ow.ly/ZRKm50UlsiO. There is a formatting issue on the website version that we are trying to fix - so, please download the PDF version if you want to give it a read! @royalsociety.org

Taking cues from ecological and evolutionary theories to expand the landscape of disgust | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Behavioural avoidance of parasites in the environment generates what is known as the ‘landscape of disgust’ (analogous to the predator-induced ‘landscape of fear’). Despite the potential for improving...

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Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why

About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and now the craze is back

newscientist.com

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution

Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with @danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence. @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Hello Bluesky! I have exciting things to announce for my first post. I successfully defended my thesis last week and have won the Bruce Cattanach Prize for my thesis work on molecular mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity! genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Bruce Cattanach Prize 2025 Dr Janay Fox | Genetics Society

The Genetics Society is delighted to announce Dr Janay Fox as the winner of the 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize. I am honoured and excited to receive the Bruce

genetics.org.uk