santiago salinas
@ssalinas.bsky.social
associate professor at kalamazoo college // evolutionary ecology, plasticity, pedagogy. also trying to study soccer with a bio lens // 🇦🇷
The club-ification of international football is one of the worst things ever. Your national team isn't a lifestyle brand. You don't pick one. You have *one* and you root for them, period.
Surprised we haven’t seen a true penalty specialist goalkeeper yet. Every tournament team should have a third-choice keeper whose purpose is coming on for penalty shootouts. Marginal gains
Looking at the timeline as a moodle user
Grad Unap: Matrix-style Slow Motion Dodge
ALT: Grad Unap: Matrix-style Slow Motion Dodge
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When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Fascinating work from @ssalinas.bsky.social and colleagues
1/12 Really proud of this paper! We borrowed tools from biology to ask a simple question: does who you play with actually matter in football? (Spoiler: it does, a lot.) 🧬 🤝 ⚽ Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUusArnpe...
1/12 Really proud of this paper! We borrowed tools from biology to ask a simple question: does who you play with actually matter in football? (Spoiler: it does, a lot.) 🧬 🤝 ⚽ Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUusArnpe...
Wow! In the ~1.5 years since we launched the EEB section of microPublication Biology, we have published 69 articles with another 10 in review or revision. 🎉 🧪 Thanks to authors and reviewers for supporting the effort! 🙏🏼
📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
career milestone unlocked: frantically finishing my conference talk hours before my presentation
It may not be much, but @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social is the only Michigan SLAC on this list...
Edit, 5:00 p.m. ET on April 22: Thank you to everyone for amplifying this statement! Since its release, we now have nearly 250 signatories in total.
🎉microPublications EEB is looking for new editors! -Editorial load is extremely light (but we work quickly) -Awesome format and journal, serves the EEB community well IMO -We cover all of EEB so we're looking for breath/generalists/complimentary expertise -DM me if interested (or suggest someone)!
📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
If you haven't read this scathing email from an EPA fed to Lee Zeldin yet, do yourself a solid and check it out: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
muellershewrote.com
I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.
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The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪 Congratulations! Read more: www.tylerprize.org
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
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...
evolutionsociety.org
"One thing is certain: The changes we make ourselves will be healthier than the ones our adversaries demand." New work for @undark.org: undark.org/2025/02/06/o...
The End of Science’s Peacetime
Opinion | Defending the practice of science from its adversaries will require dealing with some uncomfortable truths.
undark.org
I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
REUs/Summer Research 2024 List (Ecology and Evolution)
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Reminder: There is a venue for microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Don't bury results in a supplemental file. Publish them as a micropub! #Evolution #PlantScience 🌍 🧪 #Conservation
📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB! www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT
microPublication - Get Your Data Out, Be Cited
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This is also painfully true at an international level
If the economic damages of climate change are at least 6x > the cost of mitigation (and probably much more imho), why aren’t we acting like it? Because it’s not about economics: it’s about injustice. Those who hold the balance of power + wealth are not those who bear the brunt of the impacts.
📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
All the cool kids are doing it so here's mine
I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...