Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈

bramvandijk.bsky.social

17 October 2026 20:39

New preprint from our lab, with @sultannazir.bsky.social! 🚨 Defense systems in pro- and eukaryotes are often derived from the very parasites they now defend against. Here we show how this all starts with the emergence of cheaters in parasite populations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brian J. Enquist

bjenquist.bsky.social

15 October 2026 18:22

Please pass along - my department @uofa-eeb.bsky.social is hiring! Assistant Professor in quantitative population and community ecology - come join us in wonderful #Tucson ! #AcademicJobs 🧪🌾🌐 arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Jon Phillips

jowiph.bsky.social

15 October 2026 18:21

This would have been perfect for my proposed-but-never-taught course on the history of popular understanding of science though comic books

Katie Spoon

kspoon.bsky.social

15 October 2026 18:19

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

Katie Spoon

kspoon.bsky.social

15 October 2026 18:17

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...