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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 6h

I was pretty sure that we absolutely could not put flying fox fellatio on the poster, but at spouse's exhortation I pinged coauthors, who were DELIGHTED.

anyway the image made it front and center in both poster and subsequent paper, and I will never be able to think of bats without smiling about it

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 6h

when I was making a poster on same-sex sexual behavior for Evolution 2019, my partner kept telling me to go hunting for more images of cuter vertebrate species. I found an awesome reference for Bonin flying fox... and then could not find any images of live bats not actively engaging in fellatio.

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks 🕷️🎃🦇 @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · 7h

🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...

#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️

Photograph of mounted great false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum) against light green background in the collections of the Cole Zoology Museum (University of Reading). Its wings are fully extended and it has sharp teeth. It looks very scary.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 1d

ohhhhh I don't like that. bad vibes for workplace culture, that.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's this very human impulse to want to think, if only I KNEW about this category of human I fit within I would have been truer to myself!

And, well... in my experience, if the consequences to sharing parts of yourself are that harsh--and they were--you just learn to compartmentalize more.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 1d

I am also always like... what do you think would have happened differently if you were diagnosed? Childhood diagnosis and self knowledge didn't give me a magic pathway to success; it just gave me different hangups, because diagnosis has never automatically meant supports for autistic people.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

There is a direct pipeline from the mommy bloggers who got information about autism on Google to the autism mommy wars of the 2000s to Robert F. Kennedy becoming HHS Secretary. For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com, I chronicle this rise.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare

In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, kooks like Wakefield weren't exactly the indie artists and downtown shopfronts "Keep Austin Weird" is intended to describe, and the right-wing loons aren't precisely *rare* in Texas outside Austin itself. But yeah.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 3d

Wakefield's been living in Austin and stirring shit for what, fifteen years? IIRC he was all buddy buddy with Alex Jones for a long time.

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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 3d

We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 3d

big ifs obviously but it certainly wouldn't be the first time predators were caught eavesdropping on prey or even iirc the first time predators were caught eavesdropping on prey using an active sensory system like this--I'm pretty sure catfish have been documented hunting ghost knife fish this way.

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 3d

....oh man. the rats can probably hear the echolocation calls quite well, come to think of it. (I mean, this guy looks to me like he's listening intently.) It would make total sense if the echolocation calls made bats a target as well as giving them the ability to hunt their own prey!

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 6d

Hello advent calendar fans, please consider making a recurring donation to your local food pantry. You will enjoy it even more if you can chip in to help others to get enough food. Even if the government decides to stop being ghoulish, there's still a deep need

Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 7d

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 7d

Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?

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Nickle Dayve of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟 @nicholdav.bsky.social · 8d

The best way to show you don't know shit about Cognition is to force people to work > 40 hours / week

My dudes, you are not going to prove Henry Ford wrong: he sought to turn humans into components of an assembly line, but his own data showed > 40h / week was 🔥💸💸🔥

third-bit.com/2025/01/02/c...

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan ❌👑 @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 16d

The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship!

You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS...

I'm also happy to answer any questions!

#Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology

WOC in EEB mentorship sign up form 2025

forms.gle

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Thom Sanger @thomsanger.bsky.social · 17d

Republican support for science paved the way for my career as a biologist. To explain this, I prepared a blog post to accompany a recent Editorial published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social.

integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...

How Republican Support for Science
Led to My Career as a Biologist

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 18d

I am so sorry to hear that!

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 21d

San Jacinto, also.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 25d

Developmental Biology and Disability.

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”

Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...

Developmental Biology and Disability - the Node

Hopeful monsters. Morphospace. Mutation. Natural variation. Mutagenesis screens. Polymorphism. Deformity. Phenotype. Disease. Adaptation. Anomaly.

thenode.biologists.com

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · 27d

I think it's a good thing, because it shows students that science is iterative and how it changes. I do think this is a general biology thing: I remember similar lectures about the history of the field in genetics, microbiology, and biochemistry too, usually in the context of specific experiments.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 29d

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · Sep 22

(That said, most of them already know. I've been lucky enough to have known a lot of savvy undergrads.)

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Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @eringiglio.bsky.social · Sep 22

Absolutely. I am pretty realistic with them about the level of uncertainty going on right now, and then we talk about the political will necessary to return these industries to some kind of solid footing. It's really hard, and it sucks, but I don't think it's kinder to not share truth of situation.

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