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Holly Moeller

@mixotrophe.bsky.social

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Jersey girl, rain lover, chalkboard equation addict. Associate professor & eco-evo theoretician (Erdős # = 5) at EEMB, UCSB (#unicornjob🦄). All good bugs photosynthesize. Go Birds! 🦅💚 she/her

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · Dec 1

I needed to read this chapter from "The Inequality Machine" today. Because here at UCSB, we're done telling students not to bother trying. And the most important mission of my career, "to actually teach them calculus," begins next Fall. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 3.191/n #year3

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Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social · 21h

We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!

Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!

hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

hofstra.peopleadmin.com

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 22h

From integration to Euler's method in one fell swoop. Fell might be the operative word. #figaday 4.109/n #year4

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 1d

Cal Poly is hiring! We are looking for multiple tenure-track colleagues, including animal physiology, cell biology, and microbiology! Please spread the word. Links in thread. bio.calpoly.edu

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 1d

Just completely insanely beautiful and weird plastid structures in these guys after 3 weeks of starvation. #karmachamaeleon #figaday 4.108/n #year4

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 2d

The yellowtail parrotfish face off and throw down in the Stadium with their mohawks up 🦜🐟😤😤🦜🐟 #yellowtailparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #slowmotion #faceoff #throwdown #mohawksup #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 2d

Every day I get to work on expanded cells on the confocal feels like a gift to myself. #figaday 4.107/n #year4

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 4d

Learned about Desmos from our #wundergrads and now I'm building new-calculus lab materials in it? Hopefully this will be part of a successful bridge from manual calculations --> Google Sheets --> visualizing in Desmos --> coding in R! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.106/n #year4

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 4d

Obsessed with new-calculus, but still sometimes get to find time to make actual data plots. #figaday 4.105/n #year4

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 5d

The automatic black background for transparent images is killing me so here it is again on white.

Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 5d

The world is on fire but at least we have this lovely sticker design. Integral mama quail and her emotive babies sketched by postdoc Clarissa Frederica; mathematical accoutrements (pencil; coffee; math daydreams) and some aesthetics by #wundergrad Alan Sheu.

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 5d

Basically the entire premise of calculus in one lecture. Frank the Hypothetical Cheetah, thank you for your service. #figaday 4.104/n #year4

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 6d

📣Our line-up for our next theoretical ecology series (crossing three continents!),

It will have been 5 years since we started, and still all our seminars are fully open on Zoom (iite.info/seminar/).

There is no need to register, but you can sign up to email updates here iite.info/seminar-emai...

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 6d

Fun day! Started before dawn on the confocal, midday teaching and seminar about teaching, and now prepping for tomorrow's calculus class. #figaday 4.103/n #year4

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 8d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 7d

4 lectures down, 13 to go? The quarter is so fast. #figaday 4.102/n #year4

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 8d

Definitely behind on lecture prep but hopefully this was worth it. #figaday 4.101/n #year4

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 11d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 9d

Prepping a fun geometry lesson. #figaday 4.100/n #year4

Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 10d

Don't tell my students that this is the answer to one of their lab questions in a couple weeks. #figaday 4.099/n #year4

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 11d

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!

"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 11d

Not that exciting but had to make this figure (probably for the 10th time so far in my career) to remind myself how the wavelength of sine functions changes. #figaday 4.098/n #year4

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 12d

🏁🐡🚁🐡🚁🏁🐡🚁🏁🐡🚁🏁 Huffle SZN is in full swing! Where do all these checkered pufferfish go in Autumn? What are they up to?? #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 12d

Lecture 3! With a little "figure scavenger hunt" matching biological examples to different mathematical functions. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.097/n #year4

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 13d

Got the bad news trio done early this week, so tonight it's just me and these guys working late on the microscope. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 4.096/n #year4