Paradyse Blackwood, Ph.D.
@paradyseb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Univ of British Columbia & Hakai Institute studying marine host-parasite dynamics🧫🦠. Purdue EEB PhD🐸. Binghamton Neuroscience alum. they/them #BlackinSTEM #1stGen 🇯🇲🍉
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Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
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I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
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If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
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We’re excited to be collaborating with @skypeascientist.bsky.social for their free livestream on December 4th at 1 PM EST featuring researcher Andy Lee! Register here for your chance to talk with Andy about his research on sea snails & climate change: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/les....
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We’re excited to be collaborating with @skypeascientist.bsky.social for their free livestream on December 4th at 1 PM EST featuring researcher Andy Lee! Register here for your chance to talk with Andy about his research on sea snails & climate change: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/les....
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i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!!
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
lmk if you’d like an invite/link
For my 1st post here, I’m excited to announce that the final chapter of my PhD is now published online with Freshwater Biology and it’s open access! Here, we examined how multiple environmental stressors interacted to impact disease dynamics in tadpoles. 🐸 1/3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Temperature Variability and Salt Pollution Interact to Alter Subsequent Multi‐Parasite Susceptibility in Larval Amphibians
Wild populations face unprecedented pressure from an assortment of anthropogenic environmental changes and parasites. We sought to understand how host–parasite interactions are affected by the int...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For my 1st post here, I’m excited to announce that the final chapter of my PhD is now published online with Freshwater Biology and it’s open access! Here, we examined how multiple environmental stressors interacted to impact disease dynamics in tadpoles. 🐸 1/3
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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how it started vs how it’s going…
logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️⚧️
logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️⚧️
August 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
how it started vs how it’s going…
logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️⚧️
logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️⚧️
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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness
*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social
🧵
Photo by Christian Ziegler
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness
*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social
🧵
Photo by Christian Ziegler
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness
*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social
🧵
Photo by Christian Ziegler
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness
*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social
🧵
Photo by Christian Ziegler
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Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
August 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
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my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!!
*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies
really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen
*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies
really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!!
*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies
really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen
*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies
really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen
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go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪
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New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!
We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution
We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution
‘Highly‐Informative’ Genetic Markers Can Bias Conclusions: Examples and General Solutions
High-grading bias is the overestimation power in a subset of loci caused by model overfitting. Using both empirical and simulated datasets, we show that high-grading bias can cause severe overestimat...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!
We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution
We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution
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I'm recruiting a 2-yr postdoc to start in October or November of 2025! I'm looking for applicants interested in exploring amphibian disease ecology as it relates to climate change. Strong quantitative skills preferred, interviews start late July. More info: erinsauer.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'm recruiting a 2-yr postdoc to start in October or November of 2025! I'm looking for applicants interested in exploring amphibian disease ecology as it relates to climate change. Strong quantitative skills preferred, interviews start late July. More info: erinsauer.com
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I am also recruiting a grad student to start Fall 2026. Grad school applications for Fall 2026 are due by Dec 2025. I am looking for applicants who are interested in projects exploring the disease ecology of amphibians and/or wild birds. I will be at ESA in August and am happy to meet!
Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!
July 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I am also recruiting a grad student to start Fall 2026. Grad school applications for Fall 2026 are due by Dec 2025. I am looking for applicants who are interested in projects exploring the disease ecology of amphibians and/or wild birds. I will be at ESA in August and am happy to meet!