Shubham Soni
@shubhamsoni.bsky.social
Ecology | Herpetology | Behaviour | Color science!
PhD Student Vilnius University | KLIVV - VetMedUni Vienna
PhD Student Vilnius University | KLIVV - VetMedUni Vienna
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Shubham Soni
@shubhamsoni.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Hi, I am Shubham, an ecologist and herpetologist interested in broadscale ecology and behaviours that underlie the evolution of species. I am also interested in function and evolution of COLOURS. My research is heavily inspired by Natural History & I love herps and sometimes photograph them too :)
What my second PhD field trip looked like: Fun, intense and beautiful! #Cayenne #frenchguiana
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What my second PhD field trip looked like: Fun, intense and beautiful! #Cayenne #frenchguiana
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The big 4 of grant writing:
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question
December 29, 2024 at 4:01 AM
The big 4 of grant writing:
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question
1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise
2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it
3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic
4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question
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Knowing how to give a good talk is a crucial skill to have, but it's mostly not formally taught very well. Here's my strategy for how to prepare for the presentation, actually present it, and then answer the questions.
December 29, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Knowing how to give a good talk is a crucial skill to have, but it's mostly not formally taught very well. Here's my strategy for how to prepare for the presentation, actually present it, and then answer the questions.
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Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness
December 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness
I just loved this one! It is the discussions with my closest friends that I cherish the most!
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Improvisational science - Genome Biology
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
December 25, 2024 at 11:55 AM
I just loved this one! It is the discussions with my closest friends that I cherish the most!
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great sunday afternoon looks like this!
December 23, 2024 at 6:43 AM
A great sunday afternoon looks like this!
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It's the time of the year for emergency speed reading of all the books I'm going to gift friends and family. Wish me luck!
December 22, 2024 at 11:07 AM
It's the time of the year for emergency speed reading of all the books I'm going to gift friends and family. Wish me luck!
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Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat?
Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat?
Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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So lucky to work with this fun and talented bunch! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
So lucky to work with this fun and talented bunch! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!
The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…
zamudiolab.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
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Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes
Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We’ve listed a few starter packs that we thought might be interesting to our members/researchers in animal behaviour. Feel free to add on to the thread if you have more suggestions! 🦍🦒🐐🐕🐑🐋🐍🦗
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a man wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
Alt: David from Schitts creek wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:54 PM
We’ve listed a few starter packs that we thought might be interesting to our members/researchers in animal behaviour. Feel free to add on to the thread if you have more suggestions! 🦍🦒🐐🐕🐑🐋🐍🦗
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We have a cover!
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 AM
We have a cover!
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
Hi, I am Shubham, an ecologist and herpetologist interested in broadscale ecology and behaviours that underlie the evolution of species. I am also interested in function and evolution of COLOURS. My research is heavily inspired by Natural History & I love herps and sometimes photograph them too :)
November 30, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Hi, I am Shubham, an ecologist and herpetologist interested in broadscale ecology and behaviours that underlie the evolution of species. I am also interested in function and evolution of COLOURS. My research is heavily inspired by Natural History & I love herps and sometimes photograph them too :)
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It’s still hard for me to drop messy sentences😭🫨
Writing Tip:
The quality of your first draft does not represent the quality of the finished product. Far from it. Most first drafts are an incomprehensible mess. Quality shines in editing. Even a poorly-written draft can be polished into a diamond over time.
#writing #writingtips #writingcommunity
The quality of your first draft does not represent the quality of the finished product. Far from it. Most first drafts are an incomprehensible mess. Quality shines in editing. Even a poorly-written draft can be polished into a diamond over time.
#writing #writingtips #writingcommunity
November 29, 2024 at 2:55 AM
It’s still hard for me to drop messy sentences😭🫨
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Bottom row 😀
Since XKCD’s “Types of Scientific Paper” is making the rounds again, here’s the Entomology one I made a few years ago.
November 22, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bottom row 😀
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🧪 Cool Kronholm-lab @Jyvaskyla (Finland) has two postdoc positions open! 1) the experimental evolution project involving epistatic incompatibilities, and 2) estimating epistatic interactions by constructing the TE insertion libraries in fission yeast. See the ad:
tinyurl.com/3b5fdwh2
tinyurl.com/3b5fdwh2
Postdoctoral Researcher positions, Experimental Evolution and Genetics
We are seeking to recruit two Postdoctoral Researchers, to join to the research group of Associate Professor Ilkka Kronholm at the [Department of Biological and Environmental Science](https://www.jyu....
tinyurl.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:48 AM
🧪 Cool Kronholm-lab @Jyvaskyla (Finland) has two postdoc positions open! 1) the experimental evolution project involving epistatic incompatibilities, and 2) estimating epistatic interactions by constructing the TE insertion libraries in fission yeast. See the ad:
tinyurl.com/3b5fdwh2
tinyurl.com/3b5fdwh2
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Super excited to say our work on finite population #Evolution has now been accepted by the American Naturalist @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! You can now find the accepted version online:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Please reach out if you'd like a PDF or have any questions!!
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Please reach out if you'd like a PDF or have any questions!!
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www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Behaviour 2025 -- an International Conference will be held in India. Here is the poster and keynote and plenary speakers!
Registration to open in December!
Registration to open in December!
November 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Behaviour 2025 -- an International Conference will be held in India. Here is the poster and keynote and plenary speakers!
Registration to open in December!
Registration to open in December!