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Kelly Zamudio

@kzutaustin.bsky.social

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Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics / herpetophile / Neotropics / Professor @UTAustin in @texasscience.bsky.social and Department of Integrative Biology / Women & Diversity In Science / Proud to be #Woke

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Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Austin. She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates. .. more

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17h

Brown rejected the compact!

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 1d

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 16d

Kory on 🔥! Cool paper!

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laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 16d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18d

I'm not really a meme person, but this is pretty funny.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 19d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 19d

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 27d

UTEP seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Arid Land Herpetology, specializing in the ecology of desert amphibians and reptiles. Applications are open immediately until filled. More info: https://www.utep.edu/science/eligreenbaum/index.html #job

Eli Greenbaum PhD

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hahaha... #botanists

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Sep 14

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Watch for the solicitation, still to be posted... #GRFP #science #STEM

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 9

Brazil's Independence Day has become the moment for the country’s nationalist, right-wing movement to take to the streets, protest the left and hoist the Brazilian flag. This year, it carried the American flag as a nod to President Trump, in a sign of the U.S. flag’s shifting global image.

The New Symbol of the Brazilian Right: the American Flag

In a nod to President Trump, Brazil’s nationalist movement has adopted the stars and stripes. Now one flag could be the focus of an investigation involving the N.F.L.

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · Aug 27

Calling all part-time and full-time faculty in the South: Speak out on academic freedom, shared governance, and your working conditions! Survey closes 8/29 at 5pm ET. States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Aug 26

what a great feeling! Nice job to the crew!

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Fred Wolf @fredwolf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Still no NSF GRFP announcement for this year. Another week or two and the program is going to be effectively cancelled, because students will not have time to prepare. Any chatter out there about whats going on???? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

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researchlab25.bsky.social @researchlab25.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trying again: Does anyone know if the NSF GRFP will return this year? We're >1 month past the date of last year's solicitation (July 12, 2024) and there's not a new one up yet.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Aug 19

Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs

The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.

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2026 SSB Breakout Meeting

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 14

At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies

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Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities

At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies.

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Aug 11

👀 👀 Attention potential post-docs! Stengl-Wyer Scholars are three year post-docs to develop independent projects at UT. If you would like to talk about potential projects please get in touch!

Integrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · Aug 5

Applications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! The program provides up to 3 years of support for talented postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. Learn more here: utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 11

good lord - women who hav been stalked or had to take out a restraining order have a 40-70% higher chance of having a heart attack or stroke www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Experiences of Stalking and Obtaining a Restraining Order Are Associated With Onset of Cardiovascular Events in Women: A Prospective Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II | Circulation

Background: Stalking is one of the most common forms of interpersonal violence, with nearly 1 in 3 women experiencing it in their lifetime. Restraining orders are a legal remedy aimed at protecting wo...

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Aug 9

New paper! This one lead by fprmer post-doc Carla Lopes - using eDNA to detect host frogs and pathogen strains at the same time. Thanks to the whole collab group, it takes a village!

Simultaneous Detection of Missing Amphibians and Their Fungal Pathogen in a Biodiversity Hotspot Using eDNA

Since the 1970s, striking amphibian declines in population abundances and presumed extinctions have been recorded globally. The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is one of the key dr....

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Integrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Awesome @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social well deserved!!! 💪💯

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city trees @citytrees.bsky.social · Jul 31

This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
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Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me

I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.

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Miranda Prynne @mirandaprynne.bsky.social · Jul 31

The attacks on #DEI, institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom are not going away, writes Delta College president @michaelhgavin.bsky.social. He calls on US #highered to stand firm, examine legal obligations closely and work in coalition for the benefit of all students: ow.ly/Erlf50WxRYW #Trump

‘There is no workaround to this moment – we are all targets’

The attacks on DEI and academic freedom show higher education needs to come together, build collaborations and stand firm. Here’s how

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