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Christina Hansen Wheat
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Assistant professor @liu.se. I study how behavior develops and evolves, often within a domestication framework and mostly in wolves and dogs. Scientific integrity advocate. Florida Man wrangler, husky enthusiast and occasional butterfly catcher.
Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

liu.se/en/work-at-l...
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
More of this, please!
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s slim pickings out there alright…😅

🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
December 10, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Our husky had surgery this week and the body she needs to wear to prevent her from licking her stitches makes her look like Steve Jobs in his iconic turtleneck sweaters.

She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products…

🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog
December 6, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Harsh! …but here’s to the importance of negative results.

🧪🌍#AcademicSky
December 1, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Another job opportunity in Europe!

3+3 year position equivalent of Assistant professor at the Department of Animal Behaviour at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Experience with genetic and genomic approaches an advantage.

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer #ScienceJobs
November 11, 2024 at 12:38 PM
In the light of recent events you might be looking for positions in say...Europe? Here is one on applied animal population ecology in Switzerland that aims to guide biodiversity conservation.

www.unine.ch/files/live/s...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRCareer
November 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
When you (finally) get a grant after waiting for a decision for 9 months, reread your long forgotten proposal, and realize what you actually have to do now...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
November 7, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Happiness is when you bring out the hiking doggy backpack and your 10-year old husky bounces off the walls from excitement. We put less weight in her backpack these days (don’t tell her), but she’s still our best adventure buddy.

Enjoy your dogs while you can ❤️
July 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Great night at Pint of Science in Stockholm, Sweden! Our colleagues from Stockholm University told us about butterflies, mercury pollution and sexual selection. Oh, and we won the quiz 😀 Yay science!

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
May 14, 2024 at 7:48 PM
The brutality of writing 3 different grant applications in 4 weeks, making all the deadlines (barely alive), being super proud of yourself…and then getting the first rejection the day after your last submission.

Academia is tough, be kind to one another.

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
April 11, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Me thinking about all the exciting ideas I have for research projects vs me actually having to finish them up 2 days before the grant deadlines (yes, plural)...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
April 7, 2024 at 5:09 AM
JOB ALERT!

What is the cost of making color in butterfly wings?

Postdoc opening studying life-history tradeoffs using function genomics (CRISPR, ATACseq, CHIPseq, ssRNAseq) at Stockholm University.

t.co/ToErH8ITM5

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer
February 8, 2024 at 8:46 AM
JOB ALERT! The Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum is seeking an associate professor for a position in vertebrate evolutionary genomics.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer
January 29, 2024 at 12:54 PM
When dad is away…

#Janisdog #Househusky #Dogs
January 18, 2024 at 1:02 PM
It finally happened! Five wolves released in Colorado yesterday as a first step in the efforts to reestablish a viable population in the state. Check out further details and the breathtaking video of the release itself in the link below.

Good luck out there! 🧪🌍

cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Page...
December 19, 2023 at 4:16 PM
So, are we gonna talk about how someone thought it was a good idea to see if they could do ResearchGate worse than Elon did Twitter?

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
November 19, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Wolf conservation paper: "Public wolf-hunting schemes did not correlate with livestock depredation levels....The observed failure in reducing livestock losses is expected if predators are non-selectively removed"

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM
November 19, 2023 at 1:53 PM
PhD position on dog behaviour and cognition in the Bray Lab at University of Arizona.

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky
November 16, 2023 at 3:22 PM
JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position in marcroecology at Copenhagen University. Focus on vertebrates, preferably birds.

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky
November 13, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Me trying to fit one more important point into a grant proposal with a strict page limit...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky
November 8, 2023 at 1:28 PM
As a behavioural ecologist I am amazed by how consistently cats are just little shits😍 The trait clearly expresses a considerable degree of context independence so it must be subject to selection. Has anyone quantified the heritability of being a little shit?

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #Evobio #evosky #EHBEA
November 2, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Position as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Limnology at Uppsala University!

www.jobb.uu.se/details/?pos...

🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #Evobio #evosky
November 2, 2023 at 9:03 AM