Phil Pearson (they/them)
@drphilrp.bsky.social
Research manager at #UniCanberra
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology 🦎🦎
Non-binary| Queer | ADHDer
#PokémonGo Nerd
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PhD in Evolutionary Ecology 🦎🦎
Non-binary| Queer | ADHDer
#PokémonGo Nerd
linktr.ee/philrpearson
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My thoughts at conferences this year tend to go back and forth between “it’s weird that so many scientists and environmentalists are acting like everything is normal” and “joy is resistance”
August 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My thoughts at conferences this year tend to go back and forth between “it’s weird that so many scientists and environmentalists are acting like everything is normal” and “joy is resistance”
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5 yrs ago - 287k likes
“I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”
“I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”
August 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
5 yrs ago - 287k likes
“I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”
“I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”
I #foundthatlizard! Can you?
Western fence lizards have beautiful blue patches on their bellies. The darker the blue, the more mature the male. When they do their famous push-ups, they’re communicating their dominance to potential rivals. This posturing often prevents physical fights, which could cause injury.
August 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I #foundthatlizard! Can you?
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Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...
August 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...
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𝘞𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢 @consletters.bsky.social 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳!
Anyone still around? Or are you all on a sunny beach🏖️ or hiking epic mountains⛰️?
Coast or mountain, I think we all 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 it's holiday time!
An 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 was also found among +350 forests conservation stakeholders.
Curious? Join the thread!
Anyone still around? Or are you all on a sunny beach🏖️ or hiking epic mountains⛰️?
Coast or mountain, I think we all 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 it's holiday time!
An 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 was also found among +350 forests conservation stakeholders.
Curious? Join the thread!
August 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
𝘞𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢 @consletters.bsky.social 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳!
Anyone still around? Or are you all on a sunny beach🏖️ or hiking epic mountains⛰️?
Coast or mountain, I think we all 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 it's holiday time!
An 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 was also found among +350 forests conservation stakeholders.
Curious? Join the thread!
Anyone still around? Or are you all on a sunny beach🏖️ or hiking epic mountains⛰️?
Coast or mountain, I think we all 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 it's holiday time!
An 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 was also found among +350 forests conservation stakeholders.
Curious? Join the thread!
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She’s six years old, lives in Brisbane and might just be one of the best resilience coaches on television. 👉 theconversation.com/researc...
August 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
She’s six years old, lives in Brisbane and might just be one of the best resilience coaches on television. 👉 theconversation.com/researc...
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Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣
TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.
Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.
Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣
TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.
Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.
Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
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besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.
Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.
Does a lack of juveniles indicate a threat? Understanding body size distributions in a group of long‐lived vertebrates
We used a large dataset to examine turtle size distributions and found that for most species in most areas, distributions are typically skewed towards large adults, with few juveniles present. Theref....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.
Glad to have this work out, led by Donald McKnight with collaboration from many turtle researchers across the USA and Australia. It came about to answer a critique that fox predation mightn't drive low juvenile abundance in Australian systems.
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*former field biologist who now stares at climate data all day long searches for something happy, hopeful, and deeply satisfying in the timeline*
*finds it*
www.pennlive.com/life/2025/07...
*finds it*
www.pennlive.com/life/2025/07...
‘Hordes’ of tarantulas set to emerge in the U.S.: See where and why
Tens of thousands of tarantulas will be crawling around certain parts of the United States soon.
www.pennlive.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
*former field biologist who now stares at climate data all day long searches for something happy, hopeful, and deeply satisfying in the timeline*
*finds it*
www.pennlive.com/life/2025/07...
*finds it*
www.pennlive.com/life/2025/07...
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Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times
Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution
www.science.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
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this is shaping up to potentially be the most bisexual movie since The Mummy (1999)
New look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth.
(Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)
(Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)
July 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is shaping up to potentially be the most bisexual movie since The Mummy (1999)
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Open to Australian and international students, apply before 18 August 2025.
More info on the EOI process here: www.curtin.edu.au/study/higher...
(You can also contact me directly for more information!)
More info on the EOI process here: www.curtin.edu.au/study/higher...
(You can also contact me directly for more information!)
Research Training Scholarships - Study | Curtin University
The world needs new knowledge. Express your interest in one of Curtin's fully-funded Higher Degree by Research (HDR) projects and you could be beginning your research journey with Curtin in August.
www.curtin.edu.au
July 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Open to Australian and international students, apply before 18 August 2025.
More info on the EOI process here: www.curtin.edu.au/study/higher...
(You can also contact me directly for more information!)
More info on the EOI process here: www.curtin.edu.au/study/higher...
(You can also contact me directly for more information!)
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A reminder that sea turtles are important. #LetsChangeThat
July 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A reminder that sea turtles are important. #LetsChangeThat
My amazing colleague, Katy, wrote this Conversation piece to accompany her recent paper from her #PhD on the importance of play in #earlychildhoodeducation.
Give it read! #edusky
Give it read! #edusky
Play is a big part of early childhood education. But once kids start school, play is frequently dismissed as something fun, that is not part of learning.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/does-pl...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/does-pl...
July 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My amazing colleague, Katy, wrote this Conversation piece to accompany her recent paper from her #PhD on the importance of play in #earlychildhoodeducation.
Give it read! #edusky
Give it read! #edusky
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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The push-ups are essential one lizard talking to another saying “hey this is my territory back off,” or “hey ladies! I’m the one you should mate with!”
I hope you #FoundThatLizard? Let me know in the comments!
#Lizard #science #scicomm #sciart #wildlife #game
#conservation
I hope you #FoundThatLizard? Let me know in the comments!
#Lizard #science #scicomm #sciart #wildlife #game
#conservation
July 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The push-ups are essential one lizard talking to another saying “hey this is my territory back off,” or “hey ladies! I’m the one you should mate with!”
I hope you #FoundThatLizard? Let me know in the comments!
#Lizard #science #scicomm #sciart #wildlife #game
#conservation
I hope you #FoundThatLizard? Let me know in the comments!
#Lizard #science #scicomm #sciart #wildlife #game
#conservation
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Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
forms.gle
May 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪
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Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)
UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...
International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...
International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
July 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)
UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...
International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...
International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
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Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
I THINK they’re mad because of the hardscaping? Not entirely sure.
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
(One guy tried to claim it didn’t store CO2. Do you want a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration? Because this is how you get a lecture on prairie carbon sequestration.)
July 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”
Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵