Casey terHorst
@ecoevolab.bsky.social
Biology Prof at Cal State Northridge. Pro- species diversity, genetic diversity, and diversity in STEM #BLM #TransLives he/him🏳️🌈
But also into non-academic things (TV and Broadway)
But also into non-academic things (TV and Broadway)
Dang, that it is lineup of badass folks!
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Dang, that it is lineup of badass folks!
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I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
Shamed Scientist Apologises For The First Time About The Academic Scandal That Destroyed His Career And Shocked The World
An ecologist who shot to fame after discovering that spiders have human-like personalities has made an emotional apology after being
nationalnews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed.
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...
Please apply to join the Diversity Committee of the American Society of Naturalists!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Please apply to join the Diversity Committee of the American Society of Naturalists!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 20-22, 2026)? The @asn-amnat.bsky.social is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2026
Call for Symposium Proposals for Evolution 2026
<p><strong>Due January 15, 2026:</strong> The ASN invites proposals for a special symposium at Evolution 2026! Have an idea? We want to hear it!</p><br/>
www.amnat.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 20-22, 2026)? The @asn-amnat.bsky.social is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2026
They put new phones in our offices and for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to make an outgoing call. I've tried all the buttons. Talk about imposter syndrome...
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
They put new phones in our offices and for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to make an outgoing call. I've tried all the buttons. Talk about imposter syndrome...
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This is a reminder that @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishes abstracts in both English and your native language, using your native alphabet. You can see and read those online. Here is a screenshot of a great example. Love seeing this in my favorite journal.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a reminder that @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishes abstracts in both English and your native language, using your native alphabet. You can see and read those online. Here is a screenshot of a great example. Love seeing this in my favorite journal.
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Dear grad students: please stop second-guessing whether your email sounds good, this is what the richest people on earth are sending each other.
you can stop sweating over whether to sign off with "sincerely" or "best".
you can stop sweating over whether to sign off with "sincerely" or "best".
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Dear grad students: please stop second-guessing whether your email sounds good, this is what the richest people on earth are sending each other.
you can stop sweating over whether to sign off with "sincerely" or "best".
you can stop sweating over whether to sign off with "sincerely" or "best".
Environmental Scientist position available with the City of San Diego #WSN2025
www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...
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Ocean Monitoring | City of San Diego Official Website
www.sandiego.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Environmental Scientist position available with the City of San Diego #WSN2025
www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...
www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...
Listening to a student down the hall yell at a guy for not voting yesterday because he didn't think it was important. Get him, girl
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Listening to a student down the hall yell at a guy for not voting yesterday because he didn't think it was important. Get him, girl
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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You forgot the best part.
FM: They even gave us dinner!
Me: We do like to feed people
FM: I've noticed that. When I go to a republican meeting, everyone buys their own meal
Me: ... this analogy feels a little too on the nose
FM: They even gave us dinner!
Me: We do like to feed people
FM: I've noticed that. When I go to a republican meeting, everyone buys their own meal
Me: ... this analogy feels a little too on the nose
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You forgot the best part.
FM: They even gave us dinner!
Me: We do like to feed people
FM: I've noticed that. When I go to a republican meeting, everyone buys their own meal
Me: ... this analogy feels a little too on the nose
FM: They even gave us dinner!
Me: We do like to feed people
FM: I've noticed that. When I go to a republican meeting, everyone buys their own meal
Me: ... this analogy feels a little too on the nose
In positive news, a family member who voted for Trump three times went to a progressive political meeting in their small town last week just to check it out
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In positive news, a family member who voted for Trump three times went to a progressive political meeting in their small town last week just to check it out
This is excellent!
We dressed up as r and k selection for Halloween. Something you can do if the party you’re going to is the EEB grad party.
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is excellent!
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Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Release the Epstein files
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Release the Epstein files
Today would have been a great day to declare a general strike, so I could pretend to be fighting for something greater while struggling to stay awake from a late night of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today would have been a great day to declare a general strike, so I could pretend to be fighting for something greater while struggling to stay awake from a late night of baseball
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
Give Ohtani one more at-bat. Winner takes all
Or
Bunt-off
Or
Bunt-off
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Give Ohtani one more at-bat. Winner takes all
Or
Bunt-off
Or
Bunt-off
👇
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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All the pets are upset that the 15th inning means their bedtime has not been met
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
All the pets are upset that the 15th inning means their bedtime has not been met
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Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
Are traffic signals at all connected to AWS? Cuz damn, my commute took twice as long today for no apparent reason
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are traffic signals at all connected to AWS? Cuz damn, my commute took twice as long today for no apparent reason