Jenny Uehling
@juehlz.bsky.social
Assistant professor at West Chester University | PhD Cornell EEB | animal behavior, movement, & stress physiology 🐦 | Phillies fan | runner 🏃♀️ | she/her | views my own | https://uehling-lab-wcu.weebly.com/
What an awesome and timely lesson! I can't wait to try it out in a future class.
New #OER for biology teachers! We use *real data* from the RMBL phenology project to teach about changing plant phenology in warming mountain environments, R programming, and science writing. Please use and improve! qubeshub.org/publications...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What an awesome and timely lesson! I can't wait to try it out in a future class.
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We're so excited for SICB 2026 in Portland! We have an awesome line-up of events planned. Learn more and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PUI Mentoring Villages at SICB 2026
The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Group is hosting different in person events at the 2026 meeting in Portland, Oregon including a PUI ...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We're so excited for SICB 2026 in Portland! We have an awesome line-up of events planned. Learn more and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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So excited with this seminar! 🐜🐜
#RamalhoLab
#RamalhoLab
October 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
So excited with this seminar! 🐜🐜
#RamalhoLab
#RamalhoLab
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Excited to read this review paper by @juehlz.bsky.social and Jenn Houtz! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Gut microbiome–diet interactions in wild birds
Birds show global declines, and understanding the relationship between avian diet and fitness can both answer basic questions in physiological ecology and inform conservation efforts. Diet-induced ch...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Excited to read this review paper by @juehlz.bsky.social and Jenn Houtz! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position!
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
July 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position!
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Taking a moment to celebrate our new paper out today in Nature Ecology Evolution, led by the amazing @jacanamama.bsky.social Sara Lipshutz. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression in cavity-nesting songbirds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors performed phylogenetically controlled behavioural assays and analysed brain transcriptomes across five avian families, identifying convergent patterns of gene expression associated with aggression and nesting behaviour in obligate cavity-nesting birds.
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April 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Taking a moment to celebrate our new paper out today in Nature Ecology Evolution, led by the amazing @jacanamama.bsky.social Sara Lipshutz. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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I'm heartbroken and so, so angry to say that my NSF grant that asks how we can make conferences better serve people doing environmental science in different sectors was terminated of Friday. Keep different back for science and let's hope for injunctions against these illegal actions.
April 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm heartbroken and so, so angry to say that my NSF grant that asks how we can make conferences better serve people doing environmental science in different sectors was terminated of Friday. Keep different back for science and let's hope for injunctions against these illegal actions.
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My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
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"There's nothing political about wanting students to learn. That's not social justice. That is simply giving all students an opportunity to get a good grade and be able to succeed in their future career."
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Sen. Ted Cruz's list of 'woke' science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.
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February 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"There's nothing political about wanting students to learn. That's not social justice. That is simply giving all students an opportunity to get a good grade and be able to succeed in their future career."
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These are congressionally approved funds with congressionally mandated broader impacts.
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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January 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
These are congressionally approved funds with congressionally mandated broader impacts.
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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
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This has been a rough week and there is a lot on the line. As I wait to hear what will become of my funding (any news #NSF?), I have found clarity and confidence in what I do. Some things won't go back into the bottle, no matter how hard they try.
Also, let's celebrate the good things. New paper 🚨
Also, let's celebrate the good things. New paper 🚨
January 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This has been a rough week and there is a lot on the line. As I wait to hear what will become of my funding (any news #NSF?), I have found clarity and confidence in what I do. Some things won't go back into the bottle, no matter how hard they try.
Also, let's celebrate the good things. New paper 🚨
Also, let's celebrate the good things. New paper 🚨
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Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot
To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
January 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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Cornelians in West Chester, PA – what a wonderful evening of reunions! #Cornell ❤️🫶
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December 8, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Cornelians in West Chester, PA – what a wonderful evening of reunions! #Cornell ❤️🫶
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🧪🌎 Calling all Biology postdocs in the Mid-Atlantic! West Chester University would like to invite you to give a seminar in our series highlighting diverse early-career biologists. Register your interest here: forms.gle/WwT5DZJSvHTk...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
Interest Form: WCU Department of Biology Early Career Biology Seminar Series
The goal of this seminar series is to showcase diverse early-career biologists working relatively local to West Chester, PA. Apart from giving our students the chance to learn about cutting-edge scien...
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August 6, 2024 at 3:47 PM
🧪🌎 Calling all Biology postdocs in the Mid-Atlantic! West Chester University would like to invite you to give a seminar in our series highlighting diverse early-career biologists. Register your interest here: forms.gle/WwT5DZJSvHTk...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
Check out our new paper on migration and corticosterone! We used a global dataset of CORT measures to explore whether a bird's migratory status (migrant or resident) predicts its CORT levels during breeding. 🐦🐦⬛🦅🦆🦉🦜⤵️⤵️
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Does Migration Constrain Glucocorticoid Phenotypes? Testing Corticosterone Levels during Breeding in Migratory Versus Resident Birds
Synopsis. Corticosterone, the main glucocorticoid in birds, is a major mediator of the incredible physiological feat of migration. Corticosterone plays imp
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August 15, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Check out our new paper on migration and corticosterone! We used a global dataset of CORT measures to explore whether a bird's migratory status (migrant or resident) predicts its CORT levels during breeding. 🐦🐦⬛🦅🦆🦉🦜⤵️⤵️
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