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(Carmen) Kenzie Cromer
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Duke Biology graduate student
NCSU alumna

Alberts Lab 🐒
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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royalsocietypublishing.org
Killer whales and humans share a trait that is otherwise rare in nature: a long female menopause. Read 'Sexually antagonistic selection, X-chromosome relatedness and the #evolution of menopause in killer whales': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters #ecology Image: Christopher Michel
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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westmarinfeed.bsky.social
The elephant seals have returned to Drakes Beach in Point Reyes. Amazing to think about how far they came to get back here. This guy pulled up to find an absolute tank alpha male in the ice plant waiting to greet him.
December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
kenziecromer.bsky.social
Pippin post gabapentin 🤪
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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lemurnetwork.bsky.social
This #GivingTuesday, let’s give a little love to the lemurs! Whether it’s helping preserve their forest homes, supporting reforestation, or backing community-led conservation, you can double your impact with a single gift.

👉 Learn more & donate here:
Donations Matched for 15 Lemur Conservation Organizations – Lemur Conservation Network
Through December 31, donations for 14 conservation organizations in Madagascar will be matched by Conservation Allies! Donate online on Conservation Allies’ website.
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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natecoevo.nature.com
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
kenziecromer.bsky.social
Violet has a side quest for you
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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birdlady.bsky.social
My 4 Sexes from Substack is now also available in an online magazine called This View of Life. Check it out!
www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
The Four Sexes
The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.
www.prosocial.world
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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evanirvingpease.bsky.social
Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(A) Genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) of imputed and modern dogs plotted as a function of time, calculated based on ROH. Imputed samples are colored based on their geographic grouping, while modern samples are colored in gray. A loess regression was applied with each colored shaded area depicting the SE. (B) Total number of ROH segments plotted against total ROH length for the imputed dogs. Colors correspond to age of imputed samples in years before present (ybp)., while modern samples belonging to each dog group are colored in gray. (C) Map of imputed dog samples colored by their inbreeding coefficient (FROH). Samples with FROH values above 0.1 are indicated.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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nathumbehav.nature.com
In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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thomasronge.bsky.social
Half the breeding population of Elephant Seals on South Georgia lost to H5N1 (bird flu). The impact this will have on the species, the local food web, and even ocean fertilization is hard to comprehend.
Two elephant seals lying on a rocky beach on South Georgia. The research vessel Polarstern is seen in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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aedownie.bsky.social
Two weeks ago now @jennytung.bsky.social and I published a new review in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, entitled “Evolutionary genetics meets ecological immunology: insights into the evolution of immune systems.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread below...
Evolutionary genetics meets ecological immunology: insights into the evolution of immune systems
Immune genes show remarkably consistent evidence of selection, modification, and diversification across the tree of life. Parasites are a key force in…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:

Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation

UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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lemurnetwork.bsky.social
Want to support black and white lemurs like this one? The Conservation Allies Giving Campaign is live and Ny Tanintsika is one of 15 Malagasy organizations that is featured in their matching campaign. Donate here: conservationallies.org/partners/ny-...

📷: Mathias Appel
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
kenziecromer.bsky.social
I forgot how much absolute nonsense Apache had to put up with when I was a kid 🤪
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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friendsofmidway.bsky.social
#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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jbeehner.bsky.social
Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688343v1
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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lemurnetwork.bsky.social
#FunFactFriday: Meet the Lac Alaotra gentle lemur—the world’s only primate that lives exclusively in wetlands! 💧

📷: Deb Bradley
A Lac Alaotra gentle lemur clings to bamboo, gazing curiously through the reeds.
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM