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🎨✨ colorblindr: Ensuring Accessible #DataViz ✨🎨 Want to make your figs more accessible? colorblindr by Claire D. McWhite & Claus O. Wilke lets you simulate colorblindness in production-ready figures. 🔗 Repo: buff.ly/2UTiByV 🎨 Simulator: buff.ly/4khr0IS More #Rstats resources, buff.ly/41cFyjY

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🦮 Attention dog owners! One of my trainees is examining the relationship between dogs and toys, and their owner’s thoughts about that relationship. Want to help? If you have a few minutes, you can complete the survey here: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! 🧪🌎🏙️ Check out the publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots. If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍🔬

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Ending the week with a little motivation from our office mural. 💙 We hope you all have a great weekend. 🦈

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Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

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“Many grad programs are pausing and reducing admissions in response to NIH funding pauses and pending EO’s on indirect cost reductions. These workforce reductions have the potential to imminently and irreversibly harm research labs & grad programs”

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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Ugh-- this is terrible for so many reasons. Two on mind right now: 1) PhD-granting institutions can't function without PhD students. 2) Applicants pay a lot to apply! This disproportionately affects lower-means folks. Places that reduce or stop PhD admissions should refund application fees.

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📢 Final call! The deadline to apply for our #AnimalWelfare Student Scholarships is just one week away. This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare. 🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss

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Our team is conducting research on the spinal health in Frenchies and Dachshunds. We are interested in hearing from you whether you have experienced spinal problems or not in any dog(s) you own/have owned. Follow the link/QR to take part in a 10-minute survey. www.surveymonkey.com/r/spines

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I had a chance yesterday to talk about animal sentience on ABC radio, alongside Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith. You can hear the episode here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Do white-throated sparrows have four sexes? This bird challenges us to think carefully about what "sex" even means. Check out this article in Scientific American for my two cents: sex means many different things. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

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🧪“Dogs often wake up after a period of REM sleep, perhaps an evolutionary adaptation designed to force them out of their slumber to check for dangers in the environment. <This allows> dogs to adjust to changes in their routine more readily than humans.” theconversation.com/your-dog-may...

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Is it time for a beauty break? I think it's time for a beauty break. Check out the gorgeous glowing plumage of birds-of-paradise, which scientists recently found to be biofluorescent. Most species (37 of 45) have feathers and body parts that glow yellow or yellow-green under UV & bright blue light 🧪

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Worried about public data disappearing? You’re not alone. The Data Rescue Project is working to protect at-risk U.S. government data. Find ways to help out. 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Dropping my lab's @unlcchil.bsky.social 2024 Wrapped! 🥳🎉 Find out how many dogs enrolled in our database, how many participated in our studies, what our most common dog names and breeds were, and lots of other cool facts about our year! #dogs #wrapped

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🔊#PhDOpportunity| Join the VoCS Doctoral Program! 📢 The Marie Curie-funded VoCS project is recruiting 19 PhDs in voice communication sciences across 12 countries! 🌍 📅 Deadline: March 15, 2025 🔗Apply: www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/da... More info ➡️ www.vocs.eu.com #VoCS #Neuroscience #PhD

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We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

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🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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JUST ANNOUNCED: We are excited to open applications for the 9th year of the NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship. Awards of $3,000 available for students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships. Learn more and apply by April 1: www.nasw.org/2025Div...

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Interested in learning more about data exploration and linear modeling in R? This set of #datascience modules from @csulbquanteco.bsky.social uses real cognitive and demographic data from the #CayoSantiago #rhesus macaque population in #PuertoRico! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...

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Researchers at the University of Adelaide are seeking participants to complete a survey investigating sleep disturbances in older dogs. You can do the survey here: redcap.link/sleepdisturb...

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Stressed about the upcoming tax season? Join us TOMORROW on Thursday 2/20 at 2pm PST for our #CLGSEC Workshop: "Grad School 101: Tax Preparation as a Graduate Student" featuring panelists Emily Roberts, Edgardo Sanchez-Rivas, and Maria Carmona Register: eventbrite.com/e/grad-schoo...

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Dogs, like people, may use blinking to bond | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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This landmark decision reflects broader societal changes in how we view our relationship with animals, highlighting the crucial role of research and evidence in assuring that animals will live a good life under our care #dogs #animalwelfare #science www.gov.wales/wales-moves-...

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Free lecture on dogs & neuroscience from my boss Dr Erin Hecht of Harvard: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ha...

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Still wondering how Indirect Funding (F&A) works, and why it's so important for research institutions? Check out this great video from the Association of American Universities: #standwithscience #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎

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Check out the @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition, open now until 30 April 2025! royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

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Can you help your dog live longer? Watch the full video to learn more about our longitudinal study at #KIRO7Seattle: www.kiro7.com/news/can-you.... 🐾 To be part of the DAP Pack, enroll your dog at dogagingproject.org

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Wouldn’t it be great if we could understand how we can help our canine companions be with us longer? That’s the goal of the Dog Aging Project, a community science initiative, working to identify ways to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. ➡️Learn more: citydogmagazine.com/dog-aging-pr...

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Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

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2022. #DEI. The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"Now is the time for science, not silence." The war on science isn’t just politics, it’s our planet's future & the stakes have never been higher.🦈🪸🌊 As climate scientists, we must advocate & defend evidence-based policy.📄🌏 #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

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'Managing your Mental Health during your PhD' investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students. https://bit.ly/40HqkDk #psychiatry #mentalhealthsci

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We are recruiting for a study about pets during the #perinatal period. If you live in the U.K. and have #pets (#cats or #dogs), are currently #pregnant or have a baby under 1, please consider signing up! 🤰🏼🐕👶🏼 tinyurl.com/petsperinatal #mothers #baby #postpartum #pregnancy #wellbeing #mentalhealth

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A few years ago, we started asking if the adaptation of Iberian wolves to anthropogenic landscapes could be associated with ancient introgression from domestic dogs. In our recently accepted paper at @genomeresearch.bsky.social we provide new insights: genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/... 🐺🧬🐶

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2025. Dingoes are being culled in Victoria: How much harm to the species is needed to protect commercial profits? [dingoes have been in Australia for between 4,600 and 18,000 years. Often wrongly described as "wild dogs," they are actually descended from south Asian wolves] phys.org/news/2025-02...

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New research reveals that Americans dramatically underestimate the support for diversity among their fellow Americans, a misperception that may be fueling silence and inaction.

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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This award recognises a student (undergrad to PhD) for their commitment to scholarship in human-animal interaction & animal-assisted intervention. The PJ-Hart Student Scholar Award is named in honor of Dr. Aubrey Fine’s dedicated therapy dogs, PJ and Hart. isaz.net/news-events/...

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Feline scientists would like your help with a survey! If you currently have a cat, or have had a cat within the last 5 years, you are eligible to take part. Their message is below.

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