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Alex Shephard @AM_Shephard
Joined September 2017
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Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz
4 Feb 2023
JUST UPDATED: our massive database of POSTDOC fellowships is available for download. We list 383 different fellowships with description of the award, eligibility criteria, deadline and amount. A fellowship gives you more freedom Download for free here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding…
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📰Published📰 Traffic patterns – more than adjacent land use – influence element content of roadside forbs & most levels of metals are below toxic levels for leaf-feeding caterpillars 🚗🐛📉 New research by @AM_Shephard @SnellRoodLab @e_borer 🔗besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Maps, graphs and illustrations showing location of roadside sites and positive/negative correlation of leaf metal concentration to traffic volume and distance from road, respectively

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New Scientist
@newscientist
8 Oct 2022
'Superagers' who stay sharp into their 80s have larger neurons in a part of the brain involved with memory newscientist.com/article/234…

'Superagers' with sharp memories in their 80s have larger neurons

Neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory may be 10 per cent larger in superagers than others aged 80 or over

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KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters@KLIAustria
29 Sep 2022
KLI Fellowship Call!!! This is the first announcement of a new KLI #postdoc fellowship in collaboration w/ Philipp Mitteröcker at the Dept of Evolutionary Biology @UniVienna. “Evolutionary theory in interdisciplinary context” kli.ac.at/content/en/the_kli… Deadline: Dec 15, 2022
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Alex Shephard retweeted
SSE@sse_evolution
25 Aug 2022
Are you looking for a postdoc or assistant professor position in evolutionary biology? Check out our jobs board for current openings: bit.ly/SSEJobBoard @ssegrad #AcademicChatter
The SSE logo, a peppered moth and the words Society for the Study of Evolution, next to the words Jobs Board in block letters

ALT The SSE logo, a peppered moth and the words Society for the Study of Evolution, next to the words Jobs Board in block letters
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New Scientist
@newscientist
11 Nov 2021
Deep-sea rockfish that live to be 200 hint at genes for longevity bit.ly/3HeYXpJ

Deep-sea rockfish that live to be 200 hint at genes for longevity

Longevity research often focuses on short-lived lab animals like mice – but a study of long-lived rockfish might offer new genetic clues for extending lifespans

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Life In The City: Urban Evolution@LITC_urbanevo
29 Oct 2021
Urbanisation Exposes Birds to Metal Pollution Marion Chatelain tells us more about this great study on the blog: urbanevolution-litc.com/2021… #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcology
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A late summer #monarch caterpillar spotted today at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Minnesota.
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As I wrap up my third field season studying the cabbage white butterfly, I've almost memorized how to spell Brassicaceae.
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Bell Museum@BellMuseum
15 Aug 2021
UMN researchers Alex Shephard and Lauren Agnew are working to understand the complex factors that contribute to insect pollinator stress and how to increase nutrition in roadside habitats. Learn more about their work in this video! #BugsOutsideTheBox youtube.com/watch?v=1X9wzeVP…

Research Story: Pollinator Insects & Pollution

The finicky printer won’t work… you’re running late… and you can’t ...

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Latest piece of our ongoing research on the nutritional ecology of #roadsides with @SnellRoodLab out now in @conphysjournal #Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients #sodium and #zinc academic.oup.com/conphys/art…

Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients sodium and zinc

Humans are increasing micronutrients in roadside habitats to levels that are potentially stressful for insect pollinators. We show that combined exposure t

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Alex Shephard retweeted
Phys.org
@physorg_com
16 Jun 2021
Study of mangrove rivulus #fish hints at mechanism for #brain evolution of land animals @RSocPublishing phys.org/news/2021-06-mangro…

Study of mangrove rivulus fish hints at mechanism for brain evolution of land animals

A pair of researchers at the University of Guelph has found that forcing mangrove rivulus fish to flip into the air regularly pushes them to develop more brain matter. In their paper published in...

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New Scientist
@newscientist
7 May 2021
People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage bit.ly/2PXwdvR
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Tess M.S. Neal, Ph.D.@tessmsneal
23 Apr 2021
Review received today. Wow. This is how science is supposed to work! Impressed with this reviewer. @AcademicChatter #PeerReview
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New work with @SnellRoodLab now out in @EvolAppJournal
Evolutionary Applications@EvolAppJournal
22 Apr 2021
Evaluating costs of heavy metal tolerance in a widely distributed, invasive butterfly doi.org/10.1111/eva.13208 by Shephard et al #anthropogenic #butterfly #metal #pollution #invasive #melanin #pest
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National Science Foundation: Remove priority research areas from NSF GRFP - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Q7vGNc8Q via @Change

Sign the Petition

Remove priority research areas from NSF GRFP

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Jonathan Haidt
@JonHaidt
9 Jul 2020
If it seems to you that American politics has reached peak madness, or escape velocity, here are 2 essays that lay out backstory—conditions that set us up even before Trump’s election. 1) @Edsall summarizing research on rising cross-partisan animosity: nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opini…

Opinion | How Could Human Nature Have Become This Politicized? (Published 2020)

The partisanship of the Trump era has very deep roots.

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Life In The City: Urban Evolution@LITC_urbanevo
31 Mar 2020
Monarchs, milkweed, and metal: is roadside zinc pollution harming butterflies? 🐛🦋New post is live: buff.ly/2UMaEg7
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Insect Conservation and Diversity@InsectDiversity
6 Mar 2020
Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Insect Conservation and Diversity@InsectDiversity
6 Mar 2020
Zinc, an acquired taste Cabbage whites like it a lot Monarchs more fussy Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments @thescikuproject onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…
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