Anya Auerbach
@al_auerbach
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New Yorker in Minnesota | Fifth year PhD candidate @umncbs EEB | birds, diversification, biodiversity, teaching evolution | very queer | I ❤️museums
occupied Dakota land
Joined September 2019
🚨 BOYCOTT STARBUCKS 🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on ULP strike! Here’s how to support:
How to help: 1. Sign our No Contract, No Coffee pledge to stay updated on calls to action - https://t.co/loTq8oqCvp 2. Host a canvassing event in your community! Link also in bio - https://t.co/3jIY9GHcdb 3. Do NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store for the duration of our strikes!
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Breaking: The Teamsters strike against Amazon is growing stronger, and Amazon managers appear to have resorted to the ghoulish behavior of pouring gushing water into the DB4K picket line in Queens. The temperatures are freezing. Video courtesy of Ryan Bruckenthal
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Official announcement in Jan. but so excited I'm sharing now! Latest #EvolutionEducation module on #adaptation is now published https://t.co/ynZZbEsCS9 by @al_auerbach @nathofme @WascherClaudia + more as part of the #RIE2 initiative https://t.co/qRZDdH283E
@qubeshub #NewPI
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The difference between the popular and scientific understanding of adaptation causes much confusion in undergraduate evolution courses. Outside of the classroom this confusion also contributes to...
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We’re starting to cook now. Amazon needs to come to the table and negotiate a fair contract NOW!!!
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1/ Human genetics has traditionally been framed and studied using approaches that assume discrete, unchanging clusters such as continental groups🗺️. But what if this oversimplifies complex genetic relationships and co-produces racial frameworks?🤔
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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.
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the United guy getting it has unlocked a lot of rage about the healthcare system - a lot of rage that could be captured by a political party, but to them, that guy was a colleague
This is horrifying news and a terrible loss for the business and health care community in Minnesota. Minnesota is sending our prayers to Brian’s family and the UnitedHealthcare team.
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Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers aren’t owed due process, defying Constitution https://t.co/DmrhEaL4jp
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Hello! In the overwhelm of my life of late, I have left finding roommates for the #SICB conference in Atlanta to the last minute. If you know of anyone else still looking, please let me know! (retweets appreciated!)
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Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. https://t.co/aubyF28RXj
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No union in Minneapolis should ever give Frey an endorsement ever again.
Frey is proposing changes that require a 50/50 split between employers and workers as well as supermajority support for recommendations — meaning businesses would have effective veto power.
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The reason why “academia is a hotbed of leftist indoctrination” discourse is annoying is that universities are deeply conservative enterprises in a host of ways that are painfully obvious if you simply stop shrieking about the English department for two seconds and pay attention.
Georgetown Law has told a pregnant student whose baby is due during exams that she must take the test a few days postpartum, with baby in tow. No early or remote exam since “it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.” https://t.co/1neZtHxaem
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Romcom scene where a paleontologist explains this upon meeting their partner's family for the first time. Horror/thriller movie scene where a paleontologist explains this upon meeting their partner's family for the first time.
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In 2022, AIPAC and DMFI spent more against progressives in Dem primaries than all the other right-wing interest groups *combined*. Saying it's antisemitic to call that out hurts Jews, because it's simply a fact. Instead, we need to talk about *why* this is happening. 🧵
If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC
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New paper! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! 🦎🦎🦎 https://t.co/2zhALSna3O
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Nature Communications - When similar species coexist, they often evolve differences to reduce competition, a process called character displacement. This study provides rare evidence of character...
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Holy fuck! 5,000 workers at UC are unionizing with @UAW
"Five thousand University of California workers filed to form a new union in @uawregion6 on Friday. “'This is a movement and a campaign that is really long overdue,'" said Nandini Inmula, a career services worker at UCLA." https://t.co/5ah72MmseF
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My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result.
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Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin
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