Connor Whalen

today’s poop is tomorrow’s manuscript

graduate student @UW_SAFS studying parasite ecology in the Wood Lab

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

On a remote island, scientists are studying how the stress of environmental crises affects longevity and overall health. The subjects: monkeys. The primates share 94% of their DNA with humans. Lesley Stahl reports, Sunday. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW

[NYU Primatology @nyuprimatology]

Our custom-built rhesus orchidometer (scale for measuring testes size) next to the scale commonly used for humans. Bear in mind that rhesus are only 10% of the size of humans by body mass. Puts human testicles into some serious perspective..

[Chelsea L. Wood @DrChelseaLWood]

Want to become a certified Aquatic Animal Health Inspector, qualified for a career in Fish Health? Consider applying for the MS program @UW_SAFS, in collaboration with @USGS and Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Details here: https://t.co/3r9rJjqVXT

[Chelsea L. Wood @DrChelseaLWood]

Are you an undergraduate at the University of Washington or a university in the US Gulf South region? Consider applying for the summer 2024 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) internship in parasite ecology! Details here: https://t.co/3r9rJjqVXT

[NYU Primatology @nyuprimatology]

In our new MS at @AmJournalPrimat, we evaluated the promise of urinary cytokine measurements via the Luminex system under ideal conditions, collected in captivity from rhesus macaques before & after surgery. We found urinary measurements to be unpromising.
https://t.co/IMrU7hqZlD

[Connor Whalen @cjwhale]

@whaleMPH What’s the opposite of a fairweather fan but in a negative way

[Connor Whalen @cjwhale]

@DrChelseaLWood @gabbysfishes Super excited to join the lab!

[Chelsea L. Wood @DrChelseaLWood]

A very wormy welcome to @cjwhale and @gabbysfishes, who will join the Wood Lab as graduate students in Fall 2023! Both will be part of our NSF CAREER-funded historical ecology project: https://t.co/QfdzSvzZ38

[Connor Whalen @cjwhale]

@whaleMPH Boooo

[Eve Cooper @EcoEvoEve]

🚨 Primatology Field Research Opportunity🚨
Interested in having this view all day everyday? I'm looking for 2-3 new field technicians to aide in biological sample collection on @CayoSantiagoPR, in beautiful Puerto Rico this summer! Details: https://t.co/v7hQB9kElb Pls retweet!

[Eve Cooper @EcoEvoEve]

What if we could quantify immunosenescence in wild populations without invasive blood sampling?

Our new paper shows that urinary neopterin, a biomarker of innate immune activity, is predictive of age in a free-ranging primate. Summary in 🧵 1/7
https://t.co/f06xrnJGU5

[Connor Whalen @cjwhale]

@monkey_cabinet The little sword

[Dr. Alex DeCasien (Thunderbolt) @AlexDeCasien]

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

We generated a huge transcriptomic (i.e., mRNA, gene expression) 🧬 dataset from the 🧠 of rhesus macaques 🐒 & compared age-related patterns to those in humans 👶🏻🧒🏾🧑🏼🧑🏽‍🦳🧓🏻

https://t.co/cpceIJyg5i

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