Haley Branch

Postdoc w @Jenn_Coughlan at @Yale_EEB 🌿 PhD @ubcbotany 🌱 MSc @eebtoronto🌵plant stress, evo ecophysiology 🏳️‍🌈 she/her🦽
find me: stressedbranch on bsky

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation https://t.co/h4PhbFsG7G #biorxiv_evobio

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

Can you believe these roosting crows!!! 😍

#birds #crows #TheBirds #ILoveBirds #Birder #ThisIsWhatDreamsAreMadeOf

[King Crocoduck @crocoduck_king]

bro somebody PLEASE tell me how to read this, who tf is winning

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

For the first time in history, the United States has a sitting congressperson who is transgender.

Congratulations to Sarah McBride, whose race was just called by MSNBC.

She wins in a year where a historic amount of anti-trans ads were blared across TV screens in America.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today is Election Day.

Millions of Americans will be going to the polls to show the world who we are and what we stand for. Find out where and when you can vote today at https://t.co/q00n5Woojf.

And once you do, I want to see your voting sticker. I’ll be sharing your posts throughout the day. Let’s get out there and win this thing!

[Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦 @fern_way]

If you need a distraction on the Election Day, you can read our newest paper @MPlantPCom - we found that #hornwort #Rubisco is wicked!! Absolutely fun collaboration with @ZenOhZhenGuo @lau_gunn funded by @NSF @BTIscience @CornellCALS https://t.co/8DMhXSc5MB

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

@birdmoder This chick gives a hoot and voted! First time state-side, living where the Connecticut Warbler gets its name...which I was more likely to see back in Canada...

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

Get out and vote! Voting early was super easy in CT #Vote

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

My takeaway from #LoveIsBlind is that a lot more people say "ex-SPEAR-iment" than I previously thought

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

"being employed by a company is associated with a 28 percent lower risk, relative to being employed by a university"

Academia, we are a community! We need to treat each other as such and build better infrastructure for mental health. At all levels 💕

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.

A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.

The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.

Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.

A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.

You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!

These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.

If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

[SSE @sse_evolution]

Save the date: the deadline for the 2024 GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards will be October 15, 2024. These awards grant up to $3,500 to expand dissertation work. Full application details available soon. https://t.co/iy8eTK9kEn

[Katie Marshall @ke_marshall]

We're hiring here @ZoologyUBC in comparative physiology! Come be my colleague in a fantastic department!

If you have any questions about the department, UBC, or Vancouver, please don't hesitate to ask. https://t.co/9mAEASQdC7 Please spread widely.

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

@SeemaSheth AHHH! Aboslutely love! What incredible shots! Could probably photoshop them together if you wanted 😍

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

Hey #DisabledTwitter what have y'all done with owner trained service dogs for DOT paperwork on planes and for border crossing?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

U.S. Olympians are using their trip to the Olympics to get the basic preventative healthcare they can’t afford to get in the U.S.

We should be embarrassed that we’re the only industrialized country without universal healthcare — all because lobbyists pay off our politicians.

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

@TrendsGenetics @Bianca_T0 @colreeze Ahh! I want this as a sticker or poster! So beautiful 🤩

[Trends in Genetics @TrendsGenetics]

The August issue is live!

https://t.co/37DKbcA08s

Many thanks to @Bianca_T0 from @colreeze’s lab for the stunning monkeyflower cover image. Their review showcases "unusual suspects" for the molecular basis of phenotypic variation. Check it out!

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

So thankful for the opportunity to work with this amazing group of folks! My time at the @SEVLTER really inspired me 🥰

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights https://t.co/b4SKngm437

[Haley Branch @HaleyABranch]

@conchoecia @Evol_mtg @sse_evolution @SSEgrad @eseb_org I hope you recover quickly! I was masking too. There were more masking than the last US Evolution meeting at least, but yeah... <3

[Darrin Schultz @conchoecia]

Masked for most of the meeting in Montreal, but got COVID anyway. I would say 90% of people were not masking.

@Evol_mtg #Evol2024 @sse_evolution @SSEgrad @eseb_org