Jennifer Deitloff, PhD

(she/her. they/them cool too) Associate Prof in PA. Love amphibians and reptiles. Undergrad education in biology. #HERper #inclusivity #diversity. tweets mine.

[Jennifer Deitloff, PhD @SalamanderJenn]

Can’t wait to get back to Pine Creek.

[Erik Schneider @erikmschneider]

“Long-eared bats? I hope white-nose syndrome wipes all of them out.”

[Jennifer Deitloff, PhD @SalamanderJenn]

@ask_aubry “Our group of unscientific scientists…..”

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

Squee! Got the new paperback copy of my book #ExplainingLifeThroughEvolution with @mitpress - coming out August 7th - thanks for the kind words on the back cover @RichardConniff @helenscales @mafnoor - and thanks to @JessicaLWareLab @MorganWKelly and many others for your help!

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history.

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

In conclusion, biologists view “biological sex” as a collection of genotype and phenotype characteristics. It’s complicated and it’s really cool!

Get invested in whatever limited definition you want, but stop eliminating human rights and pretending biology calls for that

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

5. None of this matters AT ALL to human gender identity because biological sex does not have to correlate to gender identity or presentation in humans, modern biological science distinguishes sex from gender for this reason

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

Quick primer for folks asking:

1. “Biological sex is based on chromosomes”— chromosomes are just chemical soup without gene expression (variation on other chromosomes impact sex phenotypes), plus not all individuals have two sex chromosomes and many species don’t have any

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

This is SO COOL

You may think gorillas are sexually dimorphic (large silverback males, smaller females) but younger individuals are not. A gorilla assumed to be male and well-studied by zoo professionals gave birth to an unexpected baby!

[Drew Schield @drschield]

Hello #JMIH23! I am recruiting PhD students to my new lab @uvabio starting Fall '24. I won't be at JMIH to meet in person, but I look forward to chatting with interested students about opportunities in the lab - thanks for spreading the word!

[Rob Denton @RD_Denton]

If you are at #JMIH23 and looking for your next academic position, come chat. I'm hiring another postdoc to work on @NSF-funded polyploid salamander genomics/evolution. $55k/year, 3 years, teaching opportunities built in.

Ad: https://t.co/dyXg8YQJxm

2023 lab portrait:

[SSAR @ssarherps]

#JMIH23 Looking for grad school opportunities in #herpetology?

Check out this list of professors and herpetologically-minded labs that are recruiting students and post-docs: https://t.co/w5vLoX5o7X

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

Congrats to the @IchsAndHerps plenary award winners for lifetime achievement in ichthyology and herpetology #JMIH23

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

Happening today: Over a hundred drag queens and allies in Florida stand in the rotunda and chant, "drag is not a crime."

Gov. DeSantis law intended to target drag has resulted in Pride parades being cancelled in the state and even a travel advisory.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

In the state of Iowa, Republicans rolled back child labor laws to allow 14 year olds to WORK in meatpacking plants.

In West Virginia, more than a dozen of them voted against BANNING child marriage.

And in Missouri, they refused to pass a law BARRING children from openly carrying firearms in public.

So when Republicans say that they’re the ones who are “protecting our kids”… they’re full of shit.

[Melanie During, PhD. ⛏🦕🦖🦩🍉 @MelanieDuring]

$6.1 million for a composite of 3 individual T.rex specimens to likely disappear into someone's private property. Pieced together to make one T.rex to make money.
Because that is what this is about.
This is a loss for science, we will never uncover the information in the bones.

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

Montana Republicans cut off the state’s first trans representative’s microphone in an undemocratic move after she tried to speak on a bill that erases trans people from 41 sections of Montana law.

The speaker said he will continue to not recognize her moving forward.

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[Jay Black @jayblackisfunny]

@ask_aubry 1993: The internet will foster a new interconnectedness! Humankind will understand each other better, ushering in a new golden age of empathy!

2023: Dudes will teach other dudes made-up science about women.

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

This is where we are heading.

Ben Shapiro is now advocating for local communities to pass laws stopping "men from wearing women's clothes in public," although he says "pants on women might be ok."

This regressive anti-trans ideology harms us all.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Folks. I know it's a lot to ask to pay attention to any one thing while so much is going on. I know we're paying attention to what's happening in Red States. It's scary. Important.

I'm asking you also to pay attention to what's going on right now in Democratically controlled NY.