Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈

Postdoc working on decision-making in the Grissom lab at UMN. neuroendocrinology is fun; leptin underrated. Opinions my own. She/her. [email protected]

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

Finally! The defense recording is live!

I keep looking at it and wincing, because watching myself speak is the most awkward thing ever, but @MaxRLambert said I should and hey, the upside of virtual defenses should be being able to show everyone, right?

https://t.co/uL1YjEMm5T

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

#SICB2023 authors, please consider uploading recordings of your talks and posters to SICB+! I have seen so many great talks I would love to show to colleagues who couldn't make it to the meeting in person. I'm so grateful so many people have told me they're planning to upload!

[Tori Coutts, PhD @vmcoutts]

On my way back home from #SICB2023 and I am so grateful for all the wonderful connections I made and having the opportunity to tell everyone about zebra finch reproductive trade-offs!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

@jfmclaughlin92 wait. wait, is this a return to fucking FEMALE IMPERSONATION laws? what is this, the 1850s? am I going to face legal trouble now for wearing pants? who defines what "opposite of gender identity" even means?!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

@mightybattlecat Literally waiting for the move that goes

hey

hey

hey

....bitch

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

I meant to go to bed early so I could be up to see the #SICB2023 talks tomorrow but the politics are just too fuckin entertaining 🍿

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

@emilyjanedennis @jvoigts Nice nice! I'll drop her a note and send her on to y'all.

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

#SICB2023: Kaylene Yamada discusses strengths and weaknesses of studying behavior in lab and field. Useful examples of phenotypes that are not visible in the lab, but immediately become apparent in natural or seminatural environments! Focus: Peromyscus. I love this kind of work.

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

@SarahMackAttack Ahhh I'm jealous I wound up in another track!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

Adding heating pads created 7/10 asynchronous nests; unheated control beats still hatched 3/10 asynchronous nests. (One of those is just "there was only one hatchling," which I would not be surprised by either--climate changed temperature and weather shifts are often variable!)

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

#SICB2023 talk from @_stans96: because birds usually manage synchronous hatching by not brooding until full clutch is laid, climate change can throw some interesting wrenches into the mix. Higher ambient temperatures can start incubating first laid eggs well ahead of schedule!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

Well, if you have a bunch of siblings that are suddenly developing at different rates, that introduces a new and totally chance based axis of variation. What happens if we use heat packs to do that on purpose? Collected mass, limb lengths, blood samples.

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

#SICB2023 authors, please consider uploading recordings of your talks and posters to SICB+! I have seen so many great talks I would love to show to colleagues who couldn't make it to the meeting in person. I'm so grateful so many people have told me they're planning to upload!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

After Pd infection, metabolic savings with torpidity vary considerably with ambient temperatures. If the minimal temperature the bats can tolerate has shifted to be warmer, that... puts them right in the middle of Pd sweet spot!

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

#SICB2023: from @MollySimonis, big brown bats are an interesting case study for torpidity research because they are prone to long term (>10 yrs!) infections with invasive pathogenic fungus Pd. Pre-infection Pd with continuous ambient temperatures preexisting in the lit.

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

NB: she's on the job market; @emilyjanedennis are you still looking for postdoc applicants? I don't think she's on Twitter but I see a lot of nice parallels with Emily's work.

[Erin Giglio 🏳️‍🌈 @tweetingmouse]

Seminatural mice were born in the lab and acclimated in the enclosures for 6mo before measurements were taken.

"We wanted to capture wild mice and introduce them into the semi natural enclosures, but we couldn't get IACUC approval for that because they are very, very dirty."