Abigail Cahill
Marine biologist studying inverts, larvae, connectivity. Based in the Great Lakes, i.e. not at all marine. Intrepid knitter, academia, France. |she/her|
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- My unpopular opinion is that I am really, really digging this Great Lakes winter, bringing us snowy intro to ecology and a towhee!
- Reposted by Abigail Cahillreading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
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- Away we go, again.
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- Reposted by Abigail Cahill🎉 It's official: When Trees Testify pub day!!! 🎉 Available wherever books are sold. us.macmillan.com/books/978125... @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Abigail CahillIn @peoplemag.bsky.social today... When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy the book out tomorrow people.com/beronda-mont... @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Abigail CahillEverything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
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- Here I am hanging out at the airport on the way home from #sicb2026. This was SICB meeting number fifteen (15!) for me and I wish we had some sort of card to get punched each year. I had a great science & teaching meeting and can't wait to see everyone in Pittsburgh in 2027.
- Really excited about this news! We had a lot fun and I'm wearing my newly-won FHL sweatshirt for today's last #sicb2026 talks
- Time to celebrate! The @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at the #SICB2026 meeting raised $4790 for student and postdoctoral support!!!! This will be the basis for the John and Vickey Pearse Fund being established by DIZ! Thanks to @kmkocot.bsky.social for being our exuberant auctioneer and all donors!!!
- Reposted by Abigail CahillOn this final day of #SICB2026, we want to thank everyone who has taken part in our PUI Action Group events! It's been a blast connecting with all of you. If you want to learn more about the PUI Action Group, check out our website: sicb.org/committees/p...
- Reposted by Abigail CahillLearning new stuff about how animals are reacting to a changing planet this morning at #SICB2026
- Consider this my annual check-in for #knittersofSICB. #sicb2026
- One of the many great talks in this morning's education session!
- A plenary talk using the Manifest Destiny painting (this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...) to point out the politics in science hit pretty hard today of all days.
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- On my way to #sicb2026, for SICB # fifteen (15!). See you in Portland!
- And these knitted objects for #sicb2026, tagged and ready for the @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction. Come bid on things Monday night!
- Headed to #sicb2026? Come to @sicb-diz.bsky.social's Libbie Hyman auction to support student research and bid on these A-B-C phyla!
- I'm sure there's a good assignment in here somewhere.
- iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/
- Reposted by Abigail CahillThe National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Abigail CahillOn the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree. Happy Christmas everyone!
- Headed to #sicb2026? Come to @sicb-diz.bsky.social's Libbie Hyman auction to support student research and bid on these A-B-C phyla!
- I may not read many papers anymore but my god, I still have a chapter-and-verse ability to know which 20-year-old paper that I read a million times for my dissertation has the precise figure that I'm looking for.
- The literal first post I saw after submitting a manuscript and opening this app.
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- French brain strikes again: looks like "negotiate" / "negocier" is on the ever-growing list of terms whose spellings have gotten conflated in my head.
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- Reposted by Abigail CahillAs parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).
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- Reposted by Abigail Cahill💻Abstract submission and registration for #2026SFS May 7-21 in Spokane, WA, USA are now open! 💧Submit your work for exciting contributed and special sessions 📆Abstract submissions are open through Jan 16 💲Early registration rates are available through Mar 20 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org/abstracts
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- I can tell we are near the end of the semester because I'm requesting a bunch of new-this-year novels from the local library and hoping they wait a couple weeks to arrive.
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- Reposted by Abigail CahillRelying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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- Reposted by Abigail Cahillhow did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
- Enjoying everyone (in comments here and elsewhere) finding out this week that the Great Lakes are, in fact, scary big, and just plain scary sometimes.
- Reposted by Abigail CahillWhile the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous, the #GreatLakes are home to an estimated 6000 - 10,000 shipwrecks. Many wrecks occur in fall due to the "November Witch" winds caused by a clash of cold Canadian air from the north + warm Gulf air from the south www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-underw...
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- A poem, for tonight.
- Reposted by Abigail CahillDay One of #NDiSTEM2025 delivered! ✨ Opening Ceremony, Expo, Posters, and STEM symposia brought the energy. Plus—marketplace, mentoring, and networking moments that connect our community. @aaberhe.com #STEMCommunity #SACNAS #STEM #STEMWorkforce #STEMLeadership
- Getting ready for #NDiSTEM2025 - my first SACNAS meeting!
- Realizing that much of the time suck of my chair duties is being back on the right side of this comic. (And weirdly, not when I email admin?)
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- Always repost the veliger content.
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- Reposted by Abigail CahillComing to @sicb.bsky.social meeting, want to donate but don't want to bring item(s)? We will have a shipping address available in December! Please share this thread far and wide! you don't have to be a SICB-DIZ member to donate....all donations are appreciated! (invert themed get bonus points!)
- Reposted by Abigail CahillAll funds raised will go directly to benefit students through a number of DIZ avenues (fellowships, travel grants, etc.). Items of any kind (books, art, gift cards, etc.) are welcomed and will be included in the live and/or silent auction we will hold in January in Portland. Questions? ask me!
- Reposted by Abigail CahillI'm soliciting donations for the @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at our annual meeting in Portland in January. This is a major fundraiser for the Division's ability to support students! If you would be so kind and want to donate, please use this link: forms.gle/nz8WWSmsdagp... @sicb.bsky.social
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- Instant smiles!
- Reposted by Abigail CahillNSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. scim.ag/3KlQkQk
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- Reposted by Abigail CahillSujet de stage M2 sur la "dock mussel", cet écotype de moules hybrides qui habite dans les ports. L'objectif est de tester si la dock mussel s’est adaptée grâce à sa variance génétique d’admixture ou si l’admixture n’est que le corolaire du contact secondaire entre les deux espèces parentales.
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- Reposted by Abigail CahillHybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
- Reigning world champion pre-opening choreographic fall, no less. (I will think about this the next time my students see me nearly wipe out tripping over a classroom chair.)
- Smol and Large friends found during class today.
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- This day and every day.
- Reposted by Abigail CahillWhile full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- This is not the current-events entomology content I was hoping to be teaching about this semester.
- Reposted by Abigail CahillStill possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
