Adam Stuckert
Father, Husband, Scientist, Batrachophile. Ecology, Evolution, and Genomics of frogs.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertTimes article has an incredible illustration
- Reposted by Adam StuckertTrump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertTurns out that if you use a broom to scratch yourself everyone thinks you're a weirdo but if a cow does it they end up in the cover of Current Biology
- Please check out the very first paper entirely out of my lab. This paper was led by Andrew Rubio in collaboration with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and his lab group. Some really interesting findings about genome evolution and frogs in here 🐸
- New in BMC Genomics! Genome size in anurans (frogs and toads) ranges from 0.5Gb to 10.0Gb of DNA. John Neddermeyer and I teamed with Andrew Rubio and @adamstuckert.bsky.social and found one type of retrotransposon active over the last ~30my is the likely culprit: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertForensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertHighly important video of the ICE Minnesota shooting. "The driver ... waves for other [vehicles] to go ahead" "The agent is not being run over. In fact, his feet are positioned away from the SUV" "Agents blocked...a physician" from providing medical care. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertToday at SICB I listened to a fabulous talk about how Juncos behavioral plasticity in post-wildfire coniferous forests by Yiran "Ryann" Su and I've had this image stuck I'm my head all day inspired by their finding that birds in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of aggression
- Reposted by Adam StuckertEvolutionary diversity and function of odorant receptors in birds biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Adam StuckertOne of my grant applications asked for a project graphic so I had to oblige
- Reposted by Adam StuckertTo put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertNo it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThose of us who worked with USAID and in global health more broadly warned of this- shouting, screaming into the void. The administration- at every level- understood this would happen. It’s unconscionable.
- One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThe world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertI should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThis perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertGenuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertOne of the most challenging aspects of the climate crisis is that it becomes harder to solve as it proceeds, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. It isn't something that can be put off until tomorrow without serious penalty.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertMy lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertWe're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
- Reposted by Adam StuckertCongratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertFunded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertA lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
- Happy rapture day everyone! All I know is that if there is a Jesus, he would do the rapture before the evening commute.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThe next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThe fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertEvolution (abridged)
- Reposted by Adam StuckertIf I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertUH is happy to spend $130 million on football, but there is no money to raise graduate student stipends or fix poorly-maintained buildings. www.khou.com/article/mone...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertExcited to share that our new chytrid paper is out in Herpetologica! We find evidence that West Africa may not be the ‘safe haven’ for amphibians it was once thought to be. 🦠🐸
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThis is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
- Reposted by Adam Stuckertholy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
- Reposted by Adam Stuckertcc academic scientists
- Reposted by Adam StuckertI visualize trends in #ICE #immigration arrests and encounters over time and across select US cities using public data from deportationdata.org/data/ice.html Here is the #RStats #ggplot code so you can visualize the #dataviz trends in your own city: gist.github.com/JEFworks/0c7... #codetutorial
- Reposted by Adam Stuckert"We name [this gene] Redboy based on its functional role in the programmed body colour transition of orchid mantis, reflecting the demon ‘Red Boy’ who changed his red clothes to white after becoming a fairy in Chinese mythology" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #evodevo #colsci
- Reposted by Adam Stuckertthought Kelsey might be doing a bit but no. it brings me no pleasure to report that DOD has hired MechaHitler www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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- Reposted by Adam StuckertI'm not procrastinating.... making #Pride caecilian DNA stickers is a requirement of my dissertation. Schistometopum thomense and S. ephele, the iconic duo of my PhD work.
- Reposted by Adam Stuckert"The Defense Department...announced last week it would cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA." This sort of data siloing, often b/c military organizations don't want to share their toys w/ civilian agencies, is a hallmark of authoritarian states. It's also impeding global wildfire response.
- NEW: Hurricane forecasters at NOAA are getting a one-month reprieve before crucial satellite data is cut off by the Defense Dept. Delay is due to NOAA, NASA pushback because of the potential forecasting ramifications. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/w...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThe 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertStill struggling with the idea that the President authorized a country, with which we were engaged in armed conflict, to attack a US base with US soldiers in harm's way ("gunners") and it isn't a bigger story. This goes beyond even impeachment and removal from office.
- Happy to report that the first preprint out of the lab is now out! Postdoc Andrew Rubio led the charge with the @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social lab to examine the evolution of genome size and transposable elements. If you are at #Evol2025 come check out Andrew's poster on this work tonight.
- Expect some cool caecilian work in the future! I'm really impressed with John's success in a challenging new-to-us system!
- It's a worm... It's a snake... It's a caecilian! I just wrapped up my very first field season in São Tomé and Principe 🇸🇹. Caecilians, grilled fish, and fresh cajamanga juice.. pretty sweet place to do fieldwork I gotta say. @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Adam Stuckertmust be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
- Reposted by Adam Stuckert🧪 Basic science boosts the economy: "The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger? The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
- Reposted by Adam Stuckert1. This is just the first of many arrests of Democrats to come 2. It will have a chilling effect on the party, in that 95% of Dems will see this, determine it's not worth going to jail and roll over 3. The remaining 5% need to prepare for the type of politics we don't normally see here
- Reposted by Adam StuckertNew macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertGood morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertThe sum of all fears: “somewhere down the line there will probably be a big forecast failure. A storm goes somewhere that it wasn’t expected to go or intensifies much more rapidly than it was expected to and because of that uncertainly.” www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
- Reposted by Adam StuckertIf you care about the NSF and science, now is the time to make your voice heard! The evolution tri-societies are running a Week of Action for NSF! We MUST make some noise -join us!! @sse-evolution.bsky.social members will see the below email in their inbox today, spread the word! Pls RT!
- Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
- My kids have a book called "I'm happy sad today" that is all about making sense of having multiple emotions at once. It makes up names for those feelings. I propose "anxie-rage" to describe 2025 (anxiety and rage).
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From a reliable source: NSF’s budget cuts will be worse than they could ever have expected, and that almost all broadening participation programs will be killed. NSF is moving everything to standard grants only, with remaining budgets to paying down the mortgage from each program. 1/5 - "Pro life".
- NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
- Reposted by Adam Stuckert“Also, we’re ending the environmental and regulatory standards”
- Reposted by Adam StuckertDear god let this man cook.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertTwo headlines in the New York Times today.
- "I am the pinnacle of evolution" I whisper to myself after sending my 30 billionth email in a row.
- Reposted by Adam StuckertNew preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths
