Drew Anderson

I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.

I'm on the wrong side of 40 to have grown up with Pokémon. After conversations with my daughter and hearing there are no animals in the world, I have developed a hypothesis: Humans are a kind of Pokémon. Daughter has no strong refutation other than show says no. I just think humans are in denial.

🦄 A history of the fishes of the British Islands.. London, Groombridge and Sons, 1862-65.. [Source]

A very talented former lab-mate of mine, Dr. Sarah Flanagan, is looking for a PhD student to work on adaptive management of some Antarctic penguins 🐧! Work would be out of the University of Canterbury and Sarah is one of the best people I know. Please spread the word.

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2027! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

That was a reject/resub. Watching status again... hoping for a better result. I swore I wouldn't watch it again, but here I am. I'm not new to the process, but I guess I have a special attachment to this paper.

I moved to Minnesota last October, so I am genuinely surprised at how fast fall has come. It's been all southeast and pac coast for me until now.

#SICB Division spotlight sicb.org/divisions/ on DAB ( @sicb-dab.bsky.social ) The Division of Animal Behavior within SICB aims to support and share integrative #research in the field of #Animal #Behavior. & learn more about divisional chair Suzy Renn's work www.reed.edu/biology/renn/

Advocated for myself and got a bit extra salary at my job (good for me). Turns out that put me and my wife 1k over qualifying for medicaid. Kids still get it and job has insurance, so not the worst, but definitely spending more on health than I gained from that pay bump. Our system is so dumb.

Published today! Inherent Vice No. 3: Exploring Queerness in Natural History. I'm delighted to be involved with this following a pioneering symposium @linneansociety.bsky.social earlier this year. 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐦 www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod... #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideInSTEM #queer #nature #zines

If you're at #Evol2026 and looking for an after-lunch talk come on by Room 23.

#Evol2026 Want to know what's going with this biparental pair of Julidochromis? What gene expression and hormonal patterns drive changes in behavior? Come to my talk Monday at 2:45 in the Behavior session. Want to talk Cross-sexual Transfer in any system or fishes in general? Just message me!

I study Cross-sexual transfer and joined a cricket lab in October. Yet I just learned today that some Orthopterans 🦗 have singing females! Always up for chatting with anyone here who knows more or works with them! I'll be Evolution doing my fish thing.

New ghost pipefish dropped. One of my all time fave clades

While the focus is on nurses. Notice a Master's of Divinity is covered which means, if the government's reason of high chance of return payment of loans is to be believed, that being a pastor is a lucrative job. Which is funny no matter how you look at it.

Excited to announce our new paper in Nature Microbiology describing diphtheria toxin homologues in Streptomyces called Streptomyces antiquus insecticidal proteins (SAIP), stemming from a long term collaboration with Ying Xu, Min Dong, Cameron Currie, and many others. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

awkward Writing/seeing the word evokes its meaning.

Watching status of paper in review. Regretting watching status of paper in review. Nothing changes about the final outcome, but it's enough to have me guessing about it and stressing myself out. (e.g. how long do the AE and Ed need to decide and what does that mean?--probably nothing)

So you're saying that if I want dry ice I have to go to a different building, request a key, fill out paper, go to another building, use key on chest, note how much I took, go back to first building, return key and enter info, then walk to my own building to use it? How valuable is this stuff?

I was invited to collaborate on this paper, but it was mostly me listening to and learning from some amazing and talented people who care about trans/non-binary/intersex persons. Worth the read and implementation.

Somewhere in Minnesota, some graphic designer is either sad their work is already no longer reflective of current knowledge or happy at another payday.

I would be as a god to my children. Seriously wish a move to Japan was a thing I could do because this is definitely an intriguing out-of-academia job.

It finally happened. The oldest caught on to an innuendo in a conversation between me and my wife.

Academic adage: A watched submission portal never advances.

As I shift into working for a cricket lab, I'm reminded that despite taking Invert Zoo (i have the Brusca and Brusca tome), I'm naive on insects. My course was marine-focused so the prof skipped insects and declared them a special case of crustaceans.

Squeals in personal pet theories.

Look. I get undergrad workers are hard. But if you tell them they'll be working 5 hours a week and you send them home after 2 hours because you don't have something for them to do, then you are engaged in unfair labor practice.

Gonzo's talk would be the wildest ideas ever.

-20 in Saint Paul and this bird shows it. Whole bunch of em on our roof and having birdie snow cones.

After 3 months in our new apartment, I can unequivocally say, "Clawfoot bathtubs are the worst."

Anytime someone tries to convince me to put my son in a non-inclusive setting, I'm showing this picture. It's the 2nd time his former class (we moved states in Oct) has sent him letters. He loves it, and he had made meaningful connections. It sucked to take that from him, we hope to rebuild that.

You can tell a lot about a person based on who their favorite Muppet is.

I am looking for a postdoc position + will be attending #SICB2026! My areas of interest/experience: sexual selection, reproduction, host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, (plus bio ed and disability advocacy in bio). I would be happy to chat with anyone attending who is looking for postdocs!

Family is on our annual Hawkeye Christmas build up. Every time I see it, I love the way the car chase scene was shot.

The number of jobs I applied to this cycle was 1/3 of the last due to less jobs and being more selective about locations. After last year I learned I had to ensure my special needs son could get supports and education. It's tough out there, but with less apps I couldn't repeat my success this time.

One guy really was wanting to sing out

After some training. This 🐟🐠 guy is ready to collect some some 🦗 songs on his own🧪

Guys! We got to keep all his support and keep him included! If anyone has special needs kids, keep pushing, keep fighting, keep advocating.

Incredibly angry right now. My learning disabled kid had full inclusion in gen ed with support (hard fought to get) and was making good progress. A move to a new state (MN), and after 2 weeks they want to put him in an entirely segregated classroom.

I have done a lot in life, but nothing as challenging, high stakes, or nerve-wracking as an IEP meeting. We do them 1-3x annually and just now since we moved. With all the evidence on inclusion, it is surprising how hard we have to push to get it (every time it seems).

Moving to Minnesota has resulted in me hearing waaaay more Nickleback than I'm accustomed to.

2nd day at new job. Here's what's next to my parking spot. Taking me back to my PhD days. Definitely at a land grant institution. 🙂

Gotta love the post-doc life. I am literally packing for the move for my next post-doc while completing job applications.

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

🐟🐠🧪 Happy to share our paper in Hormones and Behavior which is the first test of some of my predictions from the Ancestral Modulation Hypothesis. 🧵 on the findings in a biparental cichlid with plastic behaviors that are a form of cross-sexual transfer www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...