Hannah Vander Zanden

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thread. Must be 18-30 years old. Grants up to $5k USD to locate taxa not seen in more than a decade.

I’m writing a gay romance about competing World Cup players. It’s called Cleated Rivalry.

Grant: "Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them."

How much do you know about sea turtles? For World Sea Turtle Day, we’re sharing some facts about our favorite reptiles. Learn about what they eat, where they live, how they reproduce—and what threats they face. fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor... #WorldSeaTurtleDay #SeaTurtleWeek

Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Today marks the annual opportunity to highlight the importance of sea turtles and coincides with the birthday of Archie Carr, the namesake of our center, who is considered the father of sea turtle biology and conservation. Photo credit: University of Florida Archives

Next week is World Sea Turtle Week, and the ACCSTR will be celebrating the birthday of Archie Carr with a local event. If you are in Gainesville, join us for Science on Tap with engaging talks about sea turtles at Cypress & Grove on June 17th from 6:30-8:00pm.

Check out the work of graduate student @aileenlavelle.bsky.social, who is tracking sea turtles. Stay tuned for more info to come…

Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!

A sign like this just makes me curious.

A cute moment I want to remember from today… 6yo: Can you tell me more about the lemonrock that Florida sits on? Me: You mean the limestone? 6yo: Yes, that is what I mean.

Quick visit to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park today. On my way back to Gainesville.

I made a quick trip to Honokohau Beach this afternoon to see green turtles grazing on algae in shallow water and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

A lovely welcome social and opening ceremonies at #ISTS2026.

Excited to have arrived to Kailua-Kona to attend #ISTS2026 in a gorgeous setting!

A thread on the new article from recent grad @zoologistkate.bsky.social in @stacksjournal.bsky.social.

A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday! We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Today is UF Giving Day, and donations to the ACCSTR fund will directly support sea turtle research, education, and conservation. Now's your moment to give to what you love! #AllForTheGators givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ar...

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Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

We finally saw an olive ridley nesting last night! I used the long exposure setting to take photos under the full moon. Today, we went to Copalita National Park before heading to the beach.

The learning continues. Night time nest relocation, a leatherback track after we saw the female false crawl, revegetation, and triangulation.

Yesterday afternoon, we learned about the history of sea turtle conservation from local cooperative members as well as government employees. This morning, we rescued hatchlings on the beach.

We saw our first olive ridley hatchlings last night. This morning, we cleaned a large tank and helped handle green turtles for vitamin injections at Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga.

Before heading to the coast this afternoon, we toured Monte Albán to learn about some Mesoamerican archaeological history.

I have the privilege of taking students to Mexico for just over a week for my Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Course this semester. Despite the travel complications yesterday, all but one arrived to Oaxaca. Some scenes from the city.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

The university mandated everyone to come back to the office but now say they can longer afford to keep paying for office phones.

On the list: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services International Tropical Timber Institute Internacional Union for the Conservancy of Nature Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

Maybe this is my sign to tone down my perfectionism this year.

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

7/ Here's the bottom line: This is an unprecedented shift that risks weakening protection against preventable diseases at a time when outbreaks are rising and children are already being hospitalized. Vaccines don’t work without strong supporting systems...and the U.S. doesn’t have Denmark’s.

Every article about the dismantling of NCAR says the same thing, but read every one because it's so insane.

I really appreciate whoever keeps posing the skeleton model in the anatomy lab room like this; I grin every time I walk past it.

I ran a slow half marathon this morning…it was 75F by the end. This afternoon, I did some grocery shopping and made a double batch of enchiladas to take a pan to our neighbors with a newborn. #WorkfreeWeekend

What does ‘six-seven’ mean? Nothing. But it’s still loaded with meaning | Matt Cantor

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

gas, hybrid, EV

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!

NSF Graduate Fellowship announcement is finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... 1/2

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I am glad my Supervisor of Elections sent this message today: All vote-by-mail ballot requests in Florida expired on December 31, 2024, due to a change in Florida Law. Voters must make a new vote-by-mail ballot request for each election cycle.