My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

The economic effects of international students go far beyond their tuition dollars. Many stay, innovate, & shape the productivity of the entire economy. My co-authors & I estimate the impact of US international student exclusion policy in this new paper commissioned by the @nationalacademies.org.

So disgusting! #BoycottHomeDepot

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Supercool 🧵 on lizards missing limbs, some ways they adapt and how this relates to our understanding of evolution. Once again, biology is more complicated

This is a moment where all cis people need to be calling their elected officials and demanding they protect trans healthcare, even if it means shutting down the government It doesn't matter if you live somewhere red or blue - everyone needs to hear this

I'm not really a meme person, but this is pretty funny.

UTEP seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Arid Land Herpetology, specializing in the ecology of desert amphibians and reptiles. Applications are open immediately until filled. More info: https://www.utep.edu/science/eligreenbaum/index.html #job

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Hahaha... #botanists

Watch for the solicitation, still to be posted... #GRFP #science #STEM

Brazil's Independence Day has become the moment for the country’s nationalist, right-wing movement to take to the streets, protest the left and hoist the Brazilian flag. This year, it carried the American flag as a nod to President Trump, in a sign of the U.S. flag’s shifting global image.

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

🗣️🗣️Only a few days remaining to complete this survey on the status of faculty in the South. Make your voices heard, Texans! 🤠

Still no NSF GRFP announcement for this year. Another week or two and the program is going to be effectively cancelled, because students will not have time to prepare. Any chatter out there about whats going on???? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026. ssb2026.github.io

People will seriously be like "Who cares about trans rights? It's a tiny number of people who are affected by it?" without realizing that they're talking about millions of human beings.

Trying again: Does anyone know if the NSF GRFP will return this year? We're >1 month past the date of last year's solicitation (July 12, 2024) and there's not a new one up yet. @akallen10.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social @paleophile.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.social

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies go.nature.com/3HBh8ej

good lord - women who hav been stalked or had to take out a restraining order have a 40-70% higher chance of having a heart attack or stroke www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

👀 👀 Attention potential post-docs! Stengl-Wyer Scholars are three year post-docs to develop independent projects at UT. If you would like to talk about potential projects please get in touch!

New paper! This one lead by fprmer post-doc Carla Lopes - using eDNA to detect host frogs and pathogen strains at the same time. Thanks to the whole collab group, it takes a village!

Nobody hired Colin Wright because he was an insufferable prick doing bad science. No need to dive deeper than that. The heterodox grift fits him like a glove, though.

The attacks on #DEI, institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom are not going away, writes Delta College president @michaelhgavin.bsky.social. He calls on US #highered to stand firm, examine legal obligations closely and work in coalition for the benefit of all students: ow.ly/Erlf50WxRYW #Trump

Devastated to see the NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in biology archives. This is a transformative creative opportunity and a path to the professorship for many (including myself). Postdocs are highly trained and often in the newest techniques which spur innovation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This holds true for all of us. We can use our voices as faculty now, or wish we had later.

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

WTAF? At Fort Bliss?

Many institutions, programs, and individual scientists are stepping back from supporting the efforts to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion. Doing so is a mistake. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon! Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

August 2, 2025. Next National Day of Action.

The National Science Foundation continues to be threatened with major cuts. The link below lists the Congresspeople who are on the frontlines of deciding these cuts this week and would be well worth a quick call today if they’re in your state to advocate for not cutting NSF’s budget.

A detailed look at how bee genomes evolve when the various species switch between generalist and specialist diets.

I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...

Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse. To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS! More from me:

Grotesque.

Meet Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, who fell in love with plants during childhood camping trips in California's redwood forests. Her passion for plant-pollinator relationships began with a magical moment watching hummingbirds visit curved flowers in Costa Rica's cloud forests. #Botany 🧪 wp.me/pdRZhH-m9q

My full statement following the ICE Raid in Carpinteria. ⬇️

Anti-DEI efforts hurt everyone. The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...