UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

Has anyone heard whether the NSF GRFP program will have a competition this year? I teach a class for 1st year grad students where this is a major assignment, and need to rehaul my syllabus if they’ve destroyed this program… which, I will add, will be devastating to thousands of rising student stars!

I’m thrilled to be selected as a Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution! I will be digging into the mystery of nitrogen fixation our own back yard - the Monterey Bay and CA coast. I’m filled with gratitude - thank you @simonsfoundation.org for this opportunity!

Earth system models are plagued by uncertainties in the response of microbes to climate change. We leveraged metabolic insights from genome scale models when coupled to an ocean model in this new exciting work 🌊 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

So true. US universities are top notch, and magnets for talent that strengthen the US economy, *because* the US made a policy decision to invest in research. What the gov’t really does is run a competition to let university scientists compete for grant funding to do research that helps society.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

We're hiring for a bioinformatics lead at the OceanOmics Centre! L7, come work with all of the cool genomics data! HiFi, HiC, Illumina, a PromethION, it's all there. Sequence *all* of the marine vertebrates! #bioinformatics external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

This is mindblowing disruption. This new US executive order orders an immediate review of all *existing* federal grants & contracts & also freezes all federal credit cards. The federal gov funds a huge amount of science & it will all stop while this plays out. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Congrats @marbenavides.bsky.social !!!

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

What the shit "For FY26 we are told about plans to reduce the NSF budget by 50%-75% - such reduction will mean no new awards for at least a year, elimination of divisions, merging of programs." nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

It's a cyanobacteria on the outside, fungus on the inside. Well, sort of. The fungus lives in the extracellular sheath produced by the Cyanobacteria, and therefore are not really true endophytes. But the cyanos do create the external structure.

If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

Wonderful to see @kendraturkkubo.bsky.social & other friends and colleagues from my grad lab get recognized for their incredible work.

It’s been such an honor to be in Boston @ the AAAS meeting, accepting the Newcomb Cleveland Award for our paper on the nitroplast with the coauthors that could make the journey (none of who are on 🦋yet).

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o. More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20... Please apply and/or circulate 😇

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 #internship #bgcargo interested in #scicomm and BGC ARGO? check out my internship project @mbarinews.bsky.social www.mbari.org/internship open to undergrads, grad students, and educators #Edusky

This week marks a year since the release of the first-ever U.S. Ocean Justice Strategy to advance environmental justice for communities that rely on the ocean and Great Lakes for economic, cultural, spiritual, recreational, and food security purposes www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-upd...

🌊📣 'Tis the season for recommendation letters! This new post in our equity & inclusion in undergraduate research blog series (co-written by @erindolan1.bsky.social and Victoria Centurino) offers guidance for writing effective and unbiased letters for your mentees! tinyurl.com/52xje9wh

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

We are looking for a new colleague in the #Marine #Biology Section, Department of Biology, @ucph.bsky.social Get in touch if you have questions. Application deadline is early January. jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Crazy ocean color in Monterey today! Any guesses? No peeking at the Santa Cruz wharf IFCB…

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠 Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics. There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you! apply.interfolio.com/154339 1/4

🌊 🧪 Friends! Please amplify our search for a Chemical Oceanographer at the USF College of Marine Sciences in St. Petersburg—an island of beauty, art, culture, and more. I ride my bike to work. More details in thread below www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

My department is looking for an assistant professor in fisheries and conservation: careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please repost! #marinesky #oceanography #STEM #fisheries

This is incredible! So many times I’ve wished something like this exists! Huge thanks to @kordinglab.bsky.social

reposted with 🌊 Postdoc position available in computational ocean biogeochemistry in my group at U. Virginia. Focus is primarily on the response of coastal and marine ecosystems to natural variability, climate change, and direct human perturbations jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Learn about the Plankton Manifesto! doi.org/10.1093/plan...

Microzooplankton grazing on coccolithophores is a previously unrecognized biological mechanism affecting the ballasting of organic carbon to deeper waters. It could recycle up to 50% of biogenic calcite production in the surface and mesopelagic ocean 👏🏼 Adam’s group www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're hiring a lab technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of our research. Please help spread the word. Find out more and apply using the link below. Requisition ID: REQ20156462 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

The @jcamthrash.bsky.social lab is hiring a technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of their research. Join a lab pushing the boundaries and working with amazing organism. Also a great crew of ppl. 🌊🦠🧫 #Microsky #biotechniology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We’re hiring an Ocean Biogeochemistry Modeling Lead at @cworthy.bsky.social to help build oceanographic modeling and data-integration tools for ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. The pay is $150,000–190,000 a year. Come work with us!

Our department mcb.berkeley.edu is soliciting applications for an Assistant Professor position studying fundamental aspects of genetics, genomics, evolution, and/or developmental biology. Bring it on! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04110