Just learned that the guitarist for Queen, Dr. Brian May, is a PhD astrophysicist who collaborated on a mission to sample an asteroid that will give insight into what the solar system was like 4.5 billion years ago. 🧪

I'm excited to read this paper: "Genetic offset and vulnerability modeling under climate change scenarios: common misinterpretations and violations of evolutionary principles" doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

Raise a glass to freedom... for science to work! 🧪👨‍🔬

I just listened to an excellent @bigbiology.bsky.social podcast interviewing my amazing colleague Katie Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social, who’s been using surveys to give scientists a platform to tell their stories about how recent federal policy changes are affecting them and the practice of science.

Episode 141 “Vulnerability in science and in genomes” is out now! 🧬 In this episode, we talk with Dr. Katie Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social, Associate Professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. @northeasternmes.bsky.social Art by Brianna Longo.

#Job: Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Environmental and #Sustainability Sciences and Director of our growing MS in #EnvironmentalScience and #Policy (ESP) program at Northeastern University in #Boston. 👩‍🔬🧪 @northeasternmes.bsky.social northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

#Job: Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor of Environmental and #Sustainability Sciences and Director of our growing MS in #EnvironmentalScience and #Policy (ESP) program at Northeastern University in #Boston. 👩‍🔬🧪 @northeasternmes.bsky.social northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

Just finished my research security training required by the US Govt. Lists Freedom Of Inquiry as a core value of academic research and "core tenet of integrity; scientists decide line of investigation and project. Researchers are experts; freedom to conduct work without interference" 🧪🧑‍🔬

"The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories." 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... anyone try this? What's it like?

Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪

This is so cool - mysterious, rare loud booms come from this large lake near where I grew up and scientists are studying why. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings. Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🦑

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s... today in my Evolution class we will be discussing just how many undiscovered species there are. Scientists think there are as many uncharacterized vertebrates as there are characterized. Here's a new one - deep sea bumpy snail fish! 🧪🦑

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression 🧬 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n... what ICE can legally and not legally do during arrests. Know your rights

Pacific oysters have been introduced widely to satisfy human tastebuds. A statistical model based on genotyped oysters suggests six other species likely hitchhiked on the bivalves, including the shell-boring polychaete, Polydora hoplura. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Look at this #popgen people, we can finally can use multiallelic sites for something 👀

Trump executive order requires NIH, NSF, FEMA, and other agencies to appoint a political reviewer of grants. Also requires agencies to make it so that grants can be terminated at any time. 🧪👨‍🔬 Read the EO here: Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking – The White House share.google/sbXxp5hOj4ub...

Beautiful blue lobster at @northeasternmes.bsky.social Northeastern Marine Science Center. 🦑 This rare mutation occurs in about 1 out of two million lobsters. It causes overproduction of a protein that binds to the normal red pigment and turns into a blue pigment.

I'm thinking about taking my family to Puerto Rico so my son can experience snorkeling on a coral reef and a diverse culture. Suggestions for good places to snorkel in addition to Culebra?

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!! We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Packed house at today’s GHIST kickoff meeting. Pop gen folks, join the competition to learn, have fun, and help our community. ghi.st (Thanks to @drk-lo.bsky.social for the pic.) #Evol2025

When you convince former and current Editors in Chief of the American Naturalist @asn-amnat.bsky.social to go to a monster truck rally

Reminder to folks attending #Evolution2025 in Athens GA that there is concurrent great music festival #AthFest a few blocks away and a monster truck rally in the arena next door. Also, if you go out for drinks - the bars at that end of downtown are not near as cool as those at west end ;)

nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/278... understanding and addressing misinformation about science - from the national academy

Editorial published in my hometown newspaper as part of the McClintock Letters and Science Homecoming initiative fltimes-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=1f1d...

We are used to hearing about destruction of the American research enterprise. This article breaks it down well. NSF Funding decreases are virtually in every area of science. This was in Project 2025. Undergrad ed- 70% cut. Grad ed- none awarded 🧪Biology- 50% cut www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New #popgen tools I found that use a likelihood method to mitigate small sample size problem when calculating IBD that can be great for #consgen purposes: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This has Windows implementation as well as Linux and Mac! Let me know if anyone has tried this :D

On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

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

US Scientists->proposed rule will allow gov to involuntarily move civil servants to a new category without protections from politicized firings- would allow YOUR PO to be replaced with political appointee. YOUR comments can help-here's how-by May 23 🧑‍🔬🧪🖥️🧬 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/i/162500841/...

I participated in @aibsbiology.bsky.social congressional visits day last week and I have hope for bipartisan support for science. But we need everyone who supports science to call/meet their reps and senators and ask for 9.9 billion for NSF and 7.5 billion for NOAA.

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3403, AFL-CIO: Letter to scientists and organizations whose progress depends on NSF. drive.google.com/file/d/1xtnM...

American institute of biological sciences is on Blue sky! Follow them for policy updates and action alerts for recent developments in US science @aibsbiology.bsky.social

Action Alert: Ask Your U.S. Representative to Support Investment in NSF by signing a Dear Colleague Letter. AIBS has this nice template that you can send to your Rep! www.congressweb.com/AIBS/3?frame...

NSF released a statement yesterday updating their priorities. Among awards being terminated include those that study the spread of disinformation. 🧪👨‍🔬 www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

I'm so sorry. It's a travesty what they are doing. If you are up for sharing, we're collecting info on terminations: bsky.app/profile/noam...

This is a great time for universities in the US to sign onto the fight for academic freedom with Harvard. Doing so would make any act to cancel grants at that school a clear act of retribution. Failing to do so would make that school an easy target. 🧪👨‍🔬

Excited to see our article on the cover! @drk-lo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998...

Thread for U.S. Scientists - important resources for knowing grant policies, sharing your story, and talking about the ongoing political chaos 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬💻🐙