Here’s a helpful guide to writing a public comment by @hormiga.bsky.social: scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Here’s a great resource to help write a comment this weekend before the deadline, by @colesci.bsky.social and @cdelawalla.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t... read and be sure to comment. We need to raise this number!!

Only a few days left to comment if you have not! Please take the time. Just a few paragraphs are needed.

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

Are you struggling to parse through the 412 pg proposal from OMB that has the scientific community talking? Join me NEXT WEEK w/ @elizabethginexi.bsky.social @nejm.org & @aaas.org for @healthjournalism.org webinar unpacking the proposal & how 🫵 can report on it healthjournalism.org/event/white-...

An effort to downplay the seriousness of the OMB rule to hand Russell Vought control over every federal grant is underway. Every person in the U.S. stands to be harmed by this, but many have no idea. Please write to your reps. It will take 5 minutes. You can hit this link and get ‘er done.

Recumbent trike fun for all!

First paddle of the season!

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program! 100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going. The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Finally out! For biology instructors who want to move towards a more intersex and trans inclusive biology curriculum, here are students’ own perspectives on what supports them.

Very proud of this perspective that came out of some really interesting and difficult conversations with friends and colleagues! TLDR: how do scientists define sex? why does it matter?? #EcoEvo #Ecology #Evolution 🧪

I am very excited to share that the January/February issue of Weird Sisters magazine is posted! This is the first new issue since January 2009. Please share with those you think would be interested! weirdsistersmagazine.wordpress.com/january-febr...

As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!

It’s happening!! #SICB2026 Tomorrow, from 8AM to 3:30PM come to C120/121/122 for ✨Sex Across Origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions and developing integrative frameworks.✨ Also! 3 fantastic complimentary sessions Tuesday in B113, with a special focus on education in the morning.

Going to #SICB? attend s4 www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program... Sex across origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions & developing integrative frameworks Organized by M. Aramati Casper, aramaticasper.weebly.com Jay J. Falk jayjinsing.github.io Karen M. Warkentin, sites.bu.edu/warkentinlab/

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

The first three years of Weird Sisters magazine are now available in an online archive. As Arminta Skip Neal used to say, here tis. weirdsistersmagazine.wordpress.com

Wham bam CAM!

This is a wiiiiiiild system! Iberian harvester ant queens clone ants **of a different species** to maintain a supply of their sperm. “They then mate with those ants to produce hybrid workers that take care of the colony... In effect, M. ibericus has domesticated M. structor and its genome”

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.

Heads up 🧪science folks. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to generate some examples of issues in how Chat-GPT 5.0 answers intro bio type things. I'll stick at least some of them here in a thread so you're free to use them, rather than having to waste resources asking it stuff we know it gets wrong

"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist

Cannot stop laughing at this

MAHA ignores the real causes of poor health in the US, but Defend Public Health doesn’t. Our report has 11 pillars of actions for Improving the Health of Americans Together, like reducing gun violence, combating scientific misinformation, and removing RFK Jr. from office.

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Scientists of Bluesky, help me! Do you have an example of a question that was (1) studied using both observational and experimental methods, and (2) the observational results are far more trustworthy because of the circumstances and/or quality of design? #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Science

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

We need your email power to support Dept of Agriculture! USDA is opening a 30-day public comment period on the Department's reorganization plan now through Aug. 26, 2025. Say yes to SNAP! Say yes to Research! Say yes to conservation! To submit feedback, please email [email protected].

We share your excitement @jacanamama.bsky.social 🙌thanks for spreading the word & thanks for being part of SICB Portland.

I'm SOOOO EXCITED for this Sex(es) Across Origins Symposium at #SICB2026!!!! I just submitted an abstract for the complementary session (on bird plumage and social selection with @gamaevo.bsky.social), and I hope you consider applying, too! @sicb.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Hey SICB 2026 @sicb.bsky.social! Don't forget about the Sex(es) Across Origins Symposium 🍄🦠🐌🌽 If you'd like to give a talk or poster session or poster session in our ✨complementary sessions✨, make sure to specify that in your abstract submission when you submit! (deadline, Aug 27)

Signal boosting:

From @aaas.org check-in with Sudip Parikh: a letter by 14 Republican senators urge the Office of Management and Budget to release NIH funding. If this includes your state (AL, ME, WV, SC, KY, KS, AR, PA, NC, IN, AK), Sudip recommends contacting & thanking them for being American science leaders.

If you haven't picked up this book, you're really missing out on a charming and beautiful piece of writing. #BookSky 🧪 #scicomm www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726129...

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What is also ludicrous about this idea is that scientists love being scientists! It’s our pleasure to do the work! Replacing us with AI makes no more sense than having AI watch movies or read novels for us! #science #academicsky

Everyone, please repost this very important numbers. They could’ve lives.

Our Bodies, Our Decisions: A Response to Andrew Sullivan’s NYT Essay nursingclio.org/2025/07/16/o...

Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!

We finally got to see the hardcopies of ‘Nature Selecting’ the #evolution book I wrote for kids (around 6th grade level and up) and illustrated by my 14 year-old daughter Anjali Free pdf here www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and... We plan to send hard copies to local schools and teachers for free.

There’s a live “State of the People” all night marathon happening tonight to encourage our community engaged in opposing this bill that will harm all of us NOW. You have to reach out to your representative (202-224-3121). But first get energized by tuning in. www.youtube.com/live/uax8jmJ...

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Quick boost: if you are troubled by RFK’s new remarks about AI in drug development, great news, there’s an open comment period on that very subject at NIH right now! Let *them* know your thoughts.

Memo for cis people who like trans folx, it would take but a minute, but putting your pronouns in your bio is a signal to us that you care. You dont have to insist on your pronouns, but it is a sign to us This labeler makes it easy to do.