Thank fuck gothamist.com/news/nyc-may...

To explore how geological and climatic shifts shape species diversity in the Neotropics, Dias 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. applied molecular techniques to study the dynamics of the nectar-feeding bat 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙜𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖 🦇 Read more: buff.ly/h1QzmSb #Batappreciationmonth #Bats #TaxonomyTuesday @batgirlsusan.bsky.social

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Our bat immunoglobulin comparative analysis paper is now live! Full-text read-only link here, but I can also send the paper to anyone who wants it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling. I can’t say that anymore. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

What’s embarrassing about the DOE report is that it’s the same climate denier (we used to call them skeptics) talking points from when I was in grad school three decades ago. Can’t these deniers come up with something fresh?

Completely mad that the Smithsonian is going to stop supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library on 1 January 2026. Every old ass taxonomic description, dating back to the 17th or 18th century even, I have read and still read is through here. Someone please give it a new home.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

This is the problem many of us have with SCOTUS' ruling It doesn't allow Trump to do all of this, but his regime is going to act like it does SCOTUS is fully aware of this and did it anyway

i feel relieved about the results but also please please please continue this momentum into the fall and remember that cuomo and adams are the fucking worst apnews.com/article/andr...

Leave it to OG resistors @altnps.bsky.social to be out in front calling YAY for this huge freaking WIN. Trump is reeling. The NIH is roaring back. Join the fight www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... - because HERE WE COME! #StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience #SaveNIH #HereWeCome

What I learned today is that the @nytopinion.nytimes.com doesn’t believe in young people of color in leadership. Time and time again people tout “seniority” and “experience”. 75 years ago, there were no women of color elected in NY. Where is “seniority” or “experience” to come from for us?

This is something that most people will miss, because they're not in the profession and haven't ever really thought about historical knowledge is produced. But it's an incredibly important point.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

This is journalism malpractice 101, and it should be taught in J-schools as such. What in bloody hell does "widely accepted mean"? It's not "widely accepted". It's true. The other alternative is false. Full stop.

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact! We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today! If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative! We only have one chance! Lets go!

I never want to hear again, in my lifetime, that the GOP is concerned about meeting the challenge of rising China in global economic & geopolitical competition.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that. theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.

It's Fustilarian Friday, so here's the latest statement from NSF's director, trying to dodge the news cycle. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

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]

Always inspired by fellow trainees like @fleabrained.bsky.social creating opportunities for the next generation. Feeling powerless lately in the context of national news but focusing on the power that I DO have to continue opening doors for undergrads www.thetransmitter.org/community/as...

Most folks don't understand how many things were made possible by federal research funding (e.g., Google). Here are 50 of them, and it barely scratches the surface. (The list is from 2020 and, ironically, includes Tesla.)🧪 stacker.com/stories/busi...

This really is their goal: a country where every right is contingent, not absolute, and therefore everyone has to toe the line or risk being thrown in a hole in a foreign country.

This is an *independent nonprofit group* whose affairs Musk is trying to meddle in with DOGE. His rationale seems to be that any nonprofit that receives any federal funding is fair game to go after.

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

New from 404 Media: ICE just paid Palantir tens of millions for "complete target analysis of known populations." Shows Palantir is actively working on, and updating, the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Eight women mistakenly deported to El Salvador were brought back the US. They can bring back Abrego Garcia.

The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

Next big chance to show up to support America! Protests all over the country Saturday, April 5th. We need big numbers. Protests in DC, every state capitol, and many other cities. Be present. Be loud. Bring others with you. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org Handsoff2025.com #HandsOff

On April 5th, America’s unions are coming together with allies of labor at events across the country to send a message: #HandsOff our unions and our contracts! Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

The plan is destruction, not acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

Stand up. Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Your DNA is for sale. This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

Lewelyn Dixon,64, a permanent resident with a valid Green Card since 1975,was detained by ICE. She immigrated from the Philippines at age 14 & works as a laboratory technician at the Univ. of Washington.The family has not received any information from ICE regarding the reasons behind her detention.

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. “This isn’t an audit, it’s a heist,” one told @telliotter.bsky.social.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

House Dems' text chains lighting up with apoplexy. "Complete and utter meltdown," says one member. Members floating marching onto the Senate floor. Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill. @Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...