NSF funds are being repurposed away from funding academics and independent scholars to funneling civilian science money to industry 🧪 www.nsf.gov/funding/init...

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here: www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

“The fear of retribution is quite real… Everybody’s miserable. It’s like going to a funeral every day.” NIH scientist on what it’s like to work at NIH Office of Women’s Health.

Wondering what happened to NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy? This article reveals a lot about where NIH is and how it got there, starting from politicization of NIH, through fear leading to staff over compliance, ending in harm to science. undark.org/2026/03/30/s... Highlights:

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

Oh, and there's this... www.science.org/content/arti... #NSF #AI #Quantum

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

✨ New Special Issue Out! "New frontiers in avian physiology: what’s migration got to do with it?" This special issue highlights emerging frontiers across scales, from molecules to whole organisms, in relation to the physiological mechanisms behind birds’ migratory feats ➡️ vist.ly/4u94s 🪶

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds. rdcu.be/e7aUy

do students really want spend between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition just to be taught by professors who have outsourced their work to AI?

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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

if centrists admit resit libs were right, they should stop dismissing & disparaging us my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2060...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

NSF's graduate research fellowship (GRF) program is designed to teach aspiring scientists how to write a winning grant proposal. So why are so many applicants being denied that learning experience? www.science.org/content/arti...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty

One Boston Children’s Hospital researcher said, “This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

Update: Our call for abstracts for Oral Presentations & Posters for #AOS26 in Amherst, MA, from 3-7 August 2026, is now posted! Proposals are due by 3/15/26. Learn more: meeting.americanornithology.org/call-for-abs... #ornithology #ornithologicalmeeting

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

Dawg are you fucking kidding me bsky.app/profile/horm...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Can’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department. https://bit.ly/49UlU1U #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Wrote about all that kind of stuff here:

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

More than 10,000 STEM PhD's have left or been fired from the federal workforce since Trump took office again. NSF, EPA, DOE and USFS hardest hit. www.science.org/content/arti...

Always read @mashagessen.bsky.social.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Our special feature is open to proposals! We’re excited to highlight research exploring animal movement from social, community, and ecosystem perspectives.

Check out our special feature!! We're excited to highlight some of the recent trends in the movement ecology field!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Great question! 1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.

Latest articles from the WJO: Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning

🚨Good news, everyone! 1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026. 2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...