**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Are animals randomly distributed in the air, or is there a structure to where and when we find them? In our new paper we outline factors that shape habitat use in the air, from abiotic structure to biotic interactions. A lot of fun discussions behind this one! 🦅🦋🦇🌬 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Online now: Disability in ecology and evolution

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

RFK must go. Please contact your congresspeople about this. Ask them why RFK was allowed to unilaterally fire a senate appointee because she contacted senators – the appropriate oversight body – after the HHS secretary demanded that she break the law & betray Americans’ public health.

Very excited to show the results of this work for the first time! Shout out to my amazing collaborators @joely-desimone.bsky.social @cenemes.bsky.social Brian Tsuru, Meredith Anderson, Colette Berg, Cat David and @emlbcohen.bsky.social

#ESEB25 2 for 1! Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about : how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?) or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

I don't think we can put the toothpaste back in the tube at this point. But I think we can maybe get to a point where we recognize that AI, like toothpaste, is best used in scant amounts for specific, relatively infrequent tasks, rather than slathered indiscriminately all over everything.

🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept! #31doa #imoeachthequack #signandshare

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

Our new piece is out in @nature.com big mihi to all my co-authors it was a pleasure to work with you on this @lanipai.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @sereananaepi.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Bradley Moggridge and Brittany Kamai tinyurl.com/yc4y9kfk

Snapshot of US beliefs about science and flat-earthy stuff. [1000+ people surveyed, +/- 3%] carsey.unh.edu/publication/...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

Shot: Chaser: www.upr.org/mountain-wes...

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.

Keep calling your representatives! Appropriations are being discussed this morning at 9:30ET. It seems the democrats want to keep funding these agencies at current levels but it’s unclear how the vote is going to go since they are outnumbered.

Quick ask for the ##ornithology #motus community. Anyone have a CTT 'sidekick' tag locator you can spare for a few weeks ASAP?? Grad student looking to test it out this summer, but CTT back ordered.

Raise hell. Voting starts at 9am this morning.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country. Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

"I’d prefer to live in a version of America that invests a little less in “unleashing American energy” and “securing our borders” and a little more in studying and protecting our wild neighbor" therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir... by @rheisman.bsky.social

There’s another reason to fight the Trump admin’s proposed 2026 budget: it is BAD for bird research and conservation.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

If you missed our #SUFS founder/exec director @cdelawalla.bsky.social killing it today live-posting here, check out her insightful recap below of the failing & equivocating Bhattacharya today @ the (sometime too gentle!) hands of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee. #StandUpForScience #SaveNIH

Here is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.

If you want to find a local protest on Saturday, June 14 (the day of Trump’s military parade) you search here

"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

The 2026 federal budget proposes eliminating the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, threatening bird banding, research, and conservation nationwide, endangering 100+ years of vital ecological data. www.aba.org/proposed-bir...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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This page turns chaos into clarity: how federal funding works, how the govt is destroying medical research, what are the consequences, and who’s fighting back. 🧪

-77% for BIO 🤦🏽‍♀️

Sixteen states are suing the NSF for 1) terminating grants that support diversity in STEM and 2) attempting to implement a 15% cost cap on indirect research expenses. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/n...

“'Teach them how to use it ethically' is a line that ignores the impact of AI on the planet our students will inherit from us. It must ignore this because—setting much else aside...—AI’s environmental abuses alone mean there is no such thing as ethical AI use in most classrooms."