Despite facing some of the worst housing shortages in the U.S., Indian Country wasn’t included in the massive 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The bill is considered one of the biggest federal housing bills in decades. But it doesn't reauthorize NAHASDA, the cornerstone of Tribal housing policy.

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“Whatever these definitions are, they need to be followed in a way that is extremely literal and by the book. And we will be quite vigilant with our administrators about not doing anything extra to try to please politicians.” — Michael Smith, Emporia State University AAUP President 🔥🔥🔥

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Catastrophic for science.

or as those who follow international politics call it, Amy Acton "pulled a Starmer" - I'm sure it will go as poorly for her as it did for him

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives. n.pr/4yoz3dD

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

⭐️⭐️An incredible syllabus on the Right wing takeover of higher education using UT Austin as a case study. ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/highered...

Medical and veterinary entomologist Edwin Burgess answers questions on the basics of the New World screwworm, efforts to re-eradicate it from the U.S., and what's fact versus fiction in the buzz around this re-emergent pest. Check out this Q&A excerpt from the latest episode of ESA's podcast.

People have studied this for decades, and the findings are pretty consistent: Immigration is unrelated or even negatively related to crime and cities w/lots of immigrants are likely safer than yours. From Robert Sampson, The Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012).

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

a few months ago, a Tennessee appeals court reversed an order that blocked the deployment of the state's National Guard as part of Trump's so-called Memphis Safe Task Force last weekend, on-duty American soldiers in Memphis shot and killed a man so predictable ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

v good article, a longstanding problem for vertebrate paleo as well as insects in amber

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...

Mites or Caviar?

I didn't _quite_ paint every individual hair/scale on the wings, but I as good as did. 😮‍💨

There’s an increase in cyclosporiasis (a parasite that can cause watery, sometimes explosive, diarrhea) reported in multiple states. What to know ⬇️ 1/

Ecology Letters *solicited* the article arguing for a simple binary "biological sex" to counter the excellent Eppley, Lee, Dellinger, Swank paper (doi.org/10.1111/ele....), which they wanted to hold until the rebuttal was ready but couldn't Editorial explaining the process: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

セイボウの仲間。美しいね。長野県上田市菅平高原 #虫 Emerald wasp (Chrysis sp.). Beautiful. Sugadaira Kogen, Ueda, Nagano #Invertebrate #Insects

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

Science funding has broad bipartisan support, which is why Congress keeps rejecting Trump's budget cuts for NSF, NIH, etc. But importantly, the proposed rule changes affect way more than just science. VA grants, grants to farmers in famine, headstart grants, etc.? This would hit everyone.

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.

Do it. Think of writing a comment to OMB like writing an incredibly powerful post that gets liked by your nemesis.

A win for higher ed: a U.S. Appeals Court upheld academic freedom and faculty free speech by striking down the "Stop WOKE Act." The Act intended to limit students’ right to learn by restricting faculty’s ability to teach about race, gender, and more. Read more below: academeblog.org/2026/07/08/u...

NSF has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees. The new policy abandons NSF’s earlier attempt to balance the potential risks and benefits of such collaborations. https://scim.ag/4bw5Of5

This is f**king crazy

These are concentration camps.

The Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to the public—and “this new reality risks clouding our understanding of the economy, public health, and the environment,” @willgottsegen.com argues:

This quote says it all. “There’s so much nonsense happening, it’s hard to keep up with it all,” VanRaden says. www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share our new paper: “How to run a language-inclusive international conference”. rdcu.be/fs8cJ At #ICCB2025, we implemented language-accessibility measures to support 1,890 participants from 90 countries/territories, and we showed they worked (see Fig S2)! #languagebarriers 1/5

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has terminated 53 of its 67 grants for the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, totaling about $68 million and affecting grantees in two dozen states. This is the War on Women report:

This has now happened at enough universities to see the pattern. Conservatives show up, pull money from popular and useful programs to pay themselves vastly larger salaries than anyone before them, and then wallow in the stench of their failure, wondering why no one likes them.

Europe risks a severe crisis if the decline of wild pollinators continues is the key message of a new white paper doi.org/10.5281/zeno... prepared by 135 researchers from eight research consortia @butterfly-project.bsky.social @restpoll.bsky.social @pollinera-horizon.eu phys.org/news/2026-07...

The federal government quietly released its regulatory agenda for the next year last Friday, and quite a few items affect higher ed. I will be watching the discussion on making it easier for mergers and acquisitions very closely, but there is also a lot related to diversity.

The BIO Directorate of NSF is hosting a Virtual Office Hour next week (7/16/26). Topic: Answers to some of your recent Frequently Asked Questions When: Thursday, July 16, 2026, 1 – 2pm EST Registration: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

The University of Guelph Arboretum is offering some exciting workshops in July that you can register for NOW! See their instagram page for more information and click the link in their bio to register! 🌳🌲🦋

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens is seeking a lab research assistant for the Fungarium Sequencing Project! If you have experience in genomics and museomics techniques, proficiency in statistics and knowledge of UK Health and Safety regulations, then apply before July 26 info careers.kew.org/vacancy/labo...

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Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Congratulations to Alehna Crowe, one of our 2026 Turner Awardees! Alehna recently graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago studying trait-based invasion ecology research in the Nuñez-Mir lab. Outside of research, she enjoys carving, hiking, and reading. (1/2)

Congratulations to Jada Wahl, one of our 2026 Turner Awardees at #ABS2026! Jada is a fourth-year undergraduate at University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire studying mammalian social behavior in the Smith lab. In the future, she plans to pursue a graduate degree in animal behavior.

Congratulations to Jenna Rosa, one of our 2026 Turner Awardees! Jenna is a post-baccalaureate scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying the tradeoffs between parenting and feeding in the Bell lab. Next year, she will begin her Master’s degree in animal behavior!

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Congratulations to Oriana Vargas, one of our 2026 Turner Awardees! Oriana is an undergraduate at the Universidad del Rosario studying animal behavior, urbanization, and temperature. Outside of research, she enjoys climbing. (1/2)

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